The Faithful Agrarian
Growing Relevant Dirt
I started a blog last week as a lead into a SpadeSpoonSoul Podcast with Pete Nunnally that will post on Friday. The pod is about his upcoming book, Catching Hope: The Hidden Spiritual Wisdom of Fishing and Water and Wilderness Church. Trash has been interrupting the last two days, so I might as well pick …
Snow in the mountains on April 15th. A good chunk of this morning was spent walking in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains near my home. To be precise, in the Roslyn Cemeteries, and the ridge between Nelson Dairy Road and Horvatt Road in Roslyn, Washington. I was joined by more deer than normal and …
Glad I wrote the Miyawaki Forests blog last week. It turned into a mustard seed of new connections and ideas. So much so, I need to add to what I started. I learned about the nascent Sacred Groves movement spearheaded by Eden Theological Seminary in the appropriately named community of Webster Groves, Missouri. Do yourself …
I have been Miyawaki Forest curious for the past couple of years. Not sure how it started. It might have been a New York Times article or maybe it was learning about the Church Forests of Ethiopia or a visit to Christ Episcopal Church in Short Hills, NJ and an hour of forest bathing at …
A few words from the occasional. intermittent, sporadic, discontinuous, irregular, erratic, spasmodic, fitful, spotty, few and far between, not-so-faithful agrarian blogger. One of my favorite activities associated with Faithful Agrarian is podcasting with my friends, Jerusalem Greer and Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows on the SpadeSpoonSoul Podcast (Triple S). We brought it out of hiatus to plug an …
I just finished a 2 hour walk in the woods around my house in Roslyn. I dipped down to the Cle Elum River via Suncadia past the Fish Shed and Fan House. My time included 1.5 of Shinrin yoku aka Forest Bathing aka Forest Therapy. I use the 3 labels interchangeably. Unless someone corrects me, …
Lucky me! It was my absolute pleasure to be a part of Episcopal Parish Network panel discussion on Sacred Spaces, Thriving Places: Stewarding Church Grounds and Community Engagement, on my natal day, February 27th. It was organized by the Rev. Bowie Snodgrass, Rector of Christ Church, Short Hills, NJ. H/T to Bowie and the EPN …
Thanks to my friend and SpadeSpoonSoul podcast co-host, Bishop Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows, I’m heading to another Episcopal Family Reunion. In about a hour I will cross the Ohio-Indiana border (with the other Triple S co-host and today’s roadtrip driver, Jerusalem Greer). I’m on my way to the CRG Event Center in Plainfield for 187th Convention of …
I have developed a habit of blogging while flying to another part of the United States. Not in the mood today. I’m going to watch TV (not news!) and listen to music in-route to Columbus, Ohio. I’m also going to try to memorize this quote from Wendell Berry, written during the Vietnam War in 1968. …
Short post. I’m determined to post about this opportunity in as many places as possible. Kinda like the words of John Wesley: Do all the good you can,By all the means you can,In all the ways you can,In all the places you can,At all the times you can,To all the people you can,As long as …
I try to keep my blog to stories around what it means to be a faithful agrarian. I have a new category for stuff that I need to write that doesn’t quite fit – Random. While this blog post has the random label, in some ways it is anything but random. Today marks 10 years …
For the past couple weeks as a part of a class I’m taking from the Forest Therapy School, I’ve been listening to The Book of Rewilding: A Practical Guide to Rewilding, Big and Small by Isabella Tree & Charlie Burrell on Audible. I’m supposed to walk in silence and absorb all my local forest has …
