Showing posts with label leafy greens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label leafy greens. Show all posts

Wednesday, 28 July 2010

Healing the Ancestral Lineage...

I just posted an article this week in my newsletter about healing our ancestral lineages...in case some of you missed this piece, I wanted to share it again here...enjoy :)

Yesterday I experienced a very powerful healing meditation that I wanted to share with you here, as perhaps some of you will love to guide yourselves through this healing too. Most of us at this point seem to have blockages of some kind in our family lineage that might benefit from some loving attention and release...

This meditation I enjoyed yesterday was suggested to me by a fabulous "Reiki Do Satori" practitioner here in Vilcabamba, called Elena Alekseeva. The meditation helps to clear any blockages/issues/karma in the ancestral lineage, especially through the female line. Elena gave me the outline for the meditation and I will share with you here how I experienced this healing process:

I sat outside in nature for this meditation with eyes closed and got calm, quiet, centred. I visualised myself as a baby inside my mother's womb. I then sent love, light and healing into the energetic field around that vision - I chose to use the "Ho'oponopono" prayer especially, to help clear the energy:


"Thank You, I Love You, Please Forgive Me, I'm Sorry".

I kept repeating this prayer until it felt like the energy in that connection was lighter. Then I moved backwards a generation, to visualise my mother as a baby inside the womb of my grandmother. Again, I sent love, light and healing into that energetic connection, repeating the Ho'oponopono prayer especially until it felt like something shifted...then I moved backwards another generation and so on, clearing the fields all the way back through seven generations of women.
It was a very powerful and transformative experience for me. I found the messages and energies I received from the women of the different generations very interesting - those from the pre-Victorian era for example seemed a lot more at peace with life than those who came later...
Once I had worked back through all these generations, I then visualised the clear flowing luminescent light and energy through the whole lineage, from myself stretching back through all the women who came before me...it was a very beautiful moment. (Continued below...)






on July the 26th I enjoyed:

1 quart water
2 cups greeeeen juice mixed with pineapple juice
2 cups greeeeen juice mixed with pineapple juice
a small papaya
shared meal with friends of chopped fruits, raw soup, salad, walnut pate etc
2 cups water
mug of horchata tea
1 cup water


I also chose to visualise this generational healing through my father's side of the family too, starting with him as a male, then moving backwards solely through the female line from there, again from womb to womb. This also felt very healing. screen shot 2010-07-26 at 9.39.57 pm.png
Once I had completed both lines and could visualise clear, shimmering energy paths through each side, I united both sides into one vision, with myself as the current 'end point'...there was a great sense of release and lightening...and I was also prompted to pick up pen and paper and draw two pictures to represent what I had experienced. These were given the names "The Lineage" and "The Union". Although I do not feel like I am *fabulous* at drawing at this point in my life, I will share these pictures here below, as I sense that others may enjoy these images and also receive healing benefits from the energy they carry...

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I appreciate these images and feel there is great power behind them, even if they look nothing like the shimmering, glorious versions that I see in my mind's eye ;) In fact, I was also prompted to share the message that if any of *you* do feel more gifted as visual artists and would love to re-interpret these drawings in your own style, I would LOVE to see the outcome... :)
For now, I trust that some inspiration for generational healing may have been transmitted through my sharing this story here...I wish you all the very best with your own healing journeys... :)



on July the 27th I loved:

1 quart water
3 cups greeeeeeen juice mixed with pineapple juice
½ a papaya
2 cups greeeeeeen juice mixed with pineapple juice
cucumber salad meal stuffed into nori sheets, with walnut pate on the side, followed by a mug of horchata tea with stevia :)
cup of horchata tea
2 cups water


On another note, I suddenly got a rush of emails lately asking *what* exactly we use in our daily greeeeeeen juices...I thought it might be a good idea to answer this here too, as this seems to be a Q for quite a few people...here we go:

