Transition Skills For Earth And Body WillowWayWellness.com
Willow Way Wellness provides workshops, training, and private sessions in applied knowledge for healing the land and healing our bodies, and understanding the connection between them.
The common thread in all of these offerings is that they help us shift our way of being in the world so that we sense and are sensitive to the living world around us. Thus, enabling us to integrate the information coming to us-both from our bodies and the earth-and respond with contributions toward a healthy, harmonious balance with all beings.
We offer:
. sustainability education, including the Permaculture Design Course, workshops, internships and consultations.
. The Plant Communicator Training
. Holistic Body therapy including Aston-Patterning, Aston Fitness, Aqua Alma Aquatic Bodywork, and massage.
Enjoy our site. If you take the time to have a look, there is a lot of information here on these diverse offerings.
Sincerely, Zia Parker
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Welcome. We are pleased to announce Willow Way’s Herbal CSA.
 Garden South 1 Our CSA offers fresh culinary herbs and a variety of herbal medicinal products. The concept of Community Suppported Agriculture (CSA) has spread across the country quickly. It is an idea that is a good fit for the times. When you pay for a farm-share up-front before the growing season, you are provided with a weekly share of fresh organic produce throughout the growing season, while lessening the farmer’s risk. People are recognizing the importance of knowing where their food came from, and feeling urgent about cutting the petro-calories in each calorie of food. For the same reasons, Herbal CSAs are emerging out of the yearning for respect for the land, and relationship with it.
In our quest to provide a Permaculture model, we aim at growing what we need on our site to maintain a healthy nutrient balance in our soil. That is, we are designing our system so that in time, perhaps 3-4 years, we will not have to truck in any inputs, we will be growing all of our fertilizer on-site. This is “Permaculture”. We are not yet certified as organic. However, we do not use any chemical fertilizer or toxic pest controls on our land.
What is a Willow Way Permaculture Herbal Share?
Our Herbal CSA shares provide you with quality herb teas for your table, vibrant medicinal herbal products to keep you healthy, as well as culinary herbs. A share consists of a wide variety of herbal health preparations containing herbs organically grown on our farm. In general, they contain formulas that both enhance vitality and address a variety of common conditions. Continue reading Willow Way Herbal CSA
Calling all backs, knees, necks, elbows.
Aston Fitness Class for Gardeners.
Most gardener’s experience that when spring comes and we bust out of our cabin fever, the bodily aches and pains accompany our garden lust. Gardening is such good exercise—and it can be GOOD for the body if we know how to go about it.
This class is rooted in Aston-Patterning, a refined combination of movement education, ergonomics and hands-on work. The exercise component, Aston Fitness has been keeping my gardener’s body happy for years. I’ve been a practitioner of this work for 30 years.
This class will attend to the body stresses inherent in gardening. The class will include movement re-patterning and three components of exercise: loosening for release, stretching for alignment and toning for strength and endurance. These exercises will open new pathways to body-use habits that your body will LOVE, and simple routines you can do on your own for quick recovery from a long day in the garden when you just didn’t know when to quit.
For more info, see willowwaywellness.com/ap and willowwaywellness.com/af
Max class size: 5 Six classes, to meet once per week. $120.
1) Thursdays, starting Feb 11, 10:30-12:00 am
2) Wednesdays, starting Feb 10, 5:30-7:00 pm,
Follow-up drop-in class is available, sliding scale $15-25.
To register, call Zia Parker 303-530-1415 or email ziaparker@yahoo.com
Healthier yet method for making Kombucha!
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 Greens Leaf Wall Fall Leaf walls covered with Reemay Row Cover and plastic sheeting. This bed is approximately 25’ x 12’.
 Harvest Kale Dec Insulated wall made of used chicken wire stuffed with leaves. Yummy Dwarf Siberian Kale, Fennel, and Fava beans and Parsley are happy inside.
Our greens were happy right through the stretch of 15 below weather we had last winter.
 Greens Leaf Wall Winter This design grew from our desire to keep our costs down. We had chicken wire, we had plenty of leaves. If we had used strawbales, winterizing this bed would have cost $200. This way, it cost nothing.
STRAW-CLAY COLD FRAME
… a locally adapted season extender
 North Wall of the Straw Clay Cold Frame This Straw-Clay Cold Frame at Willow Way is designed to meet the demands of our windy winters with their wide temperature swings, here in Boulder, Colorado. It is built with wooden pallets that are stuffed with Straw-Clay.
 Straw Clay Mixing Straw-Clay is one type of “natural building” material. It is straw that is coated with a light clay slip, providing value both as insulation and as thermal mass.
Continue reading Season Extension Cold Frames
 The start of the Medicine Wheel Garden. Sheet Mulching is a very basic and important Permaculture skill.
Sometimes called “blanket composting”, “no-work” or “no-dig” gardening, it is very representative of Permaculture in terms of modeling Nature.
This is the start of the Medicine Wheel Garden.
 The Medicine Wheel in full bloom. The Medicine Wheel in full bloom.
Other pics of the Medicine Wheel Garden if you want.
Continue reading Sheet Mulching
 Pond Late Summer We applied simple bioremediation techniques to allow the pond to purify itself. This is a “before” photo. Looking good, but not purifying itself. Then the Pond Work Team started to dig in — here are some of the pics and details.
 Pond channel party After removing the plants, rocks and old liner, we re-shaped the stream channel to make it optimum for the fungi, bacteria plant species involved in bioremediation.
Continue reading Wetland Project
 Medicine wheel greens, corn and beyond The yield from our sheet-mulching no-till, “no work” method. Check out the sheet mulching blog entry if you wnat to see what this garden looked like before we got started.
Mouse over and click on the pics to see if there is a bigger version for the pic.
 Garden north, corn and greens Garden north, corn and greens
 Garden South 1 Here is a look at the south part of the Medicine Wheel Garden.
Continue reading Medicine Wheel Garden
 Mushroom propagation outdoors requires some careful preparations. Site selection is important. In our valley, a shaded site that will retain moisture is critical. This site is under a large apple tree. It is close to a water spigot, to make it easy to keep moist.
Continue reading Outdoor Mushroom Growing Bed
 there there little plant In Permaculture, we place plants together that will naturally support each other, mimicking that design.
 guilded In this fruit tree guild, the central element is a fruit tree, and each guild also has a beneficial insect attractor plant, harmful insect repeller plant, a nitrogen-fixer to help provide nutrients, and a food crop—in this case, squash.
Continue reading Plant Guilds
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