03 May 2011
by asante
in adventure, eco, eco-village, Family, Food, green building, green living, Health and wellness, joy, life, living our bliss, love, natural building, Natural Living, organic, organic food, Parenting, Raw Living Food, recycle, repurpose, roadtrip, self-care, self-help, self-love, transition, travel, Uncategorized
Tags: adventure, art, cuisine, eco, eco-village, family, green, green building, happiness, healing, joy, life, living food, Living Our Bliss, parenting, recycling, self-care, self-help, self-love, traveling with a child
Little Lotus and I are in a small town in Arkansas. We’ve stopped here on the way to our friend’s land in Alabama. The adventure we have prepared for over the last several months has begun!! We envisioned our project, plotted the steps it would take to get here, worked really hard, and here we are at the beginning of what we call our ecoadventure. Amazing and exciting, right? Not exactly. As the last steps of our preparation became a reality, we realized that embarking on this new beginning meant saying goodbye to people and a place we had come to love. We left Oklahoma in tears that left me wondering whether I had made a very wrong decision. After about fifty miles passed under our adventure-mobile tires, we were both able to catch sight of our dream again. The vision of our plan came back to us in small glimpses at first, and before long we were both smiling again.
We are excited, once again, about our road trip with our cat Max (who travels on a leash) and about our plans to build an eco-house, but we’ll never forget the folks we love that we hope to see again very soon.
In love, adventure, and bliss,
Asante
http://www.LivingOurBliss.net
27 Jan 2011
by asante
in adventure, art, eco, Family, Food, green building, green living, Health and wellness, joy, life, living our bliss, love, marriage, natural building, Natural Living, organic, organic food, Parenting, Raw Living Food, recycle, relationships, repurpose, self-care, self-help, self-love
Tags: adventure, art, cuisine, eco, family, food, gardening, green, green building, healing, joy, life, living food, Living Our Bliss, marriage, organic food, parenting, raw food, raw vegan, recycling, self-help, self-love
I’m so excited about our current project! We’re building a lean-to greenhouse in our backyard. This in and of itself is a wonderful project, but what makes it extra special to me is that we’re making it out of found and repurposed materials.
After watching lots and lots of youtube video on other people’s projects (thank you!), I have an idea of where to begin with ours. Yesterday I looked around our yard for materials we can use for our greenhouse, and to my surprise we had almost everything we need to build a frame laying in our yard. We had several large posts, several 2x4s that I salvaged from a curbside, 2 old tires, and an old pallet that I collected from a restaurant. While looking in our yard, I spied a piece of plastic sheeting in our neighbor’s yard that looked like it wasn’t being used. My neighbor was happy to give the sheeting to me, plus I got to meet a new neighbor and have a wonderful conversation about composting and gardening.
Today Little Lotus and I will go on a treasure hunt for more old tires. The tires will become the foundation for the outer wall of our greenhouse after being filled with compacted dirt. I’m so excited, our greenhouse will be a wonderful place to begin seedlings for our garden.
Wishing you love, joy, and delicious healthy food,
Raw Chef Asante
www.LivingOurBliss.net
Little Lotus and I are in a small town in Arkansas. We’ve stopped here on the way to our friend’s land in Alabama. The adventure we have prepared for over the last several months has begun!! We envisioned our project, plotted the steps it would take to get here, worked really hard, and here we are at the beginning of what we call our ecoadventure. Amazing and exciting, right? Not exactly. As the last steps of our preparation became a reality, we realized that embarking on this new beginning meant saying goodbye to people and a place we had come to love. We left Oklahoma in tears that left me wondering whether I had made a very wrong decision. After about fifty miles passed under our adventure-mobile tires, we were both able to catch sight of our dream again. The vision of our plan came back to us in small glimpses at first, and before long we were both smiling again.
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