Hello!
We are Kimberly and Raymond.
We started travelling together a long time ago, the journey we dreamed up 30 years ago, is now at hand. We were always meant to be teachers. We had to learn a lot first to come into wisdom.
We were born naturalists, both from youth concerned with our own connection with spirit and nature. Both interested young in the healing arts, and passionate enough to study and research and ponder and question. Attracted to the land, homesteading became second nature, we now live the life we imagined 30 years ago. Well almost!
This fellowship is the rest of it.
And this is our Homestead
Our Home Farm has moved with us to so many places over the years. Currently, my partner of 30 years and I are on a very private acreage of marginal land which we are slowly transforming into a food paradise. We have just under 2 acres in cultivation, a young fruit and nut orchard, with many cultivated perennial and no-till annual crops throughout.
We are surrounded by a buffer of wilderness to lower our exposure to drifting chemicals. We have chickens for eggs, meat, broth and compost, and goats for dairy, meat, and compost. We have raised pigs, cows, rabbits, turkeys, quails, horses, worms, cats and dogs, and even a few reptiles.
Our aim is to inspire you to consider new ways of living: of breathing, drinking, sleeping, moving your bodies, acquiring and preparing food, eating, living in natural homes on the land, in relation with yourself, each other, with purpose, intention and in love.
Kimberly
Long before I became a midwife and mother myself, I studied holistic nutrition and worked in many professional kitchens where I learned how to cook. In my late 20's I even worked on a small charter boat for a kayak adventure company. I would plan the menu and shop for most of the food brought on board, but whenever possible Captain would troll for seafood and we would gather crustaceans and seaweed when kayaking near shore.
It was experiences like this, along with many adventure camping trips I have taken with my partner over the years, that have deepened my appreciation for natural food and our connection with the Earth, and beyond.
In 2005, while attending a science lab in university, the professor, during the class introductions, found it strange to find me—an apprenticing chef and certified nutritional consultant—having the prerequisites to be accepted into an accredited BHSc Midwifery program. At the time, this saddened me, but now is of no surprise since nutritional science has rarely been recognized as foundational. Prevention is rarely profitable.
Again today, over 15 years later, as a retired midwife who has co-designed and almost solely operates a home farm, many express surprise that instead of doing the rewarding work of delivering babies, I now spend my days caring for farm animals, mucking in the soil with the trees and plants—harvesting, processing, storing and cooking food. I truly see these steps as a natural evolution in my understanding of biology, along with a deepening of my knowledge, connection and purpose on the Earth.
Here, on my home farm I get to use all of my experience and education by focusing on the biological systems within natural farming; using methods and techniques that put nutrients back into the soil and nutrients back into our food and bodies. I am continuously learning how to deliver us from the slow and painful death that consuming processed foods and our toxic lifestyles are creating, in order to help reconnect the human race back into Nature's living systems. So that there is a life and world worth birthing our children into.
Raymond
My siblings called me Jesus. My mom named me after a priest she liked. I had visions as a child. When I experienced lucid dreaming at 14 and spent years elsewhere every night for eight months, I knew this world is not as simple as everyone thinks and that the possibilities are endless. I became a carpenter and a jack of all trades; building things is what I do best.
So much time spent building things as a construction worker. That's a lot of time to ponder the knowledge I study in my spare time. Homesteading created opportunities to live with and thus feel the energies and experiment directly with nature.
Having found in youth that no one could answer the most basic questions about this world and our place in it, since youth and somehow guided by consciousness, life took me through a very non-traditional path through which I was exposed to a lot of hidden or simply less known understandings.
When I recently found Vibe Coding, and by the same token, how useful AI tools are to magnify human thought and educational material output, it became clear that this is ignition time! The Creator calls now. We are inviting you to heed the call!
We know we need to share now. We have been shown how to do it all, we have worked it out: the future homestead, the new earth... We have gathered a lot of hidden and powerful knowledge and we are poised to share it and learn whatever we may have missed from the community.
Food security is the most basic of human need, a birthright, and is much more than just having enough food. We rely on its quality for our health, happiness, mental acuity, and graceful aging.
"To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear."