JourneySeeds

What's been brewing...

Beerbrewing was undertaken...

Cosmos blooming...

Music was performed by E at The Space...

We went to the Rhode Island Sustainable Living Festival

Entrance to the Festival...E & P...

Jay Mankita

Mark Erelli...

Red Molly...

Patti Larkin...a moment....

Crooked Still...

United Plant Savers...this is a great organization if you are interested in protecting native medicinal plants.

Simple Sunday Collage

Earth Day

Flickr Photos

Colored Pencils

I planned on making Kimchi today.  I got all the ingredients yesterday and had anticipated making it today for folks in the house that have come down with colds.  Alas, I've come down with the cold today and just plain old don't feel like working on such a big food project.  Besides, the idea was for the healing properties to infuse everyone but, if I make it now it seems I'd be infecting the kimchi with my sickness.  So, instead I played with colored pencils and dreamed about the springtime.  I certainly couldn't fit everything into the drawing and i have to say my skills are limited but, it was a fun exercise to give a try.

A simple drawing of our property.  Most everything is here.  The starred items are projects to be completed.

Recycled Houses

Dan Philips is helping folks build recycled homes at affordable prices.  Check out this awesome idea that I found over on Groovy Green. I love that the apprentice home builder talks about planting seeds.  That's what this blog Journeyseeds is all about. It's my favorite and most inspiring thing to do...find ideas and spread them out around the world. Even if just one person gets some inspiration from a seed I plant...it makes me so happy!

Handtowels

Handtowels

Back in '79 I went to The Marshfield School of Weaving in Plainfield Vermont.  It was here that I developed a fondness for handtowels.   The community farmhouse was filled with 5 of us students.  We took most of our meals together which was often a huge production.  I was often the dishwasher in that old white farmhouse.  Since we were at a weaving school we had the luxury of handwoven linen handtowels to use for everyday tasks.  They were of all sorts of patterns but, I loved the blue checkered or plain linen ones the most.  Since then, I have always used handtowels for daily household work.  I have some beautiful linen handtowels from Brahms Mount Textiles.I found these at The Common Ground Fair in Unity, Maine years ago.  But, mostly I have basic cotton handtowels that I pick up wherever I find myself in my travels. There is nothing like a big pile of freshly laundered towels folded and ready for work in the basket in the kitchen.  Papertowels are a waste of resources. The NRDC talks about the destruction of woodlands in this article.  Earth Friendly Mama writes about her families practice of reduction.  Do you use handtowels for work in your house?  What ways are you trying to reduce paper products in your life?  Maybe I can work on The Rubbish Diet...check out her link to A Zero Waste Lifestyle.

Brahms Mount Textiles