Café Botanica
Adrienne MasonSharing ideas about creativity, sustainability, and innovation in the garden, with occasional diversions into art, the wilds, and whatever is currently distracting.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 16 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 16 days ago |
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Adjusting the Path
Iris and peonies in full bloom, June 2026, Elk Root Conservation Farm, near Nelson, British Columbia. Photo by Adrienne Mason
I started this draft back in July, where I wrote there was Fogust-like weather a month early. That meant cool, fo...
On the Road with Café Botanica
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Earlier this month I went on a little road trip/mothing1 adventure in...
In the Real Arctic and the Fake Amazon
Beechey Island, Nunavut.
It’s a good thing I’m not relying on Café Botanica for anything other than a place to park occasional thoughts. Clearly I get here when I do. My excuses this round are excellent ones though—stories and research on...
Listening to radicchio
There’s a crack in every sidewalk … that’s how the seeds get in. (With apologies to Leonard Cohen and whoever he might have riffed off.) Love this bright calendula hanging in there outside the Magpie Café in Cranberry, BC, November 2025. Ph...
Where rhubarb runs rampant
Two children in rhubarb fields of the Clark family farm, Skagway, c. 1914 (Ashael Curtis, 1898) Public Domain.
Happy fall! It’s been a while, but I’ve been busy with a few things—90th birthday of my incredible mom, a fabulous trip through...
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Writer (of books for children and adults), editor, gardener, biologist, sometime collage artist, living on an island in British Columbia. www.adriennemason.com
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