Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
I often wonder where my fascination with gardens, herbs, and growing food really began. Looking back, I think it started in my mother’s rose garden. I didn’t realize it then, but perhaps that was also the beginning of learning about self-reliance. As a little girl in England, I decided I …
I just finished the participants final reports, detailing each person’s live blood journey from the week-long experience and personalizing their experience. My goal was to get to a point where I was no longer explaining and each person was witnessing and understanding. I gave this everything I had. I shared …
I am exhausted. The preparation over the last few weeks has been intense, brutal, satisfying, concerning, and fortifying. I feel confident. I know what I am doing, I know the material, and I know the purpose. But I also feel as though I have been doing the job of an …
I believe I am entering a newness. Preparing for this retreat has been opening doors I never expected. I literally started moving the microscopes into the workshop room and thought, “Why not make this my office?” Suddenly, a space I had been viewing one way revealed an entirely different possibility. …
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 …
Aloe vera, celebrated as the “plant of immortality,” is a remarkable succulent renowned for its extraordinary healing properties and its robust ability to survive in tough conditions. Thriving in arid, nutrient-deficient soils, Aloe vera has captured the fascination of many cultures throughout history with its rejuvenating and therapeutic potential. The …
From the moment I first discovered Tulsi, the Holy Basil, its vibrancy and spiritual essence captivated my heart. Unlike its culinary cousin, basil, which graces salads and sauces with its aromatic charm, Tulsi carries a mystique that weaves together the threads of mythology, healing, and daily well-being. Tulsi is like …
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 …
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 …
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, …