Really enjoyed this one. It’s been a fairly shit year in my world, and I think my garden may be saving my life. I know I’ll come back to this essay again. 🌱
Saw a previous post on farming & noticed Falconer.
Few Beuks from MY Cleadon ( Reference ) Library
My dad was a Shipyard Plater & greatly admired our Local Farmers.
I wrote my First Song about my father & another about a Local Farmer - Joe the Grafter - you would have liked him. ( I Don't Share those two songs - Not yet anyway )
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Practical Falconry + How I became a Falconer ( 1869 )
Gage Earle Freeman M.A.
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Kes (A falcon for a knave)
Barry Hines
( Ken Loach a famous English Director made Film - Make you Weep - Got DVD )
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LILI - low impact living initiative - Wind & Solar Electricity - A Practical DIY Guide
Andy Reynolds
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Crofting Agriculture ( First Edition 1945 )
Dr.F. Fraser Darling D.Sc, Ph D , NDA , NDD , FRSE - Director West Highland Survey - With 20 Illustrations by Robert M. Adam Pub Oliver & Boyd Edinburgh & London
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Two Acres and Freedom
JO Baker FRHS
( 1946 )
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How to use your time and energy to run a successful smallholding
Rebecca Laughton
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H is for Hawk
Helen McDonald
( Trained Goshawk - Loss of her father )
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The Goshawk
TH White
( Book Helen referenced when training Goshawk )
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Fishing skills - Beach Casting
Tony Whieldon
( My kind of Casting - Cod Champion onshore retired - Did buy Boxes of Flies last year in MIND Charity Shop )
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Instant Wind Forecasting
Alan Watts
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Casting for Sculptors
Vincent F Butler
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The Complete flyfisher
Tony Wheldon
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Fly-Dressing II
David J Collyer
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Fishing Skills - Fly Tying
Tony Wheldon
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fifty popular flies Series one and how to tie them
Tom Stewart
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fifty popular flies vol 2 and how to tie them
Tom Stewart
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Spin-fishing for Sea Trout - a guide to tackle methods and tactics
Gary Webster
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Fishing flies - A guide to flies from around the world
I just came across your essays and these are beautiful. I wish I enjoyed gardening. I love the concept of it. I don’t mind weeding, it’s the lack of knowledge that drives me back inside.
I write to avoid the madness and unfortunately, while sometimes I need to eat my words, they aren’t very sustaining.
I understand completely! Feeling overwhelmed and making mistakes you didn’t even know were mistakes after investing time and money sucks.
You didn’t ask for advice, but if you wanted some - I’d say don’t garden. If you want fresh veggies homegrown, there’s a farm close to you doing farm CSA pickups for like $10 a week. Or, go to Home Depot or your local garden center and buy a $25 porch tomato planter for a deck or fire escape. Long as you remember to water it and put it somewhere sunny, you’ll get food at home cheaper than the market/grocer.
Start with one potted vegetable. If it works out, get 2 next season or try like a hanging lettuce basket. There are ways to have it all!
Great advice! Actually I had a big garden up in Rochester, NY. I tended it with a friend. The raccoons got half and we got the other half! Currently I have herbs and one pepper plant. I used grow tomatoes and then one year I had a fruit fly infestation that took me 4 months to get rid of. However. I am toying with the idea of more tomatoes again. San Marzanos!!
Perfect! Always remember that gardening and writing about it is my job and I’m single and child free. It’s not a comparable situation. It would be like me being sad I’m not in France while following a travel blogger - don’t compare! Do what works with you and your home and family! (And thank you for reading!)
I really really loved listening to this piece. I was there with you in your garden, making sense of this broken, tattered & unhinged world. Finding my reason & my respite in that fallow space, your church on holy ground.
Really enjoyed reading this piece. One of your best…
I find shorter writing often gets right to the point! Thank you!
Quotable gospel, this. Thank you. 🙏
🖤🖤🖤
Vultures are holy creatures.
Tending the dead.
Bowing low.
Bared head.
Whispers to cold flesh,
“Your old name is not your king.
I rename you ‘Everything.’
— Jarod K. Anderson.
🖤🖤🖤
Well Said Jenna!
Big honor coming from you! Come up to the farm soon!
Really enjoyed this one. It’s been a fairly shit year in my world, and I think my garden may be saving my life. I know I’ll come back to this essay again. 🌱
Jenna Woginrich
Saw a previous post on farming & noticed Falconer.
