Today is all about creativity and intentional living. Okay, everyday around here is about those two things, but today especially.A few weeks ago, our friends and farm yurt-dwellers Lydia and Charles moved out of the yurt and into a 1983 VW Vanagon. Lydia’s a talented oil painter, and for the past two years, …
Creativity, Intentional Living & Slowing Down: An Interview with Artist Lydia Gatzow Read More »
“Sustainability is an act of love.” These words projected on the screen behind Melody Walker Brook as she spoke of seeds, ceremony, relationship, and reciprocity. I’d gone to the NOFA-VT Winter Conference to speak in three different sessions, but I was most excited to listen. Melody, an Abenaki artist, educator, and activist, was giving the …
“There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.” ~ Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac Every summer and fall we visit other farms to harvest fruit: strawberries, blueberries, and apples being at …
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I left the farm for a weekend and flew south to Tennessee for a writing conference. No matter how far I go from the farm, though, I always seek out farmers—so I started Saturday with a visit to the Franklin Farmers Market, where I picked up some fresh turmeric from a farmer who told me, …
“When I fall down, I’m fine with that!” Waylon sings out over and over as he runs down the forest trail. Little kids fall down—A LOT. Yes, there’ve been times he’s fallen and laid out crying. Times I’ve rocked him on the forest floor, knees and hands scraped with dirt and leaves. But each …
Today Waylon told me, “I want you to have 3 more babies, so you can have 3 more soft bellies, and then you’ll have 4 soft bellies and I can touch all of them.” He explained to me that each baby I had would produce a subsequent belly on my back and each side. 5-year-olds …
To Young Farmer Moms: Strength is in the Softness Read More »
