It’s hard to believe, but we’re finally turning the corner on winter, heading into March and looking forward to feeling the sun warm our faces, then our bare forearms, then our bare feet, and then one wonderful day, we’ll be wearing bathing suits and plunging into our first lake-swim of the summer. But we get… [Read More]
Talking to Plants – May 2013
Dear Friends, Spring is in full swing all around me, inciting my willing and eager involvement with the caretaking of the land and soil and plants. The growing plants channel amazing joy with their life force, beauty and proliferation. I take time to resonate with that joy. I take time to ask them how I… [Read More]
Do you access the ‘healing power of nature’?
What do I mean… by the healing power of nature? I mean to refer to the way in which Nature ministers to our minds, all more or less diseased by the rush and racket of civilization, and helps to steady and enrich our lives. My first point is that there are deeply-rooted, old established, far-reaching… [Read More]
Bruce the Moose
Photos by Gary Smith Meet Bruce the Moose. He’s made of scrap metal welded onto a framework of 370 feet of rebar and weighs in at approximately 500 pounds. He’s an assemblage of donations from friends and neighbours and pieces purchased at scrap yards: chain, steel traps, oxen and horseshoes, hinges, springs, railway spikes, tools and… [Read More]
What We’re Up to This Fall
by Chris Shaw Sanford October is here, and while most people may be done thinking about their garden for the year, at Helping Nature Heal we are busy again after the late summer lull. Curious about what we are up to? Check out my fall course offerings- they all relate to the fall garden activities… [Read More]