Nature's Gate Farm

09/07/2025

Join Amy and I at the Farm the eve of the full moon in October. Body-mind re-membering ourselves home. An evening for restoration and renewal.
https://www.amyquarberg.com/retreat

08/20/2025

💛 When she flinches, I remember.

A hand reaches for her mouth.
She tilts her head away —
but the bit is slid in anyway.
Her body is no longer hers.

I know that feeling.
The air shifts.
The body remembers before the mind can speak.

They call her willing when she obeys.
Difficult when she resists.
I have worn those words too.

They speak over her as though she isn’t there —
as though her breath doesn’t matter,
as though the tension in her body is just “resistance to be broken.”

“She just needs to learn who’s boss.”
“She has to respect you.”
I’ve heard those words,
with different nouns, in different rooms.

She has been taught that safety lies in compliance.
So have I.

When she freezes under a touch she cannot escape,
I feel the tightness in my own chest.
When she tests the rope and finds no slack,
I feel the limits I’ve been told not to push.

Her story and mine are not the same —
but the echoes are familiar.

And when I fight for her right to move without fear,
to speak without punishment,
I am also fighting for my own.

06/24/2025

Note to Self 😌

To bring about peace in the world, to stop all wars, there must be a revolution in the individual, in you and me.

To put and end to this sorrow, to hunger, to war, there must be psychological revolution and few of us are willing to face that.

We will discuss peace, plan legislation, create new leagues, the United Nations and so on; but we will not win peace because we will not give up our position, our authority, our lives.

To rely on others is utterly futile; others cannot bring us peace. No leader is going to gives us peace, no government, no army, no country.

What will bring peace is inward transformation, which will lead to outward action. Inward transformation is not isolation, is not withdrawal from outward action.

On the contrary, there can be right action only when there is right thinking and there is no right thinking when there is no self-knowledge. Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.

An ideal is merely an escape, an avoidance of what is, a contradiction of what is. An ideal prevents direct action upon what is.

To have peace, we will have to love, we will have to begin not to live an ideal life but to see things as they are and act upon them, transform them.

Some of you will nod your heads and say, “I agree”, and go outside and do exactly the same as you have been doing for the last ten or twenty years.

Your agreement is merely verbal and has no significance, for the world’s miseries and wars are not going to be stopped by your casual assent.

They will be only stopped when you realize the danger, when you realize your responsibility, when you do not leave it to somebody else.

If you realize the suffering, if you see the urgency of immediate action and do not postpone, then you will transform yourself.

~ J. Krishnamurti

[Art: Helena Nelson Reed]

02/21/2025

The ENERGY behind the action MATTERS!

So...karma is not about reward and punishment. It is simply about living within the laws of nature. Living outside of nature is living outside of ourselves, disconnected from Life, disconnected from POWER. ☀️

Come home to Nature, come home to yourself. 🧘‍♀️☀️

02/06/2025

NO MORE WORKSHOPS

I am giving a workshop on being nobody. It's free. It's happening now. You have already joined. We're about half way through, always. Are you enjoying the workshop? Of course not. Yet you are happy for no reason. Who is the teacher? No one. What is the teaching? Not this, not this. Just observe what flows in and out, and be grateful. There will be no more workshops. You are finished now. A purple crocus emerges from the snow. Deep in the woods at 5 A.M., a Barred Owl asks Who? Who are you? From some space of delight and courage where you've never been before, a melting transparency inside silence itself awakens, and from that trembling stillness the question arises, "What if nothing is wrong?" Now you remember the three precious talismans you received for the journey just before you were born. You still carry them in a deerskin medicine pouch pressed against your left ni**le: this breath, this moment, this heartbeat. And you recall the voice that whispered, "With these invisible jewels, nothing is impossible." You feel strangely ready for the pilgrimage. But there is nowhere to go. The earth is a good place to be. So what if your heart is broken? So what if your heart is broken by the hummingbird who drinks from a frozen rose this Winter morning?

~ Fred LaMotte https://yourradiance.blogspot.com/

[Art: Catrin Welz-Stein]

01/10/2025

Now is ThE TIME ♥️

♥️ We Have A Dream | A Celebration of Connection and CompassionHappy New Year! 🌟 Start 2025 with inspiration and heartwarming moments. “We Have A Dream” is ...

10/13/2024

Join Amy Quarberg and Sherry Strand at the Farm
Saturday morning, 10/19 😊
Sound Bath, Drumming, Movement and more.

Amy Quarberg, RN, is passionate about motivating others to incorporate practical tools to live a life that is authentic, healthy, and fun. As a holistic nurse, wellness consultant, and transformational coach, Amy has a wealth of knowledge about the mind/body/spirit connection and the effects our cho...

10/08/2024

09/29/2024

Amy Dickson will bring her magic ✨ to the Shed this Sunday (10/6) 6-8:30pm.
Body, Story and Astrology 🌙 🧘‍♀️🌎 🌹

05/05/2024

Let’s forget the world for a while
fall back and back
into the hush and holy
of now

are you listening? This breath invites you to write the first word of your new story

your new story begins with this:
You matter.

You are needed-empty
and naked
willing to say yes
and yes and yes.

Do you see
the sun shines, day after day
whether you have faith
or not
the sparrow continues
to sing their song
even when you forget to sing
yours

Stop asking: Am I good enough?
Ask only: Am I showing up with love?

Life is not a straight line
it’s a downpour of gifts, please-
hold out your hand

-Julia Fehrenbacher

02/21/2024

Spring Sweetness ☀️

01/31/2024

This is Jimba taken on the last day of her life as I walked with her to all of her favorite places on the farm.
I have loved Jimba’s wild nature for seven years, she is the last of our origin flock.

Yoga, meditation, prayer, somatics and learning with the herd all change me, daily. But loving chickens may be my most important “practice”.

I LOVE them! Each and every quirky character and the stories of their relationships. I have extracted broken eggs, and witnessed many other miraculous healing events, but they free range and meet death the way they do. Every life and death reshapes me like tilling the garden of my heart. I am softened and also made stronger so that new growth is possible 🌷
Grateful for all the wild and gracious beings I get to live with. ♥️ fly high Jimbalina