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Why I really started a nonprofit

Posted on December 9, 2021 by The Holistic Homestead

I started the Homestead because it was what I needed the most in my life – and as it turns out lots of other folks needed the same thing, too.

Category: Fundraiser, Headlines, Here's to your Health! Tags: bodhisattva vow, buddhist nuns, foraging, gilpin county colorado, grassroots health movement, Headlines, homesteading, monastic vows, nonprofit, pagosa springs, self-sufficiency, sustainability, tara mandala, the four immeasurables, Tibetan Buddhism

A letter from a Thistle

Posted on September 7, 2017 by The Holistic Homestead

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I submitted this letter about a month ago to our local paper, but they told me it’s too long for print. (Fair enough.) I wrote “A letter from a thistle” as a passionate plea for peace after reading “How to…

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