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DISCOVER & CREATE MORE BEAUTY AND CONNECTION IN YOUR EVERYDAY

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Are you dreaming of slowing down, filling your life with beautiful flowers, growing nourishing food, and protecting our planet?

 
 
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GARDENING

GROW WITH US

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Joyful experiences

Moments of peace.

Hello, I'm so glad you're here. Welcome to Sigridsminde! Our family farmhouse and smallholding on Ærø island in Denmark, where we grow organic cut flowers and do our best to live in a slow, simple and sustainable way in tune with the changing seasons. My goal is to share with you moments of beauty, connection and tranquility in the midst of a busy everyday life:

A small glimpse on my Instagram page
The stories from our daily life on the blog
An intimate wedding celebration in our gardens
Participating in creative  workshops and reatreats for women

 
 

We're looking forward to welcoming you here!

 
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My Story

I passionately believe that we all deserve to live a life that is slower and more intentional than what society, politics and economy shape us to do today. 

I am happy to share my own personal experience with stress and depression, and how a life of gardening, creativity and surrounding myself with nature's beauty has helped me on my journey. I hope my story will help others to be more open, too, so we can all live more healthy joyful lives.

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want to interview me for your magazine or blog? i love answering questions so don't hesitate to get in touch: info@camillajorvad.com

Sigridsminde, Vråvejen 19, 5970 Ærøskøbing, Denmark

 
After 3 months of heavy drought it has been raining slowly and steadily for 2 days now and I swear I can see the grass has already grown a few centimetres. Many things have died in my garden this summer, but much will also recover. ⛅ I see now that it has had a huge mental impact on me to see everything I have built over the last 9 years deteriorate to such an extent, leaving me feeling helpless. I didn't know there was any such thing as a summer depression. 🌞 But I don't see rain or clouds as exclusively bad weather or sun as exclusively good weather. Nature as well as our gardens (and we) need both in equal measures, at least in this part of the world. I keep breathing sighs of relief with every drop that hits my garden and I think of all the worms, and bugs, and hedgehogs that can now get back to work helping me make this little farm of ours the lovely place that it is...
The kids had their first day back at school today. The weather has changed. After three months of serious drought, the rain is slowly falling outside and the temperature has dropped to a tolerable level. And while things are still not quite settled here, for the first time in months I feel like I can breathe, like I am no longer slowly being erased. So I decided to make a bit of jam from the last of our black currents. That colour and smell is more intense than that of any other fruit or berry I can think of, and awakens all of my senses ❤
While we are working hard here in our home to meet eachother in the middle, admit our seperate transgressions and face our faults and mistakes, I remain hopeful that love and respect can fix most things if not all. And I just wanted to thank you all for your ❤ both here in the comments and in the many many private messages I received after my last post. Sometimes I am utterly amazed by the generosity and kindness of this community compared to so many other places on the web. Where else can you chat with other women who are basically complete strangers about such personal subjects as motherhood, work life balance, relationship, love, divorce, heartache and break, depression, stress, anxiety etc in the most loving and open way. I can't wait to reach that point where my stomach no longer aches every minute, and I am no longer struggling to catch my breath. It will be a great relief. But for right now, I am trying to embrace the pain and let it teach me what it needs to teach me, so I can soon return to my life, my work and my family with my usual drive and passion and dreams ❤
When I took this photo last night just before dinner, the plan was to tell you about this classic old fashioned Danish dish called "stegt flæsk med persillesovs" (Basically thick slices of fried bacon with a parsley sauce and fresh potatoes) and tell you how it is one of my husband's very favourite meals. But just after I took this photo life as I know it shifted. Months of stress for the whole family culminated. A few things were said and done that can't be taken back. This particular kind of conflict triggers alot of issues for me from my teen years taking care of my mentally ill mother. Things need to change. And I feel completely positive about it changing for the better once I come out on the other side. I can't share with you exactly what happened because although I always want to share openly with you, there are other people involved and their feelings to consider, and also I am not even sure yet how I feel about it all. It needs to be processed before it can be shared. But all of this means that I may take a little IG break to get my ducks in a row and think in solutions and new paths. It may be a long or short break. And I may find that it actually helps me to post in here now and then. But rest assured either way I will be back. It can be SO darn hard to balance all the pieces of yourself that you give to others with the pieces you need to keep for yourself. It can be so darn hard to both be a mother like you have no job, and at the same time work like you have no children. I sometimes feel like that is what is expected of me. Do you know that feeling??? Take good care of yourselves in the meantime. Don't take things for granted, love deeply, but also don't let yourself disappear into the void that is compromise. Much love to you all ❤
All quiet... 🌊 I have made a new section on my website called 'Resources' where you will find my virtual library, a list of my photography gear etc (something many of you write me to ask about), my guide to Aeroe island, and where you can sign up for my email list. Go have a look if you need inspiration for your summer reading or want the p Technical details behind the photos you see here. Have a lovely day!
We have several plum trees in the garden that we planted right after we moved in (plums are one of my absolute favourite fruits) and each year this particular tree breaks several branches under the heavy weight of purple plums lining up like grapes. I really have to learn to stake them as soon as they start to droop. But they are delicious none the less 😋 😋