Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
Growing pains at a tipping point On Sunday we open the doors to Plant & Kitchen Alchemy, seven days of soil, microbes, plants, fermentation, herbal preparations and the living world inside our own bodies. I’ve been building this workshop for a long time, piece by piece, like a giant jigsaw …
What if our fear of parasites, and the cleanses it drives us to, is doing more harm than good? I believe it is. I believe the war we wage on the organisms inside us is stripping away the very microbes that protect us, and keeping our bodies in a state …
Imagine placing a single drop of your own blood on a slide and, within seconds, watching it come alive on the screen in front of you. Red blood cells drift and tumble through the plasma, white cells move about their work, platelets gather, and strands of fibrin, crystals and other …
Good Fats, Bad Fats: Why Warmth Matters When I talk to clients about seed oils, I sometimes see a look come over their face that says it doesn’t really matter, but it matters a great deal, and far more than most people realise. (Yes, we’re talking about fat again, because …
It is raining tonight, a gentle, real rain. It isn’t the quick passing kind, but the kind that settles in and stays, and I think it is making me reflective. I love the rain. I love the sound of it trickling and pattering on the roof and the leaves, and …
Jim was a man’s man. It has been almost 6 years since he left us. Tough. He was the one who fixed things, carried things, handled things and he did not talk about discomfort… not to his doctor, and not to me. That was a problem we didn’t fix. His …
I am very happy to share that Elizabeth Wysen will be teaching a one-day Quantum Healing Workshop here at Living Ground (Suelo Vivo) on Wednesday, November 4. It is a small, in-person day with only 12 spaces, and I wanted our local community in Vilcabamba, Malacatos and Loja to hear …
Sometimes life is so perfectly strange that you really couldn’t make it up, and this is one of those stories. We have been getting the little casita here on the land ready for whatever comes next, whether that’s friends, family, guests or a new tenant. A dear friend had been …
What My 3 A.M. Wake Taught Me About Cortisol I’m winding down by 6 to 7 p.m. The sun sets here around 6:30, and when the dark settles in, my body responds just like the birds. And, it really doesn’t matter what time I go to sleep, I always awake …
The story behind this weekend’s Ripening & Renewal Gratitude Meal and how it becomes a meal for the mind. We usually think of eating as something that happens in the mouth and the stomach. Long before food reaches the stomach, though, the brain is already at work. It reads the …