smoky blue appalachia
Welcome to our forest & meadow.
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motivated by creation
In the categories below, I share what I’m observing, researching, learning & doing as we forage, farm & garden while preserving & protecting nature. For the sake of the littlest wild things.
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I prefer the outdoors. You, too?
We’re creating a forest farm, where the pasture space is small and the forest is large. Inspired by the diversity of plants on our land, and desperate to help the critters that rely on them, I propagate native & beneficial plants, to share the plants with others.
We know a lot about a little and a little about a lot, and absolutely nothing about much of what we’re doing. But we’re fairly unafraid and have a good bit of ingenuity in our genes. You, too?
“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass, the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows, the same redbreasts that we used to call ‘God’s birds’ because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known? “
Charlotte Mason, Home Education, 1886