We’ve become used to just-in-time delivery. The antithesis of stockpiled inventory.
But when the living world delivers its abundance, it happens all at once. Anyone engaged in community fruit growing in the south of England will know that this season, it has all come at once.
This is inconvenient — but living systems don’t exist for our convenience. Rather we have the chance to benefit from their surplus.
Forcing a cyclical system to produce a continuous output diminishes it, reduces quality and stresses the system. The healthier option for the ecosystem is for us to work with abundance when it arrives.
This applies whether we are gathering fruit or harvesting materials from buildings that awaiting demolition.
When it comes, we need to drop everything to harvest, distribute and prepare for storage until it is needed in the leaner months.