Gardening

 The gardening season started late for me, I drove around with seedlings in my car (a self-declared greenhouse of sorts) for way too long and payed for it when I had the energy to start working in the garden. I do not like to use straw because I feel like it encourages slugs and other pests but am trying it this year around the garlic in hopes I will get a garlic crop come summer's end. I am realizing how nice it is to cut down on the weeding involved in keeping a garden...

 Before we tilled over the weeds Kasper and I spent a day harvesting a lot of the wild herbs (mints, stinging nettles and such) for tinctures, teas and smoothies.

 We also took the time to harvest usnea from the big oak tree in the yard. I wanted to harvest all the violet leaves and flowers, dandelion roots, flowers and leaves but could not find the time and chose to walk away from it knowing that there will be more next year. Acceptance.

 

The most important thing was not the harvest but that Kasper and I had some alone time, in the dirt and learning together. Breathe and let go, Mama!