A Walk in the Woods…..

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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.

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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.  DSCN0096

 

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

 

 

Our New Community Garden!!

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Its an exciting time here at Full Bloom as we create our Enchanted Community Garden in the center of the land.  Above is Micaela measuring out the space as part of the garden bed mapping out.  She was our inspired designer of the garden, creating a mandala of shapes including a heart, a star, and a yin/yang symbol.  How fun huh?!

We will be planting an assortment of “permaculture” plants.  These are plants that serve multiple ecological functions such as food for us, food for friends (birds and beneficial insects), soil improvement, and of course beauty (a key piece of sustainability, for beauty will attract people to the place to the garden to take care of it).

Below is a picture of the beds actually being hand dug.  We are digging out the topsoil of the paths and putting the soil on the beds so they will be extra rich.  The final layer will be a couple of inches of premium local composts.  The plants will be ecstatically happy!

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We’ve sowed hundreds of plants in the Greenhouse to fill in the garden and have a nursery order coming with all kinds of perennial shrubs and small trees like lilac, elderberry, hawthorn, and serviceberry.

What a gift it is to be able to co-create beauty and abundance.

“There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.”  ~Mirabel Osler