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Budding Food Forest & Permaculture Homestead in the Ozarks

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We are very pleased to be offering these hardy and useful plants for sale. These are all plants that we have found to be of notable value in our effort to create edible and medicinal landscapes. We hope these offerings will empower you to put plants in the ground and that you will find them enjoyable, useful and productive.

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    3 Chester Variety Thornless Blackberry Plants

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    3 Triple Crown Blackberry Plants

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  • Aronia (runner) 2 for $10

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    Goldenseal Organic & Biodynamic Cultivated Tincture 1 OZ

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    Sprouts! Live Well With Living Foods

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Instagram post 2190956682153083576_559061815 more than anything I love being a human of the earth. recently I read caliban & the witch and it hit home for me that our power comes from our relationship with the land and oppressors always take this away first. if we can grow our own food, strengthen through community, learn to subsist and take care of our own needs, we cannot be owned, bought, sold or told to want things. consumption is a chain. softening goat hide reflections.
Instagram post 2185089926696078892_559061815 Water 💎 this gem drew us to the Ozarks. Whether it’s fishing, thoroughly rinsing a hide (1st pic), drinking, watering crops, bathing, playing, floating, wading, basking by it, worshipping, wondering... water in all its glory is inextricably linked to our human experience. Goodness what a gift of our Blue Planet 🌎 and is it any wonder springs were worshipped as the miraculous founts they are? Bubbling up crystalline from the earth! Many Ozark springs offer watercress year round, which helps brighten and offset the slower pace of the cold months. 🙏🏼
Instagram post 2181579718023742488_559061815 Ini shot this beautiful young doe a few days ago. Giving thanks for her life as food for us and also for her hide. Tanning her hide is a sacred experience. I bucked the hide in a hydrated lime solution and, whether because of her young age or a proper solution, it was the fastest/easiest time I’ve had thus far removing the grain (which is a good morale boost for a beginner like me!) Now the hide’s in the creek today to flush the lime out. I do have her brain and if it’s still good (been in the shade for a few days still in the skull), it will be my first time literally brain tanning. They say most animals’ hides (except buffalo) can sufficiently be tanned in their own brains which completes this awesomely epic yet so simple and natural process that our ancestors knew and were proficient in. Glad to be intimately a part of it all- and aware of it.
Instagram post 2180989187292002567_559061815 I love these woods and they love me too. The leaves in evening light surely bear tidings beyond words. Mid afternoon late Autumn days are for honing the arts of sitting and observation.
Instagram post 2180984883709494430_559061815 Two windows installed on the sauna and 2 more to go • Concrete (with sawdust aggregate) sauna room floor poured during these 4 super beautiful no frost days! • Beautiful morning light at the house of trees. 💙 Lots of time to romp through the woods ✨
Instagram post 2178118409450069232_559061815 Nuts don’t grow underground and aren’t usually animal based. Tiger nuts scoff at such remarks and buck convention. Also known as chufa or earth almond, the tubers of this Mediterranean sedge (Cyperus esculentus) have furnished fine meals for human and wildlife for millennia. 
Providing fat, fiber and minerals in moist to droughty conditions, chufa is an important food crop and is the original base for horchata (a popular Spanish drink.) It is a truly delightfully nutty tuber boasting the title of invasive.
Instagram post 2177196453011740791_559061815 “Practice resurrection” ; A favorite line from Wendell Berry’s Manifesto: the mad farmer liberation front... in this case keeping alive a rare one on the “forgotten” plant front. Skirret, sugar root, white root, crummock (sium sisarum)... a perennial tuber in the carrot family, it’s taste is a cross between carrot and parsnip. Very easy to grow. I divide up these root masses each fall, plant them out and harvest whole plants the following fall. A plant it and forget it self replicating plant. Incorporating perennial root crops may take some time (and a little extra scrubbing), but they’re a valuable addition to the edible landscape - with the added benefit of not needing to pamper the hardy roots. We have some for sale. Follow the shop link in bio.
Instagram post 2174411204351698504_559061815 Thanks Drew for the hide! Calling all local hunters who don’t plan on using their hides!
Instagram post 2174392564025759933_559061815 ✨Stone Cooking Pit✨ inspired by Ayla in The Land of Painted Caves, we made a stone cooking pit today and put a deer shoulder in there wrapped in horseradish, comfrey and burdock leaves to steam and cook with yarrow, mugwort, lavender, and green onions. It’s been invigorating cozying up and reading the series (though the books could do without the weird relational drama) & I’ve been itching to experiment with many of the techniques Auel mentions in her books! A couple more hours til we check the meat, but I’ll be sure to share in stories how it went today.
Instagram post 2160596261126807950_559061815 ✨earth magic✨ #earthenplaster
Instagram post 2160423304465085121_559061815 I really like this turnip: Tokinashi. It is one of the traditional cultural vegetables of Japan (known as Dento Yasai) and it deserves it! This turnip has great flavor and an easy crunch. Masanobu Fukuoka grew them as wild understory crops in his food forests, a practice we’ll be adopting.
Instagram post 2160414463853839301_559061815 A rarely photographed happenstance: Ini resting on our well trodden main path. Every day our feet walk this route and it’s cool to inhabit that landscape from a different angle. More than that, it’s great to rest in this beautiful place we have the joy of cocreating with. We often share us “doing”, which we love, yet honoring the rejuvenation of rest is so key.
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