Germinating

Germinating a view into our blessed lives I guess. My name is David and I live on the Atlantic coast of Canada with my wonderful and hardworking wife Heather. We are lucky to have our crazy furry companions with us to keep us company. Our dog Kaya, and our cat Terrapin...and I am reminded to never forget our rabbit Kiwi. We try to live our lives with respect and love to all. I feel that unconditional love is the only true means to happiness. If one can achieve this great aspiration there would not be any war, hunger, poverty, oppression, the list could go on forever. No reason to preach however, I would hope that this should be obvious. But this is not as easy to achieve as one would think. We live in a world of greed and vanity. I guess greed and vanity are really one in the same.
Heather and I chose to move away from the "hustle and bustle" of the city. We want to live a much more simpler life. It has been two years now and we are still learning every day.  We try to grow as much of our own food as we can, bake our own bread, we cut and split our own wood, we compost everything.  Heather laughs at me whenever I talk about composting as nothing brings me greater joy then thinking that our garbage is what feeds us....but this will be a whole other story. We are making great strides..but hopefully with a healthy carbon footprint. I am fortunate that I am trained as a carpenter so I can keep busy during the long winter months. Being a carpenter definitely helps you when you are trying to upkeep your small little homestead. Heather is an elementary school teacher at a rural public school. I don't think she could teach in a better environment. Rural school are becoming extinct just like everything else. Having Heather off in the summers helps us to keep the gardens going strong and vibrant. Now if we can only get that darn snow to melt. I look forward to meeting some other people interested in farming and a simpler way of life...I am happy to be old fashioned...or as I would say rooted.

Much love and blessings from my family to yours...




I wish the yard was looking like this and not three feet under snow, but I do love the seasons....