Spiritual gardening, the way out of suffering.

Permaculture Womens Guild

Ever walked along a Chinese garden, public or private, urban or rural? It’s interesting maybe for you to know that if you did, it taught you how to deal with your personal demons. The topic today is spiritual gardening, or insight-gardening, or how to make the most out of your spiritual garden design. I’m at a crossroads. I have land and I’m trying to figure out how to do the best design project I possibly can. So, I’m stuck filling everything with trees at the moment. I’ve planted so far 3 trees up front and 5 trees out back. It’s…

For your inspiration: Sabarmatee

Permaculture Womens Guild

A woman and her father gathered their know-how, investments and time, and turned 90 acres into a lush edible forest. Here’s their story. “Every expert we met discouraged us to take up this mission. No one believed that we could revive such a wasteland through organic methods. But, we made the impossible eventually possible.” A piece of land in Odisha was deteriorating fast, after decades of soil abuse from pesticides, fertilizers and deforestation, it was thought impossible to regenerate it. This father-daughter duo thought that was highly likely to regenerate it with the right measures. Broadly speaking, we’ve seen this…

We are Stitch (Let’s be Lilo!)

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Stitched up as we are I figure we can Lilo it out of here! ​​Recently I read another article about how it’s now considered fact; we are all doomed and sadly no one has a real solution. (Though George Monbiot had the best shot at it apparently so I’m reading the recommended book.) Then, with my mind still on impending apocalypse I sat to have our film slot with Mia, my four year old daughter. She gets to choose. ‘Lilo and Stitch’ is a fun film and portrays the relationship between the duo and how eventually the little girl Lilo assists…