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!
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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.
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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.
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Plants grow best with the right spacing, and sometimes it is hard to plant small seeds like carrots and lettuce - one-by-one. In this cold-weather indoor project, we make plantable seed tape out of newspaper and flour paste to properly space seeds in advance of planting.
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