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Steven’s Story

Steven’s Story

By Steven Martyn November 14, 2017 January 13, 2020

One of two videos from the introduction to Herbal Medicine Making workshop; in this video of the sharing circle Steven gives us a brief account of his journey. Lots of life lessons for all of us here.

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Harvesting the celery from the garden and storing Harvesting the celery from the garden and storing the last of the stalks in the fridge. They’re popular with our kids, so will be eaten soon. The leaves we decided to make into an herbal salt. Since they’re fibrous, we pre-chopped the leaves, then ground them up in the food processor. Measured them, and then measured an equal amount of sea salt. In this case, we ended up with 8 cups of each. Blended them well together, then laid them out in a cookie sheet and left it on the lowest heat with the stove door cracked to dry, stirring it occasionally to prevent it from drying into one hard cake. We decided to just try the celery on it’s own, and make some other salts on their own and mix and match to play with flavours and seasonings. For soups, meat rubs, salad dressings, dips. Anything really. Innovation steps in at every turn when you’re thinking about how to make the most use of all parts of food grown or gathered. #herbalsalt #celery #gathering #gatheringtheharvest #preservingtheharvest #foodpreservation #foodpreservationideas
Sorrel is a wonderful perennial edible. Just sour Sorrel is a wonderful perennial edible. Just sour enough to get your tastebuds going, adding zest to any salad. Our first snow arrived today and they’re still green and up for being harvested. #perennialgarden #perennials #perennialgreens #northerngardening #ottawavalley
Hearing from @amelia_fkw, what she shared privatel Hearing from @amelia_fkw, what she shared privately with us, and what she shares here, fills us both with deep gratitude. Profound gratitude. Knowing that our work, our way of being in the world waters dormant seeds within others. In turn, this is how it is for us too. Thank you. From Amelia: “ At the Sacred Gardener School, Steven will open your eyes to a different way of working with the land. He has filled our minds with the wisdom of his teachings, our hearts with love for the Earth and all that she provides, our bellies with nourishing wild meals that Megan creates and our spirits with the fire to spark change in our worlds. It has been such a transformative journey over these last two years and I will forever be grateful to Steven and Megan for teaching through living. Just spending time with them you will learn because it is how they live that is the lesson, in a way that is so sacred and beautiful you can feel it in the land as you arrive and as you do the work you will start to feel it in your body, as we are all one. “ Join us next spring at the Sacred Gardener School. We have opened a second session, as our first is full. #sacredgardener #sacredgardenerschool #wildculture #remembering
Thanks to a visit from our old buddy @lamykel we n Thanks to a visit from our old buddy @lamykel we now have a small jar of ready to eat black walnuts. She brought along a serious business of a nutcracker, they’d already had their thick hull taken off earlier. This kind of activity can be a meditative process, and a good thing to do with others or while listening to something. If you’re intensely goal oriented, this will frustrate you to no end. Patience and presence are required to enjoy the process and to taste this nut! #wildfood #wildharvest #blackwalnut #communityharvest #meditation #meditationinnature #meditationthroughmovement #movementmeditation
Making up what’s been ordered this month through Making up what’s been ordered this month through the #ottawavalleyfoodcoop! We’ve been part of this local food network since it’s inception, 12 years ago. Every month people in the Ottawa Valley (including Ottawa) can order local meats, greens, fish, root veggies, prepared foods, just to name a few. Support local farmers, and small producers. Sales through the co-op have increased massively since Covid started. Check out Ottawavalleyfood.org to learn more about becoming a member. This month we have garlic braids, sauerkraut, dried herbs, prepared herbal salts and herbal tea blends! #ottawavalleyfoodcoop #localfood #fermentation #supportlocal #supportlocalfood #coop
Plants getting cozy in our freshly finished greenh Plants getting cozy in our freshly finished greenhouse overhaul. We rebuilt it to be in better alignment with our house roof, tightened it up with new double layers of glass. The angle eliminates the space that was being heated but not used. #greenhouse #northerngardening #tropicalplants
One of my (Megan) favourite ways to figure things One of my (Megan) favourite ways to figure things out is to ask the wise and generous people in our area. We’re blessed to be surrounded by long term gardeners and medicine makers, thinkers and artists. I mentioned to one of these fine people, @tanyamlyons that I was on the hunt for white oaks in the area, hoping another year wouldn’t go by without trying out making acorn flour. We have a lot of the native red oaks on the land here, but the white oaks are bigger and have less tannins, so less processing. She just happened to know where some are! Steven’s made acorn flour, but not for many moons. Not much makes me happier when serendipity comes to call, and I’ll be spending my sit down time for the next few days cracking acorns, leaving them to soak in water, changing the water often and tasting them TIL they don’t taste tanniny anymore. Then, flour and experiments! Thank you, Tanya! #wildfood #acorn #whiteoak #wildflour #forage #community #hivemind
Harvest season with The Sacred Gardener School. Ta Harvest season with The Sacred Gardener School. Tasting many kinds of apples and pears that grow here. Ones best for juice, ones that will keep late into the season, ones for sauce, ones that make great pie. So few fruits are well suited to what’s needed to make it the grocery store, so few varieties. So much good food wasted. We’ve lost many to this way of doing things, prioritizing perfect looking ones that store well. With this, we miss the beauty of warm, fresh, dimpled ones, picked right then and eaten. This is wealth. This is richness. We’ve opened up a second group to start next year, as our first session is full. Please let us know if you have questions, or would like to join. Check out the link in our bio to learn more about the School. May the autumn bless you with ripe, plump fruit. #sacredgardener #sacredgardenerschool #autumn #harvest #northern fruit #gatheringtheharvest

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