Gaiaceous Gardens
Live in the woods…not the weeds.
gaiaceousgardens
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Gaiaceous Gardens is a permaculture-based residential landscape management company that specializes in using native plants to create, enhance or restore an urban or suburban forest, food forest and unique wildlife habitat. We also run a working/ teaching urban farm & certified wildlife habitat in Shoreline, WA.
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For years, I created and maintained “forest gardens” for people’s urban and suburban lots. It’s a fun and interesting challenge. The same concepts of large scale forestry mostly still apply, but are scaled down to miniature sizes...and every bit of urban green space created and stewarded makes a difference. Part of the intention behind my move to the Olympic Peninsula was to pursue a dream of managing private forestland on a much larger scale, which I now do. One of the aspects I love is the way nature efficiently uses every ounce of soil. This is something that be challenging for the average home gardener to understand. You might look at a section of forest, see gaps between perennials and trees and think, “I’ll plant a new tree right there!” But when you begin digging a planting hole for your new tree, you find that roots already completely fill that space. And if you use tools to cut and break through those roots to clear some space, your new tree dies anyway. This is no standard garden bed with loose soil to plant up as tightly as we wish. This is a space where each tree and shrub and fern and flower has negotiated together to co-exist. They do this dance for soil space and shared resources without us and with incredible ease. This space is not ours to control unless we tear it down and start over. So, forest management, I’ve found, is the meaningful and continual practice of observation, of respecting the fact that I’m the outsider entering an established community and of learning quickly the dynamics of existing complex relationships. Everyday, I learn so much from these incredible beings...
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#honoringthesacred #protectingourforests #natureasteacher #pacificnorthwest #forest
Bright Full Moon Blessings...there is so much to celebrate! Where to begin this time of year?! This full moon is a supermoon - imagine that the moon is enough closer to us than usual, that we can see and feel the difference. I do! And this is Ostara, the Spring Equinox (or mid-spring in the Pagan Calendar) and the beginning of the season of joy, fertility, abundance and sensual pleasure. What is it that you truly love and enjoy? What makes you happy? Dwell there. So, perhaps it’s no mistake that this is also the season of Purim and Holi and Nowruz. We have survived Winter (in the northern hemisphere) and the longer, warmer days of Spring are blissfully felt to our bones. It’s an earthly experience. We dance, we sing, we play, we gather outdoors together, we celebrate the abundant colors of flowers and the simple pleasures of fresh, green grass. It’s good to be alive. And this moon, this full worm moon reminds us that the great wheel turns once more and life wakes up to enter a new cycle...from the ground up. Thank you, Great Spirit, for these human experiences. Thank you, dearest friends, for walking this path with me.
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#fullmoon #wormmoon #supermoon #springequinox #ostara #purim #holi #nowruz #wheeloflife #honoringthesacred #ceremony #truefriends #pacificnorthwest
Favorite Quote:
I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose, I would always greet it in a garden. ~Ruth Stout