...right now we're living in Ecuador and picking all the greens straight from our garden, so the 'ingredients' might not be so recognisable/transferable to your location, depending on where you are in the world...we use a lot of 'weeds'/wild greens for example...
Things people *usually* use in green juices include: celery, cucumber, lettuces, spinach, kales, fennel, cabbage, beetroot/carrot tops, herbs such as parsley, dill, dandelion, cilantro etc...pretty much anything green that you can find and eat ;) If I'm drinking STRAIGHT green juice, I prefer to have it with lime and ginger to flavour it a bit...here in Ecuador we use pineapple, as it is abundant, cheap and makes the juice VERY tasty ;) Most people who are starting out find green juices VERY intense, so it's best to 'cut' them with something like apple or carrot juice etc...

For 'recipe'/combo ideas you might look at a site such as http://www.goneraw.com for green juice recipes, or here are a few simple ideas:

'chocolate milk' - spinach/romaine/carrot
celery/apple/cucumber/ginger - very light and refreshing
pineapple with greens

We make green juice using a juicer...here's an example video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFnMNRl1LeA

You can also make green juice in a blender - see here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp4SzDD5QDk

Hope this helps ;)

All love,
Angelalalalalaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. xxx

Saturday, 26 June 2010

Gardening in The Valley of Longevity - New Pics :)

Yesterday I posted up online a new collection of photos from our blossoming garden :) You can see the photos HERE if you'd love to check out how the Stokes-Monarch garden is growing, approximately three months after planting...see Chia, Flax, Dill, Fennel, Borage, Lettuces, Kales, Namenia, Tomatoes, Goji, Cacao and a sacred Wilco tree, all growing in glory :)


We LOVE it :)

On June the 23rd I loved:

1 quart water
water of 3 young coconuts
2 cups greeeeeeen juice mixed with pineapple juice
a papaya
2 cups water
YUMMY shared raw taco meal with friends: including taco shells, nori sheets, lettuce leaves, pecan pate, guacamole, coconut sour cream, grated cucumber and jicama, etc, followed by raw mango pie :)
mug of reishi/shilajit/ormus tea
1 cup water


I am SUPER-excited to say that I've recently been connected to two more wonderful links for accessing the work of wisdom-keeper shaman Little Grandmother. Little Grandmother (Kiesha Crowther) now has her OWN website - YAY :) That can be seen at http://www.littlegrandmother.net and has photos, links, background info AND Kiesha's upcoming event schedule, which is exciting to see :)
The other fabulous website link was sent in by Serena and is actually another whole website full on info and links on Little Grandmother. This site, which you can see HERE, seems to be a work of love from someone in Europe, who is pulling together in one place all of the interviews that they can find with Kiesha. There are many different video and audio interviews on this site that can be listened to online or even downloaded to listen to at your leisure - WOW :)
I think I've listened to just abt everything on this site now - I LOVE, love, LOVE the positive, beautiful, transformational message Kiesha is sharing and it feels like such a treat to listen to her. I know *many* of you have been enjoying her sharing too - if you haven't yet listened in to anything with Kiesha, I strongly recommend checking her out on one of these sites above - enjoy :)))


on June the 24th I enjoyed:

1 quart water
4 granadillas and a dragon fruit
2 cups water
30 chlorella tablets
another group meal on a farm visit - leftovers from raw taco meal the night before, fresh salad, flax crackers
2 cups water
2 cups YummmmmmmMmMmmMmmmmy horchata tea with honey
a papaya and a dragon fruit
1 cup water


on June the 25th I enjoyed:

1 quart water
3 cups greeeeeeeen juice mixed with pineapple juice
2 tbsp bee pollen
water of two young coconuts
2 cups greeeen juice mixed with pineapple juice
a papaya, a dragon fruit
2 cups water
yummmmmmy shared cucumber/jicama salad meal with Mr. Mmmmmmm, followed by a hand-stirred yumpot of brazil nut butter with coconut nectar, maca and chocolate extract
mug of shilajit/reishi/ormus tea
1 cup water


Our health-ranging friend Mike Adams, from NaturalNews.com recently posted a fun little article to his site, sharing the "Top Ten Things To Love About Vilcabamba, Ecuador" - lots of interesting info in there abt life in the Valley of Longevity, for those of you who are Vilca-curious - enjoy :)


...and we also recently did a video on our daily "TV" show, answering some of the questions people most often ask us abt life in Vilcabamba - you can see that video here:



ENJOY :)
All blissings of infinite gratitude,
Angelalalaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. xxx

Monday, 31 May 2010

Who Are You Listening To...?

