A Regenerating Village
Explore an ancient and evolving way of village living, rooted in rhythm, ritual, craft, and community. A poetic call to live, love, and dance along the way.
Category Community and Environment
The Hidden Truth About Where Your Food Really Comes From Will Shock You
What if everything you know about food production is a lie? From chemically-treated soils to toxic water, modern agriculture is built on a broken system. Discover how the sewage-industrial complex deceives us and how regenerative practices can restore healthy soil, clean water, and a sustainable food system. The solution is closer than you think.
The Hidden Architecture of Human Flourishing
That nagging sense something fundamental has shifted in our world isn't imagination—it's anthropological evidence of systematic social unraveling. But ancient Greek wisdom reveals the hidden architecture of human flourishing, showing how understanding these deeper patterns transforms chaos into conscious choice, individual healing into collective transformation.
What Your Neighbor’s Spraying Is Actually Doing to Your Body
How One Move to Tennessee Poisoned Us The Awakening: When Paradise Becomes Poison Picture this: You’ve just moved to what you thought would be your slice of heaven—rolling hills, friendly neighbors, and the promise of clean country living. But within…
~ I have seen my hometown in your eyes ~
Yes, I am an optimistic, idealistic, naturalistic, humanistic lover of life, but I am not alone, thank goodness! I must admit that my big lesson in this life was clearly spoken by one of my favorite comedians, Will Rogers, when…
Nature’s Bandaid
What if the most powerful healing resource in your environment has been hiding in plain sight, disguised as a common weed? Plantain reveals nature's profound systemic intelligence – appearing exactly where soil disturbance occurs, concentrating its healing compounds in direct proportion to environmental stress, and demonstrating that abundance exists within interconnected networks all around us. This humble plant, growing beneath our feet in yards worldwide, offers a transformative lens for understanding how healing actually works: not through complex interventions, but through supporting the body's natural restoration networks. From wound healing to respiratory support, from digestive harmony to skin repair, plantain embodies the principle that the most elegant solutions emerge from recognizing and working with existing systems rather than against them. When we shift from seeing weeds to recognizing medicine, we're not just discovering a plant – we're awakening to our place within the living web of wellness that has always surrounded us, waiting for us to remember how to participate in the ancient dialogue between human need and nature's generous response.
The Week After… We’re Still Going Strong!
Last Friday was the Summer Solstice. Mid-Summer, the time of the longest day and sub-sequentially the shortest night of the year. Traditionally a time of well-being, vitality, strength, and fertility. This is the time when our Solar companion shines with…
The Fuzzy Plant Many Ignore and Healers Love
Nature’s Forgotten Medicine Cabinet Imagine this: You’re walking through your neighborhood, when you see a tall, fuzzy plant growing wild in abandoned lots, along roadsides, maybe even in your own backyard. Most people see it as an ugly weed, something…
The Versatile Violet: Exploring the Many Uses of This Beloved Plant
The Quiet Power of Botanical Wisdom In a world that often celebrates the loud and immediately visible, certain plants invite us to redirect our attention to discover profound usefulness in unexpected places. The violet—with its modest presence and gentle appearance—offers…
Who We Are
Brown, Black, White, Gay and Grey Any Duality that works, has and will, be shoved our way Hailed as a life ring, as if for some reason we live on the Sea??? So many times in so many ways but…