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Have you ever heard of nature farming? It means that I am co-creating with Nature. Read on to see more about what it is that I do and how Nature matters here at Wild Ozark.
I grow ginseng and other woodland plants, raise Forest Folk and Fairy Gardens and
This morning before I left the house to go to the post office, I briefly thought about whether I should grab the camera or not. I decided to not
Every year the same flowers bloom in pretty much the same order. And although I have hundreds of images in my files, I can’t help but start heading out with the camera
There’s a whole blog post over at the PaleoPaints site to explain exactly what I’m doing here, but suffice it to say that this colored water has been sitting on the counter for two days now without settling. Black – a good, deep, smooth, black – has been an elusive target of mine since I first started this whole paint making endeavor. There is a post about it at the Paleo Paints site: paleopaints.com/bone-black. I think I’ve hit the sweet spot with black, but there’s another experiment in the making using willow char, and it’s looking promising so far, too. The willow sticks made nice ‘charcoal pencil sticks’ that could be used just like the charcoal sticks you’d buy at the art supply store.
But we’ve been getting a lot more rain than ordinary since *last* spring. All week I’ve been getting ready for this weekend’s South x Southeast Art Tour. So I added a little nugget of the same kind of sandstone to the frame, so the owner can see the kind of rock I used to make the paint. Just in case I don’t get any pictures this year of the ephemerals, because springtime in the Ozarks sometimes has a tendency to knock the blooms down before I get to take their portraits