One concept I try to encourage people to think about in my talks, is WHO you are listening to in terms of guidance for your food choices. On a larger level, this might be thought of in terms of listening to family, friends, partners, doctors, mainstream nutritionists, the media and so on...and on a more intimate level, we might think about which part of our beings we are taking our cues from, in terms of what to eat, when and how much...
This more 'personal' level is what I'd like to focus on here. It seems to me that most people listen primarily to a combination of their taste-buds and their minds, when determining when and what to eat...and yet, food is essentially fuel for the physical body, rather than the mind...and the physical body tends to work towards optimal physical health... Your body wants to be healthy, rather than in a state of dis-ease...however, while your body might be yearning for leafy greeeeeeeeens, small portions and lots of fresh juices, your mind and tastebuds may have a completely different agenda ;)

Most of us reading this quite likely grew up in circles of processed food sugar/fat/salt/additives/colourings addiction frenzies...and we may have plodded along that kind of path for a few decades before considering a change in direction...so, with this kind of background in mind, it is understandable that our tastebuds may be more than a little 'perverted' in their desires, especially when we initially switch to eating more raw...

As for our minds, well...if we have any kind of emotional 'stickiness'/dependency around food, our minds may surely be calling for food for any and every reason - because we're happy, sad, lonely, upset...or we feel like we 'deserve' it, we're celebrating, we're stressed, anxious, miserable...you name it ;)
Seldom do we seem to eat because we're genuinely physically hungry...indeed many people do not even seem to recognise what true physical hunger even feels like - it's like a pulling in the stomach, which intensifies if left unfed...

So when we feel an intense pull to eat, we might do well to ask ourselves WHERE this desire is coming from - is this our mind and tastebuds asking for entertainment, or is it actually our body asking for some more nutrition? So often we seem to listen to the whims and demands of the mind and tastebuds over the genuine concerns of the body...yet we can only ignore the body for so long though, before issues start to show up in the form of illnesses, sluggishness, excess weight and so on...

If we want to side-step these sticky patterns, we might do well to ask ourselves a few QUESTIONS as and when we feel the pull to eat...questions such as: when did I last eat? Have I fully digested that last meal yet? How much water have I drunk today? ...and so on...take a few moments to inquire of yourself around these ideas and then, if you do decide indeed to go ahead and consume something, there are three questions I love to encourage people to consider first about their food choices, all of which could be grouped together under the idea of 'could I be making a better choice right now...?'

Here are the three ideas to consider:

*how could I make this meal lighter? (e.g. instead of grabbing a handful of nuts, or a heavy nut+dried fruit bar, how about whipping up a greeeen smoothie in a few minutes instead?)

*how could I make this meal greeeeener? (Search for ways to get more leafy greeeeens into you - juices, smoothies, salads, soups, greens hidden in salad dressings, green powders sneaked into desserts, cookies and so on ;)

*how could I make this meal more nutrient/mineral-dense? (e.g. how might you be able to add seaweed into a meal - kelp sprinkled over a salad, dulse in a soup, salad wrapped in a nori sheet? Instead of grabbing just a banana, how about blending that nana up with some yummmmy nutrient-rich kale or parsley and topping with a few goji berries...? ...and so on...)

