Location on map is not correct: we are between Ainazi and Salacgriva on the bank of the Salaca river.

CURRENT MISSION

country life and healing people through herbs/food/mineral balancing so the innate healer inside us all can do the work.

ABOUT ME

I am a Floridian who ended up in Latvia (thanks to meeting a Latvian in Spain 15 years ago). Edgars, Ozols (6) and I live in the middle of the woods near the Salaca river. We do all that kinda country stuff;) Growing/preserving our food, wild crafting, herbalism, building, animal husbandry (chickens, pigs, horses, ducks ) ETC ETC We do all kinds of crafts from snowshoes to drums to medicine. Our bread maker is our weaving supply business where we make the tools from the very cutting of the tree down till a beautiful finally finished weaving shuttle.
Before we put our roots down and created endless projects, Edgars and I have both traveled a lot. We met on the road too. Now we host volunteers and travelers at our house.

www.harvestlooms.etsy.com

PHILOSOPHY

"...everything in creation exists within you, and everything in you exists in creation. you are in borderless touch with the closest things, and, what is more, distance is not sufficiente to seperate you from things far away..."kb

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

surf em and host em

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

berlin. göteburg. stockholm. faro. bonn. tallin. oslo. floirda host. latvia host. wonderful, wonderful.

Interests

wise women power. gardening and harvesting. mushrooming. using all my senses. green leafy vegetables, and cooking/fermenting/preserveing them, catching signals that sound in the dark, exchanging stories with the leaves, appreciating the vibrating fragrant shaped hues of the images around me. dancing. doodling, usually mystical sea creatures. leatherback turtles. folk rhythms. avocados, mangos, coconuts. Banyon trees. live oaks. Salty water. mermaids. sailing. and pretty much anything to do with the water.
horse traction! alle!
weaving and other fiber arts and crafts.
fermentation.
and my garden. I spend more time in my garden then vegetable garden:)

• horses
• arts
• singing
• dancing
• cooking
• wine
• beer
• crafts
• gardening
• flowers
• homebrewing

Music, Movies, and Books

anything soulful or passionate.

Rumi. Rainer Marie Rilke. Haruki Murakami
iron and wine. Huun-huur-tu. Woody Guthrie. edith piaf. prince. otis taylor. ....

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

sailed across the Atlantic on a square-rig ship with no engine! hitchhiked 1000s of km.... the mega springs for Florida. yurt dwelling. a herd of reindeer. swimming in bio-luminescent dinoflagellettes. crossing boarders on bikes. riding in 1970s dacias in the carpati mountains. getting ambushed by manatees. fjords. les vendages. plowing with horses. grandmas and grandpas. flirting with flowers like a bee. a booze cruise with big momma. electrifying spring waters. and everyone in between, especially all my beautiful dear friends!

Teach, Learn, Share

i cant believe how strange it is to be anything at all.

i can teach:
how to make a loom out of card board or pencils and weave from house hold materials.
milking animals.
botanical brewing
wild crafting/harvesting

want to learn hot air ballooning!!!
and basketry, to further chances of making a hot air balloon:)

What I Can Share with Hosts

i love cooking for people!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cabo Verde, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Latvia, Norway, Peru, Spain, United States

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