Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
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 …
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 …
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 …
When you step into the forest we have entered a landscape under threat. This is everywhere! It may appear healthy but each step you take is a reminder of what could be lost. The high-note scent of crushed pine needles fills the air, bearing witness to a beauty that is …
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. …
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 …
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 …
When I started to really understand microbiology, I quietly moved many of the strong germ-fighting herbs and foods out of my apothecary. I had become uncomfortable with the idea that health meant constantly trying to destroy microorganisms. Those tools began to feel like blunt instruments that did not particularly care …
There once was a little, beautiful microbe who decided to go alone. She had lived her existence within a vast and intricate field that was coded ancestrally and environmentally, shaped long before her and sustained by forces she did not create yet depended upon completely. Water moved steadily through mineral …