We have worms and yeast!

The day is winding down and I find myself feeling immense gratitude for this life.

Today, we began laying cardboard in the nursery & covering with woodchips. We also sorted the side roll vents and attached the nursery door.

The weather man says no wind tomorrow morning, meaning we will cut & wiggle wire our second layer of plastic. We are double layering the top & partial sides of the g.house; this will eventually be inflated, creating an insulating effect & protecting it from wind.

We will also be running rope through eyeloops in a zigzag formation to guide the roll up sides. This will keep the side vents from swaying & smacking on windy days.

Greenhouses and wind amirite?🙈

Anyways today was an eventful day and a most enjoyable way to celebrate the New Moon.

This next cycle feels very much geared towards growth. April is a month of sprouting. What have you been sowing? It's sure to pop up.

Yesterday, we acquired some compost worms and sourdough starter from our friends Dane and Alley. Farming friends are fabulous! It always blows me away how fluid the abundance flows between farmers. A special bond, rooted in resilience.

I have attempted my first loaf with the bubbly starter & will be baking it tomorrow morning. I currently have a "fermentation station" growing in the corner of the kitchen. It pleases me to see & smell the bacteria & yeasts. It brings a sense of aliveness to the kitchen. Although, even as I just wrote that, I remembered how lately I've felt the aliveness in many things.

Today, for example, I scrubbed our large outdoor cast iron dutch oven in preparation for some fire cooking tomorrow. The oven was covered inside & out in rust, as it had been living in a damp garage for a couple years while we were living light in the RV.

Both the cast iron and the rust felt very alive to me. As I scrubbed, I thought about how rust is a natural preserver. I saw it as a living organism growing on the cast iron to protect it, to preserve the metal. It was beautiful. I saw the cast iron wake from dormancy and come alive once again.

Just as seeds sprout in spring, so does the renewal of our vows; inspirations, ideas & goals.

May spring resurrect visions within you that fuel your creative fire.

May you be engulfed in the fresh air.

May your breaths be full & strong.

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B R E A T H E

a year can be felt as a breath cycle

in spring, we inhale

it slowly builds and builds, until summer when it reaches a peak

the summer solstice marks a pause between inhale & exhale (antara)

we then begin the return home, shifting into exhale as colours change

and once all the leaves have fallen, so has the breath

the winter solstice marks the pause between exhale & inhale (bahya)

the new year brings the beginning of the next breath cycle, as we find ourselves in the spring inhale once more

pic of my first sourdough.. not the prettiest, but tastes great!

(pre) fire cooked potato & pea soup