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Listen to the Land

Listen to the Land

a story of ravagement and rebirth

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Carly Wright
Feb 10, 2024
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I didn’t expect my last post, on using the whole animal, to take off quite like it did. Thank you to everyone who shared and restacked it, and welcome to new subscribers. I always feel compelled to reintroduce myself and my little corner of Substack whenever I get a flurry of new subscribers like that, so I have given my About page a little update—please take a look if you haven’t already. And, rather than repeating what I’ve already written, I will point you to a couple of recent posts that serve as introductions to who I am and what I write about, and our farm.

We have been living on the land for nigh on a year and a half now, just about through our second winter in a makeshift cabin on the hill with no power or running water and little to insulate us from the elements. Little to separate us from the land. We have watched and felt and listened through all seasons, vibrant summer and bleak winter, rain, gale, hail and shine, flood, storm and drought, and the land has spoken. It has wh…

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