LUNAR HOLLOW
  • Blog
    • Recipes >
      • Food + Pantry
      • Herbs + EO's
  • About Denise
    • Denise Cusack
    • Background+Experience
    • Unschooling
    • Webinars, Podcasts & Classes
    • Writing >
      • Find me on Medium
    • Art, Design, Photography >
      • Artwork
      • Photography
      • Denise Cusack Design
  • Work With Me
    • Speaking, Presenting, Teaching
    • Herbal Consultations >
      • Schedule Consultation
    • Permaculture & Garden Design >
      • Health Justice, Restorative Relationships, and Mutual Aid
  • Lunar Hollow Farm
    • About Lunar Hollow
    • Live Lightly
    • Lunar Hollow 2022 Plans
    • UpS Botanical Sanctuary
    • Lunar Hollow Photos
    • Grow a Row for HWB
  • Contact+

Looking to the future.

11/6/2020

0 Comments

 
Picture
Spending so much time on this land and in this place this year has made us realize it is really perfect for us. We could use a few more acres, but the place, the view, the air, the trees, the animals, the privacy, the dead end road - it has really made this pandemic tolerable even in our lockdown. 

We all are grateful that we have this space, and, our original pre-COVID plan was to also use this for Herbalists Without Borders based education and events. Of course this property is still used for Herbalists Without Borders - over 1,000 square feet of this house is a dedicated donation storage and community apothecary space. Throughout the entire pandemic I have been intaking donations here, and then packing up donations and shipping to free clinics and for community outreach throughout the entire US and Puerto Rico. I have shipped something like $85,000 of donation value from my house in the past 3 months. Pretty amazing. But, we have had to do all this alone. The long-term goal is having training days and farm work days, planting days, plant walks, and distill hydrosols and all of that ... with people. The other part of the goal is to create other opportunities for my teens to work with other teens learning about plant conservation, habitats, natives, and how there is food and medicine all around us if you just know where to look. 
Picture
This is the time of year where the plan means looking to the next growing season. This year we didn't have the ability to expand as much as we hoped due to covid, but we did add the greenhouse and then enforce it all summer and insulate for winter. We expanded the orchard, the fruit canes, the perennial medicinals, and ground fruit. We added more mushroom logs (both blue oyster and turkey tail), woodland bushes, woodland medicinals, and started the native plant nursery for trees and medicinals that will take up to 2 years before they can be planted out. 

For 2021, we have a lot of goals, Including expanding on some flat areas, adding a forest permaculture format into the existing greenhouse, expanding around the greenhouse to have integrated plantings, create a seating area with a firepit in the greenhouse area, and then continue to expand the woodland and shade medicinals. 

One plan I didn't get to try this year was the bog garden using native Wisconsin tamarack bog plants, so I have seeds and will be growing plants from seed for that fun project. I completed an environmental and garden education program to get some more ideas for bringing kids into the mix, and have an open source plant walk app/wiki/platform in progress, so that is all great. 
Picture
We are also looking at significantly expanding our seed saving and seed grants. I manage a large seed library and seed grant program with Herbalists Without Borders where we share seeds out to communities to get gardens growing. By growing more seeds to save and sharing them out, we can increase the use of native plants and the use of plant medicine that is from our bioregion, and, that grow in this climate. 

So we are working on sketching out, planning, plotting, outlining, expanding and listing. I will be sharing the 2021 plan here soon, but until then, I wanted to share the photos of our beautiful view, the night sky, and this land we call home. 

​Happy fall. 
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    whollyrooted.com

    denise cusack

    I am a certified aromatherapist, clinical herbalist, organic gardener, plant conservationist, photographer, writer, designer, artist, nature lover, permaculture designer, health justice activist, whole foods maker, and mother of two unschooled boys in south central Wisconsin. 

    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture


    ​Categories

    All
    BAKED GOODS
    BEES
    BEVERAGE
    BODY
    BREAKFAST
    CHICKENS
    COMMUNITY GARDEN
    CONDIMENT
    CRAFT
    CSA SHARE
    DAIRY FREE
    DESKTOP CALENDAR
    DESSERT
    DIY
    EBooks
    FAMILY
    FARMETTE
    FRUIT
    GARDEN
    GLUTEN FREE
    HERBAL
    Home
    HYDROPONICS
    KITCHEN DIY
    Life Is Good
    MAIN COURSE
    PANTRY
    PICKLES
    PRESERVE
    RECIPE
    SALAD
    SIDE DISH
    SNACK
    SPICES
    TEND
    This Week In My Kitchen
    VEGAN
    VEGETABLE
    VEGETARIAN


    My recipes at 
    Yummly

    Cook Eat Share

    ©2007-20 Denise Cusack, all photos and text. Feel free to share my posts on FB or Twitter or online media or pin on Pinterest (thank you!), but please keep the links back to my website intact (meaning please do not take or copy my images off of this website and share them unattributed or without linking back here or use them otherwise without permission). Thank you! :)

WHOLLY ROOTED


​Permaculture Consultations

BLOG

denise cusack

About Denise
Speaking Events
Webinars, Podcasts, Classes
Writing
Art

Resources
Contact
​

LUNAR HOLLOW

About
Growing 2022
​Botanical Sanctuary
Seedlings 2022

© COPYRIGHT 2017 - 2022
​Wholly Rooted LLC
Deerfield, Wisconsin
  • Blog
    • Recipes >
      • Food + Pantry
      • Herbs + EO's
  • About Denise
    • Denise Cusack
    • Background+Experience
    • Unschooling
    • Webinars, Podcasts & Classes
    • Writing >
      • Find me on Medium
    • Art, Design, Photography >
      • Artwork
      • Photography
      • Denise Cusack Design
  • Work With Me
    • Speaking, Presenting, Teaching
    • Herbal Consultations >
      • Schedule Consultation
    • Permaculture & Garden Design >
      • Health Justice, Restorative Relationships, and Mutual Aid
  • Lunar Hollow Farm
    • About Lunar Hollow
    • Live Lightly
    • Lunar Hollow 2022 Plans
    • UpS Botanical Sanctuary
    • Lunar Hollow Photos
    • Grow a Row for HWB
  • Contact+