A little guide to cottagecore

Very often cottagecore is decribed as an aesthetics. Personally, I have a feeling that it's more a lifestyle. 

When I was a little kid, my parents bought small house in a village, 2 hours drive from my home. I was everything 

but a cool kid, they used to owe a house on the seaside. And then one day, I wake up and hear that life in rural 

area is becoming cool. Life in quarantine time has forced some people to move outside of town to feel safe. So, people are turning back to the more nature conneced life.

Some people may not approve it because it doesn't show the real farmer's life. But let's face it - when you live in a society, where people were forced to leave their lifes in villages to come to the city and contribute to an urban development and so many villages 

became abandoned, anything that may evoke moving back there should be really appreciated.

So, I'll just give a little guide accompanied with an internet aesthetics on how to live the real cottage/village life.

LOOKS: 

TO DO LIST:

1.) Make 2 gardens - one for vegetables/fruits and one for flowers.

2.) Get into gardening. Read books about it to improve it.

3.) Keep seeds from every plant you grow. You will need it next year or season.

4.) Support local farmers by buying their products (milk and other dairy, honey, sedlings,...)

5.) Read a book after an exhausting work in garden.

6.) Set up a hammock in your garden between 2 trees.

7.) Go for long walks in meadows.

8.) Ride with bike anywhere nearby. (You need car for distant drives)

9.) Go to local fairs to find more amazing products from other farmers.

10.) Make an apple or cherry pie from just picked fruit from your own garden.

11.) Farm at least one plant and make more products from it. For instance, farm an apple, make cider, vinegar, chips, jam...

12.) Make jam from your fruits. Add some your favorite secret ingredients.

13.) Write your own cookbook. Even illustrate if you are good at drawing.

14.) Wash your face every morning in water with flower petals.

15.) Learn some old crafts like knitting or an embroidery.

16.) Make fresh salads (or pickled during the winter times).

17.) Get the telescope to watch the stars. Remember that the light pollution is not your neighbor anymore.

18.) Chop the tree for the fire to heat. Just be careful with an axe.

19.) Take care for your flowers. Water them often. 

20.) Make a herbarium for the plants that you see their end is coming soon.

21.) Make tea from freshly cut mint or chamomille.

BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS:

H. E. Bates - "The wild cherry tree"

L. M. Montgomery: "Anne of Green Gables" trilogy 

C. S. Lewis - "Chronicles of Narnia"

Beatrix Potter - "The complete tales"

Johanna Spiry - "Heidi"

Nina George - "Little Paris bookshop"

Stacey Halls - "The familiars"

Naomi Nowik - "Uprooted"

L. M. Alcott - "Little women"

Neil Gaiman - "Coraline"

Katherine Arden - "Bear and the Nightingale" pt. 1 of  "The Winternight trilogy"

Emily Bronte: "Wuthering Heights"