I hope these ideas have given you a little extra 'food for thought' when it comes to making food choices...so many of us seem to 'automatically' reach out for food in any given situation, following the promptings of those monkey minds and twisted tastebuds...well, perhaps now you'll feel the desire to listen more to that beautiful body of yours and get lighter, greener and more nutrient-dense by the bite ;)

ENJOY :)


On May the 29th I enjoyed:

1 quart water
2 cups water mixed with honey, orange oil, chocolate/vanilla extracts = WOW :)
water of a young coconut mixed with phytoplankton and chocolate extract drops
2 cups greeeeeeen smoothie made by the Monarch
2 cups water
a dragon fruit
2 cups greeeeen juice blended with coconut water, honey and lime juice :)
bowl of chai chia cereal mix with chopped banana and almond milk
mug of reishi/shilajit/ormus tea
2 cups water


One RawReform reader, Vera in Burbank, California, would love to let you butterflies know that she has an almost brand new Green Power juicer for sale... It is a Green Power KPE-1304 Twin Gear that she has only used about 15 times...she'd be delighted to receive $250 for it...(usually around $450)...if you're interested, you can contact Vera on: Sophie5378 (at) aol dot com to work out the deets - enjoy :)


on May the 30th, it was my 8th Anniversary of the day I went raw and I loved:

1 quart water
2 dragon fruits
shot of green juice at the market, water and jelly-meat of a young coconut
2 cups greeeeeen smoothie with Mr. M, topped with a few black and white mulberries :)
2 cups water
1 cup *amazing* smoothie: almond milk, banana, orange oil, vanilla and chocolate extracts, 20 chlorella tablets
shared cucumber salad meal with Mr. M, followed by a raw 'apricot scone' from Cosmos Cafe in Vilcabamba
mug of reishi/shilajit/ormus tea
1 cup water


on May the 31st, I enjoyed:

1 quart water
2 cups greeeeen juice mixed with pineapple juice
2 cups greeeeen juice mixed with pineapple juice
2 dragon fruits, 3 mandarins
2 tbsp bee pollen
water of a young coconut
cucumber salad meal with leftover 'taco' shells, followed by three almond/orange 'yumballs'
mug of reishi tea
2 cups water


On the subject of bargain juicers, tonight is the last night to get your mittens on the out-RAW-geous juicer and blender bargains over at TheRawFoodWorld.com - below is a quick recap and you can read more HERE...

Aside from receiving a hefty discount on Hurom Juicers and/or any Blendtec Blenders, you ALSO get 12-15% OFF anything else ordered alongside these items, which is all pre-programmed into the coupon codes explained below:

  • Get $43 off the Hurom Juicer if you use the coupon code 'Hurom43'


  • Get $52 - $63 off all Blendtec models if you use the coupon code 'Blendtec52'


  • Get $54 off the Hurom Juicer and $60 - $73 off all Blendtec models if you buy a Hurom AND a Blendtec Blender TOGETHER, and you use the coupon code 'HuromBlendtec'


  • So you get these great deals, PLUS 12-15% OFF anything else you order alongside the appliances, which is all automatically calculated and deducted by the store checkout - yay :)

    If you want to read more about all this, you can see Mr. M's last newsletter HERE...
    ...Or you can jump right in and order the Hurom HERE and/or Blendtecs HERE... enjoy :)

    Laaaaaaaaaaaa alalalaalaalalalaaaaaaaaaa...

    ...it's all done with mirrors...and love... :)
    A. C. Stokes-Monarch. xxx

    Saturday, 23 January 2010

    Five Things I Learnt On The Road Last Year...

    I recently found some notes I'd been making on a piece of paper in the car, along the theme of five things that had become clear to me while living on the road for the MAJORITY of last year, while travelling, moving, darting in and out of places and houses and venues and lives...I thought I'd share these observations here with y'all today...

