The Irises are Starting to Open

Create Vision and Respond to Change, Earth Care, Fair Share, Integrate, Don't Segregate, Make No Waste, Obtain a Yield, People Care, Permaculture Ethics, Permaculture Principles, Self-Regulate and Accept Feedback

As we witness the effects of a global pandemic and the unravelling of racism, we are awakening to a new way of being.

July 9, 2020

Let’s Do This!

Create Vision and Respond to Change, Earth Care, Fair Share, Inner Permaculture, People Care, Permaculture Ethics, Permaculture Principles

This is beyond us. This is more than personal. What we are being called to do is to live freedom. Be freedom. Don’t apologize for being radical. Be it. Live it. Push it…because it’s what is needed to survive. Bring up the heaviness that has sunk to the bottom. Mix it in. Blend the hearty […]

January 20, 2017

2015 in Review

Best Of, Choose Small and Slow Solutions, Earth Care, Fair Share, Inner Permaculture, Parenting, People Care, Permaculture Ethics, Permaculture Principles

A lot has happened in the past year. In retrospect, many things have shifted for us where at the time it felt like change was slow. It was wonderful to sit and reminisce about where we have been this year, and get excited for where it is we’re headed! According to my WordPress annual report, […]

January 7, 2016

Clearing Space

Consumerism, Create Vision and Respond to Change, Fair Share, Inner Permaculture, Life Choices, Make No Waste, Permaculture Ethics, Permaculture Principles, Self-Regulate and Accept Feedback

Now that we have decided to sell our home, we are working hard to clean the place up. We have so many things! Being a homeschooling family with a permaculture (make no waste) outlook means that we have a hard time letting ‘useful things’ go sometimes. Like the pile of bricks lovingly brought home in […]

December 17, 2015

Pushed out of the Nest

Create Vision and Respond to Change, Earth Care, Fair Share, Forest Gardening, Life Choices, People Care, Permaculture Ethics, Permaculture Principles, Self-Regulate and Accept Feedback

There are times in life where it becomes clear that you need to move on. I have been imagining lately how difficult and frightening it must be for baby birds to be pushed out of the nest by their mothers. But if it weren’t for the mother’s gentle nudge, would the baby bird ever have […]

December 3, 2015

Clothing Swap!

Consumerism, Cultivate Diversity, Earth Care, Fair Share, Make it Yourself, Make No Waste, Obtain a Yield, People Care, Permaculture Ethics, Permaculture Principles

A week ago, I hosted a clothing swap! The intent was to subversively reject Black Friday, which has turned out to be today. Those who attended my swap were too polite to speak up about my error! Just goes to show how in touch I really am with consumerism. In any case, I wanted to […]

November 27, 2015

Anticipation

Choose Small and Slow Solutions, Cultivate Diversity, Fair Share, Food, Forest Gardening, Make No Waste, Obtain a Yield, Permaculture Ethics, Permaculture Principles

We lost a great deal of our orchard blossoms early in the season during a frost. It was a disappointing day. We tried hard to save them, throwing a sheet over each tree, which knocked off some of the blooms in the wind before we decided to remove them. After the frost hit, Rob got […]

August 21, 2015

Dirt Cookies: Sharing the Heaviness of Life with Children

Choose Small and Slow Solutions, Earth Care, Fair Share, Integrate, Obtain a Yield, Parenting, People Care, Permaculture for Children, Permaculture Principles, Self-Regulate and Accept Feedback

How is it possible that we have people so impoverished that they have to eat dirt cookies in order to trick their stomachs into thinking they’re full? They have no food. My husband brought up that he had seen this video last week as we sat around the dinner table. The children were curious, asking […]

August 5, 2015

Sunshine through the Rain

Earth Care, Fair Share, Food, Make No Waste, Obtain a Yield, People Care, Permaculture Ethics, Permaculture Principles, Self-Regulate and Accept Feedback, Use and Value Gifts from Nature

I sat down at my machine intending to finish off a blog post I started last week. I was about two thirds of the way through it, when I heard raindrops begin to hit my window and a rumble of thunder rolled though the room. My mood dropped. After putting the children to bed, I […]

August 4, 2015

Creating a Homestead

Choose Small and Slow Solutions, Create Vision and Respond to Change, Earth Care, Fair Share, Inner Permaculture, Integrate, Don't Segregate, Make No Waste, Obtain a Yield, People Care, Permaculture Ethics, Permaculture Principles, Self-Regulate and Accept Feedback, Use and Value Gifts from Nature

I have started back into looking at real estate sites. Wondering what life could be like if we were to move to a farm and homestead on a larger scale. I have dreams of living somewhere off grid with a woodlot and a stream. Enough room for pastured chickens and perhaps even a jersey cow. […]

July 23, 2015