Welcome to the Arboretum
This is the knowledge garden behind Thistlebridge — a place to wander among the ideas that inform the work.
The main site’s Library is the trailhead: a curated list, clear directions. Here is where you walk the trails, where ideas connect and branch and sometimes surprise you.
How to Explore
Follow the links. Each page connects to related ideas. The connections are the point.
Use the graph. The visualization shows how ideas cluster and bridge. Zoom out to see the whole landscape; zoom in to explore neighborhoods.
Get lost. This isn’t a curriculum with a correct path. Wander. Circle back. Notice what draws you.
Start Here
Ursula K. Le Guin
Le Guin’s work provides the deepest framing for what Thistlebridge is trying to do. Seeds not solutions. The carrier bag. Selective relationship with technology. The thousand-year view.
If you only explore one trail, make it this one.
Other Trailheads
Writers & Thinkers
The people whose work shapes this project — from Schumacher’s appropriate technology to Jacobs’s defense of local knowledge.
Concepts & Principles
Ideas that recur: carrier bag theory, appropriate technology, selective relationship with technology.
Traditions & Practices
Lineages of knowledge and doing: Pueblo farming, mutual aid networks, biointensive growing.
Works
Specific books, essays, texts worth returning to.
The arboretum grows. New specimens arrive. Trails extend. Check back.