The Amazing Heart: our first year
Slideshow by Elizabeth O. Weller
Our mission: My dream has long been to develop an agriculturally based center for individuals who have been impacted by some sort of trauma or loss. By harnessing the therapeutic benefits of creative and physical work, I aim to provide a safe space for members of the local community to engage in emotional work and healing, to gain access to community resources and to learn to use personal and community supports while providing themselves, their families and the local community with locally grown, fresh food. In 2008, my husband and I bought a home on 6.5 acres in Orrtanna, PA. We moved here after my graduation from Harvard Divinity School in June of 2009. We have spent our first summer here working to establish ¼ acre of Certified Naturally Grown gardens. Our goal is to have 2 cultivated acres and 40 CSA shares within the next five years. Enjoy this brief viewin of our first year!
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a colorful celebration of this years harvest
?Growing food is the most basic use of the natural resources of the Earth, and through food production. we make our own working landscapes. How each society or nation produces and distributes food in large measure determines its identity.?
Elizabeth Henderson in Sharing the Harvest, a Citizen?s Guide to Community Supported Agriculture
blogged at thisamazingheart.com/
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A blush: hearts filled with Joy
"A tinge like a blush which one tried to check and then, as it spread, one yielded to its expansion, and rushed to the farthest verge and there quivered and felt the world come clower, swollen with some astonishing significance, some pressure of rapture..."
V. Woolf
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Wild Flowers: Milkweed
"I'm giving up sweet and becoming a creature of passion, a wild thing that nobody can ever fully possess."
Judith Viorst
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experimental salad mix
A combination of the baby greens in my garden right now...
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experimental salad mix
This is what my CSA members are getting this week. And probably next. Just a mix of my baby greens: kale, swiss chard, romaine, endive, arugula, mustard greens.
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canned goods
"America of the future will be all malls connected by interstates. All because your parents no longer can their own tomatoes." Garrison Keillor
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inside the soul
"Thinkers, listen, tell me what you know of that is not inside the soul?"
KABIR
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ETHEREAL: as impalpable or intangible as air
1. characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; intangible
2. highly refined; delicate... of celestial spheres; heavenly
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SP
"A place is nothing, not even a space,
Unless at its heart a figure stands."
Amy Lowell
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