Here’s an exercise to practice mindfulness and to connect with the sense of taste. Take a piece of fruit like a grape, satsuma or sultana. This can also be done outdoors with wild foraged fruit like blackberries. Close your eyes and place the piece of fruit in your mouth. Don’t eat it. Just notice the shape of the fruit in your mouth, explore it with your tongue.
Land sculptures
Listening to the Landscape
As you may know the Forest Farm Peace Garden is inspired by permaculture and one of the twelve principles of permaculture is “Observe and Interact”. In this exercise we are going to build on our observation skills. We are not asking “What can I do with this land?” as we do many times is the garden, but we are asking “What is this land telling me?”