A Walk in the Woods…..

Every year at Full Bloom we put some work into restoring are surrounding Forest acreage which amounts to over 200 acres.  Much of it was logged quite severely in the 1980’s and 90’s and it has grown back in thick patches of Douglas Fir and Manzanita.  In order to provide reduce the competition in the forest our forester Luke Rudieger of Black Oack Forestry has cut down several of the “weedy” fir and given space for the beautiful Madrone tree behind him to grow unencumbered.  We will use the fire logs for firewood to heat our structures and the wood fired bread oven in the communal building.

Above is a picture of my wife Eden Luz during a walk through our forest.  It always fills me with a sense of enchantment and gratitude when I come by these special spots on our land.  

Above is a picture of the beautiful watershed we live in.  Speckled homesteads and lots of wildland for miles.

It always puts things in perspective to take these walks on our land and I’m so grateful for the opportunity to do so.

“Only with a leaf
can I talk of the forest,”
― Visar Zhiti, The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry