Every spring I can’t wait to get my hands in the dirt, preparing the garden beds for another season of growth: the rich array of colorful flowers, the crisp sugar snap peas, the deep greens of kale and chard. I can see them all now in my minds eye even though the garden is mostly […]
As it goes people come in and out of living in community here at Full Bloom. This morning monthly “Heart Circle” was devoted to expressing our gratitude to 3 departing members of the Full Bloom community Miceala, Caleb, and their son Atreya. Well before we got into the sappy stuff we had an amazing […]
Last week an amazing veteran Orchardist came to Full Bloom to share his pithy wisdom and love for the art of Fruit Tree care. His name is Terry Helfrich and he’s been taking care of fruit orchards in the Rogue Valley for several decades now. It was a blast to see him trim up […]
Last weekend, almost 30 members of our rural community in the Little Applegate Valley got together for our first ever community mapping event. It was relaxed, fun and even exciting. My wife and I got there 20 minutes late but that was no biggie since one of the organizers was also late due to daylight […]
When we came to this land, bright eyed and tender handed, we came with a dream of farming, of raising our food and our families in a sustainable way, and we saw permaculture as part of that way. Unlike the buzzword ‘sustainability’ that has been co-opted by corporate media, permaculture offers a very clear set […]
Embodiment practices are a key piece of the Vision here at Full Bloom. In order take good care of each other, the land and to thrive we need to take good care of our bodies. I know few practices that are better at creating a noble and calmly energized sense of being in one’s body […]
As I sit in meditation in the morning I look out my window which captures a panorama of the heart of the community: the central garden, the community building, the chicken coops, the bathhouse and a cascade of to do’s and anxieties often floods me. There’s just so much to do and think about! I […]
After the completion of the community sauna we established what is fast becoming one of the highlights of the week here at Full Bloom: Potluck and Sauna night. Its a night where we put out an invitation to our broader community to come and join us for a meal, catch up on the valley […]
At Full Bloom we a have a pretty extreme climate leading to a relatively short growing season. We’ve been know to have a frost as late as Early June and as early as early October leading barely a 4 month frost free growing window. But that’s outside. The Greenhouse changes everything; it gives us another […]
The Consensus on the land here is that the inaugural Social Forestry Winter Camp at Full Bloom was a success! (To be transparent: that’s not an official consensus, but I haven’t seen much in the way of sour faces or complaints either from the winter campers or the Full Bloom residents). Yesterday was their […]