SHAFTSBURY — Since she was very young, herbalist, author, and astrologer Lindsey Pszwaro has felt the most at home in the great outdoors.
“The most vivid memories that I have are of me when I was a little girl, picking white clover in our backyard and making clover chain necklaces and jewelry and just sitting, you know – in the shade, and on my back in the grass, and looking at the clouds,” recalled Pszwaro. “Those are the most vivid memories that I have of being in a place of joy and total bliss.”
Now, she is trying to cultivate that sense of enjoyment, peaceful wonder, and kinship with nature in her two young children – Penelope, 8, and Oscar, 4. Both young children are homeschooled, raised “in the wilds” on the new homestead of Panacea in Shaftsbury, and the family joins six other fam