Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
Articles that directly connect soil biology with plants, food, microbes and human health. This is where the entire Living Ground philosophy comes together, following the path from living soil through the food system and into the human ecosystem.
What Urine and Live Blood Might Tell Us About How the Body Cleans Itself There is a place where the textbooks go quiet, and I have always been drawn to it. Medicine is very good at telling us what can be measured, yet traditions have been noticing things in the …
What bacteria, plants and immune cells make me wonder about memory Science just sorta proved that bacteria can learn. A single cell with no brain, no nervous system and no one explaining the rules can carry a memory of previous conditions and respond differently when those conditions return. Meanwhile, I …
September 23, 2026 | Living Ground Project, Ecuador Whew! What a marathon. My Plant & Kitchen Alchemy book is finally finished, uploaded to Amazon and waiting to be published. After months of writing, experimenting, editing, illustrating and wrestling with page numbers, indexes, formatting and Amazon’s publishing requirements, I can hardly …
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 …
(this is an excerpt from my new upcoming book “Plant & Kitchen Alchemy“) There is alchemy when a green tomato turns red. It may look as though the fruit is simply ripening, yet inside it an entire chemistry is rearranging. The green chlorophyll is disappearing, and the sugars and acids …
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 was reading about the latest dietary trend called “fiber maxxing,” where people deliberately try to push their fiber intake higher and higher, sometimes to 50 or 60 grams a day. I am certainly in favor of eating more fiber, especially when modern diets contain so little of it, but …
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, …
Magnesium is a funny mineral. It does not get the attention that calcium gets, and it certainly is not as glamorous as some of the supplements that come and go in popularity, yet quietly behind the scenes magnesium is involved in an extraordinary amount of what keeps us alive and …