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Chasing the Taste of a Tomato

A Love Letter to Place, Soil, and the Foods That Remember There are moments at the Living Ground Project when I bite into something from the garden and have to stop everything I am doing. Usually, it is a tomato. I stand there in the middle of the garden, juice …

Setting the Stage

Preparing for Our First Living Ground Self-Reliance Education Retreat There is something beautiful about preparing for something that has not happened yet. For the past few weeks, we have been setting the stage for our very first Living Ground Self-Reliance Education Retreat, a seven-day Live Blood Immersion Workshop. The gardens …

Why I Rewrote Live Blood Analysis for the Lay Person

I am getting ready to release the second edition of Live Blood Analysis for the Lay Person, and I wanted to share why this edition felt so important to me. The timing feels meaningful because I am also preparing for our upcoming Live Blood Analysis workshop at Living Ground, taking …

The Silkworm Enzyme and the Intelligence Hidden in Nature

How a tiny organism led to one of the most fascinating discoveries in natural medicine, and why the real lesson may be about observation, ecology, and the living systems beneath our feet Many years ago, I came across something that genuinely stopped me in my tracks. It was not simply …

At What Point Does It Finally Tip?

There are moments in history when change appears impossible right before it suddenly becomes inevitable. There is an old idea often referred to as the “100th monkey effect.” The story suggests that once enough individuals within a group learn a new behavior, the knowledge somehow spreads rapidly through the whole …

Returning to What Is Real

There is a sadness I carry sometimes that is difficult to explain because it does not come only from my personal life but my personal life influences the reality. I am not a sad person, but I have always experienced the world differently than many around me. I notice things. …

The Living Ground We Build

I have been thinking a lot lately about love. Not romantic love necessarily, although that is part of life too, but deeper than that. What does it actually mean to love a life? To love what you are doing? To love the process even when the process hurts sometimes? And …

When Healing Threatens the System – The Business of Dependency

Many systems in modern society are no longer built around creating healthy, independent, resilient human beings because independent people eventually stop feeding the system financially. Over time, systems drift toward dependency because dependency becomes extraordinarily profitable. What happens when entire industries quietly profit from keeping people stressed, searching, consuming, medicated, …

What Mother Earth Teaches about Love

Today is Mother’s Day, and for some women, it is not a day filled with flowers, phone calls, grandchildren climbing into their laps, or family gathered around a table. For some mothers, it is a day of silence. That silence echoes loudly because the world often assumes mothers and children …