What is the landing telling us?

At The Flowering Farmhouse, restoration begins with paying attention.

Jennifer Gulizia is restoring 20 acres of Hood River farmland that sat fallow for decades.

She is growing flowers, rebuilding soil, learning the rhythms of a new piece of land, and creating The Flowering Farmhouse, a working flower farm and family home rooted in a deep relationship with the natural world.

This kind of restoration doesn’t happen overnight. It happens through observation. Planting. Tending. Noticing what thrives and what struggles. Learning what the land needs and responding.

So when Jennifer invited me to Geotune the farm, the idea felt almost inevitable.

What else was the land telling us? 

LISTENING TO WHAT WE COULDN’T SEE

I mapped the property for geopathic stress and found significant energetic disturbance running through the land.

We placed copper rods at specific points to harmonize those areas. And then something strange happened.

Near the greenhouse was a bald-faced hornet nest, about two to three feet long.

I didn’t know it was there when I tuned the property.

One of the rods had been placed along the same line where the nest sat.

Jennifer had already arranged for a pest professional to remove it because of its location. About a month later, he returned while she was harvesting dahlias.

He looked at the size of the nest and expected it to be very active.

Only two or three hornets emerged. The nest was essentially abandoned. 

AND THEN THE MUSHROOMS APPEARED

For a while after the tuning, Jennifer began finding mushrooms across the farm, including areas she hadn’t begun working yet.

They came and went.

Now, with the fall rain, a few are beginning to appear again.

Were the mushrooms connected to the tuning? Were the hornets?

We don’t know.

But when your work begins with paying attention to a place, you pay attention to what happens next.

And Jennifer noticed something else.

Not something she could photograph or measure.

The land felt different. 

RESTORATION IS A CONVERSATION

A lower section of the property had always felt heavy to her. After the tuning, she says it felt lighter.

The Flowering Farmhouse still has drainage issues. There is compacted soil in places. Twenty acres that sat fallow for decades don’t transform overnight.

Nor should they.

Jennifer is doing the slow work of learning this land: planting, observing, tending, adjusting, and trying again.

Geotuning became one more way of listening.

Maybe that is what I love most about this project.

Nobody is claiming to have all the answers.

We are simply paying closer attention to the questions.

And at The Flowering Farmhouse, the land keeps giving us reasons to ask them. 

"Brittney came out and tuned our farm, and the biggest thing I can point to is that the property feels lighter to me, especially a lower section that always felt heavy. I can't tell you the science of it, and I won't pretend I can measure it. But the giant hornet nest we'd been quoted to remove was nearly empty when the crew came back, and for a while we saw mushrooms appear in places that had felt depleted. I stay curious about what it all means and hopeful about our restoration."

Jennifer Gulizia
The Flowering Farmhouse