07/29/2026
The Sanctuary Cycle: Honoring Entropy 🧪☕🌿
My hearts, I’m in the garden today, and I’ll be honest—throwing this away would be so much easier than what I'm about to do...
I was donated a batch of herbs and supplements from a neighbor in February, and some were just too old to pass on. The "normal" thing to do, the thing we’ve been taught by a world of planned obsolescence, is to just toss them in the trash and forget they existed.
❌But we aren't "normal" on this porch.
We are good stewards. 🗑️
We know that landfills are not "the end," and that even "garbage" has a vital place in the natural world if we are ingenious enough to find it. We can’t be lazy with the land... but we can figure out how to have fun doing the "hard" things, too.
✅ The Supplement Soup: I’m making a concentrated tea from these old pills and leafy materials. It breaks down the walls of the capsules and softens the roots so the minerals are actually ready to work for the soil instead of sitting in a dump.
✅ The Mineral Imbue: I’m soaking our compost in high-value potassium and fiber. It’s a multivitamin for the earth. I'll strain the fermented liquid off into a separate bucket and use it as fertilizer; then the chunky bits will go into my tumbler composter to finish breaking down.💊🌻
✅ The Lesson: Refusing to succumb to the throw-away culture is how we take back our power. Tending to the cycle is a choice to use everything. It’s hard work, but there is a certain kind of wit in knowing that our "chaos garden" is going to be the best-fed stretch of Snowflake because we refused to be lazy. 🎡🌿
⌛We are officially 139 neighbors away from our 500-goal giveaway! If you are following that journey, stay with us... We're so close now.✨
Have you ever caught yourself about to toss something "old" only to realize it was exactly what your garden needed?
Tell me your best recycling or upcycling wins below! 🥰
I want to hear how you're honoring the process in your own world. 👇👇
