Creating your own pinch pot from local clay connects you directly to the land underfoot. Clay is simply soil - mainly finely ground stones - with fine particles and a bit of stickiness. It’s everywhere once you know how to look.
Read More
Soil is one of the earliest natural paint sources, and people have been decorating homes, tools, and artwork with earth pigments for thousands of years. You can carry this tradition forward with simple materials from your own landscape.
Read More
Seedballs are an ancient way to keep seeds safe until the right weather for plants to grow. Made of compost and clay, they provide food and protection for the seed until rain melts the clay and activates growth.
This recipe takes a fun spin on the seed ball with the idea that you can make your own vegetable or wildflower seed balls and shapes to share.
Read More
Back-to-school season call for snacks that are both fun and nourishing. These bars are packed with almonds, oats, flax, sunflower seeds, and raisins all held together with a marshmallow-style mix of honey, coconut oil, and grass-fed gelatin. Nutritious enough for lunchboxes, tasty enough for dessert, and adaptable to what’s in your pantry.
Read More
This summer solstice, the sun will linger longer in the sky than any other day in the year. To celebrate, we’re setting up our first solar shadow puppet theater!
Read More
With the ever-so-slightly quickening pace of human and plant life, it’s taking a bit more effort to keep my pace slow and inward for awhile longer in order to embrace mid-winter traditions of reflection, visioning, and renewal that are shared by many ancestral cultures around the world. In that spirit, we’re sharing are a couple of fun family-friendly visioning and planning projects for the garden along with a bit more about some earth-based traditions that take place at this time of year.
Read More
This time of mid-winter has been celebrated by many agricultural and pre-agricultural societies around the world as one of rest, reflection and gratitude for what’s come to pass, visioning and prayer for what’s yet-to-come, and renewal of self and community.
Read More