From Extraction Beyond Sustainability To Regeneration
…This is a pivotal time, a giant hinge moment that calls on us all to replace the currently still dominant model of EXTRACTION not just with the goal of SUSTAINABILITY, as has been advocated up to now by many progressive people, but with the ideal of RESTORATION or REGENERATION. And by “restoration” I don’t mean a return to the “normal” that may have worked for some people in the age before the coronavirus, but a return to the source, to ancient ways of being and knowing, in harmony with our plant and animal relations. We can see the need for this change in perspective in the three main areas of Chinese thought that I like to fall back on: Politics/economics, agriculture, and medicine. …
Making Bread
This blog post is a bit different, written in response to years of requests from friends and neighbors. It is something like a recipe for my infamous “Brick Bread,” but with the caveat that I consider bread baking most definitely an art and not a science that you can replicate. Too much of it depends on the stars, your ingredients, your menstrual status (I am not kidding, don’t try and make bread rise when you are on our moon time!), the humidity and temperature in your kitchen, your oven, your pans, the quality and nature and vitality of your starter culture etc etc. So take it all with a nice coarse chunk of Himalayan sea salt!