Sustainability FTW!!!

There are so many facets of life that are truly enhanced by engaging sustainable action.

Sustainability affects every thing we do at the @gardenofeden.

Here is but one example of possibilities.

I most often begin and end my day with a trip to the chicken coop.

I am blessed with the most delicious and dense nutrition awaiting me on a daily basis, rain or shine!

At the @gardenofeden we love sustainability, and treating our chickens to their own heaven is no exception.

Utilizing abundantly available, free, salvaged materials is one of our fortes.

Not only are we able to create the things we need without purchasing from and supporting the corporate elite, we also need not pay for gym memberships (which utilize a/c, artificial lighting and often electricity for their machines, not to mention fuel, special shoes and clothing, and commitment to avoid the guilty vibe), sun tans, babysitters/day care, architects or builders.

We are using our imaginations to create something with great purpose, and spend our entire day with the children, empowering them to engage their own ingenuity and respect for the earth.

We create a one-of-a-kind structure with our own hands that has ample space to house our chickens, goats and rabbits.

We do it together using salvaged pallets and wooden bamboo pegs.

This is the first chicken coop we built, adding special additions to the front of salvaged wooden crates, shutters, an old door, and rescued piano parts.

This is how amazing it is in the morning with the sun rays peeking through.

This is the salvaged fence panel path I take on my journey to our new chicken coop.

We use sunflowers and other beneficial plants to shade the coop from the hot Texas sun.

The entry to our new coop is like entering a special hidden oasis.

This new coop is also decorated with salvaged materials - used door, shutters, plant roots and stems, nature's wood collage, tree bark and chicken wire.  Even the paper mache chicken mascot that peeks through the window was another's discarded treasure.

Letters that create "Chicken Heaven" were saved from a teenage prank which made them abundantly available in our yard!  Thanks Pranksters!

The door was decorated with, of course, more discarded/salvaged materials, making quite the statement upon entry.

Our chickens really have quite the life in their own handmade pallet castle.

I grew up with chickens (and other flocked and four-legged creatures), raised them with my children, and am still as grateful as ever for their existence.

Chickens are but one reality of a sustainable life that really spreads into many other areas of existence.  We trade with others to increase our flock, feed them food waste, provide them with well water, get our exercise, fresh air, sunshine, and incredible high-vibe nutrition.  Our eggs are also cooked with salvaged wood on our hand built rocket stoves with dirt from our own land. We are sharing the great benefits of using the available, free abundant resources with our children who are with people they love and who love them all day long.  They create with us, and together we increase our skill levels which will serve us all for a lifetime.  

Living a sustainable life is incredibly rewarding.  
As we do not have to immerse ourselves in supporting the things we do not believe in, we instead invest in our own well-being and share it prolifically.

I hope your day is also filled with impactful realities.
Thank you for sharing this moment with me.