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
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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The complete talk by Rosita Arvigo
https://plantwisdom.org/ancient-wisdom-modern-practices/
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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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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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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I like this guy’s thorough common sense approach.
Contrary to public belief plants are very powerful medicines.
Some work gently and are probably universally safe, but some also have significant effects that may not be helpful and might even hurt some.
A great example of this is the Mimosa tree.
Popular to talk about because it’s easy to find and deals with common ailments (depression and stress), but it causes … Read more
Note: Hops are a great sedative which probably explains why beer is so popular.
You can also make tea with hops and bypass the alcohol.
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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We’ve been running a series of videos about Rosita Arvigo, the traditional healer and educator based in Belize.
In these videos, she makes constant reference to her teacher and mentor Don Elijio.
Well, we found some prime footage of him from over 35 years ago on a Belizean television program.
Enjoy!
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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