Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
There is a plant I was recently introduced too, Laritaco. In botanical language it is known as Vernonanthura patens. It is a shrub with narrow leaves and clusters of soft purple flowers, often growing along roadsides, abandoned fields, and the edges of regenerating forest. When I first heard about Laritaco, …
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. …
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 …
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 …
There comes a point in any serious endeavor when energy and vision are no longer enough. What carried something through its early years, instinct, drive, and determination, must eventually give way to structure, clarity, and deliberate design. This is that point. The work has grown, the land has responded, the …
That is not a dark statement; it is simply ecological truth. We are born into matter and microbes, we move through seasons of growth and decay, and we return what we borrowed. The illusion that we can engineer permanence, sterilize risk, or purify ourselves out of vulnerability is one of …
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 …
Personal reflections, in this moment, as I sit inside the unfolding reality of creating Living Ground and living inside the obstacles that come with it, both visible and invisible, practical and emotional, internal and external. I find myself feeling more emotional than usual right now, not because something dramatic has …