Partnerships
Shadow Dance Stoneworks is proud to partner with Giving Tree Gardens this year to create beautiful, functional, and ecologically friendly landscapes that enhance your lifestyle and the environment. Shadow Dance Stoneworks and Giving Tree Gardens are based in the Twin Cities metro area, and we are excited to transform urban and suburban yards into permaculture based landscapes, with an emphasis on beautiful and productive outdoor living spaces, native and beneficial plantings, food production, and community building.
Shadow Dance Stoneworks (SDS) is proud to announce another partnership in the works, this time with a rural farm based in Osceola, Wisconsin. Living The Dream Farm (LTD Farm) is owned by Khaiti Kahleck, and she has built a farm from scratch on a little under two acres of a suburban lot that features an old farm home and a small barn. Her farm is focused primarily on two products at the moment; free range Khaki Campbell duck eggs and goat milk soap. This year she is raising pigs, goats, turkeys, chickens, and ducks, as well as greens and numerous other vegetables, and she plans on selling most of her products in CSA shares, and also to local restaurants and coops.
Visit her website here: Living The Dream Farm
Together, LTD Farm and SDS have embarked on a permaculture design for the farm that will include rotational grazing of pigs, goats, and ducks in a series of pastures, utilizing a polyculture of cover crops and vegetables that will help restore the soil in between grazing, along with the manure of the animals and the pig- a- tillers. A primary goal of the overall permaculture design for the farm will be to eliminate outside inputs, not only for the animals and plants, but for the people who live there. The flipside of that goal is to restore the circle of life on the farm in as many ways as possible. This goal has notably already been achieved, as previously purchased goats have given birth to offspring which have given birth to more offspring, and the successional generations have been harvested for meat and milked, the milk producing goods such as goat milk soap and feta cheese, which have nourished Khaiti and her community with products grown in a full circle, organic manner.
LTD Farm will be utilizing aspects of permaculture, natural farming, biodynamic farming, and biointensive farming, as well as other methods, in the upcoming months and years. A large focus of the farm’s plan is about sharing knowledge as a community building and customer connecting experience. Workshops and education will play a large part in spreading the seeds of sustainable living in a modern society that is increasingly separated from the natural earthly cycles. LTD Farm is committed to spreading the goodness of the earth one duck egg at a time.
Giving Tree Gardens
Shadow Dance Stoneworks is proud to partner with Giving Tree Gardens to provide a comprehensive approach to all your sustainable landscaping needs!
A Permaculture Design Principle states: Integrate rather than separate. Shadow Dance Stoneworks and Giving Tree Gardens are joining forces to create dynamic outdoor spaces that are enchanting, functional, and beautiful, utilizing high quality stonework and vibrant gardens. Together, our two companies offer a wide variety of landscaping services, including all aspects of landscape and garden design, installation, and maintenance, as well as permaculture consultations, vegetable garden creation, and natural stonework construction.
As environmentally conscious businesses focused on building a sustainable future, we promote rainwater retention, using native species, and building healthy soil and ecosystems. Creating connections, whether it is between a butterfly and a milkweed, the rain and the river, or you and your neighbor, is a key aspect to building networks that sustain our lives.
Visit Giving Tree Gardens’ website to browse Russ Henry’s awesome newsletter, The Seed.
