I love you! This echoes our own experience w screens, especially tablets. We actually bought a Nintendo Switch, because it's more about cooperative family play, and less about being online + battling

There's a doctor named Joel Fuhrman who's been using fasting with his patients for over 20 years to cure "hopeless cases", things like stage 4 cancer and diabetes. My mother followed his work

yes of course carrot-and-stick "works", if we are talking about producing compliant, predictable behavior. But I expect more and want more for my children than just hoop-jumping predictability.

Ahh, but discipline is a large part of our lifestyle--! Self-discipline and the guidance that's given to form self-discipline. Punishment is not the same as discipline at all. I have known too many adults

The natural consequences that occur when your child steals or hits are often enough to get them to understand why what they did was unhelpful in getting along peacefully with other people. Punishment is

Was gonna upvote before I saw your Danielle LaPorte quote in your banner, but that sealed the deal. <3 Entrepreneur mamas, unite!

We love the Natural Gardener! Did you guys find the giant walking labyrinth on the garden's grounds? It took us several visits to really see the whole thing. We go there semi-often and sit on the swings,

There's scary shit everywhere. Austin is a beautiful place, not worth avoiding out of fear. <3

In full transparency, the ones who climbed into a cave were my husband and his bro! ;) I just get to write about it.

Fun! We planted leaf crops today, and will do flower and roots tomorrow (trying out the biodynamic thing ;) What are your favorite seed companies??

Sounds like a decent strategy. Food is easily the largest part of our budget, which is why we're so focused on growing our own. :)

I completely agree, and if I would have read this when I was 5 years old, I probably would have agreed then, too. I have unschooled my kids since 2004, and write about it here and elsewhere. I myself dropped

Thanks @rawutah! I think kids who grow up outside, living permaculture mindset and practices, are getting a real new paradigm education...so far beyond the scraps that "school" has to offer.

Self-help addiction is real! I was in that cycle for awhile too, until I realized it was cyclical, and instead chose to focus on things that inspired growth and action--instead of just repeating the same

Yea, that is some serious irony, right?! We are working on cultivating feelings of non-attachment while investing into this land for the sake of healing the collective, for whomever may come in contact

I feel extra nerdy that I'd already heard of every healing modality you mentioned in here! Brilliant stuff, that spa sounds beyond amazing..

Yay for urban food forests! We are less urban but I just recently posted a bit about our food forest in the making....we've been working on it since 2008, but not seriously until 2015. We're on over an

Always love reading ppl's journeys of escaping the rat race and getting started homesteading. We are in a weird half-in, half-out place, and have been for some time. We have land, but it's in a terrible

Love it....so appropriate for today, and lately <3 I am in the middle of some deep inner reflection and restructuring of my work/passions...and the New Moon brings in clarity so well. <3

I really wish that the median age for master gardeners and master naturalists was lower--so many of them seem closed to new information, especially permaculture-based knowledge. We've used mulch to great