Have you ever looked at the world & felt that it was upside down? You felt like something was OFF or just didn't make any logical sense the way it was done, built, designed, run, or created?   Do you know how Bright Field microscopy works? It's simply shining a light from below onto a glass slide while we view the same slide from above. Because we are using such thin sections to view (usually a drop or two flattened between two pieces of glass: a cover slip and a slide), we can see through the microbes and see their insides even!!   BUT for ROOTS: they are THI ..read more

If We Don’t Look… We Don’t See!! Let's Explore #Soil #Microscopy Together This Week!! CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE #FREE WEBINAR SERIES: REGISTER HERE ..read more

Have you ever wondered how some people who wrk full time right alongside you have epic gardens with yields all summer long?  How do they do that? They make it look effortless. Meanwhile you’re struggling to get things watered, to amend the soil, to prune, to harvest, to chop and drop, and it kind of steals the fun from you? I was there! A lady up the hill grew 10,000 lbs of tomatoes on a 1/4 of an acre! What was she doing!? I actually have a video of what she was doing on my Facebook page and Youtube - I’ll link to it in the description - she was irrigating her gardens and orchards with ..read more

NOW LIVE ON KICKSTARTER!! Click Here Do you want to KNOW what’s in your soil or compost before you apply it? Do you want to be able to test your soil, compost, mushrooms, roots, and more at home? Would you like to see other people’s test results in comparison to your own? What about your soil in comparison to other bioregions and climate analogs? Unlock the Mysteries of your Soil, Compost, Roots, Microbes, & More! Learn more ..read more

At times like these, it's critical to step back and look at the the 3 ethics as a whole, because we often, in Permaculture, get stuck on Earth Care with a narrow view of Future Care: our food forests, our soils, our local bioregion, and we can lose track that we are after a whole systems thinking and living, something that is community-based.  When I first realized Permaculture didn't have principles for People Care I was a little surprised. David Holmgren's approach has a holistic edge that gives it traction in this area, but I've never seen any principles anywhere. Reading the opening ..read more

It’s how the world works It’s how the economy should work A regenerative economy for a regenerative world. We live in a regenerative world — it adapts to change, to challenge, and even to attack: it has systems that are anti-fragile if they are allowed to run their preset genetic programs. Life begets life, spreading and supporting the creation of more life. And isn’t that the ideal economy, one that continuously grows and provides exponential benefit to the earth, its peoples, and the future care of all? We ALL want to live in a world where making money helps other people and the planet by D ..read more

Powers Family Update WE MADE BIOCHAR AS A FAMILY!! It was easier and harder than expected in different ways. We didn’t spend money aside from the burn permit (it was the LAST DAY of the Burn Season), and it was QUICK… even a bit unnerving with how FAST IT BURNED!! It really is a potent lesson for anyone in California - this stuff burns faster than can be believed unless you’re doing it yourself seasonally. The power of the FIRE is humbling and the transformation is awe inspiring. I’m grateful for fire, for biochar, and for correct practices that keep us all safe!! So, HOW did we do it? 1st - w ..read more

The Good Life How to live a good life? to find happiness, meaning, and fulfillment? What are the steps, the pieces, the ingredients? is it like Oprah said, we need 70k a year minimum? or is it a higher goal that forms a life of purpose? How do we obtain this “good life”? It was not mentioned in schools, my family didn’t focus on it, and it’s from this place inside me that I feel this need for change, for something more, for something to radically change, for something to grow.  There is a cultural awakening - we are bankrupt, not only of ecological capital but of our social capital. We’ve ..read more

Don’t We All Live On Earth?!?! How do you feel about the current state of things? Should we continue as we are? Should we settle for the status quo? Are you happy with the way things are ..read more

And I was a History teacher... Or at least I passed the test to be credentialed as one while I was serving as an English teacher in Madera County, California. HOW WAS HISTORY BEING REWRITTEN FOR ME?!?!?! Did you know that the desertification of North Africa was caused by agriculture? Did you know that Rome couldn't support itself because it had lost all its soils? Did you know that Plato, Aristotle, Jefferson, and Washington all were concerned over the same thing? SOIL - the erosion and loss of the fertile topsoil layer was seen as directly linked to civilizations rise and fall throughou ..read more