It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” Lena Horne We are beaming you luminous love from Soul Fire, as the maple trees gush with sweet water and the sun radiates more light across…
February Love Notes: Annual Report, Barred Owl & Natural Plasters
“Black Futures Month is about making space for Black people to vision and build the world of our dreams… When we allow ourselves the freedom and permission to follow our radical imagination, the world we need and want takes root.”…
January Love Notes: Transitions, Resilience, and Voles
Remember this in the darkest moments, when the work doesn’t seem worth it, and change seems just out of reach: out of our willingness to push through comes a tremendous power… Use it” Stacey Abrams Beloved Community, 2020 taught us…
Love Notes – Rooted In Resilience
Many of us are trained to believe that resilience means toughing it out, going it alone, and suppressing our fears. In this time of multiple pandemics, we experience true resilience as leaning into interdependence and vulnerability, and connecting to the…
Love Notes – Justice for Black Farmers Act, Uprooting Racism, and a 2020 reflection
“Until I am free, you are not free either.” Fannie Lou Hamer The forces of oppression would like us to feel uncertain about whether we have a future at all, so planning for 2021 feels like an audacious act of…
Love Notes: New website, more store items, and fall updates
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. Maya Angelou The original stewards of the land we farm in Grafton, New York are the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of…
LOVE NOTES – FINDING HOPE & RESILIENCE DURING CHALLENGING TIMES
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” Angela Davis A sunflower we grew. As autumn descends on us, we, like so many others, find ourselves reckoning with the challenges…
LOVE NOTES – LAUNCHING OUR NEW ONLINE STORE, CLIMATE JUSTICE, AND NEW VIRTUAL TOUR!
“I dare to be powerful. I use my strength in service to my vision.” Audre Lorde From left to right: Cheryl, Justin, Naima, Emet, Laura & Ria, Azuré, Kiani, Jonah, and Leah. In forests, mycelium networks connect trees, transporting sugars,…
LOVE NOTES – FORTIFYING OUR FOUNDATION, LOL VIDEO SERIES, AND 3D SKILL SHARES
Wherever we are, in any environment from urban to rural, we are here on earth. We can be comforted by the earth in our sadness, we can be held in our sorrow. I am learning not to underestimate the true…
