Jax Hughes is a singer-songwriter, gardener and landscape designer currently based in the Hudson Valley of New York.
May this conversation bring you joy. Thank you for listening.
Contact Jacob via email: [email protected]
Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@weavingtheworldpodcast
- Happy Bear Landscapes Instagram: http://bit.ly/3DPmTTm
- Happy Bear Landscapes Website: happybearlandscapes.com
- Brother Jax Instagram: https://bit.ly/3WhDFAW
- Brother Jax Spotify: https://bit.ly/40hsUjj
- The Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander - https://bit.ly/4jeH6SU
- Sterling College - sterlingcollege.edu
- Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein - https://bit.ly/40iZJMU
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs - https://bit.ly/4ak0BFm
- The Intervale Center - intervale.org
- The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow - https://bit.ly/4fZmBqD
- Dunbar’s Number https://neurosciencenews.com/dunbars-number-social-brain-19210/
1:31 - Life as Art & The Creative Process
16:24 - Garden Design Process
30:42 - Happy Bear Landscapes
39:40 - Garden Design and Conceptual Art
46:05 - A Pattern Language
56:33 - Growing up in Suburbia & Where is it All Going?
1:00:23 - Lessons from Mother Nature
1:05:50 - Sterling College & The Magic of Community Living
1:26:25 - Interactions with Strangers and Trees
1:35:26 - Creating a New “City” in the United States???
1:50:36 - Community Scale Economics, Sources of Funding and Skill Sharing
2:05:06 - Finding Presence, Purpose & Meaning in the Age of AI