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Learning to Weed With the Garden, Not Against It

One of the most common misunderstandings in gardening is that weeding simply means removing unwanted plants. When people hear the word weeding, they often imagine clearing everything away until the soil looks clean and bare. At first this can feel very satisfying. The bed looks tidy, the rows look perfect, …

Growing Pains

This is not the article people see when they scroll past a photograph of green gardens, bright salads, ferments bubbling in glass jars, or smiling faces around a Gratitude table. This is the part that sits behind it, the part where creation is not curated, but carried. Living Ground did …

Carrying Living Ground

Most people do not see what happens behind the scenes at Living Ground. They see gardens, food, quiet beauty, and perhaps a vision they can touch for a moment. What they do not see is what it actually takes to hold this together. They do not see the layers of …

Hot Flashes & Misunderstanding Estrogen

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 …

Curry Tree Medicine

I had never even heard of the curry tree before coming to Ecuador. Now I cannot imagine this place without her. She is one of the most beautiful small trees in the garden, graceful and decorative, with glossy green leaves that seem to shimmer in the light. Birds adore her. …

Still Becoming Living Ground

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 …

Listening to What Is Already Speaking

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 …

When Moonflower Reaches

She is one of my favourite not beause she is a medicine for the physical but because she is a witness to tenacity, beauty and strength….always reaching and bursting her fantastic flower at night. Moonflower is a luminous night-blooming vine whose large white flowers unfurl from tightly coiled spirals at …