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Befriending your local ecology

We invite you to Befriend your local ecology by exploring wild foods and forage for local plant medicines that strengthen your relationship to the earth.

Propolis salve

We’re invited to tend to the land and communities that support regeneration and improve resilience for future generations.. Any practice that incorporates ethical and ecological awareness will make and redirect us in ways of Connection and well-being.

what is a healthy relationship to the natural world ?
how should we relate to each other ?
how do we change the current narrative of destruction ?

Thank you to Amoraleza community and Beneficio in Orgiva. 

Sweet Chestnut

Castanea sativa has been cultivated for over two thousand years for its edible starchy nuts. These chestnuts were once a staple food in Europe but are enjoyed merely as a delicacy today. Historically, chestnuts were ground into flour or coarse meal. As well as the excellent nuts, the wood from the tree is valuable and often planted for coppicing. It is anticipated that the trees will be ready for the first cut in 15-20 years time. You will need to wait 25-30 yrs for the plants to set fruit form a seedling.

T he sweet chestnut is a very good perennial source of carbohydrates, as our western civilization mainly depends on grains for there carbohydrates which are very depleting and disturbing for the soil microbiology because they are sown every year and the soil is being tilled year after year.

Rosemary

Plant medicine is peoples medicine ,It’s wild it’s free, it’s preventative,It’s heals the body, mind and spirit..It’s anticapitalist

Medicinal use:  Rosemary relaxes smooth muscle spasm and the smooth muscles of capillaries and arteries, thus enhancing blood flow.  It is used to increase circulation to the head and to improve mental clarity, improve memory, and improve vision. It increases coronary blood flow and exerts a positive inotropic action in the myocardium.  Rosemary has a tonifying effect on the circulation and on the nervous system, making it effective in chronic circulatory weakness including hypotension.  

Rosemary is an excellent tonic for the elderly as it will stimulate the appetite and tonify the circulatory and nervous systems. It has specific use for depressive states with debility and cardiovascular weakness.

Reading the Landscape

The first step to integrating ecological thinking into land healing practices, involves grasping the fundamentals of ecology and living systems. Ecology demonstrates how eco-systems are not just a collection of species, but are also relational systems that connect humans, as organic systems, with animals and plants – It stimulates an increased understanding that the world is fundamentally interconnected and interdependent.

Ecological thinking requires a broadening of identity in how we see ourselves in relationship to the world around us. Researchers explain that “as one’s identity expands, so does one’s view of the world. With these changed perceptions also come a change in values, behaviours and possible leverage points” (Hess and Du).

Widening of identity can be understood as a transition from 'me' (egocentric) to ‘my group ‘(ethnocentric) to ‘my country’ (sociocentric) to ‘all of us’ (worldcentric) to ‘all beings’ (planetcentric) to finally ‘all of reality’ (Kosmoscentric).

We invite you to connect and observe your local ecology. You can use an app to identify plants like PlantNet to get familiarized with the local ecology. 

Eucalyptus monoculture versus biodiverse forests

Large scale ecological restoration
& large scale ecological destruction

We see painful depletion of the earth resources which can make us unstable
And incapable for in-visioning a regenerative future

Small interventions can make a difference,
So we invite you to explore your local ecology, in rural land or in the city we can slow down and reconnect with natural elements that brings us back to a sense of connection.