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Sharon Venne on Language, Connection, Land and More

Great talk by Sharon Venne on language, connection, traditions, law, education, colonialism, religion, grounding, land, women, death, spirituality, children and more.

Interview conducted by @jpmontano (one of my favorite peeps to follow on twitter)


Click here to listen

Urban Roots – Rise of Urban Farming in Detroit

Urban Roots – Rise of Urban Farming in Detroit

What a great documentary! It is so amazing to see all the footage of Detroit and the urban farms scattered among the decomposing buildings. This is a really inspiring movement. Get involved. More info at www.urbanrootsamerica.com Produced by Leila Conners (The 11th Hour) and Mathew Sc ...

Rendering Suet aka Makin’ Lard

Rendering Suet aka Makin’ Lard

Suffice to say that I have a greater understanding of the scent of a medieval household after my first experience rendering suet. I've been reading The Great Mortality by John Kelly, a riveting account of the black plague and how it wound its way through Europe in the 14th century. Needless to sa ...

Carmelized Kanboshi Daikon from Hida Kamioka

Carmelized Kanboshi Daikon from Hida Kamioka

Reposted from description on youtube: Kanboshi(Drying the coldest) Daikon (White Radish) is made in Hida Kamioka (The next town of Takayama) the Yamonomura area as a preserved food for winter. Peeled, sliced radishes are boiled and then hung out under the eaves for about a month to expose the ...

DIY Seed Bombs – Rogue Radishes and Crimson Blessings

DIY Seed Bombs – Rogue Radishes and Crimson Blessings

The technique for creating seed balls was developed by Japanese natural farming pioneer Masanobu Fukuoka. Seed balls or seed bombs are very easy to make. The secret ingredient is clay, this holds the seeds and fertilizer together and makes it difficult for birds to eat the seeds before they get ...

Indian street youth develop their own banking system

Indian street youth develop their own banking system

Interesting to see how these kids set up their own support system and are so responsible! Very impressive example :) ...

Getting to Know Our Busy Friends the Bees

Getting to Know Our Busy Friends the Bees

Peter Finch of Cedar Cottage Community Garden sent us this beautiful guest post to help us get to know our busy and friendly co-species the bees. If we didn't have bees we wouldn't have us it's that simple. Peter Finch is one of the founders of the lovely forest garden under the skytrain and is ...

Biofilms, Parasites, Mold and Electromagnetic Frequencies

Biofilms, Parasites, Mold and Electromagnetic Frequencies

Cistus Incanus (Rock Rose) Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt MD, PhD and the Klinghardt Academy hosted "A Deep Look Beyond Lyme" in May 2011. Although the conference was focused on Lyme Disease, many of the topics covered, such as heavy metal detox, biofilms, parasites and more are important for people wi ...

Beautiful Handmade Bilums (bags) of Papua New Guinea

Beautiful Handmade Bilums (bags) of Papua New Guinea

Click here to buy a unique handmade bilum on www.artfire.com now! Limited number available. The last time I spent more than a couple days in Papua New Guinea I learned how to make a bilum from a wonderful highland woman by the name of Kapaim. She was very patient with me--I was determined to ...

Cleopatra’s Secret to Success

Cleopatra’s Secret to Success

Image: Rare mosaic etching by IREL Cleaopatra's Secret to Success: Fermented Milk Baths I was recently listening to an Ayurvedic practitioner speaking about how this ancient healing system understands skin as having two components. There is the interior skin, which consists of your gut tube ...