Nature Intelligence Gardening
In the 1980’s, Jenna avidly read The Findhorn Garden written by members of the Findhorn Community, and The Magic of Findhorn by Paul Hawken, both published in 1975, yet still relevant and inspiring today. She was also inspired by To Hear the Angels Sing by Dorothy Maclean, an early Findhorn Community member who first contacted the Pea Deva. Findhorn has now grown from a small Scottish caravan park with a miracle garden into a large, multi-faceted Spiritual Community and Eco-Park, which Jenna and her husband had the pleasure of visiting in 2017.
But back in 1988, a dear friend gifted Jenna a copy of the Perelandra Co-Creative Gardening Workbook by Machelle Small Wright, an American gardener inspired by Findhorn. For many years, Jenna worked intensively with the practices delineated by Machelle, refining and aligning her organic vegetable garden from a few plots of hard clay soil to a huge half-moon of chocolate cake-like soil, eventually adding many Roses and flower gardens to her mountain land as well. Plants that normally don’t like the high and dry New Mexico climate flourished in her beautiful cottage garden: Roses, Delphiniums, Snapdragons, Lilies of the Valley, Snowdrops, Boxwood, Germander, Love in a Mist, Larkspur and many others. She planted over 20 varieties of organic healing and culinary herbs, and many kinds of veggies, with which she fed her growing family.
Jenna also worked extensively with the Perelandra Flower Essences, muscle testing her children to see what they needed at any given time of transition or stress. The Perelandra Rose Essences were a special tool, and she made a few of her own essences too—Roses from her own garden and Apple Blossom Essence from her Apple Tree. She learned to be comfortable with and accurate in muscle testing herself and other people through her practice with the gardening and the Flower Essences.
In the gardening work, she used muscle testing to communicate effectively and clearly with the Deva of her Garden, the Deva of Soil, the Devas of types of plants (like Carrots or Peas) and the Nature Spirits of individual plants. Through this communication, she made yearly Garden Plans and was given correct information on the organic Soil enhancements needed for each season. She also discovered the triangulation patterns in her garden, and thus the Sacred Geometries created by the juxtaposition of certain Plants, Stones or Trees. Through muscle testing based communication with Nature Intelligence, she was able to strengthen these energetic patterns in her Garden and on the Land.
For about 30 years she meticulously tested everything and kept extensive garden records. During this time, she developed a good working relationship with the various Devas over-lighting her garden, and the Nature Spirits of her plants, so that they all became a team. These days she works more intuitively with Nature, but keeps the connection open and consults the appropriate Nature Intelligence when she has a specific question.
The deepest lesson Jenna has learned about gardening with Nature Intelligence is that one must operate with Love, Respect and a Co-Creative attitude. Everything is conscious; everything is awake. Nature is always much wiser than a controlling human mind. So the bottom line is to listen and respond with Love and Respect.
This long term relationship with Nature through gardening has also deeply informed Jenna’s resonance with the Druid Path.
