Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
One of the most common things I hear from women moving through menopause is the statement that they no longer have hormones or estrogen. It is usually said with certainty, resignation, and often with the belief that the body has lost something essential and irreversible. This idea is repeated so …
Sometimes I stop and honestly ask myself what I am doing. Not in a dramatic way. Just a real, quiet question that comes up when I look at the land, the work, the responsibility of it all. There are moments I wonder how I got here and why this is …
I am at the seaside…which always provides me with an instinctual thrust to muse and write….to reflect and respond…. There is a steady learning that comes through living, not only through ease, but through pressure and challenge. It often arrives at points in life when something we care about deeply …
Morning and Evening Elixirs For Blood, Liver, Brain and Microbial Balance When I started to really understand microbiology, I quietly moved most of the strong germ fighting herbs and foods out of my apothecary. I began to see those “kill the bugs” tools as blunt instruments that did not care …
Pilgrimage usually brings to mind sacred paths across continents, places where saints left traces of miracles behind them. My pilgrimage has stayed closer to the ground. It has taken place in the living experiment of the Project site, a journey fueled by a clear vision and an unclear route. I …
Bougainvillea grows where it pleases. It climbs, weaves, and stretches upward toward the sun, wrapping itself around trees, fences, and walls in search of light. Its branches are lined with thorns that protect and anchor it, yet from this fierce defense bursts a brilliance of color that softens the landscape. …
The pomegranate’s outer skin is a universe of medicine that most people throw away. Most people who know me know that when I began to study the soil, my whole way of seeing health changed. Once I understood how the soil food web functions, I saw how every part of …
Every cell in the body is like a tiny garden bed. Within its walls live small, ancient symbionts called mitochondria, descendants of once free microbes that learned to live within us. They are our breath, our fire, our living engines. Their task is simple and sacred: to turn oxygen and …
Coffee blossoms are a brief candle of the coffee tree. They open after the first good rains, bright white, breathing out a perfume that sits somewhere between jasmine, citrus, and honeyed vanilla. Inside those petals are the same energetic signatures that move sap through the plant, guide bees to nectar, …
As a child I never thought of the pomegranate tree as medicine. For me it was play. I would crush the red seeds and paint my lips and cheeks with their juice, pretending I had lipstick and blush. It was silly, but I remember how the color stained my skin …