Few Beuks from MY Cleadon ( Reference ) Library
My dad was a Shipyard Plater & greatly admired our Local Farmers.
I wrote my First Song about my father & another about a Local Farmer - Joe the Grafter - you would have liked him. ( I Don't Share those two songs - Not yet anyway )
-
Practical Falconry + How I became a Falconer ( 1869 )
Gage Earle Freeman M.A.
-
Kes (A falcon for a knave)
Barry Hines
( Ken Loach a famous English Director made Film - Make you Weep - Got DVD )
-
LILI - low impact living initiative - Wind & Solar Electricity - A Practical DIY Guide
Andy Reynolds
-
Crofting Agriculture ( First Edition 1945 )
Dr.F. Fraser Darling D.Sc, Ph D , NDA , NDD , FRSE - Director West Highland Survey - With 20 Illustrations by Robert M. Adam Pub Oliver & Boyd Edinburgh & London
-
Two Acres and Freedom
JO Baker FRHS
( 1946 )
-
How to use your time and energy to run a successful smallholding
Rebecca Laughton
-
H is for Hawk
Helen McDonald
( Trained Goshawk - Loss of her father )
-
The Goshawk
TH White
( Book Helen referenced when training Goshawk )
-
Fishing skills - Beach Casting
Tony Whieldon
( My kind of Casting - Cod Champion onshore retired - Did buy Boxes of Flies last year in MIND Charity Shop )
-
Instant Wind Forecasting
Alan Watts
-
Casting for Sculptors
Vincent F Butler
-
The Complete flyfisher
Tony Wheldon
-
Fly-Dressing II
David J Collyer
-
Fishing Skills - Fly Tying
Tony Wheldon
-
fifty popular flies Series one and how to tie them
Tom Stewart
-
fifty popular flies vol 2 and how to tie them
Tom Stewart
-
Spin-fishing for Sea Trout - a guide to tackle methods and tactics
Gary Webster
-
Fishing flies - A guide to flies from around the world
Malcolm Greenhalgh
-
The Compleat Angler - Folio boxed ( 1966 4th Impression Orig 1653 )
Walton
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I just came across your essays and these are beautiful. I wish I enjoyed gardening. I love the concept of it. I don’t mind weeding, it’s the lack of knowledge that drives me back inside.
I write to avoid the madness and unfortunately, while sometimes I need to eat my words, they aren’t very sustaining.
I understand completely! Feeling overwhelmed and making mistakes you didn’t even know were mistakes after investing time and money sucks.
You didn’t ask for advice, but if you wanted some - I’d say don’t garden. If you want fresh veggies homegrown, there’s a farm close to you doing farm CSA pickups for like $10 a week. Or, go to Home Depot or your local garden center and buy a $25 porch tomato planter for a deck or fire escape. Long as you remember to water it and put it somewhere sunny, you’ll get food at home cheaper than the market/grocer.
Start with one potted vegetable. If it works out, get 2 next season or try like a hanging lettuce basket. There are ways to have it all!
Great advice! Actually I had a big garden up in Rochester, NY. I tended it with a friend. The raccoons got half and we got the other half! Currently I have herbs and one pepper plant. I used grow tomatoes and then one year I had a fruit fly infestation that took me 4 months to get rid of. However. I am toying with the idea of more tomatoes again. San Marzanos!!
Perfect! Always remember that gardening and writing about it is my job and I’m single and child free. It’s not a comparable situation. It would be like me being sad I’m not in France while following a travel blogger - don’t compare! Do what works with you and your home and family! (And thank you for reading!)
True! Plus, I love cooking. So bring me all those veggies and I will cook up a meal!
I really really loved listening to this piece. I was there with you in your garden, making sense of this broken, tattered & unhinged world. Finding my reason & my respite in that fallow space, your church on holy ground.
Superb article! Resonated so much with me. Thank you!
Getting your hands in the dirt is one of the best feelings in the world. Great piece! :)
shucks!
Great piece!!!’
🖤thank you!!
Simply beautiful. Thank you 🙏
Thank you!!! 🌻
Thank you!!! 🌻
I wish I could write like this (but I’m not a writer, I’m a painter). This was a truly inspired piece. The world does fall away in the garden!
I wish I could paint like you! Our art all makes the world better, keep painting
You are so right! I can hear echos of my grandmother’s voice and actions in your words. Thanks for the simple truth.
That is so lovely ✨
Aw well said. I love this. It’s so true connection to tangible nature/garden and purpose is healing and grounding.
It sure helps me