As many of you in our Bio4Climate community may know, our co-founder, biologist, futurist and friend Jim Laurie is on the mend following knee surgery. Katya Stupina recently spent a day with Jim, connecting and healing over nature. Today was a day full of learning and time spent well with a dear friend. Jim and I started our morning at a local diner (where of course, everyone knew Jim). Two quick hours later, we went to Horn Pond, saw Pluto, and conquered a hill. We talked about robins, fungi, beavers, lichens, grasslands and grazing animals, tides, the water table, flooding forests, and Jim’s four principles for healthy lands: 1) Bringing infiltration teams to the land 2) Making bare ground illegal 3) Maximizing the consciousness of species, in the soil and everywhere 4) Developing living shorelines From there, we set off on a quick field trip to an abandoned parking lot in Woburn to see how soil is reclaiming the land, how natural succession takes the reins once people move on and life simply knows just what to do.
Posted: June 28, 2025