Voices: Environment & Gardens

In the fall due to abundant rainfall the plants were so gorgeous and healthy. I left them right where they were and kept on picking them until December. In January, after a major snow of over a foot deep, I went down and harvested an extra large batch ...

It turned out the tomatoes all wanted to go in the outside circle, the peppers in the middle circle and the basil in the inside circle. Using my pendulum I determined which plant to place where. At the end of the day, I could barely stand up ...

I used Machaelle's processes and talked to the Deva of the Herbs, who told me to use raised beds. I was instructed to fill the beds with mulch soil that was reconstituted from leftover coffee grounds, eggshells and an assortment of vegetable matter from my kitchen ...

My wife and I have farmed and gardened here for 35 years. Alluvial soil and precipitation have made this area a true garden spot of Alberta. The rest of both our garden and 3,500 acres of cropland look like an oasis of bounty ...

The yarrow had gotten completely overgrown with grass. It was a solid, matted clump, with the poor yarrow barely peeking out its little head. We had weeded all around it, so it was an isolated thing ...

During the winter two separate households of neighbors were describing their terrible ant season. It was so bad that in both homes ants were dropping from the ceiling onto their tables and floors! Did we have any trouble with ants? Nope, not until the time a neighbor came over ...

I had the insect book with me when I visited my chiropractor, Trudi, and she gave me the Perelandra catalog. Immediately, I felt called to the Garden Workbooks. I ordered them within days. I am devouring the information and have started applying the practices in my yard ...

Later that same year we were having some landscaping done as the major loss of trees had changed the environment from a shady one to a very sunny one. With all of the shifting around of earth, boulders and shrubs, I was struck that the one shrub that remained in its original position was now ...

In the summer of my eighth garden, I found Co-Creative Science. With this book, I realized I wanted to bring my work with Perelandra processes into the framework of co-creative science. I also wanted to really define my DDP for a science project ...

What has amazed me is that nature works so well with what I can offer. From the time I began with the Perelandra Garden Workbook, all of my plants have thrived — even while the neighbor's plants wither ...