The Good

The good news about initiatives to Recover Eden.

  • Our Journey to Eden,  Recovering eden,  Subscriber Content,  The Good

    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.

  • Events,  Recovering eden,  The Good

    Explore our Art and Photo Art Galleries

    Art and Photography are for both of us, important vehicles for expressing our relationship with nature. We are therefore happy to share some of our work with you via this site. We have two gallery areas: ORIEL featuring Mel’s art and photography and ADFER EDEN FFOTOGRAFFIAETH, featuring Terry’s photography and some cartoon art. All will be on sale as limited edition prints. Expression of interest in any of the works can be made by email or our contact form. We will be happy to discuss your preferences for size, mounting etc.

  • Little Changes,  Our Journey to Eden,  The Good,  Wet Woodland

    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…

  • Our Journey to Eden,  Recovering eden,  The Good

    Our First Encounter with Eden

    After several long months, the Welsh border has opened and this week, we were able to explore our land for the first time in any sort of detail. This was an event now so loaded with hope and expectation, I almost held back, preferring the sweetness of anticipation (albeit the bitter and frustrated kind). What would we find? Encampments of vagabonds? Fly-tipping, Hostile locals? All were possible. Instead we found enormous hope and potential coupled with some hopefully not too serious challenges.

  • Our Journey to Eden,  Recovering eden,  The Good

    Power To The People

    We have to start an ambitious project of this scale with some clear guiding principles. Otherwise, I expect we will lose our way in the face of conflicting options and budget priorities. What are our core values? These will inform design choices, materials selection and the lifestyle we create. Of course, there will be some compromise; we don’t have unlimited funds – or even limited but comfortable. We are scraping this together. So when I say our first guiding principle is to achieve energy self-sufficiency using only renewable sources while remaining stubbornly off-grid, my wallet contracts in my pocket with an involuntary spasm. This tech is very cool but it…

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