Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
Imagine placing a single drop of your own blood on a slide and, within seconds, watching it come alive on the screen in front of you. Red blood cells drift and tumble through the plasma, white cells move about their work, platelets gather, and strands of fibrin, crystals and other …
I am very happy to share that Elizabeth Wysen will be teaching a one-day Quantum Healing Workshop here at Living Ground (Suelo Vivo) on Wednesday, November 4. It is a small, in-person day with only 12 spaces, and I wanted our local community in Vilcabamba, Malacatos and Loja to hear …
I. like to stay extremely grounded, practical and logical. But every so often, life out here throws something at you, and you just stop and think: What on earth is going on? Homesteading has its share of stories. Sometimes you just cannot make these things up. If you’ve been following …
My patio outdoor office and the Project Site is currently a landscape of preparation, drying herbs, working the gardens, jars in their early stages, and piles of herbs and foods (as medicine) being sorted. We are deep in preparation for the Plant & Kitchen Alchemy workshop, November 8–14, and I …
I am finishing Plant & Kitchen Alchemy, a book that has grown to more than 550 pages of personal experience, practical knowledge and over 80 kitchen alchemy recipes centered on food as medicine. As I moved through the final edits, I realized I had spent a great deal of time …
Lately I have been doing a lot of sorting, and I do not mean closets, drawers or old papers. I mean sorting through the pieces of my life and the pieces of Living Ground, looking at what still belongs, what is working, what is asking for more attention and what …
This November, from November 8–13, 2026, I will be teaching a new six-day workshop here at Living Ground Project in southern Ecuador called Plant & Kitchen Alchemy: Food, Medicine & Microbes. It brings together many of the threads that have been part of my work for years: soil, compost, plants, …
I have been on a deep and very determined dive into the world of technology lately, and it has been tedious, arduous, frustrating and, at times, completely depleting. It is also necessary. I never imagined I would spend so much time working on websites, tablets, coding, order systems, inventory flow, …
I have never been one for protocols, which is a little ironic because protocols are part of my work. I understand why people need them. I create recommendations, work with herbs, tinctures, minerals and food, and spend a lot of time looking at the terrain of the body. Personally, though, …
I have been working with Live Blood Analysis for a long time, and every person who sits in front of me adds another piece to what I understand. I do not just look at a marker, name it and move on. I look at the person who is presenting, their …