Author Archives: Hope
5-50-500…Let’s GROW and GO! Building Bigger Teams with Evangeline Weiss
By Hope Horton, with illustrations by Evangeline Weiss A group of 20 LUCKY FOLKS showed up for the March Last Saturday event with the dynamic activist and organizer, Evangeline Weiss of Beyond Conflict. Evangeline has decades of experience building volunteer teams … Continue reading
Community Farming Initiative Gets Off the Ground!
by Margret Mueller Er…on the ground? …in the ground? However you characterize it, Saturday, March 16 was an unqualified success. Despite a last-minute panic on Friday, when it rained heavily–yet again!–Hart’s Mill’s initial foray into community involvement on the farm … Continue reading
A Walk in the Woods: the Frog Song Musical
by Hope Horton It’s been a wet, chilly spring but there’s plenty happening on the land. Hart’s Mill has ten ecosystems across its 112 acres and each one has its own character and species mix.* When Margret Mueller and I … Continue reading
Far Loop Trail NOW OPEN for Walkers!
By Anthony Thanks to an intrepid band of Hartsmilers working through a cold misty afternoon, the Far Loop Trail in the big southeast leg of our land is now passable all the way around. Margret M and Margaret A, Jeffry, … Continue reading
HOUSING WITH A TWIST: Fresh ways of thinking about ownership
by Hope Horton The purpose at the heart of Hart’s Mill is to help heal the brokenness in our social, economic, ecological, and cultural systems. We are doing this at a time when the need is great but the pathways … Continue reading
Digging into Hart’s Mill Community Farming Initiative
By Margret Muller Jeffry and Margret of Seeing Stars Farm (SSF), with support and assistance from the rest of the Land Stewardship Circle, held a Last Saturday event on January 26 at Hart’s Nest. Sixteen people gathered to launch what … Continue reading
2019: Getting to Groundbreaking!
The New Year’s Planning Party on January 13th lived up to its name, with music, dancing, food, fascinating conversation — and a solid path for getting to groundbreaking! 2019 is THE YEAR for Hart’s Mill to pull all the pieces … Continue reading
You’ve heard of having a Chili Cook-off? Well, how about a CHILLY KICK-OFF?!
by Margret Mueller That’s what happened Saturday, December 8, when a few hardy souls met at Hart’s Mill (in 40-degree weather) to get started with our Forest Stewardship mandate attend to certain parcels of land. Consider the Wood Wide Web project officially … Continue reading
Regenerative Development at Hart’s Mill
by Leah Gibbons Workshop 1 Activity and Outcomes* We had an exciting time at Hart’s Nest on November 17-18 exploring and applying a development and design process called regenerative development. The aim was to discover how regenerative development might add to … Continue reading
Springing into Fall: Clean-Up on the Land
This is the time of year for general garden clean-up and preparation for the next wave of plantings. On October 28 we had a Fence-Raising on our land, a take-off on the concept of barn-raisings, which operate on the … Continue reading
