Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
I believe I am entering a newness. Preparing for this retreat has been opening doors I never expected. I literally started moving the microscopes into the workshop room and thought, “Why not make this my office?” Suddenly, a space I had been viewing one way revealed an entirely different possibility. …
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 …
Researchers in India found that tulsi may help reduce fluoride levels in water naturally. This article explores fluoride exposure, the pineal gland, the microbiome, and the deeper relationship between soil, plants, water, and human health.
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, …
Today is Jim’s birthday. Happy heavenly birthday!!! I woke up with him on my mind in a way that feels close. I wish he was here everyday. Sure, there is a weight to this day, but there is also something steady and present that I carry inside me. After 5 …
What I keep coming back to lately is how much modern medicine resembles industrial agriculture. The parallels are becoming difficult for me to ignore. In both systems, something unwanted appears, spreads, or becomes destructive, and the response involves increasingly aggressive intervention. Companies develop stronger chemicals. Doctors prescribe more suppressive therapies. …
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 …
What We Notice, and What the Soil Is Actually Doing There is a moment on land that comes before explanation, before theory, before formal science, when something shifts and you feel it. If you watch how your gardens grow, you begin to see things and how plants seem to respond …