Moonstruck Meadows

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Gardening, chicken wrangling, herbal medicine, & handmade goods. Embracing imperfectionism, reciprocity, ecology, & land stewardship. Bit witchy. Woke geriatric millennial.

A green cabbage growing in brown soil. Its leaves are spread open, rather than in a typical tight cabbage head. In the center, a tiny cluster of flower heads are just beginning to show.
A row of green peas sprouting from brown soil in a raised bed box, showing no signs of being affected by last night's frost
A raised bed garden box has a few bedsheets gently covering the pea & potato sprouts from an overnight frost warning.
Close-up of a Virginia Bluebell plant growing in the dappled sun of the woods. Its pink & purple blooms dangle like little delicate bells above it's lush green leaves.
A 3-tier metal & wire shelving system, being prepared for seed starting. 2 shelves have plastic sheeting covering them, and LED plant lights lay on the shelves, waiting to be set up. The windows behind the shelving unit look out to bright blue skies & plenty of sunshine.
Photo of a hand in a knit winter glove holding a very long pole with a wide push broom head on the end. The ground all around is covered in snow.
A moody black & white photo of a large tree with bare branches in a misty winter morning. High atop the branches sit several vultures. Text over the photo reads: "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." by Desmond Tutu
A picture of a Rosemary bush in an outdoor garden, covered in several inches of white, fluffy snow. Only the very top branches of the plant can be seen poking out of the snow. Text on the photo reads: "Stillness is the flower of winter; all hope waits beneath a blanket of white." A quote by John Muir
A variety of overgrown, messy potted succulents and houseplants sit on a blue tarp covering a table, waiting to be cleaned up & propagated.
A dark red chicken coop in the snow; about 7 inches of undisturbed snow lie all around & atop the roof of the coop. Clouds in the sky are moving to the left of the photo, allowing clear blue sky to show through on the right. Text over the photo reads: "Anyone who thinks that gardening begins in the spring & ends in the fall is missing the best part of the year; for gardening begins in January with the dream.", a quote by Josephine Neuse
The left hand of a middle-aged white lady is holding a small sculpted clay head. In the background is a table with several sculpting tools laid upon it.
A photo of a slumbering garden, with brown leaves all over the ground, a white clay flower pot & half wine barrel in the background. Text over the photo reads: "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes & ears. It was their final, most essential command... and if all others accepted the lie which the party imposed, if all records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and be became truth." -1984, by George Orwell
A collage of 6 different photos of a black cat named Willow, being perfextly adorable.
A branch of a raspberry bush, with leaves just starting to yellow, has several ripe red Raspberries clinging to the end.
The view down the central path of raised garden beds. Most of the beds have buckwheat cover crop poking up through a layer of straw. Marigolds still bloom, and green bean plants hang on even though some leaves are brown & wilted from the first frost. A wicker basket, ceramic bowls, and large rubber bucket are filled with today's pepper & green bean harvests. Some chicken friends can be seen in the background, wandering around their run.
Looking down the central path in a raised bed garden setup. Green healthy vegetable plants line the walkway & Cover the arched trellises. A long, stretched shadow of a middle-aged woman leaning on the gate door can be seen up the mulched pathway. Text at the top reads "when it's the 3rd of August, & you are acutely aware that the sun's angle is moving from Summer to Autumn"
Three bundles of fresh, colorful herbs, bound tightly together with natural twine string.
Two cucumbers that fused together and grew to look quite...phallic.
A view from above: the video pans from left to right, capturing all of the raised beds in a fenced-in vegetable & herb garden.
A large wicker harvest basket sits on n a green lawn of grass & clover. It is filled with bright orange carrots with their green leafy tops all still attached.
A wooden & wire mesh harvest basket filled with (from bottom to top): comfrey leaves, pickling cucumbers, sugar snap peas, Echinacea flowers, and 2 zucchini
A painting depicting a young woman with a flower crown, dark hair, a white blouse & dark gray long skirt looking at a horned black Satyr (half goat & half man) who is seated on a fence and wearing a gray coat, with one hand behind his back holding a white lily flower. His left hand is holding her right hand, and he looks to be leaning in to kiss her hand. The text over the girl says "Me", and the text over the Satyr says "That witchy shit".
The open palm of a middle-aged white lady's right hand, with the tips of the thumb, index, middle, and ring fingers (plus a small splotch on the palm itself) stained deep maroon with black raspberry juice. The background is a green lawn.
Pint-sized wide mouth glass ball jars crammed with freshly mixed shredded cabbage & salt. Brightly-colored silicone "burp" lids cover the jars.
On a patch of green grass sit 5 giant heads of green cabbage, freshly pulled from the garden beds, each with huge green outer leaves.
A fully open yellow cucumber flower surrounded by green vines and leaves. Resting right in the center of the flower, legs splayed out to their side, is a black & yellow honeybee.
A look inside an enclosed chicken run with brown wood chips covering the ground & about a dozen chickens wandering around, pecking at leafy greens that were tossed into them as snacks. The chickens range from black, to orange, olden, deep red, white, and orange-white mix. A deep red coop splattered with mud is in the background.
