Hallo Beautiful ecoTrain Hivers,
This is a garden I had a brief intensive relationship with back in 2010... Then it sat for a long time, abandoned, because the guy it belongs to had lost interest in his country/ weekend house....
Recently, I felt a strong call to reconnect with this glorious, chaotic space, and got the keys for it from Sergio. The lockdown and covid-psychosis meant that the majority of my income was wiped out, and I had to start chopping wood and carrying water just to subsist. This was a blessing, eventually, but did mean some heavy labouring and foraging in nature for food for a while :-)
I just began pottering in the space, and didn't want to do Before and After - just After :-D No plans, no mapping, no effortfulness: pure harmonious symbiotic interrelationship...
All the fruit, olive and nut trees needed pruning heavily, lots of vines and spine-riddled creepers needed lopping back, lots of invasive trees that had sprouted and flourished in the last 12 yrs needed taken out.... phew... I've mostly been chopping wood, which will be great for next year - this winter in south Italy has been practically non-existent: warm sunny days for months!
Much of the garden is on a very steep slope, making placing of ladder difficult! I fell out of an olive tree and had the most spectacular bruising, and my wrists are pretty sore from too much sawing!
But the beautiful shape of it is starting to reform: from most points in both the layered and sloped parts, the panorama is opening up, and wee details in the view are truly blessed and spectacular.
I'm spending almost every day here, whilst it is so warm and sunny... The past 2 years have been so incredibly anguishing - knowing what is really unfolding, and finding so few folks willing to look at the bigger picture, the real science, the agenda and how everyone is being brainwashed into suffering and death.
The garden is more and more a sanctuary; a place to ground, calm, replenish and download transmissions from the Universe and Gaia-Sophia!
All the chaos and mess there, works as metaphor - and helps me put in order my own mind-body-spirit as I clean, chop, clear, compost, plant and sweat. Putting this small part of the world to Rights, radiates outwards infinitely...
All merit gained will also radiate out and also return...
The garden is a huge 'investment' of my energy and creative power, and I feel it already repaying me, as Nature will do, when we invest our whole being in Her.
All my permaculture skills are being freed up, all my inspiration from gardens around the world, all my calling to live in a wilder, free-er place is being fulfilled, and I'm preparing for a future where I won't need to acquire such a lot of fiat currency and can sustain myself on nearby lands...
Paradiso.
