Soul Sanctuary Landscaping

15/06/2019

Can you imagine seeing a Van Gogh painting sitting right off the freeway on your morning commute or aerial ride? One field in Eagan, Minnesota got exactly this when the 67-year-old artist, Stan Herd, transformed it into Van Gogh’s 1889 “Olive Trees.” Herd has been doing similar types of artwor...

10/06/2019

11/08/2016

Please grow food and not lawns :(

It's time to free ourselves from the lawn.

10/08/2016

Forest ecologist Suzanne Simard has studied forests for many years, and says mother trees recognize kin and send them more carbon.

04/08/2016

The most effective change-makers in our society aren’t waiting around for a new president to make their lives better, they’re planting seeds,...

25/07/2016

One of the reasons Gardening makes people happy may be due to a particular Microbe in the soil that has been found to be a Natural Antidepressant.

19/07/2016

Yes!

16/07/2016

SHARING IS CARING!177.9k148897If You Have the Passion, Here’s the Blueprint! Homesteaders love life. Yes, the days are often long but they don’t have to wake up each morning to dread the day thinking about dealing with an irritable boss or cranky customer. They also know that many of the things that...

11/06/2016

Planting my first front yard garden I made plenty of mistakes, but out in the front yard I started connecting with others. One neighbor told me that just walking past the garden and seeing it grow inspired her to start her first garden and now she's gotten her friends growing their first homegrown broccoli. Behold the power of the ripple effect!

Start a Food is Free Project on your street. It all starts with that first garden. Check out our guide and resources at http://foodisfreeproject.org/resources

04/06/2016

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Found on http://www.cubebreaker.com/beautiful-doors-entryways/

23/05/2016

Where is your Soul Sanctuary?

Soulstice. Riad. A traditional Moroccan interior garden or courtyard.
The word riad comes from the Arabian term for garden, Arabic: رياض, ryad. The riads were inward focused, which allowed for family privacy and protection from the weather in Morocco. This inward focus was expressed with a centrally placed interior garden or courtyard, and the lack of large windows on the exterior walls of clay or mud brick. This design principle found support in Islamic notions of privacy, and hijab for women. Entrance to these houses encourages reflection because all of the rooms open into the central atrium space. In the central garden of traditional riads there are often four orange or lemon trees and often a fountain.

21/05/2016

“Listen to me, your body is not a temple. Temples can be destroyed and desecrated. Your body is a forest—thick canopies of maple trees and sweet scented wildflowers sprouting in the under wood. You will grow back, over and over, no matter how badly you are devastated.” - Beau Taplin

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