Phenological Engagement

Phenology has a range of applicable meanings that span the interval between rigourously academic orientations and those of intimate relational communion among species and living places in time. Essentially, however, the term refers to intimacy with the myriadly ‘streamed’ dimensions of living time over the lunar cycles, which divide the solar year into 12 or 13 ‘pulses’.

Phenology can be presented as the observation of and participation in each cycle in a specific living place, over the 12 or 13 pulses of the moon. Thus it is a way of understanding a living calendar with myriad ‘organs’ and extensions, and a way of directly participating in many of these relationships and becoming ‘remembered’ to and of them. In part, by intelligently observing the timing, activities and relationships of the plants, animals and insects.

Everyone can participate in learning features of the phenological history and moment of places they live, and even those they may visit. Each place has unique participants, but there is an overall process and character that can be understood somewhat like a template that differs according to distinct kinds of ecologies and geographical locations.

We invite you to join us in exploring phenology directly, in person, in the places you live and visit. And feel free to invite others who you feel may wish to participate or learn about phenology and the moon cycles.