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To Contact Brooke Medicine
Eagle:
Medicine Eagle PO BOX 971, Tonasket, WA 98855
Phone: 509-223-3093 Email:
bme@MedicineEagle.com
**Aug-Oct
FlowerSong
Gardens WA
HARVEST
THE
RICHNESS
We
have
over 100 fruit trees and vines, and will need help with
our
harvest! Come for a combination of healing, learning,
and help with the
orchard and preservation of the bounty – peaches,
nectarines, cherries,
pears, apples, apricots, mulberries, plums, grapes and
more – and go
home with some of richness.
bme@MedicineEagle.com
509-223-3093
**Aug
19-21
New Hampshire
23rd
NEW
ENGLAND WOMEN’S HERBAL CONFERENCE
Join
us
for our 24th year of celebrating women spirit, healing
and herbs at
the New England Women’s Herbal Conference held at
Beautiful Lake
Wicosuta on Newfound Lake.
This
is
a joyful, inspiring event that brings women of all ages
and
backgrounds together to celebrate, learn and share
together.
WHC, c/o Sage MT, P.O. Box 420, E.
Barre, VT 05649 sage@sagemountain.com
802-479-9825
**October 12-14 North
Carolina SE
WOMEN’S HERBAL CONFERENCE
A weekend dedicated to the
Wise
Woman Tradition....earth-based healing, local plants,
and deep
nourishment
828.669.1014
http://www.sewisewomen.com/womens_herbal_conference/index.php
Care of organic orchard,
gardens, lawns. Gather and take food to local
farmer’s markets Food
preservation Basic carpentry, landscape
and rock work Host and cook for retreat
visitors Create a shrine to Gaia
Computer / internet skills
desirable Making medicinals desirable!
Benefits:
Live in paradise Learn Earth
harmony Grow, cook and eat fabulous
organic food Enjoy rich, surrounding
wilderness Participate in Native
American ceremony...
When: Assistance is needed here from
May – October; June-Sept planting>harvest time being
the most vital. I prefer those who will stay for longer,
rather than shorter, periods. Coming in for a short while
during our most intense harvests is wonderful too. This
stay could extend into winter caretaking.
I have a beautiful little
paradise to share with you in return for some joyous work!
FlowerSong is a 1.5 acre orchard / garden
sanctuary in a tiny village next to the Paysayten
Wilderness area of N central Washington – the gorgeous
little valley of the Sinlaheken River. It’s glorious to
spend days right within the beautiful privacy fence of
this little Eden, plus, it’s just a few minutes drive to a
big rolling mountain stream and millions of acres of
wilderness forest and lakes.
Speaking of lakes, around us is
wildlife preserve; large, beautiful ranches; and small,
deep lakes for fishing. AND speaking of fishing, we have
the best right here in our larger-
-than–Olympic-swimming-pool-size irrigation pond – I
caught a couple 2 feet long trout, and enjoyed watching
hundreds of them flash to the surface to take our offering
of food all last summer.
The work
The work here is
simple: we have extensive no-turn garden beds, all
mulched and waiting to produce. There are 85 fruit trees
(many varieties of peach, nectarine, cherry, plum,
apricot, apple, grapes and mulberry) to nourish and care
for, as well as the grass under and around them. All
this is watered when you make rain from the huge
irrigation pond via a network of established rainbirds.
Your skill with composting is also needed.
This year I need someone to
organize and execute a farmer’s market selling program.
Food can be picked, gathered, and boxed here (even
supplemented by neighboring orchards) and taken to markets
in the area. Just over the mountain in the Methow Valley
is a Saturday market which is very popular with folks from
Seattle, and would be an excellent one to attend, and
there are several others.
A tasty and time-consuming job
is preservation of all the fruit and vegetables grown
here. We dry as much fruit/tomatoes and make as much
leather as possible – that is basically our only cash
crop, although any medicinals we would grow/create could
also be sold, or traded at Barter Faire. We steam-juice,
make into goodies, can, and freeze many things. Last year
we had fruit preserves, salsa, tomato sauce, canned sweet
fruit and tomatoes, pumpkin pie mix, apple pies, cherry
pies, mincemeat, and pear chutney. Much more is possible
with someone who loves to make luscious food for the
winter!
