Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
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 …
Preparing for Our First Living Ground Self-Reliance Education Retreat There is something beautiful about preparing for something that has not happened yet. For the past few weeks, we have been setting the stage for our very first Living Ground Self-Reliance Education Retreat, a seven-day Live Blood Immersion Workshop. The gardens …
I am getting ready to release the second edition of Live Blood Analysis for the Lay Person, and I wanted to share why this edition felt so important to me. The timing feels meaningful because I am also preparing for our upcoming Live Blood Analysis workshop at Living Ground, taking …
There are moments in history when change appears impossible right before it suddenly becomes inevitable. There is an old idea often referred to as the “100th monkey effect.” The story suggests that once enough individuals within a group learn a new behavior, the knowledge somehow spreads rapidly through the whole …
There is a sadness I carry sometimes that is difficult to explain because it does not come only from my personal life but my personal life influences the reality. I am not a sad person, but I have always experienced the world differently than many around me. I notice things. …
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, …
The book is now available on Amazon. Digital Copies are available too After years of writing, walking the mountains and forests of Ecuador, sitting with plants, listening to local knowledge, building gardens, studying the soil microbiome, and witnessing how deeply connected human health is to the living world around us, …
I have been sitting with something growing inside me, and I have chosen not to call it a disease. I will not give it that word, because I understand how language shapes perception, and I am not willing to hand over that kind of power. What is happening in my …
There is a strange disconnect in the modern world that becomes impossible to ignore once you begin to follow anything back to its source. We speak about energy as if it comes from outlets, fuels, labels, or measured quantities in capsules and powders, yet none of that reflects where energy …