Umakhulu: Allotment Tales

Umakhulu: Allotment Tales

Grafting: Soft vs Hard Power

... the art of gentle persuasion

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Charlene Smith
Mar 17, 2025
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Hewing a stick of sand pear to the invasive callery pear – the root stock - at a grafting workshop this weekend, I bemoaned my clumsy fingers and distracted myself by musing on soft power and what it…

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