04 Apr Tue 2023
2023 ..A Brave New World
2023.......... A BRAVE NEW WORLD
It's been 13 years since we spread my husbands ashes on the land and in his pottery urn in the"Sacred Grove". This Easter Sunday, we will honor our eldest daughter who passed away and joined him with her urn from losing her battle with breast cancer .She left home after high school for life in NYC and other cities around the world . I am grateful to have been able to have her here with me during her battle as well as on hospice here in the end.. not in a hospital somewhere.
That said ..I am grateful at my age to be able to still be able to live on this homestead.. using wood heat, growing my own foods and preserving them , medicines,saving seed and making my own compost with my animals manures and live to this lifestyle.There is nothing I would rather be doing .I have gardened every year here for 46 years and planted most of the trees and plants that grow here. I am bartering for help and selling things that I no longer need .Last week I took a pickup load of old clothes that I had saved for all those years to be recycled and help homeless people.. I create very little waste,have no trash pickup . I take my own trash to the landfill every year or 2 .
I am grateful for sales from the gardens or when people come for classes or tours ,as it helps me support this way of life. I feed my one remaining horse,a few ducks,and chickens that I raise for eggs and my Silver Fox rabbits that I raise for meat ,furs and manures ..There's my faithful dog too and 3 rescued cats.Lately I have been blessed by the local homesteading community who also embrace this way of life ..The farm feilds all around me now hold new houses and lawns .
.Brave NEW World