silvertree

Hi,
I'm just jumping in here as I am new to this list. We've built the
sunflower/morning glory house several times...it is always beautiful! We
love Sharon Lovejoy's books and have found some wonderful garden ideas in
her books. A couple of other good books are A Garden for Children by
Felicity Bryan and Magical Gardens (Myth,Mulch and Marigolds) by Patricia
Monaghan. When we built the sunflower house I had found a sunflower teapot
with cups to go with it and we would have tea or juice in our teapot...I
even had a tablecloth to spread on the ground from sunflower fabric...Dd
thought it was quite magical.
Another must have book is Cultivating Sacred Space: Gardening for the Soul
by Elizabeth Murray...this book is beautiful and filled with lovely pictures
of gardens, some with children. Murray talks about transforming our own
private gardens into places that satisfy our need for the sacred, for play,
for meditation and for connecting with the earth.

We are an unschooling family of a single daughter aged 12. She has always
unschooled except for a brief stint in a waldorf kindergarden. It was her
choice to unschool. She is involved in all sorts of things: she studies
violin with a woman that is also in a rock band called Band of Humans, rides
horses, snowboards, takes pottery class, watercolor paints with a magical
woman, and is on a youth competitive team for kungfu with her master being a
2x chinese all around gongfu champion. She competed in the internation
competition for kungfu this past August and won two gold medals. Before she
studied martial arts she was enrolled in a pre-professional ballet school in
Hartford, CT for 4 years. Her ballet training has really helped with her
martial arts ability.

We live in CT on the edge of a 24,000 acre forest. We keep a few chickens,
have a psychotic Border Collie and a very uppity cat. We love sustainable
living, biodynamic gardening, alternative house structures (espec. cob
houses), folk music and contradancing, camping, drumming, bonfires and the
idea of creating community. I am a licensed RN, Massage Therapist, Reiki
Master, Herbalist, and flower essence practitioner. Dh is a master
woodworker/carpenter and would discuss history with anyone who has a minute.
We would love to find a way to create an eco-village with folks that have a
similar interest!
Looking forward to meeting others here in this forum.
Linda

----- Original Message -----

> From: Cindy Ferguson <crma@...>
> I would also love to build a sunflower/morning glory house. You plant
> sunflower seeds around the perimeter of the house. Then you plant
> morning glory seeds around each sunflower (6 or so). The morning
> glories will climb up the sunflowers and you can weave them, if you
> want a more solid wall. Then when it gets tall enough, you put
> string between the sunflowers to make a support for the roof (which
> is more morning glories). I just wish I had room for all this!!
> Cindy Ferguson
> crma@...