Join us on Saturday, July 11, at our son Jesse’s First Light Farm, 4588 Bodega Ave, Petaluma, from 11 am to 5 pm, and try a sample of our newest recipe for Honey Lavender Limeade! We will be selling our loose flowers and discussing their many culinary uses. Lavender is a plant that grows in the… Read more »
Death of a Tree: Shocking death of an old friend.
Death of a Tree “When an Old Friend Dies” was just published in the June issue of Psychological Perspectives. The article details an experience my husband and I had when an ancient valley oak fell last year. It is a tree we both loved. It grew next to a little pioneer farmhouse that we lived in while we built… Read more »
The hollow of an ancient valley oak used to make barrel compost.
This summer of the fourth year of drought, we are liberally using the Barrel Compost we made on site in December (see post, Making Barrel Compost). Each fruit day (moon in fire signs) we spray the ground under the grapevines and orchard, and each flower day, moon in air signs) we spray the aromatics. The vines looked… Read more »
Lavender and Healing The lavender that we harvested for bouquets is dry now. We dried the bunches in the dark, hanging them upside down and ventilating the room with fresh air. We cleaned the stems of bind weed and the small leaves at the bottom of the stems. The bouquets were then packed in boxes of 30 to store… Read more »
The Importance of Habitat: Lavender fields sound like inside of a beehive this week, full of all kinds of bees: honey bees, mason bees, bumble & carpenter.
Lavender and Bees Lavender and bees go together! The following is an excerpt from Farming Soul: A Tale of Initiation and tells how the bees helped us get started marketing lavender. June 10 is generally the beginning of the lavender harvest for the flowers we dry. The work begins before sunrise, as we try to get… Read more »
Grounded on the Pond Bottom
On Being Grounded What is being “grounded”… a term so often used these days? “She is not very grounded.” “I need to get grounded.” We often use it to talk about people who are flighty or “not in their bodies”. But what does that mean? I received an “embodied” answer yesterday. I consulted a psychic… Read more »
Lavender and lime zest ready to infuse water with the magical properties of both!
Honey Lavender Limeade June is a great month for a new lavender limeade recipe, and this is a preview! We will be running a special this week on loose flowers, but here’s a preview of a delicious and healthier, less sweet version of our famous lavender limeade. We use a pyrex pot to infuse the… Read more »
Dennis Klocek demonstrating the importance of the form of the stirring vessel to the medicine (biodynamic preps).
I just returned from a five day seminar/workshop, Alchemical Lab II, Making Medicines, presented by Dennis Klocek and Matias Baker at the Rudolf Steiner College in Fair Oaks, CA. The days were a deepening of the work we began a year ago, a sinking into the task of our time: healing through development of consciousness… Read more »
Lavender bunches cut and ready to be dried.
The heat of the last days pushed the lavender quickly, and lavender harvest has begun! We cut the longest stems for the dried bouquets, harvesting them just as the bees inform us two or three of the calyxes are open. This way the dried bouquets do not “shatter” or lose too many flowers. This year… Read more »
Another Buddha in Goat Body.
Animals act as psychopomps between the worlds in dreams and everyday life. How many of us have a beloved cat or dog whose warm, soft body reminds us that we too are animals? My husband and I have two cheerful yellow labs, siblings, who have been with us for almost 12 years. Tending to their… Read more »
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