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Totally smitten by this gorgeous new pot by @the_barefoot_potter that we picked up at @wmhewitt’s 101 kiln opening! V excited to use this piece as our new salt cellar. It’ll be well used + loved in this kitchen!

We have black walnut ink ✒️ + there’s flying okra 🕊 at the @chathammillsfarmersmarket so come on down and hang with these nuts!

From shelling these Tongue of Fire beans to stewing them in a pot according to the great @chefandthef’s dried field peas and rice recipe (we added arroz con pollo peppers to the mix), to enjoying the whole mess over brown rice with collards and bacon. This is the stuff of southern summer supper dreams. #southernfoodways #rareseeds

Thoughts in response to the Amazon fires and all the other burning in our world: we need more robust systems, and human stewards of those systems. We need resilience, grown by turning our problems into solutions through careful thought + innovative design. This principle of cultivating solutions from problems is what I saw in practice during a permaculture design course with @wholesystemsdesign a few years ago. I saw the beginnings of good ecological design and land management and also real examples of what’s possible over long term site establishment when humans are committed to living and working in tandem with the land. The 1st photo is of a sea berry (incredibly nutrient dense fruit) sapling planted in a guild of pollinator plants and annual edibles. The 2nd is of an established sea berry bush about to bear fruit. The 3rd is of a native tree hedge row for water catchment (slow it, sink it, spread it!) planted on contour to help mitigate erosion and provide a wind break, and the last is of naturopathic physician Erica Koch guiding us through her medicinal herb garden sharing the potential of bodily healing through native and cultivated plants. These photos inspire me. The land gives and offers us so much, but to be in relationship with the great Mother we must be willing to learn, try, fail, and try again. We too need to be robust as we grow new systems for meeting our needs into this uncertain future. That’s what we strive to do on this little plot of land we’re leasing, and hope to continue on our own patch of land soon. Our goal above all is to grow resilience. So, in growing forward here’s some of what I’m doing: - Reading: Fate of Food by Amanda Little, Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein, The Carbon Farming Solution by Eric Tonsenmeir - Growing: As much of our own food as we reasonably can, although we’ve just realized our soil is too alkaline from the compost we use and we need to move from no till to some till because our clay soil is becoming way too compacted for good yield. So, we’re on the drawing board for 2020. - Donating to @earthjustice and supporting climate conscious businesses. Thanks for reading + for your good works! Keep on growing!

On these beautiful Bertie’s Best Greasy Beans from @sowtrueseed: “Bertie Best was the aunt of legendary bean grower and seed saver, Bill Best. Originating from Haywood County, NC, this bean is a short, round prodded greasy type pole bean and according to Bill, has existed in its present form for at least 130 years. It’s a great cooking bean and excellent for drying into shuck beans, which are also known as shucky beans, leather britches, and at times in the past, fodder beans.” #southernfoodways #gottobenc

Our zucchini got taken over by squash bugs. Thankfully our neighbors at @turtlerockgardens have an abundant crop that they shared with us, making these chocolate chip zucchini cookies possible. Thanks friends! 💚 Follow their farm for fotos of gorgeous blooms and info about where to grab you a local magical bouquet 💐✨

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