Sacred Stewardship

Regaining our spiritual partnership with the food we eat

Whether the growing field is a balcony or a homestead farm this is a book for our future.

The Book

This uniquely compiled book is presented in a format of instruction and anecdotal story that captures the experiences of Charles Hubbard Farmer/Dowser (now deceased) who created a living classroom for self-sufficient food production on his farm in Nova Scotia. Energy Communicator, Malkiel McCamis co-authored the book with Charles that provides a bridge of understanding and insight between the worlds of farming and sensing the energy around us. Together Charles, with over 30 years of biodynamic organic farming experience, and Malkiel, with over 15 years of energy work experience, weave a captivating and enlightening text to help you live life with greater meaning and depth. As this “living book” guides the reader through stories and hands-on exercises the reader can record within the book their own experiences and discoveries of initiating Sacred Stewardship in their own lives.
This book addresses the issue of the quality of food we eat, and what steps can be taken to regain a personal and spiritual connection to the food we consume, and the nature elements that help us to produce our food. It contains “easy to do” techniques of creating sustainable food from city to country dwellers and resources for returning the fine art of sacred stewardship and respectful partnership to our lives. Since published in November, 2007 Sacred Stewardship has sold over 2000 copies worldwide to people interested in caring for the future health of their food, Mother Earth and their community. Readers have responded over the years about how important the information in this text is and just how much information is contained within it. Malkiel continues to support and foster Charles' legacy through continuing to make the book they authored together available. See ordering information below.

The Story and Legacy

Charles passed away in 2015 leaving a unique legacy for us to continue his efforts of exploring, experimenting, ever asking questions and observing the wonderment that comes from working in partnership with natural energies found in Mother Earth and the universe. While the farm is no longer available, each of us can continue our own learning with the help of his story. In the last few years additional and amazing resources that are coming into view these days that add to the wisdom of this text. Charles brought together a variety of earth and geometric principles along with biodynamic practices in a unique mix that grew amazingly abundant food that was visbily vibrantly alive. Here are some examples: Using pyramids to grow food with a pyramid greenhouse. The first picture below is the original constructon of the 10 foot by 10 foot greenhouse that included in a raised bed inside that significantly extended his approximately 2 month growing season. The second picture shows a 6 foot tall cherry tomato plant growing inside the greenhouse that had an abundance of fruit growing on it. Eventually, Charles also planted in the raised bed placed around the perimeter of the outer 20 foot by 20 food pyramid frame.

Charles’ vision

Book Excerpt - Please refer to the copyright restrictions outlined in the book. Imagine a future of many, many small farms. The average farm size here for many of the areas is 100 acres of which 50 is cleared land and 50 is wood. 50 acres is enough. Not all 50 acres will grow crops other than grass but it is more than enough to feed many families. For those in authority, they need to accept the fact that this is the way of the future. The systems on these farms would have to be organic or biodynamic simply because the other system only destroys. We need a new system that works with nature, not subdues it. We need to work with nature… We need to encourage habitat of the birds and butterflies; we have to look upon weeds differently.Now, thankfully, there is a growing interest in caring for the flora and fauna of the farm, but it has a long way to go. Finally, for people to be happy they have to be well grounded in the place. Eating food locally grown and having a sense of belonging to a home comes from nature. We need to reconnect with ourselves… We must not belittle our abilities and capacities, instead use our minds to create a vision of self-sufficiency. We need to use our innate creativity… The big factory farm systems don’t require the breeds that are suitable for small farms. This has to be addressed, because without these we are not going to survive. We need to learn from the past…We need to consider breeds that are suitable for the area that you are in, preferably dual purpose, low feed cost - own or locally grown. We have here the rock circles, labyrinths, and pyramid green houses. Since they have worked in the past, to not consider these ideas could be considered irresponsible. I believe this can all be done in a way that we can all work together, but the effort must be made now. We need a political system that focuses on self-sufficiency. We need to know within ourselves what we want.

Simple Tools...create abundant results

Earth energy circles ~ Pyramid energy ~ Nature spirits ~ Cosmic energies ~ Biodynamic preparations ~
Bynodynamic preparations:
The compost manure pile is where Charles would put biodynamic preparations in and the unseen energy lines would send their vibrations out to the entire farm from the pile..
Over the course of the summer the compost pile would "simmer" and eventually dwindle down to nothing.
Pyramid energy grown food:.
Here is 3 foot kale growing in the main garden within the peremeter of a 20x20 foot copper pipe pyramid. This picture was taken in 2006. The soil had been treated using earth and cosmic energies, quarter miners dust and biodynamic preparations.
These two pictures provide a comparision of one week's growth in one of the two 20x20 foot pyramids in the main garden. This picture is July 1, 2014.
Here is a week's worth of growth on July 8, 2014
Labyrinth, earth energy circle and harvest...
Near end of season harvest on September 12, 2015.
Another tool that helped to raised the frequency of the land was an earth energy circle with 5 spokes that Charles discovered through dowsing for energy lines.
A simple grass pathed 7 circuit labyrinth provided a walking meditation space, as well added to the abundance of vibrant energy of the farm.
Visit the YouTube Channel for Sacred Stewardship to hear Charles' thoughts on self sufficiency and how the future can be abundant with food.
To order the book:
The cost of the book is $30.00 (Canadian) for a single copy. Please contact Malkiel for the discount price for ordering multiple copies (either retail or wholesale). Postage cost is additional to the cost and is calculated on an individual order basis. Please provide your full mailing address and contact (email address) so the postage cost can be determined. How to order:1) Send an email to sacredstewardship(at)gmail.com giving your mailing address and order request (put @ where(at) is in the address) 2) Mail a written request to Malkiel McCamis, PO Box 355, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia B2Y 3Y5 Canada How to pay:You will get an email with the total price, including postage. Please make sure you contact Malkiel before paying to insure an easy completion of your order. You can then pay via: 1) Orders within Canada an etransfer can be accepted – contact Malkiel before sending 2) PayPal (no PayPal account needed) 3) Personal cheque (for Canadian or US orders)