As we strive to live more lightly on the Earth and to rebuild our health and the health of our ecosystems, how can we be sure that our proposed methods and solutions are truly on a healthy, regenerative path? How can we ensure that we are not further degrading our world and ourselves? In this uncharted territory, we take our proposed methods and solutions as ongoing experiments, subject to assessment, improvement or overhaul as the results indicate!

Above: Backyard mini-farming in July as the dill and coriander crops mature and peas are replaced by a late-season cover crop of Japanese millet. View to the house and its two pairs of solar hot water heating panels.

At bottom, L-R: Borage flowers, butterfly, assassin bug nymph, and spring Columbine flowers, all taken in the mini-farm setting.