The Story of the Toads in our Pond!

As you all know we made a pond!
It is a magnet for life on the homestead and we enjoy sitting by it watching our fish and all of the other organisms that are attracted to it.
Frogs & Toads, of course!

@walkerland

Plant Perennial Food For Resilient Gardens 

Planting edible perennials increases food system resilience. It is better for our soil and our health. It also makes our work in the garden a lot easier.

Perennial edibles are the type of plants that often get a bad rap. In the popular quest for ultimate control and perfectly manicured gardens, perennial edibles are willfull, wild, resilient & unruly rebels!

When it comes to food security increasing the amount of perennial food you grow is the smart thing to do. Basically, If you want a lot of food, plant perennials.

@riverflows

When A Seed is More Than A Seed: Steem Now, And a Vision?

![]() A few days ago, a package arrived in the post all the way from Oregon. The sender - the darling @sagescrub - joined me on an experiment to see if seeds would make it through Aussie customs. Before you get all border police on me, these are all seeds that I've seen grow here in Australia, so it wasn't as if I was smuggling in cane toads or prickly pear or foxes (thanks early settlers). Receiving the package felt like Christmas when I was a kid. It just felt unexpected and exciting, pulling out mullein, yellow yarrow, dandelions (yes, I have them growing in my garden already, but I wanted ones from Oregon), and a plethora of other seeds that I'll sow come Spring. 'Seeds of Abundance' indeed - born from having plenty, and being willing to give away to make someone elses life abundant.

@steelborne

Miracles Aren't Chance...We Create Them

@trucklife-family

Beltaine - A Celebration of Fertility and Unity

Beltaine is one of the Celtic Fire festivals and is celebrated around this time of the year. When you go outside you can see that everything in nature is bursting forth with life. There are flowers everywhere and animals and birds are all having their young, at this time of the year the earth is at it's most fertile stage. There is so much creative energy in the air, everything is growing and evolving. Now is the time to reconnect, reconnect and unite the many sides of ourselves.

Each festival gives us the opportunity to work on specific parts of ourselves, to open ourselves up to deepen inner reflection and embrace the person that we have become. We only need to look to nature, to see what is happening naturally all around us. When we observe our natural surroundings we then become aware of the energies that are at their most active now.

@minismallholding

Trying to Get Organised and Getting on Top of Cooking. 

Bael or Aegle marmelos is a spiritual, religious and medicinal plant, native of India and Bangaladesh and spread throughout South East Asia. The fruit takes about 10 to 11 months to ripen. It is a sweet, aromatic and astringent in nature. It has many benefits and uses such as to cure tuberculosis, hepatitis, dysentery, constipation, peptic ulcer, piles and many more, useful in worm infestation and stomach related problems.

@porters

Strange Happening During Mating Season - My Wednesday Walk...

@eco-alex

Earthship Biotecture Transcribed: Session 2 - Part 4: Botanical Cells, Using Water 4 Times, Food Production. 

I would like to thank Mike Reynolds for giving me permission to transcribe, edit and reformat this work for the Steem Blockchain! If you do read or watch this and have any questions please ask in the comments. I am happy to educate and help you to understand this. Biotecture is amazing in so many ways, and even after 20 years I still have not seen a model of sustainable building that even comes close in so many important areas such as performance, carbon footprint, longevity, ease of build, etc... Now you can also come to understand what Biotecture Really Is about!

@artemislives

Crunchy Indian Marsala Chickpeas - Yummies From My Thai Kitchen 

School starts back for the year in just over a week's time and, with it will come the demand for healthy snacks to tide us over in the evening, when Mama is in need of a chill-out-glass-of-wine and dinner might still be a couple of hours away. Such is the life of the solo-entrepreneurial mom - plastering over cracks and creating good bridging solutions.

Snacks in Thailand are generally NOT in the healthy zone - just a horrendous amount of palm oil fried thingies, GMO corn, nasty soy product, chemicals, chemical flavorings and artificial coloring's. In plastic packaging. Not on my watch. After learning that the most common rotation crop for GMO cotton and GMO soy is peanuts (yup - soak up that glyphosate!) I kinda lost my taste for them.

@metama

Meditate With Metama -- Healing Past Wounds 

It is ok.
I know it hurts at times.
We have all felt that pain.

Join me as we discuss life and heal some of the wounds that we have carried for too long.

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