Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
Understanding what is happening inside the body during chronic illness is both a scientific question and a deeply personal one. Modern medicine often relies heavily on laboratory data to tell the story. Blood tests measure enzymes, hormones, minerals, immune markers, and metabolic byproducts. Imaging technologies reveal structures inside tissues. Genetic …
When I find myself in the middle of a problem, it can feel enormous. An unexpected bill arrives or a wall suddenly needs repair; the heavy rain, the soil slips and the reminder that the land still moves in its own way; a project takes longer than I planned or …
Dimethyl sulfoxide, better known as DMSO, is one of the most unusual compounds ever explored in biology. For decades it has appeared in thousands of scientific papers and has been studied across many areas of physiology and medicine. Most of us don’t know about DMSO and I am not sure …
Our Gratitude Meal this weekend was about the color of Red. Not by accident and not really intended Sales have been down lately. I have been showing the team the real numbers, the relationship between income and expenses, so they understand what it takes to sustain a place like this. …
In nature, nothing suddenly collapses without a long chain of shifts that come before it. Forests decline slowly before trees fall. Rivers change direction before they dry. Soil loses life before crops fail. The human body follows the same pattern. When roughly one in three people will face cancer during …
I have been working on a small book about flower essences. It feels natural for me to say that because so much of what I do already circles around plants and medicine. I love making natural remedies. I love watching how plants work with the body. I have always had …
There are seasons when everything appears stable from the outside. It seems solid, productive, visibly rooted, and yet, internally, something is shifting. It is quiet but insistent so that it cannot be ignored. I can not ignore it. I am in one of those seasons now. It not in crisis …
Here’s a rewritten version of the text, applying the concepts and ideas to the future cafe at Living Ground: Nourishing the Community with Fermented Delights The future cafe at Living Ground is excited to introduce a new menu featuring a range of lacto-fermented dishes that will nourish the community and …
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The wild thing, I imagine is that the butterfly remembers when it was a caterpillar even though its brain dissolved into liquid and formed again into something entirely new, the wonderous miracles of life. I have been thinking about that a great deal lately, about dissolution and about how life …