View from the Organic Garden

Happy May!

The robins, crows, orange shouldered crows, thrushes, geese, and hawks have been heralding the coming spring weather. The wildflowers are repainting the landscape, and the dandelions are sharing their leaves with me for lunch.

The stream has shared their larger rocks for the garden raised bed wall, as is the land itself. Truly, all one ever needs to survive can be lovingly given by our sacred mother nature. This is true abundance consciousness.

The organic garden has its first of three beds, the rest should be prepared before Memorial Day seed planting. Also arriving are blueberry and amalaki (gooseberry) bushes, and a grapevine. Plus there are seeds for elderberry vines and currant bushes. Spring has already brought another surprise gift - wild raspberry bushes.

long view of first
garden bed - note my
first attempt at a
homemade raised-bed
rock wall.

two more beds to create...

   inside the bed is a mix
   of peat, organic
   manure, & vermiculite

Many of the apple trees are now partially or fully pruned - we’ll see what surprise gifts they may share this coming fall.

Some wildflower and other perennial flower seeds to share with the land so she can add to her palate to paint year after year.

This spring also includes felling crab apple trees and planting a red cedar, 3 paper birch, a quaking aspen, and two butternut trees to plant here since I live in the town of Butternuts (and it is a source of butternut nuts)...more abundance. The trees were ordered from arborday.org - joined again this year. The 10 free dogwood trees they send, I donated to our county riparian project.

Future plans include building a rock wall from the flat shale rocks sleeping in the ground under their grass blankets, and possibly build a stone hut for sadhana deep in the property. Also I plan to start planting Poplar Hybrid saplings because they are ready for timber in 5-7 years and this will give a free source of firewood ,wood stock for building (eg, stream bridges), and of course, helping the environment just by living and growing on the earth.

Also this spring I’ll plant some ayurvedic herbal and western herbal seeds including tulsi, cumin, coriander, bala, nirgundi, turmeric, ginger; a western herb garden for the seasons & the planets. Seeds of change...seeds of paradise...

First Spring - Living in Paradise

close-up view of a portion of my first raised-bed rock wall.
all stones came from the stream here on the ashram

We had a preview, a week of 70 degree sunshine weather. Perfect for starting the garden, taking siestas after lunch under the white pine tree and seeing hawks circle above. Picking dandelion leaves for lunch veggies. It drizzled the other day...the air was so sweet you could drink in the nectar.

Getting fresh raw organic milk from the farmer. The backwoods are now layered in mild colors of tree buds and new leaves sharing its newest landscape painting to this ashram art gallery.

That’s the abundance update from this ashram paradise.
Hoping you are on your path to, or living in your paradise.

Peace Peace Peace
Shanti Shanti Shanti

Swami Sadashiva Tirtha