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August 2019

August 22, 2019

What Does It Mean to Be a Dirt-Heart Witch?

How do you know if you're a Dirt-Heart Witch? Ask yourself these questions: where do...

July 2019

July 26, 2019

Dirt-Heart Farm Summer Update (Mostly Pics!)

Life at Dirt-Heart Farm proceeds apace. Just sent the last 15 meat birds off to...

April 2019

April 24, 2019

Let us Not Forget to Invoke the Queer Gods of Beltane

Beltane can sometimes look like a very binary experience, but I experience it as the...

January 2019

January 10, 2019

Late Winter Dirt-Heart Farmette Update 2019

Some of y'all have been following along on the adventures of the Dirt-Heart family. Here's...

February 2016

February 10, 2016

Oh, Pantheacon, My Best Friend and Worst Enemy

It is very difficult for me to have my attention split in several directions. A...

September 2015

September 21, 2015

When Animals are Brutal Jerks

Recently, as y'all know, we brought home a bunch of turkeys. I wrote about it...

August 2015

August 27, 2015

Dirt-Heart Farm Update, Late Summer Edition 2015

So much has changed - where to begin? An update from Ant to Zucchini.

July 2015

July 06, 2015

Immuno-Witchery (or I Aten’t Dead Pt. 1)

So here's a thing that happened to me recently: I almost died. Western medicine is...

May 2015

May 11, 2015

Changing the Worlds ~ One Little Bird at a Time

Everything we do changes the worlds in ways we might never understand. Even cleaning dirty...

March 2015

March 18, 2015

Ostara Egg Magicks

There are lots of magicks one can do with eggs and this is a great...

March 04, 2015

Goats and Gas ~ A Dangerous Combination

What's the solution to this little goat's problem? Jenya writes on the scariness of poor...

February 2015

February 26, 2015

An Immensity of Roses

Friends, I've been phoning it in for the past couple of months. I guess the...

February 19, 2015

Goats ~ the Living with and the Learning from

Master of the Herd, I invite your wisdom. Keeper of the mysteries of Queenship and...

February 04, 2015

The Animal You Are~ a meditation on our creature-hood

Mother Earth, dark and fecund, hold me to my flesh. Help my molecules to slow...

January 2015

January 19, 2015

Life With Goats~Day 1

Jenya writes on Goat Stewardship~ Day 1

December 2014

December 12, 2014

Pregnant Goats ~ Life Goes On

I just returned from a trip. While I was gone, I received an email that...

November 2014

November 19, 2014

Permaculture and Pumpkins

And of course, the concepts of permaculture are applicable, not only to land-use, but to...

November 07, 2014

The Magickal Healing Power of Making Chicken Stock

@patheospagan @dirtheartwitch The Urban Pagan Homestead, Jenya writes on getting back from the Bad World...

November 05, 2014

Illness in the Flock

Lost 3 chickens in the past 4 days. All seem to have similar symptoms to...

October 2014

October 15, 2014

Magickally Delicious Chicken Foot Soup

At the Urban Pagan Homestead at Patheos Pagan, Jenya writes on Chicken Foot Soup: ..."really...

October 10, 2014

One Small Casualty

One Small Casualty on the Homestead~

September 2014

September 26, 2014

Sharing Chickens with a Bobcat

Blessed be the hunter and the hunted. Blessed be human-power and cat-wisdom, our similarities and...

September 10, 2014

Slaughtering Chickens

"Slaughtering chickens isn’t easy. It’s simple, but not easy." Jenya writes on the process and...

September 04, 2014

Chicken and Truth Sandwich

"There is a continuum of non-harming when it comes to having chicken products in our...

July 2014

July 03, 2014

A Few Facts and a Chicken Story

First, a few facts to know about chickens: A rooster is not needed to produce...