I titled this Creating- because right now we are in that process...I write this now to help me sort out how to spend my time as well as to teach YOU how to manifest with great POWER!
The reality of now is- we have a 1/2 acre garden in the suburbs of Pittsburgh.What I am creating using shamanic manifestation is buying the homestead 170 acres we found and getting into that no later than Sept of this Year...
Luckily my husband is a builder developer and has the know how of finding funding for a project like this-my interest is more in the 30 acre CSA Homestead-his is in his 100 acre eco-development and 40 acre Gaia Village .
It weaves together of course- each supporting the other.But my focus of intent is on the homestead part.
I am very serious about food freedom ,holistically healthy living and being 90% self sufficient.
I grew up on a self sufficient,back to the land,organic homestead-it was around 50 acres.So this sort of lifestyle is familiar to me-I have seen the hard work,early hours, joys and the tragedies of farm life. You see life and death on a daily basis.
In my morning meditations I allow my mind to drift to the near fiuture living on the farm.
Today I am going to write about how I spend my time in that near future timeline!
6 am up and dressed a quick cup of coffee and I am out the door to feed and water the livestock and to gather eggs and to do the milking.I drive my little garden cart loaded with 6 - 5 gallon buckets of water a basket and the milk buckets w lids- good work out for this formerly fat lady!
My 1st stop is to visit the horses. We have 4 on land -in the field with them is our milk cow and our 2 beef cows. I give the horses some fresh hay ,oats and sweet feed -fill up their water -my son and his GF tend to the horses during the day but early morning I always make sure they have a little something.
I feed the beef cows some hay- of course they have a full field of grasses
I lead out our Jersey milk cow into the shed and feed her while I milk her -her sweet creamy milk makes the best butter,yoghurt, buttermilk,cheeses and of course cream,milk and yum-icecream! She provides enough for Charlie and I -Jakes household and our gardener/housekeeper couple .I milk her morning and evening .
My next stop is to feed and water the hens and gather eggs -I let the hens out for the day-they are great debuggers in the organic garden next to the animal lot..I have an acre here for my animals-I don't believe in having them contained in tiny spaces -next move over to feed and water the rabbits-I open the door to let them out into their little lot to move around and enjoy the day-I put them up at night on account of animals that may bother them-and their lot is covered to keep the hawks from getting them...
Next I move to slop the hogs and fill their water trough- I take some time with each of the animls wishing them a good morning -I take a stick and scratch the happy piggies backs-they love that....
I then move over to the clowns pen- in other words the milking goats- what funny imps they are! Really being handled often and used to people they are alot like dogs. I feed and water them-milk the nanny goats - we have 2 others we are raising for meat. The goats milk is great for people with allergies and the cheese is gourmet! I like using their milk in handcrafted soaps and lotions as well!
I let the goats out and let them follow me and my cart back to the house . I let them scamper around and play awhile then hook them up to leads in the shade to eat grass.
They along with my dogs are my companions outside when I paint! Lots of times I just let the goats loose when I am painting-they tend to stay wherever I am-and they are incredibly cute playing and running and jumping on things- as long as they don't eat my flowers and stay off of Charlies truck and my new green landrover we are OK!! Watch out for the shaman lady and her cart-cause there may be some nanny goats riding along and dogs following! Of course old man Puffer dog is right by my side!
Once inside-I need to strain the milk through several layers of cheese clothe and put it in the fridge to cool so the cream will seperate. I divide out the eggs- we give each of our 3 households 4 eggs a day and we sell the extras at our CSA pick up days as extras.Having about 30 healthy fat hens we get - about 200 eggs a week- we only use about 80 ish so we have a good 10 dozen to sell weekly at 5 bucks a dozen-this keeps the expense of having chickens for us at zero!
We have another coop our gardener tends to-these are the pullets for meat-we will slaughter a few times a year- it only takes a day with the outdoors chicken processors (as seen in Joel Saladins Polyface Farms Videos) we have-our 3 families need approx 300 between us for the year -and we have extra for our CSA members at an extra expense so we have around 400 at a time- doing the slaughter 3 or 4 times yearly with our chicken processing system.They come in as chicks and in a few months are ready for slaughter. There is nothing like organic chicken!
So now after all that work I need a quick shower and then it is time for breakfast- sorry to say I am a little lazy about making biscuits so I pop 4 frozen ones into the oven- or make some of my sour dough into toast or french toast-long with a pan of our own home cured bacon ,ham or sausage -when we have biscuits Jake has to have gravy-- I fry 6 eggs ,make some grits and slice some tomato and melon-most all from our own little farm!
