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
The complete talk by Rosita Arvigo
https://plantwisdom.org/ancient-wisdom-modern-practices/
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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We’re big fans of the work of Rosita Arvigo and have stumbled on a treasure trove of videos that cover many dimensions of her work.
She’s a scholar-practitioner of traditional Maya healing with many decades of experience.
This first video tells her story.
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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We’re big fans of the work of Rosita Arvigo and have stumbled on a treasure trove of videos that cover many dimensions of her work.
She’s a scholar-practitioner of traditional Maya healing with many decades of experience.
In addition to being a traditional healer, she’s also an experienced farmer and this second video contains her thoughts on gardening.
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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We’re big fans of the work of Rosita Arvigo and have stumbled on a treasure trove of videos that cover many dimensions of her work.
She’s a scholar-practitioner of traditional Maya healing with many decades of experience.
The details of preparing food and medicine are part of plant-based medicine and in this third video we visit with her in the kitchen.
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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We’re big fans of the work of Rosita Arvigo and have stumbled on a treasure trove of videos that cover many dimensions of her work.
She’s a scholar-practitioner of traditional Maya healing with many decades of experience.
In this fourth video, Rosita covers the topic of forest bathing.
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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We’re big fans of the work of Rosita Arvigo and have stumbled on a treasure trove of videos that cover many dimensions of her work.
She’s a scholar-practitioner of traditional Maya healing with many decades of experience.
In this fifth and final video, Rosita covers the topic of Maya abdominal massage which she considers one of the most important treasures of the Maya healing tradition she was trained in.
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Poet and farmer Wendell Berry offers a clear look at the problems we face in the world of industrial farms.
How do we treat the land? What are we doing when we see land and food as commodities instead of essential parts of life with real value?
The industrialization of agriculture has taken us away from an intelligent and affectionate connection with … Read more
On a recent trip to Morocco (my first trip there and my first trip out of the country in nearly five years), I got to see how an intact culture deals with health issues.
Drugs, no.
Plants, yes.
One of the plants that is treasured in Morocco and elsewhere is one many of us think of as just a culinary herb.
Wrong. It is a very potent healer. (And when … Read more
We’re continuing our exploration of Aegean herb culture.
Here’s a surprising modern validation of one of the “tall tales” of the Odyssey involving “magic” plants.
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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