honor your heart
How often have you craved a connection to something you could not define,
a longing for something that is missing,
or walked outside alone and yet felt not alone?
That is the Land calling your heart back to its hearth.
For the entirety of human evolution, humans relied upon the Land and we knew it.
Modern times and technology has gifted us comfort but taken away our inherent connection to the Land.
The farm, field, and forest is a place to rekindle that connection.
a longing for something that is missing,
or walked outside alone and yet felt not alone?
That is the Land calling your heart back to its hearth.
For the entirety of human evolution, humans relied upon the Land and we knew it.
Modern times and technology has gifted us comfort but taken away our inherent connection to the Land.
The farm, field, and forest is a place to rekindle that connection.
heal the land
What would happen in our society if we valued the comfort of the Land as much as we valued our own comfort?
Would we buy less items?
Would we appreciate our food and those that grow it more?
Would we stand with the rights of rivers, forests, and wolves to live freely?
Would we recognize that every object we own, every bite we eat comes from the Land with the help of human hands?
In showing deeper gratitude to the Land, could we feel the Land's love for us in return?
Would we buy less items?
Would we appreciate our food and those that grow it more?
Would we stand with the rights of rivers, forests, and wolves to live freely?
Would we recognize that every object we own, every bite we eat comes from the Land with the help of human hands?
In showing deeper gratitude to the Land, could we feel the Land's love for us in return?
feed your body
All living beings need to consume others.
Those others might be plants, animals, insects, stone dust, fungi, or compost.
As modern humans we have the unique and recent ability to chose what we consume.
We can get food from anywhere on the planet, but why not consume that which grows close to home?
For the Land that we live on, walk upon, and dream upon is the Land that knows us best and knows what we need.
The Land feeds your body until your body feeds the Land.
Those others might be plants, animals, insects, stone dust, fungi, or compost.
As modern humans we have the unique and recent ability to chose what we consume.
We can get food from anywhere on the planet, but why not consume that which grows close to home?
For the Land that we live on, walk upon, and dream upon is the Land that knows us best and knows what we need.
The Land feeds your body until your body feeds the Land.
Tucked into the Cabinet Mountains on the traditional and ancestral lands of the Ktunaxa (Kootenai), Kalispell, and Salish Nations, surrounded by National Forest, and bordering a crisp mountain river that flows from designated Wilderness, this small farm has a little of everything. Veggies. Flowers. Herbs. Chickens. Medicinal Botanicals. Our neighbors are elk, deer, moose, grizzly and black bears, mountain lions, wolves, ermine, mink, bald eagles, hawks, ravens, and more. So much so that I consider our place more of a wild farm than a cultivated farm because I let the boundary between farm and forest soften. I let the Elk walk up to my fences without worry and the 'weeds' to grow among the 'crops' until I forget which seeds I planted and which were already there.
I strive to tend more than cultivate.
I strive to listen and adapt more than order and control.
I strive to be in relation to the Land more than force it what to provide.
As part of that striving, I'm working to enact a shared dream between the Land and I for the present-day hay field to become a food forest with a blend of 'native' wild plants, non-native food plants, and cultivated 'crops' to feed both human and non-human residents and migrants. A place where the rhythms of community walk beside and within the rhythms of the forest, field, and farm.
I strive to tend more than cultivate.
I strive to listen and adapt more than order and control.
I strive to be in relation to the Land more than force it what to provide.
As part of that striving, I'm working to enact a shared dream between the Land and I for the present-day hay field to become a food forest with a blend of 'native' wild plants, non-native food plants, and cultivated 'crops' to feed both human and non-human residents and migrants. A place where the rhythms of community walk beside and within the rhythms of the forest, field, and farm.
why dragon's breath?
Dragons are creatures of mythology and memory.
They are magical, mystical, and sometimes maligned.
Often, they are portrayed as devious, dangerous, and destructive; unknowable, uncontrollable, and untouchable.
All traits that have been used to describe the Land and the wilds in modern times by colonial settlers.
Breath is the life blood of all beings. It is the thing we need most often even before water or food.
Our body will breathe for us as our activity requires, yet we can also become aware of our breath.
We can slow it down, speed it up, deepen it, or let it be shallow.
As we breathe, so does the Land.
The plants inhale with our exhale.
The birds inhale to share their songs.
Water exhales along babbling brooks and braided streams.
Together they become Dragon's Breath: our potential for awareness upon the Land and the wilds, being awake and mindful of our movement and influences upon the landscape, while remembering our shared past and forging a new mythology.
Also, I like dragons :)
Visit me at the local Farmers Markets or contact me to come visit the farm and discover why small, local farms feed your body, honor your heart, and heal the Land.
They are magical, mystical, and sometimes maligned.
Often, they are portrayed as devious, dangerous, and destructive; unknowable, uncontrollable, and untouchable.
All traits that have been used to describe the Land and the wilds in modern times by colonial settlers.
Breath is the life blood of all beings. It is the thing we need most often even before water or food.
Our body will breathe for us as our activity requires, yet we can also become aware of our breath.
We can slow it down, speed it up, deepen it, or let it be shallow.
As we breathe, so does the Land.
The plants inhale with our exhale.
The birds inhale to share their songs.
Water exhales along babbling brooks and braided streams.
Together they become Dragon's Breath: our potential for awareness upon the Land and the wilds, being awake and mindful of our movement and influences upon the landscape, while remembering our shared past and forging a new mythology.
Also, I like dragons :)
Visit me at the local Farmers Markets or contact me to come visit the farm and discover why small, local farms feed your body, honor your heart, and heal the Land.
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