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?

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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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Uncommon common sense herbology

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

Plant expedition…in your backyard

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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Bonus – A blast from the past

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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Rosita Arvigo – Part 1 – A Maya medicine story

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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Rosita Arvigo – Part 2 – Backyard gardening

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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Rosita Arvigo – Part 3 – In the Kitchen

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
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Rosita Arvigo – Part 4 – Forest Bathing

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
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Rosita Arvigo – Part 5 – Abdominal massage

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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