Click here for Dina’s website.
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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Community healing, deep healing
An interview with Za’Yn LittleStorm Muhammad
Meet the team at The Well Spring Natural Living Center
We did a long interview with a fascinating person we met recently.
Her shorthand name is “Dr. Z”
More than any other person I’ve talked to in a long time, she reminds me of Rosita Arvigo and Baba Rahsan Abdul Hakim who also appear on the plantwisdom.org website.
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
For the nerves – Oatstraw and Milky Oat
Wild Food Health Boosters and Herbal Remedies
Our favorite local herbalist Dina Falconi shows us how to make an infusion of oatstraw and milky oat.
A great plant for the nervous system, nails and skin.
Simple and potent.
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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How Gazans are feeding themselves
Dignity and resourcefulness in the face of pure evil
How many societies would survive this long?
It’s been a solid year of unrelenting military assault on a civilian population.
Food supplies have been blocked, the majority of the food production infrastructure including farm fields and greenhouses have been destroyed, water for irrigation has been cut off.
How are the people of Gaza feeding themselves?
With dignity and resourcefulness few … Read more
Eating tree leaves
Wouldn’t it be great if tree leaves were edible?
After all, there is no shortage of them and talk about organic permaculture.
A British gardener has an interesting story to tell.
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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A model for community-based healing
The complete talk by Rosita Arvigo
https://plantwisdom.org/ancient-wisdom-modern-practices/
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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Another way to compost
A farmer who loves weeds
I love “weeds” myself and eat a lot of them.
How can you hate plants that grow themselves and are highly nutritious?
But what about farmers? Aren’t weeds a pain for them?
Only if they don’t know what they’re doing. Here’s one that does.
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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Mugwort
Cayenne!
I like it when kitchen ingredients also happen to be superb plant medicines.
I also like it when someone takes a single herb and drills down deep into it.
There’s a reason this plant instantly took the world by storm when it was “discovered” in Latin America.
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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