ChicoryLane Musings

 

Prologue

ChicoryLane is a private operating foundation based at the ChicoryLane Conservation Reserve. Our work centers on improving the ecology of the Reserve and on educational, aesthetic, and experiential activities that grow from our work there. Most of these activities and most of our newsletter communications are directly connected to the place itself.

Occasionally, however, an experience at ChicoryLane leads us further afield. Last summer, John watched a green heron swallow a frog and found himself reflecting on the radically different meanings of the encounter for bird and amphibian. He wrote about the experience in an extra edition of our newsletter.

More recently, some of our reflections have begun at ChicoryLane or with its ecology but extended well beyond them. Many concern AI and its growing role in our educational and intellectual work; others reach toward questions likely to become important in coming decades but receiving little attention today.

We have gathered these less place-bound reflections on our website under the heading Musings. Interested readers are invited to explore them; others can simply pass them by.

Essays

Ecological Resource Collaborations

Inquiry and Response Engineering

Collaboration Examples and Case Studies

August, 2026
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