Charlie and Jake comes home about 9 am for a bite of breakfast with me-their day started even before mine on the construction site! It is a time for us to have a biz meeting/ breakfast to make sure we are all onboard for whatever needs done on the farming side.
After a nice leisurely breaksfast I spend the next 1/2 hour or so processing the milks from the day before-skimming them - seperating the cream from the milk -weekly I do the churning of butter and start different cheeses .Funny how all cheeses start out as milk huh? It is simply the process -I am learning all the time about cheese making.I make some fresco cheeses for use in Mexican Cooking- making cream cheese is easy- I also make cheddar and have loved learning about mozarella making-of course that is more fun to work in a group when it is time to massage the mozarella!
A few times a year I make balms,salves ,soaps and creams for bathing, softening the skin and for healing .I use goats milk quite often in these- we keep what we need for our families here and sell the rest to the CSA -if any are left we sell at the Healing Center.
After that I go out to the garden and pick whatever we need for the day (except corn-that is best picked and cooked within 15 minutes-we will get that later! ) I lay out whatever meat we will have that day in the fridge the night before.
Often I make sour dough bread- at least 3 tmes a week-I bake enough to share with the FT residents here on the farm.
Now I have to think about what may need picking and what season we are in- if we are jam or jelly making or doing other canning , dehydration or pickling - during garden season-we usually process as a group twice or 3 times a week - and generally that is an evening thing over at the community canning kitchen. Again 1st we lay aside all we need for a year or 2 -then we sell any extras-.
Once my general daily farm work is done-11 ish-I am able to paint Wed -Fri till 2 -
Monday and Tuesday I devote to working the farm -mainly harvesting for processing. I love picking berries and beans and doing all the work needed to properly preserve the abundance we are gifted!
Saturdays are a fun,exciting and exhaustng day on the Farm! Saturdays everyone is on hand for the CSA day bright and early we like to pick the day of-not the day before- we want is fresh as dew - we have CSA pickup and a FREE catered picnic Noon to 2 pm CSA members can swim and fish up till 8 or 9 pm that day...we will have our caterer grill organic hamburgers and hot dogs around 6 ish - melon season we cut up a few cold melons and often have homemade icecream going! Of course-honoring our vegan and veg friends we also have a seperate grill for veggie burgers!
We have a large table of special items for sale seperate from the CSA box of fruits and veggies!
It is a fun day with swimming and fishing at the lake- music and great food!
Lots of us with horses go on a long trail ride that day too-that is where you will find this chicky!!
During bad weather we meet in the group diningroom- pretty days of course are on the lake!
Wed to Fri hubby and I eat supper around 5:00 as I have work those 3 evenings at 7...I leave the house at 6 and believe it or not I ride my horse to work on any nice days that I can-
Outside of farm work and artwork-Wed to Fri at 7 I do my group trace medium healings and Sundays at 11 am I conduct Ecumenical Spiritualist services-basically a meditation for peace,channeling messages from higher dimensions and singing/vibrational healing.We have apporx 75 to 125 regular attendees on Sunday.
Fridays at 4 ones who are in sscheduled thrugh he Healing Center come down to aura cleanse in the lake-they are brought over by bus and just go in for a quick dip- up to 40 or 50 folks come weekly - I am not involved with that- the Healing Center personnel cover that-itis a special charge for visiting the Crystal Healing Lake.and we only do this once a week with an appointment .. the start of that lake -is a spring in a Faerie wonder land- and the lake has been gridded with crystals,shamanically charged for healing waters- as well as 4 statues of the archangels positioned around in the Sacred Directions!
The attendees then have time to go back to the center-get a bite to eat then be ready for the trance medium healing to start at 7
Sunday afternoons are a private family time on the place- sometimes we have a few friends over-we ride horses-play volleyball-fish ,swim and we always cook steaks- yeah baby- Jake gets to be the master steak chef of course! !We have fresh from the garden MOST everything... -shish kabobs of mushrooms,peppers and onions - fresh corn w our REAL homemeade butter-,salad and homemade rolls and yum.... icecream!
So you see I spend my time doing what I love- it is an incredibly joyful and abundant life!
Now as you read this remember-I am in the creation phase doing shamanic manifestation...this will be my life daily VERY soon!
Love n Light!
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