“Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.” ― Mark Twain Last Week the four land partners of Full Bloom: Myself, my wife Eden, Jo Ferneau and Rosie Demmin collaborated on a new vision statement with the intention of having […]
Last night after watching a movie in our community room I stepped into the upstairs hallway and was blasted by a wave of the most intoxicating aroma know to man: fresh baked french bread. It still blows me away sometimes that I share my life with landmates that have devoted themselves to baking the […]
The beginning of 2014 brought with it the arrival of an amazing crew of devout forest tenders, naturalists, and bold experimenters in “social forestry”: Winter Camp. What exactly is Winter Camp? Its collective of 10 mixed gender individuals committed to learning together what it means to truly care for the forests of this Bioregion. […]
On Christmas eve we lit up our recently completed sauna for its inaugural voyage and it didn’t disappoint. With three different kinds of cedar, freshly sanded and soaked with jojoba/bees wax stain the smells were intoxicating. It was 28 degrees outside so the contrasting worlds were amazing. After about a half hour in the sauna […]
There’s a quiet revolution going on in different pockets and niches of the planet right now and it falls under blanket terms such as “natural building”, “Green Homes”, and “Ecological Design”. The general theme is the incorporation of more natural materials and patterns into architectural design and home building. Over the past 8 years […]
For the last 7 years we’ve had diverse flock of laying hens roams around the land here at Full Bloom and offering us a daily colorful reminder of the perks country life: gloriously vibrant orange yolked eggs. It turns out that the factory farmed eggs I grew up on with the dull yellow yolks aren’t […]
There’s something undeniably satisfying about getting on your hands and knees and digging in the earth in search of large tubers that will later become rosemary home fries, creamy mashed potatoes, and other comforting fall and winter foods. Over the weekend we harvested the Full Bloom potato crop which amounted to over 800lbs of potatoes […]
A fortuitous sequence of events brought a beautiful hand carved Balinese planter bed to Full Bloom last week. Our neighbors Avara and Asher had imported the piece from Bali some years ago, then moved to Bali leaving the planter to be moved by the only guy in the area who could: our dear friend and […]
As the weather starts to turn cold, wet and windy a nice evening in the sauna becomes increasingly enticing. Several months ago we begin construction of a sauna with an accompanying deck over our pond (convenient cold plunge) and the end is in sight. It took some time accruing the materials we wanted: all […]
In the modern age there can be a tendency to outsource everything from childcare, to dinner, to dog walking. As I’ve written in previous blogs its the intention here at Full Bloom to cultivate a first hand, direct relationship with food. This starts with the planting and tending of a myriad different vegetable varieties and […]