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What does winter look like on an alpaca and chicken farm?
...to be sure that it is mixed with grass hay so they don’t get too much. Water is always important to all living things, and the alpacas and chickens are no exception. So, winter time prep means switching to heated water buckets and spending time chiseling out blocks of ice when it gets too cold for the heating elements. When that happens, it’s time to bring out the alpaca jackets and get the wood furnace going for the main alpaca...
Being ‘Stickered’
...have a special message on the back of a label; my label last Saturday was the word ‘GORGEOUS,’ so I looked out at the autumn colored trees and whispered: ‘You are gorgeous; thank you for being you.’” On the opposite end of the question is Sister Janice Smith, “NO! I don’t look forward to being stickered. I am always so afraid that I will forget to go get them that it generally is another stressor to me. But it does help...
White Violet Center earns ‘Real Organic Project’ designation
...of enforcement of some vital USDA Organic standards to protect soil health and animal welfare, organic farmers rallied together to fight to protect the integrity of the organic label. This is what originally motivated WVC Farm Manager John-Michael Elmore to apply for this certification. “We (WVC) are already certified organic, so this became an extension of that. USDA organic certification is getting manipulated by large agri-businesses, and doesn’t fully represent the original intent of the organic movement,” John-Michael said. “While it’s still an important regulatory standard,...
Season of Creation 2022: Fair Trade and Climate Change
...Industry Consider buying second hand clothing, repairing and repurposing clothing, participating in a clothing swap, etc. Some stores that sell Fair Trade clothing include Athleta, Linden Leaf Gifts, Mata Traders, and MarketPlace: Handwork of India, Patagonia. Some brands such as Patagonia have a second-hand label – theirs is Worn Well. Check other stores and buy second hand through them. For tips on being fashionable inexpensively, click here. Read The Conscious Closet: A Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good...
Resting on holy ground: new cremains burial options at the Woods
...mother of deceased Providence Associate and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College alumna, Heather Tetzlaff Smith. Besides her other connections to the Woods, she was very vocal about her deep devotion to Saint Mother Theodore Guerin and to the workings of God’s Providence in her life. Her mother asked if Heather might be buried at Saint Mary’s, which Heather, as do many others, regarded as “holy ground.” That seed has blossomed into a new outreach ministry for the Sisters of Providence. We will...
Good Shepherd Chapel formally blessed
...Dawn Tomaszewski explained that Michael’s role in the project was part of a “confluence of providential moments” that helped create the new cemetery. The first moment came in 2017, following the passing of Providence Associate Heather Marie Tetzlaff-Smith, a resident of South Bend, Indiana, and a graduate of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. Heather’s family requested that her remains be laid to rest at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Because the practice of the Congregation had been to inter only its own members at Saint...
Sunday, December 12, 2021: Third Sunday of Advent
...hand to clean his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.” Exhorting them in many other ways, he preached good news to the people. Reflection Winnowing fan. This image leapt off the page. How could it? I had no idea what a winnowing fan looked like! I did what all contemporarily seekers do. I “Googled” it. What I found surprised me. A winnowing fan does not look one...
Sustainability midst the bustle
...community, serving on boards for the school and other organizations. Amidst the busyness of life, living sustainably requires intentional effort. “Care of the environment and living sustainably is very important to both of us,” they said. “In our family we try to make ‘just’ choices with our dollars. We choose not to shop at stores that don’t align with our values (Walmart being an example). When our heater died, we chose a geothermal heating system rather than an electric heater....
Tried and true farming techniques benefit Earth
...plants out of trays and pots,” she explained. Soil blocker tools are used for planting seedlings. High tunnels Rather than a greenhouse, which utilizes a heating element, high tunnels are heated by the sun. This is called passive solar. White Violet Center has two high tunnels. Candace said it’s 5 to 8 degrees warmer inside the high tunnel on a cold day. But if it’s a sunny day there could be a 10 to 20 degrees difference. Crops are grown...
Blessing a summer harvest prayer ritual
...delicious apple pies. This season marks the wealth of Earth. Let us connect ourselves to this wheel of life. Place symbols of the summer harvest—wheat, corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, peaches, basil, mint, other herbs, bread and lemonade—in front of you or in the center of a circle. Reading: “The Garden is Rich with Diversity,” Chinook Psalter, from Earth Prayers, edited by Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon, ©1991. The garden is rich with diversity With plants of a hundred families In...
A Haunting Desert Experience
8th Day Center for Justice staff and assembly members at the Eloy Detention Center to open the SOAWatch Nogales Convergence weekend of Oct. 7-10, including (from left) Mary Kay Flanigan, a family member of a detainee, Liz Deligio, Sister Kathleen Desautels, Patricia Schlosser and Arlene Ashack. Twenty years of attending the SOAWatch events at the gates of Ft. Benning, Ga., one always needed to prepare for either cold or rainy days. Not so this year. The Arizona border heat made...
Nature is a powerful healing source
...relatively cool that morning, and very pleasant. A nice reprieve from the summer heat and humidity. I became immersed in the task at hand, which involved tilling the soil within a high tunnel. When I completed the task, I stood back and looked at the freshly tilled soil. It so happened at that moment the bells at St. Mary-of-the-Woods began ringing. They rang everyday when I worked during the week, but this was a new song. I listened in admiration...