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Two Different Kinds of Healthcare – Part 2

January 31, 2019

Why the modern healthcare system undermines our families and communities, and how we came to be so dependent on it.

Two Different Kinds of Healthcare – Part 2

Two Different Kinds of Healthcare – Part 1

January 26, 2019

A brief discussion about modern, quick-fix healthcare versus the slow lane – at-home healthcare that calls for a foundation of healthy living and a healthy social network (not the Twitter kind).

Two Different Kinds of Healthcare – Part 1

Real Food does not come from Supermarkets: 6 Steps from Bare Ground to Homegrown Veggies

November 5, 2018

How I got from “I don’t think I could grow brassicas,” to “Ooh look – a cauliflower!”

Real Food does not come from Supermarkets: 6 Steps from Bare Ground to Homegrown Veggies

How Roosters Care for Hens (and what happiness has to do with regenerative agriculture)

October 20, 2018

This post shares the funny things one of our roosters gets up to, and it concludes the Backyard Chicken Series with the question, “Can good husbandry, regenerative agriculture, and morally right living, be defined in terms of happiness and connection?”

How Roosters Care for Hens (and what happiness has to do with regenerative agriculture)

Mama Hens and Baby Chicks

October 12, 2018

Doesn’t happiness – even “just” the happiness of some hen in a backyard hen house somewhere, count towards a more whole, more beautiful world, a world that has a little more rightness about it?

Mama Hens and Baby Chicks

Broody Hens and Musings on Inter-Connectedness

September 29, 2018

Why our efforts to address ecological destruction aren’t working yet, and how backyard chickens (or any other living thing that you care for) can help.

Broody Hens and Musings on Inter-Connectedness

5 Cut and Carry Goat Fodder Plants that Poultry, Pigs, Cattle and People can also eat

September 3, 2018

This article lists 5 plants for a cut and carry goat fodder system, that also serve lots of other needs as well.

5 Cut and Carry Goat Fodder Plants that Poultry, Pigs, Cattle and People can also eat

8 Abundant Fodder Forest Plants, & How to Use Them

June 25, 2018

8 of my favorite multi-purpose fodder-and-food plants, and some of the ways I use them.

8 Abundant Fodder Forest Plants, & How to Use Them

Why We Need Non-digital Ways of Remembering and Sharing Experiences

June 17, 2018

Are there aspects of remembering and sharing a story that cannot be digitally preserved?

Why We Need Non-digital Ways of Remembering and Sharing Experiences

Getting Together

April 12, 2018

Did we lose more than we gained when we advanced from “social mammal” to “modern individual”?

Getting Together

Ditching the Supermarket

March 11, 2018

At the supermarket you can get everything you need at one location and it’s cheaper than anywhere else. But when it seems too good to be true, there’s usually a catch. In this article we’ll explore the complex web of connections and consequences attached to the cheap convenience on the supermarket shelves.

Ditching the Supermarket

Thinking for yourself

March 7, 2018

You don’t have to be a passive recipient of the programming that surrounds you. You can BE the programmer.

Thinking for yourself

Real Food

December 31, 2017

What we eat illuminates the relationship—or lack of it—between us and our natural world. It also directly influences the way our living planet is used.

Real Food

An Illusion of Independence

December 31, 2017

“Independent” individuals and nuclear families are artificially sustained by a fossil fuel dependent, growth-at-all-costs system that cannot last. The only viable alternative is to return to living in direct relationship with each other and with the web of life that can sustain us indefinitely, if we care for it as the extension of ourselves that it really is.

An Illusion of Independence

Growing Up – For Adults

December 6, 2017

You don’t have to live a life and think thoughts that are just handed to you. You can continue growing indefinitely, crafting your own worldview and life-experiences, in an ongoing process of consciously “parenting yourself.”

Growing Up – For Adults

About Our Backgrounds

September 1, 2017

Our beginnings in rural Australia and a small town in Switzerland, our meeting in Colorado, USA, and our switch from Natural Horsemanship to a journey towards real and green.

About Our Backgrounds

Hi. I'm Kate.

I'm a wrangler of anxiety, overwhelm, and insomnia; a nature lover; a homeschooling mother; and many other things besides.

I believe that sincere intentions count and that Everything is connected -- so caring for anything is caring for Everything.

I advocate for individual, family, and community empowerment; real, local food; simple, healthy living; stronger connections to ourselves, each other, and nature.