New Year’s Meditation
By Steven Martyn One of the gifts that spending time with people in their last days can bring to us is perspective on possessions. So, I’ve been meditating on the nature of ‘possession’. It’s certainly not the first time I’ve done this or likely the last, because this tree, from which so many forms of…
Sacred Building: Mortise and Tenon
We’re in the midst of building a timber frame and she’s a lovely thing to watch come together. Mark, a timber framer and sawer who is a student here at the Sacred Gardener school has taken on the project in trade for tuition. He’s from these parts, knows where the pines were cut, and milled…
Japanese Knotweed
By Steven Martyn It’s a curious thing that two of the primary healing plants for Lyme disease, Japanese Knotweed and Teasel seem to move into areas just when Lyme does. The thing is, if our eyes are open we can see this pattern again and again. As the first waves of conquest swept through…
The Bright Eyes of Divinity; Jewels at the Heart of Existence
By Steven Martyn All my plant relations are jumping back up now. Every spring I’m brought to tears of gratefulness when I see their beautiful faces again. Only a week ago as the moon waxed toward fullness, we thrashed bags of un-hulled bean pods for their bright coloured eyes and coaxed hard white knuckle-like kernels…
Chickadee Teachings and Sunflower Medicine
Everyday through the fall and into the snow filled month of December we had the great pleasure of being visited by a living stream of Black Capped Chickadees. The short explanation is that this year, we grew about 1000 square feet of Daytona sunflowers. Usually I grow a small patch, maybe 100 heads of Mammoth…
Indigenous Forest Gardening
Here at the Sacred Gardener Farm, things are winding down for the season. It’s not quite the end of October and we just had 10cm (4in) of snow. It won’t stay, but it sure did crack the whip for me to get my garlic planted and to dig up the last of the wildcultured roots,…
35 years of seeding earth wisdom
