Reskillience

Village Dreaming with Mara Ripani

Mar 31, 2024

Join Mara Ripani, a force of nature passionate about greening cities, permaculture, and baking bread. Discover sustainable homesteading, foraging, fermenting, and seasonal attunement. Explore her solar passive farmhouse in Central Victoria and learn about floral syrup recipes, sustainable living spaces, and embracing self-sufficiency in food production.

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Quick takeaways

Wintering signifies rest, reflection, and self-improvement amidst life's cycles.

Creating a sustainable, community-centric space fosters abundance and warmth.

Foraging and culinary creativity deepen connection to the land and seasons.

Deep dives

Wintering as a Skill

Wintering, like demonstrated by the dandelion, burdock, and oak trees, involves drawing energy down into roots, prioritizing rest over performance, and accepting sadness. It is an active acknowledgement of facing challenging aspects of oneself, recognizing life's cyclical nature, and viewing winter as an opportunity for self-improvement and resilience.

Introduction

6min

Creating Sustainable Living Spaces on Volcanic Soil

25min

Exploring the Financial Implications of Car Ownership and Alternative Transportation Methods

2min

Evaluating Expenses and Embracing Self-Sufficiency in Food Production

5min

Exploring Enchanting Culinary Creations and Foraging in Country Victoria

4min

Embracing Seasonal Calendars and Slow Learning

22min

Family Values and Sustainability in Action

4min

Exploring Unique Classes and Events at Village Dreaming

6min

I just polished off my last jar of blackberry jam and it’s only April, which is why I need today’s guest to assist me in the finer arts of sustainable homesteading.

It’s Mara Ripani of Village Dreaming and Orto cooking school, a force of and for nature with a passion for greening cities, growing food, permaculture, preserving food, baking bread and sowing seeds.

Mara is about as earthed as its possible to be while still having a social media presence, propagating skills of from-scratch cooking, foraging, fermenting, soap making and seasonal attunement from her breathtaking solar passive farmhouse here in Central Victoria.

In this conversation, you’ll hear Mara’s alarm go off a couple of times telling her she needs to tend the bread, and you might too hear us chewing on dried plums, sipping on fragrant bay leaf tea that Mara poured for me on arrival.

This chat feels really apt as we move towards the colder months, one last hurrah of abundance and colour and harvest before we drop all our leaves, exposed and ensconced for winter.

Mara’s home on the web ~ Village Dreaming

Mara’s upcoming workshops

Floral syrup recipes (including Mugolio ~ pine cone syrup)

Take a tour of Village Dreaming

Tanya Loos ~ Daylesford Nature Diary

Wintering ~ Katherine May

Mara’s Futuresteading interview