Logos and stuff

Thinking about using one of these as a logo for Glenhordial Permaculture Farm. As I am no judge of these things I thought I would put them up here and await feedback!  You have eight hours helppppppppppppppppppp! If you feel like it to the right hand side  of this post is a poll your mouse click could make the difference. :-)

A different unfolding

The world’s first museum dedicated solely to renowned Californian space and light artist James Turrell was opened high in the Argentine Andes in April 2009. It is somewhere that is on the wish list .....might have to be the next life time though.

Turrell’s international reputation stems from his extraordinary installations, such as the Roden Crater in Arizona, where he has created a labyrinthine system of Skyspaces, tunnels and meditative pools.

Earth Prayers

For the last while I have been immersing myself in a little book called Earth Prayers 365 prayers,poems and invocations for honouring the earth. Here are two.

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives maybe,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in the beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax  their lives with forethought
of grief .I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free

Wendell Berry


Momentarily delayed within the circular comforting warmth
Of the early evening fire.
I weave fantastical images in the picture frames of life
Primitive unknowing longing momentarily released.
What was it that I remembered? what was it that I saw?
Buried deep in the embers of generational DNA.

Alleram Enryb

Embroidery

Recently I was hoking about  on the internet for a picture to illustrate the opening page of a new  resource booklet that I have put together as a resource manual that folk could use to introduce  very young children (pre-school and below ) to  the magic of  gardening. More about this later. As you can imagine I found many beautiful images, but somehow  was dissatisfied with them all.

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Transition Whats it all about?

Organic gardening classes

Despite snow and bad weather yet again yesterday, the first of the Wednesday night organic gardening classes started last night. An enthusiastic and good humoured group gathered in the former hostel and spent two delightful hours talking about all things related to growing your own vegetables. Folk were greeted with warm baked scones  and freshly brewed coffee as they settled down to companionably  learning about organic gardening . The tradition of encouraging group participation  and learning from the  combined experience of the group was continued last night producing  some real gems of information ensuring  a great learning experience. The next class will be two weeks from now as the writer (alias me ) is heading off to Wales to immerse herself in a permaculture course for a couple of weeks.

Permaculture progress or lack of!

"Best laid plans of mice of men gang after glay" - or something like that . Was out for a walk today checking out, on our newly planted forest garden and wishing that the weather would hurry up and improve so that we could get on and move things forward . We have at the moment one half mulched  forest garden , awaiting the addition of more planting , tons of soggy cardboard  that now is almost impossible to move and tons of woodchip building up waiting to be moved in situ . Things have been at a standstill like this since November.

Other projects such as the new conservatory that we are trying to design, so that if fulfills all of our needs and is built using permaculture princples. Easier said than done, the conservatory has to provide heat for the house, an extra working space, somewhere to dry clothes , be built of  local materials, so local that the walls could be built from the soil on our land! So many hard decisions to make, so little expertise in so many areas! At the moment we are playing with models ....will post a few photos in a while.....even if it is only of a cardboard model!