Join me in the Village, sister!

We’ve needed this for a long time

Where to begin…

I have yet to meet a woman who hasn’t expressed a deep longing for something we have mostly never experienced. The Village- the interconnection of community and nature where life is lived in togetherness & flow. There’s literal scientific research on how depressed we get when we aren’t in community with other women. And yet we have become- especially in motherhood- so isolated and distanced from the primal things that connected us to each other and the earth. We are the feelers and creators of the planet, made to mold and alchemize nature through the simplest of things. Baking bread, turning herbs to medicine, making clothing into art. We used to do all of those things together.

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Sometimes my mind feels like a rambling forest full of little paths and burrows, thoughts jumping like squirrels from here to there and so many things to explore, forage, prune, tame or trample. Where to put them all? How to begin?

So I made a substack.

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I love creating on social media but it’s the tip of a very large, eclectic iceberg. I’m regularly asked ‘when is your cookbook coming out??’ Or ‘can we get an (insert need here) version of this?’ To which my answer is without fail- YES! Coming soon!! Which in my mind, it is, but let’s be honest- it isn’t. The amount of ideas in this brain is a bit comical, and the fact that I’ve been trying to execute them all at once and completing none of them is, at this point, ridiculous. So instead of trying to create 3 cookbooks, 4 new digital downloads, stickers, magnets, a blog, a podcast and a YouTube channel all before birthing a new life into the world in a couple of months… this seems a much more organized, manageable way of delivering the same things with way less pressure.

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My dream for so long has been to create the village. You know, the elusive village we all need but don’t have? Yes, ultimately, my goal is to create some form of this in tangible reality (THE FARM DREAM!!) but I see the need for women far and wide to have spaces they feel supported, connected, and informed- NOW, where they are. We used to pass down knowledge and skills as we gathered daily, old and young working together on some common goal- tanning hides or spinning wool. Now we all work alone, going above and beyond in our own little bubble with no-one but google to turn to.

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Here I hope to break through that barrier a little. If you know me at all you know I love research, I live to talk to people and glean their wisdom and I thrive learning new skills/crafts. I want to take everything I learn and pass it onward, in understandable accessible terms- as if we were chatting together while learning to knead bread with my mama. It’s hard to share all of that in short form video content so this will be the space for details- written out recipes, longer posts detailing the ins and outs of a new skill acquisition, resources I compile while deep dive researching topics and of course my many (many) thoughts along the way.

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I‘m so excited to start untangling some of my mental brambles here- lots of recipes & posts are already in the works!! I hope to see you around the village!

Much Love,

Ebby

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