Garden Plum
Welcome to the gardenplum.com healing blog. Read here for thoughts and inspirations about the collective consciousness of the world as we grow and develop through these changing times. Spirituality, herbal healing, the law of attraction, prophecy, abundance and prosperity- delightful creations and thoughts gather here.Another Gem – I Keep Looking for You! Bring on the Green, The Farms & The Solar!
43.5 Acres of Fields and Forest!
1040 square foot cottage with southern sunroom exposure overlooks beautiful pasture. Set back 400 feet from the road among stonewalls.
Make improvements or occupy as is while you build your dream on this 5 acre homestead. And the best part? Conservation Easement to be determined on remainder 38.5 acres. Perfect for agriculture, forestry, horses and livestock.
OK, make your offer and take the plunge. Deering Center Rd. is about 15 minutes from here! Did I mention the ridiculous price of $215,000???
Contact my Green Realtor friend Donna Merrill. I’ve known Donna for several years, she is here to help us! She specializes in farmhouses & horse properties. Email Donna if you like with questions, or visit her web site!
In the meantime, I’ll keep lookin’! I get a lot of feedback y’all like looking at these properties. I do too! I hope to see you in my neck of the woods soon!
Why GardenPlum.com Buys Local & Its Not What You’d Think
I received two packages in the mail today, wow did they hit my joy button! Over the years I have upheld a strict policy to purchase directly from artists in a desire to support them. Little, if nothing comes from China or some other place with a large carbon footprint. But really – the reason why I buy directly from an artist – is because its FUN AND RIGHT!!! It intuitively makes sense!
Rita Lloyd sent me her new book “Unconditional Self Love” which I am reviewing. It is a sequel to her DVD and book on Self Love. LQQk at her playful butterfly stickers! Thanks Rita! (Rita has created her art in part to assist battered women.)
This one made me roar, my retired Celtic Garden Stickmaker is apparently up to something and proud of it!
These are the things that make the difference for me!
Thank you God!
TGIF and Happy Weekend friends!!!
Horse Property in Hollis & a Note on Sally Fallon of Nourishing Traditions!
Look at this horse property! This huge farmhouse is about 1.5 hours from Garden Plum.
A luxury home, a horse property with acreage, herbs and rooms for processing them – finished off with a hot tub. Looks pretty doesn’t it?
Very soon, once again, farming and herbalism will earn the keep which is an up and coming economic reality. Did you know the USDA is now saying they need local farmers and they are funding this effort? That certified organic, and authentic lifestyles are NEEDED because the way we feed people now is not working?! That our current food model is not sustainable? This means re-establish your gardens for food and medicine and soon this will be feasible once again. Mass food production is killing us, and we need to get back to basics and our U.S. Government is putting their money where their mouth is. CLICK HERE TO HEAR THEM SAY IT.
SALLY FALLON COMING TO NH!
I just received news Sally Fallon is coming to Nashua (next town over from this house) in November! Here is the info:
The Fourfold Path to Healing
Nashua, NH, Friday Jan 29- Sunday Jan 31, 2010
Working with the Laws of Nutrition, Therapeutics, Movement and Meditation in the Art of Medicine. An incredible weekend of dynamic discussions, presentations and lectures with Tom Cowan, MD, Sally Fallon and Jaimen McMillan, authors of The Fourfold Path to Healing.
It does seem like lately New Hampshire has become a bit notorious for its herbal movement and abundance of herbalists and alternative medicine in the state. This means it is time for us to take our place of abundance as needed healers in the area as people become more aware of truth.
Are you Skittish? Rosemary Flower Essence
Are you a skittish person? Do loud noises make you jump? Have you had a trauma or tragedy in your life that makes you feel as though you would *always* rather be somewhere else? These types of behaviors could indicate that your soul is physically out of your body. And thats not really a beneficial place for you to be! Many times in life, when we fear for our lives or experience trauma, our soul literally leaves the body out of fear.
Rosemary Flower Essence brings you back into your body, fully and completely, so that you can enjoy life to the fullest. So that the endless skittish or concern that you are in danger can end. Finally!
Just like when you eat fresh rosemary and you feel a warming sensation, when you ingest it in flower essence form, it gives the soul a warming sensation and coaxes you fully back into your body.
I was recently making a batch, and had some leftover. I decided rather than waste the Mother Essence, I would take a gulp. Boy was I surprised what happened next! Sometimes we dont’ even know if we are fully in our bodies or not! Friend me on FaceBook to join in…
Sustainable Living with 7 Acres, Its Like a Blank Easel.
I haven’t blogged about farmhouses in quite a while and have been getting requests for more info so here is a nice one that is only about 7 miles from here. I always admire it when I drive by. One thing that catches my eye is “bridge over a small stream”- I have always wanted a small stream on my property so I could invite Angelica if she was willing! And it has a workshop (herbshop???) and a wood fireplace which is great for slow salve recipes.
With 7 acres the possibilities are endless aren’t they… come live near me, keepin’ it green, returning to a sustainable life! Its fun to dream the possibilities, feeding my house hunting fetish! This one could be fields of potatoes and fall veggies, hm… goldenseal in the forested parts… Ginseng??? Fields of St. John’s Wort? Its like a blank easel. Edible, medicinal, sustainable… BTW, Weare does not have a berry farm of any kind… another possibility!
Also, I’m happy to introduce you to my Realtor friend Donna Merrill. I’ve known Donna for several years, she lives here in Weare and has horses, chickens… is a vegetarian… and is working on her “Green Realtor Certificate”. She specializes in farmhouses & horse properties.
Email Donna if you like with questions! Oh yeah, the price is $214,900 if you are curious. Click any of the pics to see more info.
Here’s a Fun One: Wild Oat Flower Essence
Are you fresh out of college and have no idea what you want to do with your life? What calls to you? What makes you passionate? What is your purpose here on earth in your lifetime? This is one of the biggest question for us as we begin to draw our life maps, redraw them, change direction, and navigate our future.
When you get lost along the way, Wild Oat helps steer your internal ship back to center, reminding you who you are and why you are here.
Wild Oat is also useful while we are on the journey and we sense a change in purpose coming. It will help us navigate this feeling of wanting to take a new direction in life as we reach goals and graduate through life.
I have seen “Wild Oat Stories” in the executives that left Microsoft to start a non-profit for a poor country. It can be seen in Dean Kamen, Obama, and also on smaller scales. And these essences work on a subtle level. As you are taking Wild Oat Flower Essence, simply observe your thinking. Talk to other people during this time and see what conversations arise. I once talked with someone taking a Wild Oat regimen and they simply would not stop talking about dogs! Dog breeds, dog shows, dogs, dogs, dogs! Of course her true calling was to be a dog trainer/breeder. Thats how it works, the soul begins to speak to us and we just have to listen.
We hope you’ve enjoyed this small conversation about Wild Oat Flower Essence, just one of the amazing flower helpers from our natural world.
“Wild, wild horses… couldn’t take me away…”
- The Rolling Stones
(from my Wild Oat or my Life Calling!)
How Can I NOT Take What She Did Personally? It Hurt So Much!
Here’s an Abraham Hicks quote I received this morning:
“What you want is freedom. That freedom you are seeking is freedom from resistance. You will never find the freedom that you seek by controlling the behavior of others.
You’ll only find it when the behavior of others becomes a non-issue. Because you are able to focus your mind in ways that allow your connection, and give you that feeling of well being.
We’re not giving you this guidance so that you can tune up your vibration to get your relatives to do what you want them to do and get what you want.
We’re trying to get you to tune up your vibration so that you can understand that the serenity you seek on the mountain is not about having it in the family, it’s about your vibrational alignment.
And there are hundreds of thousands of spots on this planet that would give you that feeling that you can go to any day and the Universe will orchestrate so you can go there when others are not there.
In other words, you are zigging and zagging in this world. You’ll get what you want whether you own the property or not, you see.
But the feeling of ownership, the feeling of guarding or protecting, the
feeling of making others come into agreement before I can get what I want, that will render you powerless every single time because you will never get them to agree.”
