Hi! I'm Heidi and just got started here. I've recently been indoctrinated into the doomer cult (climate change/economic insolvency/peak everything) and am now interested in
permaculture and transition-type movements as a way of softening my impact and getting back to the natural world from which I have been too-long severed. I'm now in North Central Vermont and loving every second of it. I'm a Registered Nurse (want to be a writer, but that's not exactly a steady gig compared to the other). I'm currently enrolled in a three-year herbalist training program. Ongoing projects are: Learning how to grow food (intrigued by the idea of edible forest gardens as well as the work of Masanobu Fukuoka...I used to live in Japan and do speak/read Japanese so the juxtaposition of those two interests really excites me), learning natural building (love
cob), growing
mushrooms (
medicinal and edible), and growing and making herbal medicine. I'm also interested in intentional communities. As a nurse and future herbalist I feel like I have a lot to contribute to a community. I love reading (there are never
enough books), rock climbing, hiking, snowshoeing, singing, and writing. I am also an ethical vegan and have been so for over two years.
“When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”
― Wendell Berry