@eco-alex

The Medicinal Cooking Collective Recipe Book #4: Cooking with the Metal Element for the Lungs and Large Intestine

This fourth week draws to close with 10 of us cooking for the lungs and large intestine (colon). The lungs can be associated with the feelings of sadness or sorrow, the colour white and a spicy flavour! We're not very used to eating white foods, and we all used our imagination to bring some great dishes to the table! I think the star of the show this week is the cauliflower, which is a wonderful food for the lungs and overall health. It also happens to taste amazing, especially when combined with just the right ingredients or cooked in a certain way. So thank you to all who took part this week, I will be trying a few of these out, starting with @lenasveganliving's scrumptious looking breaded and baked cauliflower. I don't actually have an oven so let's see how I improvise!

@solarsupermama

Big Change, Big Difference: The Dirtiest of the Dirty Dogs

This is my new series. After focusing for quite some time on the small changes we can make to make a big collective difference, I decided I wanted to spend some time focusing on some of the bigger sources of our ecological crises. Oddly enough, it was plastic straws that made me want to do this. Perhaps you are unfamiliar with this crisis, so I'll give a brief version. I'm guessing you're aware there is a movement to rid the world of single use plastic straws. However, there are certain disabilities that make plastic straws necessary. People with these disabilities have tried paper, metal, and bamboo straws, and for one reason or another they don't work. So, with all the other things on their plate, they now have to fight Eco warriors just to get a straw at a restaurant.

Finding Something to Like About Moving

We are pretty set up, but there's still a pile of boxes. It's mostly stuff I don't know what to do with, but there's almost certainly stuff in there I will soon realize I need. I'm having a bit of a time motivating myself to finish it up, so I'm trying to psych myself up by finding things I really like about moving. I'm 43, and this move took a toll on me physically. By no means am I old, but packing, moving, unpacking, shit. I was just beat for days and days. I was sore and totally exhausted. Now I seem to have picked up some kind of virus. Shocking, I know.

@trucklife-family

The Sounds We Make and How They Can Heal Us

We are constantly surrounded by sounds, by noise. It is with us all the time, from our heartbeat to the voices of those around us. It really is very hard to get away and experience silence. Our bodies are constantly making noises, informing us of what is going on within ourselves. Nature itself is full of sound, such glorious sounds that remind us that we are never truly alone. Sound has a huge affect on our bodies, there have been numerous studies done about the affect of sound on water, seeing as we are made up of 70 per cent water it is understandable that the sounds we create and the sounds we surround ourselves with, affect our well being.

Allowing My Rage To Guide Me

Life takes us on many journeys, it leads us on many different paths, some we walk, fully conscious, fully aware of everything that is happening and other times we walk blindly into the unknown. Each is as important and as educational as the other. Each way helps us to grow, to learn and to become more aware. And then we have those paths that are in-between, where we walk with our eyes and hearts wide open, until we come to an unexpected bend and then we are plunged into the darkness, into the unknown.

It Is Time To Heal

Pain comes in so many forms in so many different ways, but it comes to us for a reason. When we neglect to listen to our body, when we neglect to pay attention to how we are living our lives, it will always find ways to manifest. It is important to acknowledge how Amazing Our bodies are, how complex they are and how they are all very unique. We spend years being educated on how to think away from ourselves. To focus our attention on what is happening externally, to look for answers to all the mysteries happening around us. Yet so many have little or no knowledge of the amazing capabilities that happen on the inside of each and everyone of us. The power that our minds and our bodies hold.

@riverflows

Conscious Soup Making: Pot Dilemmas

Does anyone else have massive dilemmas when making lunch? Whilst throwing a load of vegies in a pot with some stock sounds so easy, as I made it today my thoughts went to bigger problems as I assessed exactly what went into the pot. Maybe it's the weather, or the eclipse, but nothing seems straightforward at the moment. J is just pleased I'm cooking - last week I'd cry at the thought. I am too - it's nice pottering and providing a meal for us, especially as he's in the freezing shed working on Buttercup.

