Our Journey to Eden
Follow us as we embark on our mid-life odyssey to recover Eden.
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Photo-Art for the Planet
We are offering original and limited-edition photo-art for sale in a variety of formats. Our goal is to launch as many initiatives as our resources allow to provide ways to reconnect with our natural selves. We want to support and foster a shift toward simpler and more sustainable living alongside greater mental well-being and life satisfaction. You can read more about this in the following post Let’s Try a New Way You can also become a subscriber for access to details on off-grid lifestyle project plans, beekeeping insights and digital access to selected photo-art. We would love to welcome you to our community.
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Bees…Welsh Black Bees…for Newbees
We have our first bees. Details to follow…
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Let’s go foraging
Even though we can’t yet live on the land, we have been exploring any possible ways to interact with, observe and nurture it. It’s an opportunity to exercise some permaculture ideas and understand its rhythms and cycles. This seems like a very good approach as several different habitats can be found within these three acres, including wet woodland, river, mature beech trees, paddock and hedgerow. One of our early aspirations has been to make wine from foraged flowers and fruit. There are numerous species of wild berry on the way but the first and obvious source was to target available elderflowers and dandelions. As it turned out, I missed the…
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The Nature Spectators
It’s tough waiting for all of our planning and other preliminaries to be resolved before we can build anything. We’re not even able to construct rain-water harvesting systems to enable us to grow on the land at this point. One consolation has been the chance to use the first permaculture principle, OBSERVE and INTERACT. For at least 6 months during COVID-19 lockdown, we were physically separated from the land and relied on our powers of recall (with some help from Google Earth) to visualise our interactions with it. We had only recently discovered that we had purchased more than we had realised in the form an area of woodland at…
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How Much?
If I have one piece of advice so far it is to go and meet the neighbours. As long as you don't piss them off with imperious attitude and 'we're gonna do whatever we want' language, they can be a fount of goodness and local knowledge. After an uncertain start, we have found our neighbours to be supportive and helpful.