Weaving the World

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

Contact / Follow Jax:

- 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

Mentioned:

- 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/

Show Outline:

0:00 - Introduction

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