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Golden Lake, Ontario

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Sacred Gardener School 2023/24
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THE WAKE OF CO-CREATION: Golden Lake, Ontario
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Past Workshops and Events

Attending Divinity through Sacred Gardening: Guelph, Ontario
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Attending Divinity- Shawville, QC
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Finding the Sacred in a Secular World: Meaford, ON
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Lyme Disease Herbal Protocol
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The Living Green Archive
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Wildculturing: Guelph, ON
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sacredgardener

Seeding earth wisdom since 1989.
Home of The Sacred Gardener School.
Wildculturing ~ Co-create ~ Wildcrafting
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Our first one day event here on the farm in many y

Our first one day event here on the farm in many years! Join us on October 22 in Golden Lake.
10-5 pm, Lunch included.

Link in our bio for more info or to register. pre-registration required.

This is for you if you feel drawn to our work, to Steven's teachings, to be present on the land with us, but not ready or uncertain that the Sacred Gardener School is for you.

This is for you if you feel a longing to connect with others of like mind, to contemplate the ways of making a good life; how to live in good relationship with the earth and her beings, how to cultivate these relationships and have them grow and spread their seed.

Come join in circle with Steven Martyn (of the Sacred Gardener) to hear stories and teachings of the land about the transition toward a ‘good life’.

For many folks while we may be conscious consumers and have some good practices in our days, for the Earth and for our health, the sum of our lives is still adding up in the wrong column. That of destruction toward the Earth. And while we can minimize our carbon footprint, it is not enough. We must start adding to the column of creation. Growing, making, giving, caring, teaching, healing and sacrifice are actions that lead to co-creation, adding to the column of creation.

This teaching circle is about how to deal with the wake of destruction and through co-creation generate a counter-wake, Personally and Culturally.

To really be “awake” these days is one of the most painful experience one could have. Because to be awake is about being aware of your wake. A-wake. In just going through our daily lives we create a wake of consequences, tied to each of our actions and thoughts. As you become ‘awake’ it can be paralyzing to realize how deeply we as consumers are unwittingly part of the Earth’s destruction.

Our wake must also rebound back out to creation in a good way, cancelling out the destructive waves. As can happen when two boats pass in opposite directions.

And in the calm that follows culture will naturally grow again and rebuild a new shoreline.

#regeneration #awake #goldenlakeontario #ottawavalley #sacredgardener #spiritualawakening #consciousness #reconnect

Whoa Folks! The abundant blessing of this land is

Whoa Folks!
The abundant blessing of this land is flowing into our home to be stored in various ways.

Canning, fermenting, drying, freezing... we do some of everything and it’s a full time job this time of year.

So much more not shown here... beets and carrots still to come, garlic, pounds of dried herbs for food and medicine, squash, chickens in the freezer... on it goes.

Life is good.

There’s nothing like eating food you grew in the midst of a deep winter, knowing that all willing, life will dawn on the land again come spring.

#harvest #foodstorage #autumn #fallequinox #growyourown #givethanks

Giant Puffball mushrooms aren’t easily mistaken

Giant Puffball mushrooms aren’t easily mistaken for other puffballs; they can get as big as a soccer ball. Even bigger!

They are full of protein, and can be cooked in a variety of ways, but our favourite is to dehydrate them, powder them and add to soups and to create spice blends. The powder thickens soups and adds a mild, earthy flavour.

Make sure when you harvest them that they’re all white, inside and out.

If they are yellowing or have dark parts on them, they’ve passed and are not good to eat.

Happy mushroom hunting 😀

#puffball #wildmushrooms #puffballmushrooms #wild #wildedibles #foraging #preserving #preservingwildfood

"Our physical body, I’ve come to realize, is our

"Our physical body, I’ve come to realize, is our spirit’s protector.

All of the spiritual challenges we are faced with today, all of the personal and collective karma, all of the stuff that that is in the land and in our food, all of that is coming at us all of the time from different directions and our physical body is protecting our spirit from it. Your physical body absorbs all of that stuff and it morphs it into an illness so you can deal with it without it destroying your auric field.

More and more I see that, that there are these very distinct layers that make us up as whole human beings. Our physical body is like a guard and protector for us as spiritual beings. We always think ‘oh I’m sick there is something wrong with me’; no, you’re sick, there is something right with you.

That means your body is actually working, and it’s working on something, it’s not a bad thing. What is it working on? What are you trying to process that you can’t process spiritually or emotionally? And your physical body is doing it for you, it’s protecting you."

From Steven's conversation with Everything Herbal. Read the full interview, link in our bio.

#herbs #plantsasmedicine #spiritualbody #illnessasprotection #everythingherbal #emotionalbody

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