I'm back! There comes a point when a person has minimized too much. So before I find myself alone in a white room with no furniture or clothes I'd like to slow things down a bit. What's the point of getting rid of almost everything if not to focus on the important things? For my family, what's important (besides family, which includes family-like friends) is:
1. Our health
2. Our home
3. The food forest
These things all tie together. In our yard we have a 3.5 year old food forest which surrounds our home and supports our health. I remember now that I started blogging to document the process of our lives, paring things down, and growing vegetables. I had a second child and found myself too tired or busy to blog. But when I look back at old posts I feel so overwhelmed with joyful gardening memories (even though it's my husband that does most of the work).
A garden is a creative outlet, but it's a little bit four dimensional in that it changes over time. Every day is a little different and every season is a lot different. It changes so much that it's rewarding to capture it in photos or writing.
So what's new in the food forest? The temperature dropped to -15 and we got a late season dump of snow. A herd of deer have penetrated the makeshift fence and I made three separate attempts to chase them out. They keep sneaking back. They knocked some branches off our still-small fruit trees, fertilized the soil, and for now have moved on. Luckily everything else is under a blanket of snow and hopefully safe for now.
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