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Kate Spring

Kate Spring

Welcome to The Good Heart Life: an organic gardening and lifestyle blog where we grow beauty, joy, and nourishment for the body, soul, and earth. I'm Kate Spring: organic farmer, mother, and chief inspiration officer at Good Heart Farmstead and The Good Heart Life. Grow along with us, and together we'll cultivate a more lively, joyful world one {organic} seed at a time.

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Every Solstice we light candles and I read a poem or two that evokes the past year, that pulls on our hearts to reflect, to rest, to grow. ✨ I'm starting to go through poetry books now to pick out what I'll read this year (Solstice is Friday, the 21st!), and I'd love to hear your poem recommendations. — "The Invitation" By Oriah Mountain Dreamer is a perennial favorite for this time of year (any time of year, really, but especially Solstice). Multiple Mary Oliver poems have heard their words dance across the Solstice night, too. — Let me know what poems have a special place in your heart, and perhaps they'll become part of our Solstice celebration, and most definitely become part of my poetry library. — An on a separate note, these homemade birch candle holders are really easy to make and a beautiful gift to give.  Click over to The Good Heart Life {link in profile} to see these and my two other favorite homemade holiday gifts 🕯🎁🎄
It's chai time! ☕️ I drink tea all year round, but the cold, crisp days of winter bring on chai season here at Good Heart.  This is my favorite chai mug 😊 What's your favorite warming & filling winter drink?  If you want to get your chai on and have a virtual cuppa together, my chai recipe is below. — Ingredients: *Black tea ~ we like assam *Milk ~ Whole milk will give you the richest chai.  If you don't drink cow milk, coconut milk offers the best substitute when it comes to the fat factor. Soy milk is my second choice. *Sweetener ~ maple syrup or honey. *Cardamon *Cinnamon *Optional: cloves, fennel seed, orange peel, ginger, black pepper, salt — Instructions: *Fill a small or medium pot halfway with water, add a few cardamon pods (and any other optional spices you’d like), and bring to a boil. Depending on the number of cups we’re making, we add anywhere between 2-5 pods. *When the water is at a boil, add one teaspoon of tea per mug of water, and let steep for 3-5 minutes. *Turn heat down to a simmer and add enough milk to double the volume (or until the tea is a nice creamy golden color), then add sweetener. If you over-sweeten the chai, it can turn into a dessert rather than a breakfast drink, so go slow. You can always add more sweetener to your cup at the end. *Let the chai simmer until the milk froths up, then turn off the heat. *Pour chai through a strainer and into your mug. If you like salt, sprinkle the smallest amount in now. *Drink! Smile. Exhale. Repeat.
When the van gets stuck in the driveway...you sled to school ❄️ Good thing the school is just a mile downhill 😂. — Don't worry, Edge sledded down with him ❄️
Home ❄️🌱❄️ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ After 3 1/2 weeks gone, it feels so good to be here. Thanks for welcoming back with blue skies, Vermont.
Heading home tomorrow after 3 1/2 weeks away from the farm. I see from other VT farm insta feeds that this is *definitely not* what it's going to look like when we get back. — Come June, we'll be picking strawberries, but for now they're sleeping under feet of snow...we'll find out just how many feet of snow tomorrow... — Thanks for the warmth, North Carolina and Cape May, NJ! (Though I'm pretty sure we only think it's warm here now because we know how cold it is at home) — What's under the snow in your fields that you're looking forward to come Spring/Summer?
Tips for a long, but not expensive, trip: • Go to National Forests, where the camping is free and the hikes are plenty. This little guy did 6 hikes in 8 days! • Edge seasons are ideal, when it's still nice enough to spend the days outside and camp snuggled up in warm sleeping bags at night, but not busy enough that you have to worry about the free campsites being taken. • Plan on making most of your meals, and pack food accordingly. Our favorite camp breakfast is apple pancakes on the Coleman stove. • Get local recommendations before you go--Thanks to you all who told us about @malapropsbookstore, @chaipani, and many hikes in and around Asheville! You made our town-day easy peasy and so delicious. — We did pay to spend one night in a campground, where we took showers & filled up our water jugs, but otherwise we tucked ourselves among the trees in Pisgah National Forest, and then in the Linville Gorge Wilderness. — In another 4 days we'll be back to VT, but we're closing up our trip visiting family in NJ (and stretching out after 8 days in the van!) — What are your travel tips for fun road trips? What are your questions? Let me know!

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