This is both a public blog and a private one. Such a new phase of life is opening up and I want to keep a record. Some of the record is just for me and a lot of it I want to share. How exciting for me to be beginning Ancient Ponies Farm. This blog starts last winter when the farm was not even an idea….yet the seeds of its formation were there. I can see that when I read back.
I hope anyone who reads this finds enjoyment with the pages.
~Sharon
As part of the growing vision of White Pine Healing Arts, we are expanding to incorporate the principles of reciprocal healing into our relationship with the land. You can follow our activities through our blog. On the 13 acres of Ancient Ponies Farm, rather than farming with the goal of taking out of it as much as we can get, we are setting our intention on giving back more than we’ve taken. As we grow organic herbs for our clinic, we are working to improve the soil, encourage bees and butterflies, support endangered species, fertilize with the droppings of our own animals, power ourselves with solar energy. The farm began as a neglected, run down, sandy-soiled heaven for invasives. Ancient cedar trees on the property were being choked by bittersweet and multiflora rose. Though we lost two trees, we have saved another ten. Two are now providing shade for our mushroom gardens. The dirt is being converted into rich soil as I write by the earthworms (also a Chinese herb!) who have been made welcome by the layering of cardboard, compost and leaf mulch. In the spring we will be growing Schizandra, Nettles, White and Red Peony, Coltsfoot, Aster…and many other medicinal herbs.
The farm is the link between healing ourselves and the earth. There is no separation between the health of all beings.