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An Unsettled Source
The soil is the great connector of lives,
the source and destination of all.
the source and destination of all.
An Unsettled Character
Seeing the ecological crisis as a crisis of character and the disease of specialization from which we need healing.
Unsettled in America
What would it look like if we finally settled as Americans and really intended to be where we live in the places where we are?
A Kitchen of Hope
Biscuits and compost offer hope and grace in the messy but very good new creations every day.
Kitchen Reflections
Follow trustworthy principles (and recipes) in farming and life but allow for adjustments. Reflect and trust your senses.
Kitchen Interactions
There are interactions on the table that invite us into a multiplicity of relationships. How can we eat with our ecosystems in mind?
Kitchen Stories
The kitchen is a keeper of our stories and connects us to the garden and to each other.
A Commonwealth
If you call your home a commonwealth, does it create within you a mindset of who you are, where you are, and what you have in common?
Trees of Life
The message of the trees: to treasure the gift of life and to be held together in a web of reciprocity.
Local food-in the News!
Headline news tells is that an increase in local food production is a top priority.
The Strength of Local
If "the strength of free peoples resides in the local community," how do we rebuild a local food system?
Living Roots
Learn from and maintain the living roots of our family trees and our democracy.
The Berry Center
For any nation to survive and prosper, it must jealously guard and preserve its ability to feed itself through small farms, not corporations.
Bonton Farms
Humans, like plants, need the right conditions to flourish. A garden led to a an urban farm where the seven human essentials are planted.
A Plan of Complexity
God does not reside in the stifling control of any rigid or fundamentalist plans. Rather, the one who breathes life into a handful of earth remains creatively open to the complexities of all ever-evolving and interconnected relationships that are moving towards life, healing, wholeness, and restoration.
RAIN - a four letter word
Nature is indifferent to us and our frustrations - but we are saved in the end by the things that ignore us. (5/22/24)
Resurrection in the Ordinary
In practicing resurrection, we find the sacred in the ordinary all year round. (5/17/24)
Mother Earth
Earth is generous and forgiving - but her patience is tested when we limit our affection to just one day. (5/8/24)
May Flowers
God's glory is revealed in all of creation being fully alive. How do I know? Today the flowers told me so. (5/1/24)
Mending Fences
What fences in our lives need to be fixed? What fences need to be movable? What needs mending?
A Sense of Wonder
Wonder is within reach of all of us. We are born with it. Open our eyes to the unseen beauty. (4/4/24)
Practicing Resurrection: a hands-on activity
Come on in to the “tohu-wa-bohu,” and let's see what we can resurrect with God's help. (4/4/24)
Sheep in the Garden
After his resurrection, he will be mistaken as the gardener. But gardens are where you find him. (3/28/24)
God's Native Language(s)
How can we experience the Divine in all the newness of life that spring is promising? (3/28/24)
A Mindful Spring
There can be a playfulness and generosity to spring that should not be missed. (3/14/24)
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