URBAN HIPPIE TRIPPY FARM
Saturday was spent with my sister who lives in central, downtown Phoenix. She has created quite the urban farm and although she is in the heart of the city, I feel miles away from everything in her gardens. These photos are only a faint view of what she has going on in her desert paradise. She has planted many gardens that surround her adorable, old, hippie home. The chickens are the latest addition to her small family farm. Most everything has been built using recycled materials. Things that were left on the property when she bought it several years ago, building supplies that were given to her as well as the many findings that she drags home after hippie tripping around town in her VW bus, “Free Spirit”.
She has also built a place to gather in the small orchard, in the back, around a one of a kind, metal, art firepit. Using split tree trunks from a fallen tree, she created a sacred circle for drumming and gathering. So, head’s up to any of you rainbow children in Phoenix that want to gather for a drum circle!!! Just let me know. We have lots of drums and didgeridoos, if you don’t.
My sister also is an artist, currently creating beautiful pieces of art ~ some are functional pieces ~ using “found objects”. I cannot tell you the places she has tricked me into going with her ~ looking in fields and by railroad tracks and obscure industrial areas, etc. searching for “treasures” like anything rusted and metal and anything odd or unusual. I honestly could have died when my 93 year old father gave her his metal detector, knowing that, for me, this meant future bizarre “walks along the beach” with my sister (ie; alleys, empty fields , demolished building lots….). Eye yi yi! She paints the most GORGEOUS watercolor paintings I have ever seen, but she loves building things and making folk art. I have tried to encourage her to paint watercolors more, if for no other reason than, because it requires no freaky trips to lonely places! HA!
Saturday was the absolute PERFECT weather. We went to the Downtown Phoenix Farmers Market , to find it fragrant with freshness and shining with so many beautiful people. I LOVE how people bring their dogs along, there were many and it was so cool. I ran into some friends, old and new, and had such a FABULOUS morning there. They now have a new market that is open throughout the week, carrying the same things as the open market, on Saturdays, plus much more. It is called the Phoenix Public Market and includes a wine bar. They hold permaculture classes on site as well as other day seminars and such. It is SO REFRESHING to spend the morning at the farmers market taking in the whole, raw adventure. Open air markets and health food stores soothe every part of my spirit. Those are the two most sensational comforts to me, for some reason.I will post more about the market in the near future, maybe the VERY near future.
“I’m going up the country, babe don’t you wanna go
I’m going up the country, babe don’t you wanna go
I’m going to some place where I’ve never been before
I’m going, I’m going where the water tastes like wine
Well I’m going where the water tastes like wine
We can jump in the water
, stay drunk all the time
I’m gonna leave this city, got to get away
I’m gonna leave this city, got to get away”
PEACE, LOVE, DOVE
