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Fracking the Homestead

18 May
Recycled bags and containers at Bealtaine Cottage

Recycled bags and containers at Bealtaine Cottage

Home used to be a place where everything that was needed to live well was grown or made on site by family and neighbours.

Michael Kennedy Mug and Westport Potteries bowl on locally made chopping board

Michael Kennedy Mug and Westport Potteries bowl on locally made chopping board

A place in which food was prepared several times each day and shared by all present.

Many basic necessities were stitched or nailed together by those who used them. 

Perlagoniums and cats on the window sill

Perlagoniums and cats on the window sill

Home used to be a vibrant, thriving project in self-sufficiency, with what was needed to be bought in, purchased on a rare trip to town, or ordered several times each year, to be delivered and stored.

Missy relaxing on a hot water bottle to ease her tumour...it works well!

Missy relaxing on a hot water bottle to ease her tumour…it works well!

Home included a pantry or larder, a cold-store and a well used and scrubbed kitchen table where food was prepared and eaten.

Valerian growing in the gravel around the cottage

Valerian growing in the gravel around the cottage

Today, as part of the massive disconnect  from our lovely Earth, we have fitted kitchens which are made from chemicals and constantly cleaned with chemicals.

Orange waste infusing the air with beautiful aroma on top of the stove

Orange waste infusing the air with beautiful aroma on top of the stove

The emphasis is on keeping a show-house type of environment, where these expensive kitchens are not used to their full potential.

A great cure-all...hot water bottle for Missy Cat

A great cure-all…hot water bottle for Missy Cat

Our lives are chemically infused…with clothes, bedding and bodies immersed in chemical solutions on a daily basis.

Washed in soap, rinsed in rain water and blowing in the wind

Washed in soap, rinsed in rain water and blowing in the wind

Washing machines pound the clothes we buy with chemicals that are washed out into our rivers and oceans, killing life on the way.

The Bealtaine Cottage angel ponders it all...

The Bealtaine Cottage angel ponders it all…

We wonder how cancer, autism, asthma, allergies and depression are so rife within our communities? 

Harvest at Bealtaine Cottage

We seek doctors and drugs to help us live and be well, without paying too much attention to our living state and what the corporations are doing to our environments.

Recycled floor

Recycled floor

Pharmaceutical companies are the most powerful corporate bodies on our planet.
In the US alone in 2011, the pharmaceutical industry spent nearly $29 billion on drug promotion with most of that money targeted at doctors!

Herbs drying naturally

Herbs drying naturally

We are taught not to question, but to accept the status quo of a controlled demolition of society…

A government sponsored controlled demolition of our society!

A government sponsored controlled demolition of our society!

We are viewed by corporation and government alike, as mere consumers. Passive receivers and worker drones.

Awakening and refusing to comply!

Awakening and refusing to comply!

The realization of this state of affairs is the beginning of our personal journey to freedom and a good life.

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/ban-hydraulic-fracturing-for-natural-gas-in-ireland/sign.html

Orchards and Thunderstorms

17 May

New orchard at Bealtaine Cottage

An update on the new orchard at Bealtaine Cottage…the mulch is holding well and the little fruit trees are all bearing leaves and a little blossom too!

The ground beneath the mulching is layered with seaweed.

new orchard at Bealtaine CottageA new path has been created using shreddings from the garden waste and stones dug out from the ground.

A membrane for the path has been cut from builders material, that was on it’s way to a landfill, before I hi-jacked it!

Blackcurrant bushes are ready to be planted underneath the trees and flowers beneath those.

Barn and Potager at Bealtaine CottageThe main drive is to ensure succession planting for the bees.

If this is put into place, then all will be abundant and fruitful!

Meanwhile other work is under-way…re-planting the Potager beds and spreading compost.

About to open at Bealtaine Cottage

About to open at Bealtaine Cottage

Perennial poppies are about to open…these are red and white flowers and quite unusual.

And all this despite the early summer thunderstorms and incessant rain!

Wind Spiral on Willow arch in the permaculture gardens today

Wind Spiral on Willow arch in the permaculture gardens today

Geranium , Bamboo and Willow holds back the Ground Elder…there seems little point in trying to get rid of it as planting equally insistent plants appears to hold it in check!

Yellow Dogwood in the evening sun at Bealtaine Cottage

Yellow Dogwood in the evening sun at Bealtaine Cottage

The evening sun illuminates the gardens and all is still…the prelude to further thunder storms apparently!

Cotoneaster caught in the glare of the evening sun in the permaculture gardens at Bealtaine Cottage

Cotoneaster caught in the glare of the evening sun in the permaculture gardens at Bealtaine Cottage

Have a lovely weekend and enjoy the sunshine!

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