Pictured above, twilight by our pond, 3 minutes from the B&B. As evening falls, the frog and toad calls form a joyful chorus that can be heard from our outdoor hot tub.
Pictured above, twilight by our pond, 3 minutes from the B&B. As evening falls, the frog and toad calls form a joyful chorus that can be heard from our outdoor hot tub.
Two of my mindulness-activism images won prizes in a local mural contest (“Justice Walls”) and will appear in town sometime this spring and summer. Ithaca is rich in murals with a message (www.ithacamurals.com), and I feel very honored.
We recently had a family of six visiting from Japan. Chizuru, the mom, was especially excited to learn about eco-village living, but was just beginning to get comfortable with English. Luckily, we found three neighbors who were fluent in her language…
This cold, snowy winter has been great for ice skating on the pond and cross-country skiing on the land. And our Ecovillage neighbors come up with plenty of fun ways to celebrate indoors, and out. We recently had our annual…
In recent blogs we have shared ways that Frog’s Way, Ecovillage, and the Ithaca area showcase encouraging opportunities and solutions for a very troubled and endangered world. We are sharing now a number of links to the larger, generally unrecognized…
In spite of a windy, wet , cold spring we’re helping build a Hoophouse –a large unheated plastic-wrapped greenhouse–from a kit for the “Incubator Farm” on this land. The hoop house can make spring and fall times of abundant fresh…
photo courtesy of Jimmy Butler, Wikimedia Commons Beyond “low tunnels” and growing microgreens we’re surrounded these days by a chorus of spring peeper frogs. This nightly melody will soon become a combined chorus of peepers and toads – all heralding…