Researcher ORCID Identifier
https://orcid.org/0009-0005-3392-0350
Graduation Year
2023
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Reader 1
Kimberly Drake
Reader 2
Glenn Simshaw
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Rights Information
© 2023 Hezekiah Smithstein
Abstract
This thesis follows my attempts to create a new relationship with the land outside my house, through transforming my weed-choked backyard into a native plant garden. Through styles of memoir, essay, and literary journalism, I examine what it means to take care of the outdoor home, as a human family part of an urban ecosystem. This project explores ideas surrounding people and plants, the effects on a space of actions and interactions both past and present, and brings into conversation different ideas and philosophies from homeowner to ecologist, city park to indigenous author, that shape the way we think and relate to the living world around us.
Recommended Citation
Smithstein, Hezekiah, "My Backyard Garden" (2023). Pitzer Senior Theses. 155.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/pitzer_theses/155
