Pitting peaches - keeping diseased pits out of circulation and out of the compost. Methodical, necessary.
Here we have snippets of some of our projects and everyday tasks that instilled quiet minds, healthy bodies, and simple satisfaction -- continuing on in the spirit of those last two lines of Mowing by Robert Frost (in full in the last post),:
The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.Read More
My long scythe whispered and left the hay to make.
We think about it all of the time. The name Pukahu, as I understood it, is rooted in Maori and describes the 'litter under the Kauri tree' (pictured above) - and brings me to thinking of the rich mulch that forms under any tree from the amalgam of dead plant matter, microbes and time. It is fitting for this 5 acre plot in Kaiwaka at the Otomotea Ecovillage.
Read More“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”