Dray's Oily Garden

Storytelling transparency blogpost #9472 (Have to get my website fixed!) In 2016 I started a business from home. 2017 the next year, we built and bought a house with our Habitat for humanity community's loving help and support across the street from an elementary school. 2018 the next year, our children were in kindergarten and senior year of high school and we adopted our dog. 2019 the following year, our daughter moved out to college and we added our niece with her dog to ...Continue reading

Here's a reintroduction of myself and some of why I do what I do! This is copied from my self introduction to my classmates Hi, I'm Dray and I started #chestnutherbal immersion this month. I've been gardening and growing vegetables for 6 years. 3 years ago my husband and I and our 2 children, 19 and 7, built and bought a home with habitat for humanity in the Hudson Valley of NY. Our landscaping and flower garden were donated by a church and the work was facilitated by a...Continue reading

Living vicariously today with the warmer temp and thankful that it's not winter all over the world. Cheers to the seeds! Today's lunch smoothie ser...ved with pretzel chips: 1 banana 1/2 cup blueberries 10 ice cubes 1 serving container of Chobani strawberry yogurt

Sunshine- My son says "The sun of God is TOO Bright today!" Water- Skin is our largest organ made up of 64% H2O Rest- No, don't sleep when you're dead. That's from the 90s. Most mothers get about 5 hours of sleep per night. We need 7-9 Brains cannot function properly without rest. They also cannot fight off disease without it!! ... Air- Respiration is required for all living things. This process allows the energy for eating, growing and altogether living! Exercise- delivers oxygen and nutrients to you organs and body tissues. In other words-what you consume needs assistance in it's travels throughout your body. Regular excercise gives you more consistent energy. Diet-aka WHAT YOU EAT. This one is tricky because the word itself denotes some sort of regiment of elimination. Not exactly. Balanced nutrition is a better way to describe this necessity. Eat for what you body needs to do. If it doesnt serve a vital system of your body (including our healthy minds), then don't eat it. Love yourself today! Xo Dray

In celebration of BLACK History Month, I'll be featuring black owned businesses, farmers, books and lesser known individuals who are actively existing as the change we wish to see in the world today. This is Ron Finley's website. http://ronfinley.com/... Ron is a farmer who started by growing right in the dirt patch on the curb of his home in LA in 2010 because he wanted NON TOXIC FRESH PRODUCE! Go to his site to learn more and take note of how he is helping to amend food justice issues in his community.