    *'Nothing is Definite Until it is Done' - along our travels we meet people telling us about all kinds of projects, ideas and suggestions that they think are 'definitely' going to happen: books they are writing, new businesses they are 'definitely' going to do, websites they will have ready 'next week' and any number of other things that they are certain are going to unfold...in my experience, nothing is definite until it is actually done...so I tend to receive all this kind of information with an open, supportive heart and an awareness that things may actually unfold in another way than is being foretold... ;) There are so many myriad possibilities for outcomes and we all have a choice in every single moment, so thinking that things are 'definitely' going to happen can seem, to me, a little like openly tempting the 'trickster' energy to rise up and meet the path... ;)

    on January the 20th I enjoyed:

    1 quart water
    2 tbsp YUMMY bee pollen
    2 cups greeeeeeeen juice
    bowl of blended chia yum: blended together green apples, sprouted chia flour, acai powder, maca, spirulina
    1 quart water
    3 cups reishi/shilajit/ormus tea
    1 cup greeeeeen juice
    4 tbsp acai powder
    2 cups water

    *'Don't Take Anything Personally' - I've mentioned this one before, with major kudos to Don Miguel Ruiz (The Four Agreements) - and it is such a powerful theme for me that it comes up here again. Living and sharing life 'in public' can create situations where energies that seem other-than-supportive seem to be directed towards us. The key to finding peace in these situations, for me, centres around stepping away from taking any of this energy flow personally. I send love to anyone who seems to be acting out in a way that seems other-than-congruent with universal unconditional love and compassion... Sending people love, compassion and healing energy seems to be the best I can do to shift the energy in these situations.

    *Breathe Deeeeeeeeeeeeeeep - my first action in any situation that feels challenging is to breathe deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep...this feels calming, healing, empowering and is the quickest way for me to reconnect to source, besides which it is also free and easy to do... ;)


    on January the 21st I loved:

    1 quart water
    2 cups greeeeeen juice
    bowl of blended chia yum: blended together green apples, sprouted chia flour, acai powder, maca, spirulina
    2 cups reishi/shilajit/ormus tea
    3 cups water
    2 cups greeeeeen juice
    4 tbsp acai powder, handful of *amazing* new Hunza dried apricot pieces - WOW :)
    2 cups reishi/shilajit/ormus tea
    2 cups water


    on January the 22nd I was delighted with:

    1 quart water
    3 cups greeeeeeen juice
    bowl of blended chia yum: blended together green apples, sprouted chia flour, acai powder, maca, spirulina, sprinkled some ground pumpkin seeds on top
    2 cups reishi/shilajit/ormus tea
    3 cups water
    1 cup greeeeen juice
    4 tbsp acai powder, little handful Hunza dried apricots
    2 cups reishi/shilajit/ormus tea
    2 cups water


    *Leafy Greens, Seaweeds, Sprouts - for me, these are the three basic food components to concentrate on ingesting daily, to feel healthy, balanced and consistently great. Naturally I consume other things alongside these three - these are just the BASICS to make sure I am getting into my body, in some form, every day... ;)


    *Emanating Love to All - many people we come across seem to be carrying a 'pain body' with them to some degree or another...they WANT love, acceptance and to feel happy and yet they may speak and act out in a way that seems to suggest otherwise ;) In my experience, the more I am willing to extend a space of love, compassion and acceptance to everyone, the more easily my own life experience seems to flow...whereas resistance to any energy flow seems to escalate apparent challenges...after all, what we resist, persists ;)
    I believe that anyone can hold a healing space of love open towards another being, IF they are willing to do so - it often comes down to a balancing game of pain bodies; who is willing to step up into the light of love, compassion and grace and hold a gentle space open for mutual healing...? Is it going to be an endless, morbid battle of 'my pain body is bigger than yours', or are you willing to step up, listen with compassion to others and spread the love...? ;)

    All blessings to you all...
    Angelalalalaaaaaaaaaaaa. xxx

    Friday, 14 December 2007

    Connecting The Dots...

