I am the nursery, growing.
This is a dream from last night. It’s one of those dreams where my human self is not present and I was something else within the content of experience.
In this case, I am the nursery at Finca Milagros, growing. My sense is that the dream lasted for a while, although the normal sense of time was not there. I am the nursery with all the many plants growing, and any sense of time was far in the background.
There was a sense of water, sun, and wind coming and going in cycles, and a vague sense of beings there – likely us, birds, animals, insects.
This reflects something I notice in waking life. With the growing of the ecosystem here – with the regeneration, reforestation, and the food forest, I am growing too. I am part of this place. I grow as part of it. It grows me as much as I am helping it to grow.
We have maybe a few hundred plants in the nursery now, and it is a focus for me – watering, finding better and reusable containers for the seedlings, collecting and finding sources for seeds and seedlings, and so on. The plants in this nursery will be part of the food forest near the houses, and eventually further away.
My dream and vision is of the whole of Finca Milagros – all 15 hectares of it – as a food forest, with a diversity of natives and non-natives closer to the house and a diversity of natives in the rest of the area. The zone closer to the houses has a higher percentage of food-producing plants, although there will be many native food-producing plants everywhere. This is already happening, although it’s a process that will go on for decades.
The photos below are recent ones from our nursery, some of the seeds we are collecting and planting, and our nopal-“nursery” which is everywhere around the house.
