HeyJaredThe Forest Almanac by Don Elzer
The Forest Almanac encourages a better understanding of nature, eco-systems and our changing planet. From the deep forest Don Elzer wildcrafts a unique view of today’s issues as he seeks to educate, advocate and explore the natural world often forgotten.
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Spiritual Ecology and the Invisible Forest: Hidden Realities and the Listening World of the Forest (opens the original)
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There is a quiet assumption embedded in modern life that what we perceive is what exists. We trust our eyes. We trust our ears. We trust that the world we move through each day is, more or less, the world as it truly is. But science is increasingly dismantling that assumption, revealing a humbling truth: human beings are nearly blind to reality.Our senses, refined through evolution for survival rather than comprehension, perceive less than five percent of the physical universe. Vision is confine
Autumn Equinox: Each of us is the result of clever ancestors who were able to survive incredible challenges (opens the original)
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Find your path. Follow your dreams, stay on purpose, keep nature in your heart and help others do the same. Learn by experience and cleverness. We are in the midst of a great shift in consciousness. We are transitioning our purpose from being economic to elemental. Now we must shift our actions so that we create tangible results that support our new purpose.We now have arrived at the Autumn Equinox which has marked the beginning of the autumn cycle and the harvest – it is the perfect time for pl
The Cottonwood Botanical Orchard (opens the original)
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Tree planting is underway at the Wildcraft Forest as we explore how Cottonwood trees can provide a sustainable supply of ingredients for the natural wellness sector. A four acre Cottonwood Botanical Orchard is being planted in an effort to create a perennial wild dynamic agricultural system designed around the production of Cottonwood buds and other renewable botanical plants. The effort retains mature trees which maintain the ecological character of the mixed forested landscape.Cottonwood is on
The Silicon Valley Mushroom Gods (opens the original)
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Long before artificial intelligence became the defining technological question of the twenty-first century, a soft-spoken ethnobotanist and psychedelic philosopher was standing on stages in California talking about mushrooms, consciousness, computers, cyberspace, human evolution and the possibility that intelligence might exist in forms radically different from our own. His name was Terence McKenna.McKenna died in 2000, before Google became a cultural empire, before the smartphone, before social
I want to share something with you... (opens the original)
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I thought I might reach out to you again regarding our request for support as we seek to create a comprehensive food security assessment for the Okanagan.From something local, we are creating something much bigger.As we are preparing to undertake an Independent Food Security Assessment for the Okanagan, on the surface, it is a regional research project. But those of you who have followed our work for some time will probably recognize that there is another layer to what we are doing.The Okanagan
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