    Here’s an exciting free gift that keeps on giving, that I stumbled across recently: Free iTunes Songs. Apparently every week, iTunes makes some songs available for free, for anyone to download (plus some audiobooks, videos and more). One kind person collects these freebies together and lists them on a blog called ‘freeitunessongs’ – see:
    http://freeitunessongs.blogspot.com/ . I’m LOVING it. :) It seems like the freebies usually last for about a week – if you get in there now, you can get a gorgeous song called ‘O Come, O Come, Emmanuel’ by Carter’s Chord – just go to the link above and scroll down a bit – I got that one and have been playing it over and over again ;) There are quite a few ‘Holiday Tunes’ on there for free at the moment…yummy :) Enjoy…

    on December the 13th I had:

    1 quart water
    3 cups watermelon/orange juice
    2 cups romaine/kale/mizuna/all-kinds-of-greens/carrot/apple/lemon juice
    2 cups water
    bowl of avocado mushed with Alive Hummus, diced tomatoes, dulse flakes and lime juice, served with a flax cracker
    three homemade cracao bliss balls with cinnamon
    3 cups water bowl of LUSCIOUS cherries and a sublime red papaya (we are SO blessed)
    2 cups water


    Have YOU joined the new raw food community site, ‘Give It To Me Raw’ yet? I’m loving it…it just opened in the last week and already has nearly 500 members, as I write this... :) I get a really good feeling for it – seems like a lovely, open, positive vibe and easy system to use to connect with others. Hurray :) It’s hosted by the divine Dhrumil et al, over in the NYC area…and so naturally, it has a beautiful, loved-up vibe ;) Hope to see you there…my page on the site is here:

    You can take a peek and join in the fun if you’d enjoy some more raw rendezvous-ing ;)

    on December the 14th I had:

    1 quart water
    1 quart watermelon/orange juice
    1 pint celery/cucumber/kale/mizuna/cabbage/all-kinds-of-greens/carrot/apple/ginger juice
    2 pieces of the supremely delectable raw pizza de la Monarch – base of buckwheat and coconut flours, filling of avo mushed with alive hummus and diced tomatoes, dusted with coconut flour and sliced tomatoes :)
    3 cups water
    handful of cherries
    1 pint celery/cucumber/kale/mizuna/cabbage/all-kinds-of-greens/carrot/apple/ginger juice
    3 cups water
    huuuuuuuuuuuuuuge piece of watermelon
    2 cups water

    La-di-daaaaaaa…I do believe it be time for some reflections on life down under…Some observations and appreciations so far:

    1. We are muchly enjoying the fact that both fruits AND amazing leafy greens are to be found in abundance here…as you may have noticed from my food logs of late, I don’t even know what many of the greens we’re eating here ARE – there are just so many amazing things to try from the farmer’s markets…
    2. I have not yet met a kangaroo OR a koala. This seems rather unreasonable to me…where are they…? Please remedy asap, thank you… ;) I do enjoy seeing the bright yellow road signs for them though ;) Many a British backpacker seems to return from trips down under armed with fridge magnet versions of these kind of yellow road signs…it’s nice to see the gen-u-ine models and to think that we’re in the vicinity of those magical creatures :)
    3. Methinks…if I were to say on a scale from 1-10 of how happy I’d be to live here in the long-term, the current verdict would be ‘8’, with 1 being ‘gemme outta here NOW’ and 10 being ‘I don’t ever wanna leave, thanks’. It feels ‘easy’ to be here in many ways, for me…it’s fun… :) Not to suggest that we have intentions to remain here, of course – tis but a reflection… ;) My one major concern would be the fact that the country’s apparently been in drought for the last 7 years and greengrocers tell us it gets progressively harder year by year to get different produce, plus prices rise constantly…hmmmm, well…all food for thought… ;)

    All blessings,
    Angela. xxx

    Friday, 30 November 2007

    Protect YOUR Leafy Greens...