A raised bed garden overflowing with big, beautiful, healthy, green cabbages.
A silver and black laptop computer can be seen at the right-hand side of the photo. Beyond that is the wood framing for some patio windows, looking out into a back yard with green grass, raised bed gardens, a poy tunnel with white plastic sheeting over it, a red chicken coop, and a light sky with lots of clouds.
A brown dragonfly with a bright yellow stripe running down the side of its body rests on a branch of an apple tree. Its wings are all splayed out and are almost perfectly clear, except for a few large brown blotches at the tips, in the middle, and next to the body.
A massive oak tree stands at the center of the photo, amidst lush greenery of the surrounding forest. There is a wide opening running vertically up the trunk of the oak, starting just above the roots and stretching well over 20 feet up the tree. At the bottom, you can see where the opening actually goes all the way through the trunk of the tree, and you can peer through and see the woods behind it.
A couple of blooming Siberian Iris flowers, with vibrant purple petals that have an intricate pattern of maroon, bronze, and white bursting from the center of the plant. The brilliant purple color pops out against a backdrop of equally vibrant green stems & leaves of surrounding plants. Everything is covered in delicate water droplets from a day of rain.
Raised bed gardens surrounded by a tall wire fence sit on green grass with a blue sky above. A red chicken coop & wire run with white tarp roofing sits just beyond the garden beds.
A Monarch butterfly sits on a green leaf of a Milkweed plant
A plastic packet filled with a cream-colored-looking powder on top of a printed brochure with the words Beneficial Nematodes on it.
The camera pans slowly from left to right, then back left, capturing a woodlands edge during dusk.
The two hands of a middle-aged white lady, palms up and fingers gently curled in to show all of the dirt accumulated on the palms, fingers, cuticles, and fingernails from a morning of gardening. A text at the top of the photoo quotes Margaret Atwood, saying "in the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt."
Video showing the step-by-step process yo make dandelion jelly from fresh dandelion petals.
A small enclosed chicken run made from wood and metal wire sits on a fresh patch of green grass. Inside the run 9 orangey-tan Buff Orpington chickens and 1 silvery-gray Lavender Orpington chicken walk about and peck at the blades of grass.
A large patch of Virginia Bluebell plants blooming in the dappled light of a forest floor.
A handy holding a sprig of purple dead nettle, with green leaves at the bottom of the stem gradually becoming more purplish at the top. Small pale purple flowers poke out from beneath the leaves. On the wooden table in the background sits a jewelers loupe and pieces of another sprig that has been pulled apart for closer inspection
A terra cotta tray holds several seed potatoes that have been cut apart for planting. Each potato piece has one or two long sprouts shooting out of its sides.
3 bamboo leaf-shaped plant tags laying on moss, each engraved with a different quote: "Feel free to talk to the plants. They understand." "Welcome bees & butterflies" "Gardening is the art of sowing hope"
A white plastic bin full of small red onion transplants. A plant tag in the bin reads "Redwing", describing the variety of onion.
An info graphic titled "A Comprehensive Guide to Yellow Stripey Things" has images of various flying insects that are black & yellow striped. Under each insect is a short list of characteristics of that insect. Most are beneficial insects that don't want to harm or sting people, except for the yellow jacket, who is listed as "just a jerk".
Raised bed garden boxes filled with wet soil with multiple small, young strawberry plants planted into the soil
A man in a gray t-shirt and blue jeans crouches down next to a young Plum tree, and pours water from an orange Home Depot 5-gallon bucket onto the ground by the tree's trunk.
Whimsical painting by artist Adele. A frog sits on top of a mushroom and hands a pink flower from a bleeding heart plant to a frog in a pink petal tutu sitting on the ground below.
A sunset of yellow, orange, and pink hues fading up into a pale blue sky with gray clouds behind black silhouettes of a tree line
The back of a hydraulic dump trailer with the doors open, holding a large pile of gray gravel just waiting to be dumped onto the gravel ground below.
A wooden raised garden bed is filled with dark rich soil. A row of green spinach plants grows along one side of the photo, and to its left is a patch of soil with a white plant tag plunged into it. On the plant tag is written "spinach".
A black plastic seedling tray is filled with rich moist soil, and has teeny tiny green chamomile sprouts just starting to poke up through the soil. A white plant tag in the back of the the tray reads "chamomile 2-23"
A man in a hoodie & baseball cap reaches overhead and holds a small branch of a fruit tree with his left hand. With his right hand he uses shears to snip part of the branch off.
A metal shelving unit with wire shelves holds trays of soil into which seeds have just been planted. UV plant lights hang over the trays and provide bright light to the soil.
3 young yellow-green tender daffodil shoots poking up through brown pine mulch.
A man outside walking through snowy woods with hair, beard, and clothes covered in ice. Text box says Me heading back inside after filling up the chicken waterers.
A man uses a broom to sweep now off of the plastic sheeting on a large poly tunnel.
Side view of a 4-inch stack of white paper seed envelopes, with an orange tabby cat sniffing the top envelope