There will be some simple
building and repair jobs that require basic carpentry
skill. We will also improve the landscaping. A few steps
and trails up and around the terraces need to be improved
with rock work. You need to be comfortable with the feel
of a working shovel in your hands. (When we are too warm
from working, the turquoise dipping pool beside the
ceremonial meadow is availble for cooling off, and rest is
sweet on the cedar deck or huge hammock there beside the
little waterfall.)
Special Projects
Special projects this
summer include: re-decorating my beautiful and unique
gypsy wagon, making a cool and cozy tent site in the
forest by the little waterfall below us, growing /
producing more medicinal products, and creating a small,
exquisite shrine to Lady Gaia, our sweet Mother Earth.
Improving the Feng Shui of the place, as well as working
with the overlighting deva of FlowerSong and all the
nature spirits, will also serve us well.
We will
create a fire circle in the now-established ceremonial
meadow, and enjoy evenings around a fire, singing,
drumming, sharing, dreaming. We may invite others from the
community to join us once a month to share the beauty
and inspiration of this lovely place.
Benefits
In return for your work you
will have a home in this sweet Eden; all the fresh,
organic food you can prepare and eat in the lodge kitchen;
laundry and internet wifi; the pleasure of this beautiful
country to play, hike and fish in; and access to my
healing / transformative private sessions by our separate
agreement. If you want to offer your skills, such as
massage, there is a summer community here that might well
like to enjoy them, and thus create some income for you.
Spirituality & traditions
My baseline spirituality is
Native American yet many ways of Earth wisdom are honored.
Respecting and enhancing the web of life is my goal. We
will work for Mother Earth, the goddess Lady Gaia, in all
that we do, creating an uplifted vibration of harmony to
radiate around us. Working with the land, I honor the
traditions of Machaelle Small Wright, Fukuoka, Ruth Stout,
and many others.
Brooke’s Offerings / Retreats
Students come
to retreat with me a few at a time, and integrate
themselves into the family. I need someone here who enjoys
cooking and helping care for our guests, so that I can
focus on the healing and transformative work I offer them.
We may have several people coming for vision quest, as
well.If you have personal interest in such things, you
also can participate in these heaing and spiritual
activities.
Who Is Invited
I
choose to have people who love to work and make beauty,
adding the exquisite line of attention to detail, and
who enjoy playing when the work is done. I seek people
around me who are open-hearted and broad-minded, find
joy in life, laugh a lot, and are good at making me
laugh. You need to have any issues about mother and
authority worked out; I’m not interested in playing
those games. Neither am I interested in sarcasm,
righteousness, and judgement. I offer and expect
sharing, loving kindess, wise discernment, cooperation
and open communiation.
I think a
couple would work very beautifully in our space here,
although individuals are certainly welcome. There is a
cool and cozy bedroom in the lodge for you, and spaces to
living happily in tents or under the stars. When it is not
in use by retreatants, the big tipi and hammock in a
private corner of the land by the pool are available, as
is a sleeping hammock beside the dipping pool in the oak
trees.
Our dress code here includes
fig leaves and breech cloths; we find the human body
beautiful, yet are respectful of each other and our
guests.
Contact FlowerSong
Please send
me a letter with your interests, skills, availability, and
questions via mail:
POB 971,
Tonasket WA 98855
or internet
bme@MedicineEagle.com
.
Then we can
visit more in depth over the phone, and I can forward some
photos, if you’d like.
Thanks for your interest!
Brooke
Private consultations
and mentoring
Indigenous
spirituality,
shamanic healing, trauma release, women’s mysteries,
counseling, accelerating your spiritual development
& more.
bme@MedicineEagle.com
509-223-3093
Retreats at FlowerSong
Garden Sanctuary
Brooke
Chalise is
skillful in bringing forward
your ablilty to clear, heal and
blossom -
fulfilling your highest dreams,
and offering your
finest service to
life
with joy and grace.
Come stay in this
orchard sanctuary,
in a tipi or gypsy wagon beside a swimming pond full of
beautiful
trout.
Clear your past and
set new patterns
that affirm your highest goals, health and aspirations.
Learn sustainable,
harmonious living skills , including minimum-work
organic gardening.
Hike in the nearby
wilderness.
Enjoy
sharing creation
of fine organic meals in an atmosphere of peace,
tranquility, and
sweetness.
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