    Eeeeeeek…seems it’s time for another ‘public service announcement’…
    Yep...after pasteurising all the almonds already, the USDA are after your leafy greens now…following the supposed spinach-related ‘e coli’ outbreaks last year, a proposed new law would essentially squish out small and medium sized growers with specified, institutionalised growing rules for ALL leafy greens. The blessed Cornucopia Institute are on the case with this one – with step-by-step guidelines of how to express your objections to this bill BEFORE DECEMBER THE 3RD, HERE: http://cornucopia.org/index.php/protect-fresh-leafy-greens-and-family-farms/#more-362
    ...and this is just one part of the picture that’s unfolding at the moment – I would strongly recommend you check out the very insightful article posted today by Mike Adams of NewsTarget for more info – HERE: http://www.newstarget.com/022308.html

    on November the 29th I had:

    1 quart water
    1 cup sugar cane/ginger/lime juice
    2 cups cucumber/celery/parsley/tatsoi/beet greens/red dandelion/carrot/apple/all-kinds-of-greeeeeens juice
    2 pieces of Mr Monarch’s new pizza marvel – base of ground buckwheat and coconut flour, topping of avo mushed with sundried tomato hummus and diced fresh tomatoes, with a dusting of coconut powder and sundried tomatoes ontop
    3 cups water
    1 cup cucumber/celery/parsley/tatsoi/beet greens/red dandelion/carrot/apple/all-kinds-of-greeeeeens juice
    ½ an egg fruit, big chunk of amaaaaazing soft jack fruit
    3 cups water

    So, on the subject of leafy greens…I was absolutely DELIGHTED to go on a 4 hour long forage this morning with a local ‘bush tucker’ guy called Cockatoo Paul…WOW…the plant knowledge this man holds is simply phenomenal…he left home when he was around 16…he ended up living on the streets, destitute and hungry. He then realised that Aboriginal people had been living on this land for centuries with no issues and set about learning what to eat from them. He has now been learning for about 20 years. It was such a gift to me to spend a few hours looking at the local landscape through the eyes of someone who sees it all so differently…I learnt and tasted SO much…it is my desire to learn more and more about foraging and wild edibles, especially considering any bizarre laws that may be introduced for commercially-grown produce ;)…I would love to download the contents of Cockatoo Paul’s head into mine… Instead I put my new knowledge to immediate use this afternoon and picked my own little collection of edibles, including these ext-RAW-dinary purple berries (see pic) that I’d been eyeing for days and assuming couldn’t be edible for us – the colour just looked too intense…WELL, turns out they’re called ‘dianella lily’ and they’re delicious. I would thoroughly recommend checking out Paul’s work if you’re in this area…he has a MySpace page, which actually shares about...his music and jewellry skills (he's a very talented guy ;) HERE:


    on November the 30th I had:

    1 quart water
    1.2 quarts watermelon/orange juice
    lots of bits and pieces of flowers, seeds, leaves and tubers on a foraging walk
    2 cups water
    1 apple, Mexican powersticks
    bowl of soaked figs blended with hemp seeds
    1 pint celery/cucumber/cilantro/spinach/dandelion/beet greens/tatsoi/carrot/apple/all-kinds-of-fresh-greens juice
    2 cups water
    big chunk of delicious watermelon
    1.5 cups celery/cucumber/cilantro/spinach/dandelion/beet greens/tatsoi/carrot/apple/all-kinds-of-fresh-greens juice
    3 cups green smoothie: papaya/mango/foraged leaves and berries/greens from market, swirled with goji berries
    2 cups water

    Thanks BTW for all the Paul Potts-related emails and updates from y’all – SO, it seems I was indeed months out of date with that story ;) Thanks for letting me know that he DID in fact win the talent show and has since gone on to sell over 2 million copies of his debut album and wow audiences all over the world – including an appearance on Oprah, apparently – WOW – what a beautiful story…I poked around on YouTube a bit and there are many clips of him there that have been watched MILLIONS of times…here’s one of him winning the final…aaaaaaaahhh, so inspiring…I get shivers every time I watch him sing…


    One love,
    Angela. xxx