Author Archives: Hope
Digging into Hart’s Mill Community Farming Initiative
By Margret Muller Jeffry and Margret of Seeing Stars Farm (SSF), with support and assistance from the rest of the Land Stewardship Circle, held a Last Saturday event on January 26 at Hart’s Nest. Sixteen people gathered to launch what … Continue reading
2019: Getting to Groundbreaking!
The New Year’s Planning Party on January 13th lived up to its name, with music, dancing, food, fascinating conversation — and a solid path for getting to groundbreaking! 2019 is THE YEAR for Hart’s Mill to pull all the pieces … Continue reading
You’ve heard of having a Chili Cook-off? Well, how about a CHILLY KICK-OFF?!
by Margret Mueller That’s what happened Saturday, December 8, when a few hardy souls met at Hart’s Mill (in 40-degree weather) to get started with our Forest Stewardship mandate attend to certain parcels of land. Consider the Wood Wide Web project officially … Continue reading
Regenerative Development at Hart’s Mill
by Leah Gibbons Workshop 1 Activity and Outcomes* We had an exciting time at Hart’s Nest on November 17-18 exploring and applying a development and design process called regenerative development. The aim was to discover how regenerative development might add to … Continue reading
Springing into Fall: Clean-Up on the Land
This is the time of year for general garden clean-up and preparation for the next wave of plantings. On October 28 we had a Fence-Raising on our land, a take-off on the concept of barn-raisings, which operate on the … Continue reading
Starting to see homes!
By Anthony Weston At our October 27th Last Saturday event, the Planning, Design, and Development Circle presented the Schematic Designs for two prototype HM residences to an appreciative crowd of about eighteen members plus a few toddlers. To set the … Continue reading
Michael Comes to Hart’s Mill
by Margret Mueller Hurricane Michael, that is! Compared with the indescribable suffering farther south, of course, we have absolutely nothing to complain about. Still, many of us were affected by this storm—too much water (on the heels of Hurricane … Continue reading
What a Concept! Update on Architecture
by Anthony Weston Our Architect, Jonathan Lucas of What On Earth Architecture, has taken PDD – the Planning, Design, and Development Circle – through a systematic process to develop the designs for our residences. it’s time for a progress … Continue reading
Pumphouse Drama
By Anthony Weston As all assiduous readers of this blog will know, in early September we had a dedicated workday/workshop to raise the slipstraw walls of the pumphouse. Terry, Joe, Randy, Amy, Sean, and me, all of us led by … Continue reading
SWE-E-E-E-E-E-T! !
By Margret Mueller Wednesday, September 19, was sweet-potato-digging day at Hart’s Mill. What began in June as 3 1/2 orderly rows of sweet-potato slips had become a solid blanket of tangled purple-blossomed green vines. Here and there “volunteer” watermelon … Continue reading
