I'll have to update more thoroughly soon . . . life is happening ( Read more... )

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Hello from Deans Ranch, Slim Buttes, Pine Ridge (Oglala Lakota Nation), South Dakota ( Read more... )

School goes on! We have clients and have started observing their sites and talking with them about what they want to do. We’ve learned to survey and have been surveying each other’s sites in teams. I must say that I felt pretty cool surveying in a team of all women. Now we’re making base maps, which will probably lead to more surveying as we ( Read more... )

I’m a graduate student! It feels absolutely right to be just where I am, so it’s funny to think that even a year ago I couldn’t have imagined where I’d be now, or that I’d be in school, period.

My program, the only program at the Conway School of Landscape Design-a ten-month, 19-student graduate program in sustainable landscape planning and design ( Read more... )

Hi!

I’m writing from Sacred Bough Farm in Sullivan, Maine. I arrived here four weeks ago today. What adventures these past three months have held! After leaving Lost Valley at the beginning of March, I spent two months traveling around the northeast and Midwest, visiting relatives and friends from many different parts of my life. The trip was ( Read more... )

Ah, the pleasures of New York! I am inspired by the meal I just enjoyed, one of the most exquisitely prepared and served of my life so far: a salad of wine-poached pear on tender greens with walnuts and a mild blue cheese; pappardelle with pignoli, asiago, and more di gelsi (a kind of berry, I suspect a close relative of the blueberry) in a sauce ( Read more... )

It's official: at the end of April, I will begin a permaculture apprenticeship in Sullivan, Maine!

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Salvete omnes!

Once again I am in transition. I will be at Lost Valley for one more week-and if the past couple weeks have been any indicator, it will be intense. It’s hard to say goodbye to a place and a community I’ve loved and where I’ve been happy, and to my wonderful friends here. When it was other people leaving, it was easy to talk about ( Read more... )

Hello everyone!

Recently life has been feeling both overly-busy (seems to be normal . . . maybe I just need to figure out how to make the amount of activity there usually is feel less chaotic) and very rich. In the past couple weeks, I have moved to a new space at Lost Valley (more apartment-style, and I have a lovely housemate, Meghan) and had a ( Read more... )