The Future of Echoes from an Old Hollow Tree

The Plan for 2025 and Beyond

Thank you for being here. It means more to me than you know.

Echoes from an Old Hollow Tree continues to grow every week by every available metric: paid and free subscribers, open rate, views, etc. It just keeps going. We are rapidly approaching both 3000 free subscribers and 100 paid subscribers, which will turn Echoes from an Old Hollow Tree into a best seller here on SubStack.

So, where do we go from here?

Well, I simply write more.

It’s working, you seem to like it, and people keep coming here. There is a demand for essays on nature, family, and tradition. A hunger for the earnest, beautiful, and real in our neon plastic modern world.

With that in mind, I intend to launch a new plan starting this week:

The publication will have two main focuses:

• Echoes from an Old Hollow Tree: the main event! This is the free weekly publication guided by the changing seasons and the inspiration we glean from them.

• Reports from the High Wood: the exclusive content for paid subscribers. This past year saw us really focus on our homestead with bees and chickens. We are upping the effort on this and will be expanding our bee keeping by ten hives this spring and we will likely begin incubating our own chicks too. Reports from the High Wood serves as our journal of these efforts and will include financial details, stories of failure, and other specifics that are too sensitive to share with the public. A really good example of one of these posts can be found here: Witches, Queens, and Saints.

Our first bottle of raw, unfiltered honey that never touched plastic. Expect to see more of this sort of thing in Reports from the High Wood

Both essays will aim to be approximately 1000 words, or 10 minutes of listening via voiceovers I will continue to provide for free.

These two posts will always share a weekly theme. For instance, on a week in spring you could expect Echoes to reflect on hope and new life while Reports discusses the tangible challenges of incubating and brooding our chicks. A week in early autumn might see an essay in Echoes on the concept of reaping what you have sewn all year but Reports will actually have details, video, and photos of our honey harvest.

Echoes from an Old Hollow Tree will be published on Wednesday mornings, setting the stage, and Reports from the High Wood will be published on Sundays, giving you a deep dive into how our family is tangibly living out the reflection from earlier in the week. If you have been on the fence about becoming a paid subscriber, now is really the time to hop over and join us as we win and as we fail here in our meadow and woods.

These two sections will be easily navigable on the home page:

I hope you like this plan as much as I do. I am excited to up the volume of my writing and give you more insights into what we are building, growing, and learning here in the forests and fields, amid our hearth and in the loam.

Thank you again for being here. It means more to me than you may know. See you Wednesday with our first new installment of Echoes from an Old Hollow Tree focused on what we learn here in the cold reality of late January and an update on the bees and our plans for them published in Reports from the High Wood on Sunday.

See you at the tree line.