Thoughts about Eli’s Dream
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Dreams
A farm can be a place to live and work. A farm can be a place to visit and enjoy. A farm can be a place to imagine and remember.
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How we started
Elishalom Yechiel (1952 – 2021) was a biochemist who was fascinated by the beauty and complexity of living systems. He especially enjoyed finding new ways to apply natural materials to medical problems. Eli worked with botanical materials to extract and explore their useful components, but he always wanted access to a wider variety of medicinal…
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Wild animals
The wild plants on the farm are attractive to animals, which are attractive to other animals, all of which help plants to spread and grow. Birds Wild birds are always around and sometimes easier to hear than to see. A big group moving across the sky might be migrating cranes, looking for a change of…
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Big sky
Watching the sky change is one of the best things to do on the farm. Spiderwebs are almost invisible but there can be big ones on the farm, somewhere between the ground and the sky. They’re usually high up in the trees so big, clumsy animals don’t stumble into them, ruining the spider’s hard work.…
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Wild plants
These plants are wild. They made up their own minds to live on the farm and they look after themselves here. Wild animals are here, too, using the plants for food and shelter. Many wild flowers feed insects while blooming. When they finish blooming, their seeds feed birds and other animals. Lichens, mosses, and branches…