Hello, my name is Yvonne and I am a seed-aholic. There, I’ve said it. I admit it and this time of year is not a good time for seed catalogue addicts. Just the past week I received three of them, found one from last year that I had packed away and have opted for downloading [...]
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Jan 04
Occupy Earth!
Well, we’ve all made it to 2012 and I can already feel the new wave of energy pulling us forward, leaving the old paradigms behind us including how we connect with the earth. So for this New Year, I heartily encourage everyone to just take over—their yards, their driveways, alleys, the roof, patios, even parks, [...]
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THANKS MOM!
May we one day remember that everything comes from you. Everything. Have a beautiful Thanksgiving Day filled with Grace and Gratitude! Yvonne (Poster art by Jeness Cortez Perlmutter, 1994)
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Autumn in the Great Smokies!
After four months of car travel from Albuquerque, NM to my roots in the midwest, my youngest daughter’s wedding in St. Louis, a trip to Appalachia, down through North Carolina, up to Gloucester, MA and a few days at Occupy DC/Freedom Plaza, I’m now “home” in Whittier and Sylva, NC. It feels good to stop [...]
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Saving Seed also means saving Seed Companies
I can’t believe it’s been almost two months since I last posted. For those who wonder, I’ve been traveling all over the eastern part of the US, visiting old and dear friends, enjoying the weeks before my youngest daughter’s wedding in St. Louis, MO and then following my bliss…..to the East coast, where I am [...]
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From Solar Storms to Full Moon
I promised a post on seed saving but this felt more important to share. Besides seed saving is best done in a fire sign, like Aries which is the 17th and 18th of this month so we have time to consider some other energies developing right now. I’ve had the pleasure of spending the better [...]
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How to Have your own Outrageous Garden!
So what’s the “secret” to these quirky little gardens I love so much? The organic scavenger-throw-together growing system that pretty much works anywhere? The answer is: Think like Mother Nature! I am quite certain that what we call gardens are simply energetic relationships that manifest through the intention of soil, seeds, water, air and sunlight [...]
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Heading to Haiti!
We’re heading to Haiti in a little less than a month, and because I’ve been consumed with the details of fundraising—– completing my course on agroforestry through Trees for the Future—as well as my mental and physical preparations for this three week experience, it felt like the time to transplant this blog into what I [...]
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Super Full Moon Musings
Each Full Moon, I’m reminded of the Earthwide miracle: water! How it’s dance upon our planet provides nourishment, joyful sound and a completing harmony among all the elements. Sometimes, in order to bring balance and harmony for her own evolution and growth, the Earth unleashes her unfathomable power. At such times, what we see is [...]
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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT for Community Gardens!
As a Plant A Row for the Hungry coordinator for Bernalillo County in New Mexico, I received the following email announcement from the Plant A Row headquarters. Read on and if you want to apply for a grant for YOUR community garden, get in touch quickly as the deadline is March 31st! Good luck and [...]
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