San Diego 1/12/08
(Consider this in the way we treat our ADD/ADHD children, or who I consider Indigo & Crystal Children).
Sponsored by The Four Agreements
& The Astonishing Power of Your Emotions
Guess the Flower!
I’m having a contest on Facebook! Go ahead and friend me to join the contest.
Name this flower and get a free tumbled stone from this list (click here) shipped to you. (We are all out of Chrysocolla). To find the contest, browse through the Making Sauerkraut photo album by clicking here after you have friended me.
(HINT: It is in one of the flowers in the Flower Essence Kingdom)
The Wisdom of Whales
Self-acceptance is inherent in all animals and can be best understood by observing nature. At Puerto Madryn in Argentina, for example, dozens of right whales come to breed in the calm waters surrounding the Valdes Peninsula. It is amazing to get close to such enormous reatures. They are the biggest animals in the world and surely among the most powerful, yet all they do is radiate love. It’s incredible. It’s all you can feel. They are pure peace, pure love, and yet they are so big. They look at you lazily through the shimmering water as if you’re some rare breed of insect, and then down they go again.
The whales come with their babies, and those babies drink two thousand liters of milk a day. So poor Mom spends most of her time nursing. All the baby wants to do is feed – he’d be happy to drink ten thousand liters of milk a day. When she gets tired of feeding him, she rolls over onto her back so he can’t reach her nipples. The baby starts slapping Mom with his tail in an attempt to make her roll over. It’s a relatively powerful thing to have a baby whale slapping you with its tail, but Mom just lies there in perfect peace. She lets him have his little temper tantrum and continues to rest, even when he’s getting annoyed. She doesn’t judge herself; she doesn’t think, I shouldn’t get tired so easily. I’m not giving enough to my children, poor things. Animals never judge themselves. To them everything is perfect.
When the mother has rested, she teaches the baby how to jump out of the water. When Mom jumps, it’s magnificent. It’s poetry in motion. When the baby tries to copy, he’s a disaster! He does big belly flops and isn’t impressive at all. But his mother doesn’t say,”Oh my God, you’re not doing it properly! You’re embarrassing me in front of the other whales! I mustn’t be a very good teacher.” No. She just keeps leaping, and he keeps practicing, until they are in perfect union, perfect synchrony.
Nature doesn’t judge. It’s pure love, pure being, perfectly in the moment because it’s not thinking all the time. Such is the nature of enlightenment.
Adapted from: Why Walk When You Can Fly, by Isha (New World Library, 2008).
and sponsored by Buttercup Flower Essence
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Fire Cider Making Gathering – One of the Great Weapons for the Flu!
Herbal medicine is powerful medicine. But yet it can be gentle. The range of “movement” that herbs can produce within the body are full spectrum. Herbs can whisper a tiny encouragement to the body’s immune system, allowing it to remember how to heal itself. And on the other end of the spectrum, purgatives, diuretics, and others can induce a raging response from the body that quickens the organs into a rapid response; quickly carrying away toxins, pushing them out through the skin, colon, liver, nose, eyes, ears, mouth… and herbs can move bones too, yes its true.
In fact, after years of studying herbs, I do believe that the wild & natural kingdom gives us the ability to manage our entire body systems.
In light of this knowledge of the powerful gifts in our herbal allies, we are having a Fire Cider Gathering Thursday October 1st. A fire cider is on the “rapid response” end of the spectrum of herbal healing, and this fire cider is used for colds and flus, and yes specifically, with H1N1 Swine Flu.
Come and join Jamie Hupfer, holistic mom, earth mama, and herbal enthusiast for a hands on Fire Cider making class. Fire cider is made with onions, garlic, cayenne and some other “energetically moving” foods that can be beneficial for the flu. These ingredients, steeped in an alkalizing vinegar, are an essential part of your home remedy collection. Come for a night of play in the kitchen of Garden Plum Herbals with like minded friends.
All ingredients are provided, please bring your own jar or you may purchase one from the apothecary for $1.
To register
Or you may call (603) 413-6213 to register by phone.
