We're just two weeks into 2023 but I'm still treating it like the turning of a new year, and this one calls us to take another introspective look at our own personal paradigms regarding our homesteads, businesses, landscapes and lives and really ask ourselves if the foundation of our perception and decision making - our paradigm - is aligned with our highest quality of life?

Our paradigm needs to be if we want to stand a chance of living free, healthy and sovereign lives in 2023 and beyond.

• Does your paradigm see problems as burdens or opportunities?
• Does your paradigm see Nature as an opponent or an ally?
• Is order imposed or emergent?
  • The amount of outside energy that must be applied to keep a system functioning a certain way (a landscape, a home, a family unit, a business…etc) is a helpful approximation of imposed vs. emergent order
• Is your paradigm problem or solution oriented?
  • In every problem lie the seeds of an elegant solution - IF we can see it!
• Do you invite thinking or shield yourself from it?
  • Intentional Design that addresses Root Causes vs. Symptom-focused Quick Fixes

We must be willing to embrace complexity if we hope to design our own lives - off-the-shelf solutions DO NOT WORK for creating a free and sovereign lifestyle.

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WHAT I DO:

Design:

On-Site Consultation

Online Site/Project Consultation

Holistic Ecosystem Design

Implementation:

Water Harvesting Earthworks

High-function, Low-Maintenance Access

Living Systems

Spring Development

Courses:

Minimum Holistic Goal

Media:

The Sovereign Homestead Podcast

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