Monday February 12th, 2018
With the sunny morning, we started our day in the playschool yard and gardens today. Sibyl and Lorax re-purposed the wood from the fort they built last week, and decided that we needed a beaver dam. They worked to unstack and restack the pile, and get us ready for the beavers who were on their way to playschool to be free and wild, and yet somehow still our pets (you gotta see the vid clip to understand this one).
Since we were spending the morning working in the gardens and play yard, we decided to build a fire to warm us. The group worked together to collect fire wood from the pile, and did their best to get it going. I helped out, just a bit, but these friends are getting really good at calling in the Fire.
We flipped a garden bed that had become our compost pile this last season, and dug up some potato starts to repopulate our bed for the upcoming season. I even got the banjo out to sing to the freshly turned soil, heavy with worms who have been busy working the compost pile for us. The kiddos are inspiring me to play more as every special occasion seems like it needs a banjo song to them these days. And, I agree.
For our afternoon field trip we hopped on the bus to take us up to Naomi's Farm Store. The group wandered the nursery, oohing and ahhing at all the little babies on the tables. We were looking for a lilac for our pollinator garden, and after sitting with several candidates, the group decided on the one they felt was asking to come home with us. They were the perfect gift to the bees and to the land, and they could for sure hear the tree saying "pick me!", they all told me.
After saying goodbye to the bunnies, we hopped back on the bus with our baby tree, and on the way told the tree all about their new home and how happy they were gonna be in our garden.
Back at playschool we got right to work digging the hole with our hand shovels, preparing the land to receive our new lilac friend, and making our offerings of song and blessings.
We laid our lilac in the earth and set the soil and mulch around, and the kiddos all felt it was a good idea to make a rock circle to protect them.
In this planting, done in honor of Love Day, we celebrated our love for the earth, our playschool and friend circle, the bees, and all the various and variant ways we all share our love with the world.
It was a very special day for all of us.
Enjoy our sharing of some of the special moments!
xo, Miz Flow
