Home-Steading & Healing

19/04/2024

26/03/2024

I’ve always loved my axe !!

26/03/2024

UPCYCLING - Today’s land job …

Got 2 pick-up loads of old tyres for free…

Now using them to build retaining walls and stairs on the top bit of land.

Lots of digging and packing the tyres with earth.

I’m knackered now !!

Solar hot water system getting installed tomorrow 👍🌞💦

11/09/2023

The Seven Sacred Teachings, also known as the Seven Grandfather Teachings, are a set of teachings that have been passed down from generation to generation by First Nations people of North America. These teachings are the guiding principles for living a meaningful and fulfilling life, and they are essential to maintaining a harmonious relationship between human beings, nature, and the divine.
The Seven Sacred Teachings include:
1. Wisdom involves making wise choices that lead us on a path of positive growth and development. To attain wisdom, one must learn from experiences, seek knowledge from elders, and listen and learn from one's mistakes.
2. Love emphasizes the importance of unconditional love, compassion, and kindness towards ourselves and others. It teaches us to give love freely and unconditionally, without any expectation of receiving love in return.
3. Respect emphasizes the importance of treating oneself, others, and nature with respect. Respect involves acknowledging the value and worth of all living things, and treating each other with kindness, honor, and dignity.
4. Bravery involves courage, fortitude and strength of character. Bravery inspires us to face our fears and overcome obstacles, to push ourselves to our limits and to fight for what is right.
5. Honesty emphasizes the importance of being truthful, trustworthy, and sincere in all our interactions with others. Honesty promotes trust, loyalty, and integrity, and it allows us to build meaningful and enduring relationships.
6. Humility involves having a modest and unpretentious attitude towards life, recognizing that we are all equal and interconnected. Humility inspires us to serve others, to be compassionate towards those who are less fortunate, and to strive to make a positive impact in the world.
7. Truth involves understanding and acknowledging the reality of our existence and our place in the world. It encourages us to seek knowledge, to be open-minded, and to question our assumptions and beliefs.
Each of these teachings are an inseparable whole and work together to create a holistic approach to mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual life, that is centered around humility, respect, and love.

03/09/2023

27/08/2023

Todays Harvest - a courgette, an avocado and the little yellow fruit are a Central American tree fruit called ‘nance’ fruit.

26/08/2023

Today’s harvest - passion fruit, a sweet cucumber (the round yellow and purple ‘fruit’), and a lime all fell from their respective plants, something is pulling up the carrots before they’re ready, so we’ll eat them, but I wish whatever it is would stop pulling them up.

Also discovered a mound of newly dug earth covering the bottom of my mulberry tree. I’m suspecting a mole, as there’s a mole-sized hole nearby !

26/08/2023

We’ve got baby chicks !! 🐣🐣🐣