Celeste Hall's Blog, page 3
February 20, 2022
Saving Seeds and Saving Money
Save money by saving seeds? Absolutely!
This has been such a strange winter, it can’t seem to make up it’s mind. In a single day it might shine, snow, shine, rain, shine, then throw a windstorm tantrum. Honestly, I can’t wait until spring.
Dreaming of springtime and growing things, I thought it might be fun to talk about seeds. I recently purchased this gorgeous spice rack and repurposed it for storing my garden seeds.
Isn’t it pretty?
It also taught me something that I hadn’t considered b...
Saving Seeds and Money
This has been such a strange winter, it can’t seem to make up it’s mind. In a single day it might shine, snow, shine, rain, shine, then throw a windstorm tantrum. Honestly, I can’t wait until spring.
Dreaming of springtime and growing things, I thought it might be fun to talk about seeds. I recently purchased this gorgeous spice rack and repurposed it for storing my garden seeds.
Isn’t it pretty?
It also taught me something that I hadn’t considered before… I might be hoarding more seeds than ...
July 23, 2021
Parent Appreciation Day
In the United States, Parents’ Day is held on the fourth Sunday of July, so this year it’s the 24th!
The designation was established in 1994 when President Bill Clinton signed a Congressional Resolution into law for “recognizing, uplifting, and supporting the role of parents in the rearing of children.” The bill was introduced by Republican Senator Trent Lott. It was supported by members of the Unification Church which also celebrates a holiday called Parents’ Day, although on a different date. ...
July 17, 2021
National Ice Cream Day
I’ve been spending a lot of time looking at alternative energy, including hand crank appliances. So here’s my ode to off-grid ice cream production, because Willowbark’s goal will always be to become fully off-grid and self-sustaining. If you’re close to my age, you’ve probably seen hand-crank ice cream makers before. The problem is, I’m not sure if I have the energy to sit and spin a hand crank anymore. I...
June 5, 2021
Unlimited Free Trees
Okay, so here’s a challenge for you. A healthy forest should have forty to sixty trees per acre and include a rich tapestry of biodiversity. So, I’d need about five hundred trees to transform a high desert, ten acre wasteland, into my dream property. That’s a lot of trees!
There’s absolutely no way I could afford to pay nursery prices for that many trees, so I started looking into alternative sources, like online companies. I did manage to pick up a few tiny, bareroot trees which survived shipm...
May 23, 2021
Willowbark Is Born
After years of searching for a little patch of level land to build my dream home, I finally ditched the idea of building from scratch and purchased a decrepit old manufactured home on ten acres of desert land. Yeah, not exactly ideal for a future permaculture farm, but there was a really good well already in place and the house had year round access via a large highway nearby, so it would be easier to bring in supplies.
Although it was a manufactured home, the neighborhood was good with a d...
October 11, 2020
Happy Halloween!
The pandemic has certainly had an impact on our lives this year and I’ve reached a point that I’m doubting it will ever be under control, but I haven’t let it stop me from doing the things I love. I’ve had to make some changes, such as requiring visitors to go through the side gate instead of the house to reach my garden and asking that everyone wear protective face shields or masks, but life goes on.
I’ve been working hard to sell my old Victorian home and close that chapter of my life. It’s...
April 18, 2020
Translated Books
Im still trying to iron out all the problems with this new website and in the process add the translated versions to each of their respective pages. This has been quite a long and time consuming operation, especially when my attention is being constantly drawn away by other responsibilities, like homeschooling my daughter during this lengthy quarantine, and keeping up with a trainwreck of other daily chores.
I am aware that there are still books that need to be added to the site and I will...
March 3, 2019
Welcome Back!
I apologize for the lengthy absence. For whatever reason, my previous web host decided to sell their service. When they did so, I wasn’t notified. I eventually figured it out when I had someone mention they couldn’t reach my website anymore and I went online to figure out why.
The new hosting service assured me they’d have all my information migrated to their servers and have me back online in no time. So I waited. And waited. And waited! Months went by, and I still had no website.
To make...
