Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
Creating something like Living Ground Ecuador is not simply about having ideas. I have lots of ideas, probably far too many, but I can usually see the bigger picture very clearly. I think that is one of my gifts. I can look at a piece of land, a café, a …
Living Ground is opening its doors for small, hands-on workshops in southern Ecuador. Come learn Live and Dried Blood Analysis, Soil Food Web science, fermentation, herbal medicine, food as medicine and practical self-reliance, all within a working project where soil, microbes, plants, food and human health are deeply connected.
A Lesson from the Magical Forest Experience I was chatting with a friend this morning about the years I lived in the Magical Forest at Chiruisco. That happened after I first moved to Ecuador. As we talked, memories I hadn’t visited in years came flooding back. I could see the …
I am now offering Dried Blood Analysis at Living Ground. After completing my new teaching manual, I felt inspired to bring this work forward and begin offering consultations by appointment. I have never really promoted my blood analysis work. I have simply allowed the energy around it to happen. People …
I have finished a book that has been growing through my work for a long time. Dried Blood Analysis: A Practical Guide to Understanding Health Through Patterns came from my belief that this is another special tool people can learn to use to understand what is going on within their …
After months of thinking, planning, tasting, cooking, and more than a little rearranging, we are excited to finally share our new Living Ground menu. This isn’t simply a new list of meals. It is a completely different way to experience food at Living Ground. Instead of choosing from a list …
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 …
There are times when we simply need to step away from everyday life. Away from the constant demands, the stress, and the routines that often keep us disconnected from our own health. A Private Terrain Immersion at Living Ground gives you the opportunity to do just that while spending several …
We did it! Seven days of intensity, observation, learning, questioning, and remembering. The intention of this workshop was never simply to teach people how to look at blood. It was to invite each participant to see health through a different lens. To step outside of the germ theory paradigm and …
This is a little synopsis of the story behind Living Ground and a somewhat vulnerable sharing of my own journey. It is not the whole story, nor could it ever be. Like everyone, I carry chapters that are still unfolding, questions that remain unanswered, and experiences that are difficult to …