FireBath Dreaming: Warding off the Winter Chill & Finding Togetherness

The bath heating up, with rosemary for muscle aches and pains.When we tell people we have a firebath in our garden, they usually shriek with excitement, and then wonder: 'isn't it cold?'. Well, we've had baths outside in the middle of winter when the temperature has hit 2 degrees (it doesn't get a lot colder than that here) and it's been so warm the dash naked to the house afterwards wasn't chilly at all.

@mountainjewel

The Magic and Beauty of Corn | "They tried to bury us, but they didn't know we were seeds"

Corn has been an iconic part of human culture for thousands of years, and for good reason. Estimates put the domestication of corn over 5000 years ago in Mesoamerica. Its ancestor (a wild grass called teosinte) is barely recognizable compared to varieties most of us are familiar with. The temples that have been erected, the songs and diets that pay homage to and today's commercialized obsession with this unique grass are all testaments to the power of corn.

Midsummer Beauty

"Always press your bare feet to the ground and listen to what the earth says and what it has to give you for the day. She always has something, but you have to listen to receive it" from Radiance of Tomorrow a book I just finished last night by Ishmael Beah. I started off my day today well rested. The energies from the Full Moon and eclipse seemed to be clearing and I mean literally, as I felt a desire to clean and move energy around today! My day started off with some flower art that you see above, relating to this wonderful quote I came across in the book I finished yesterday (which was a very good book, I cried plenty of times and it touched my spirit.)

@senorcoconut

🍅Tomatoes Tomatoes Tomatoes... They're Finnally Here😂!!!

I love tomatoes. If you asked me what my favorite food is, I'd tell you fresh, raw tomatoes without thinking twice!

I'm not really sure what it is... could be the amzing salad dressing my maternal grand-mother use to make or just the explosive juicy goodness that happens when you eat a tomato like a whole apple.

Either way, now I have the space to grow as many tomatoes as I want. That makes me really happy!!!

@artemislives

Lady Lotus Drops Her Final Gifts

If Lady Lotus was a person, she would no doubt be labeled as a pathological over-giver and in need of therapy. This morning, as I spent time wandering in the garden, I saw she had dropped yet more gifts, literally right at my feet. Lotus seeds.

• She had already gifted me shelter & a home for my little mosquito eating fishies. https://steemit.com/ecotrain/@artemislives/the-newest-asian-love-hotel
• She gifted me the spiritual connection between murk and manifestation magnificence
• She gifted me the lessons about transition and change, and how things can die before they manifest fully https://steemit.com/nature/@artemislives/when-change-looks-like-death-lessons-from-the-lotus
• She manifested me amazing blooms

@celestialcow

Behind the scenes during lombok earthquake

Meet a village elder speaking about the earthquake on Sunday morning, the only day children don't go to school. So most of the village was peacefully asleep until we were shaken violently out of our slumber.

I'd had a restless night and was up at the crack of dawn, I was considering to go watch the sunrise but it wasn't for another hour, I decided to go back to sleep where I started having some bad dreams which ended abruptly. I knew straight away what was happening and coincidently I had been talking about the possibility of an earthquake just the day before because I was in the process of designing some structures to build on Adi's land. Adi had assured time and again. No earthquake, no tsunami but never say never I guess when you live on the foothills of a volcano on the Ring of fire.

@thegreens

Earth Rangers are making the News!

Earth Rangers feature in The Guardian Post News Paper.

@thelaundrylady

Surviving a Scorcher - Food Forest Ideas

has been a scorcher recently with temperatures over 100 degrees for several days in a row. The blaring sun never eased up. To make matters worse, we have had no rain whatsoever. It's starting to look like Fall around here because the trees are turning colors and losing their leaves prematurely. Even the huge native trees are starting to suffer, showing signs of heat stress. It has not been an easy year to grow food.

The Summers in our area have always been kind of unpredictable. Some years we are lucky with temperatures never getting above 100 degrees with plenty of rain. Other years we have over 100 degrees temperature more than 25 days and no rain. The unpredictability makes it more difficult to garden.