I love gardening. My garden is a small plot and I grow lots of food in this small space. At the moment I am harvesting lots of Snake beans and acid free German Cucumber. The Snake gourds, Pawpaw, and Winged beans are all growing well, and in a week or so I can start harvesting. The Arrow root, Lemongrass, Cranberry hibiscus, Spinach, Ibeka and several tomato varieties are happy all year round enjoying the company of my many herbs. The Ice cream bean tree will soon flower. Ice Cream beansI use the young leaves and flowers of Cranberry hibiscus in my salads. The older leaves I use for a herbal infusion/tea. Snake gourd came into my life about 5 years ago and I am very intrigued by this vegetable. First of all, it has a peculiar shape and does look like a snake hanging on for life. … [Read more...] about My Amazing Garden
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Full Moon Ritual
I always celebrate Full Moon. I think it is a wonderful phase of the Moon’s journey. I recharge and cleanse my crystals every Full Moon. I have a small white circular cloth which represents the Full Moon. I put it out in the garden on the ground in a beautiful spot where I usually don’t walk. I place a big Abalone shell in the middle of the cloth and fill it with small clear crystals. I place four cone shaped shells pointing outwards with even distance, one for each direction. Around the Abalone I place all the crystals I want to recharge in a pattern following my intuition. You can place whatever you feel like on the cloth. I usually put some coral and Moonstone out. The shells represent water and the Moon Goddess. In the grass outside of the cloth I place 4 white feathers one for each … [Read more...] about Full Moon Ritual
Growing a Small Garden
From the Good Old Aussie Big Back Yard to the New Suburbia Living Lifestyle it is time to connect with Mother Earth. It is time to start a garden. Gardening is a great passion of mine and so rewarding when you plant your seeds and see them germinate and grow into beautiful flowers, herbs and vegetables or even trees. You don’t need a lot of space to grow successfully. A few years ago I decided to prove just that with the New Suburbia Living Lifestyle in mind. I hope I can encourage people with small space to grow a garden so please keep reading.I wanted the garden to easily fit into the new and modern suburbia where there is not much room for playing cricket or airing the family dog so I decided that 34m2 of kitchen garden would help feed a family quite nicely. A small garden can easily … [Read more...] about Growing a Small Garden
Seed Saving
Seed saving goes back to the dawn of agriculture so we are looking at very ancient traditions. Seeds were carried by nomads and planted where they stopped for spring, summer and autumn. Many of their seeds were sacred to them and very important for their ritual life. I was taught about seed saving when I was 4 years old my Grandmother as my Mentor. She had a compost heap. We got cow manure from an uncle out of town. We collected lots of seaweed at the nearby beach. We got leaf litter from the nearby forest where we also filled up our water containers from a sacred mineral spring. Grandmother had a beautiful garden full of edible stuff and lots of herbs and flowers for medicinal use. She taught me how to save seeds and she had a small personal seed catalogue full of information about when … [Read more...] about Seed Saving
