Ipsophyto

I return from a lengthy, enforced period of rehabilitation following some extremely trying times. My protracted legal fight with Devon and Cornwall police continues (of which more details will follow) and i write with renewed passion and determination in my quest to spread the word of foraging and growing our own food and medicine.

A message of old that medicine is our food and food is our medicine, will be once again weaved into this blog whilst I knit together tales from my various horticultural interests such as growing under LED plant lights, Biodynamic gardening, Medicinal herb preperations, vegetable growing, Astronomical weather forecasting a la maria Thun and wild food foraging. All this and more will be procrastinated on as i continue to roam around the rivers, fields, highways and byways of the UK discovering plants, habitats and eco-systems that regail our magical isle, sustaining our richly diverse native and naturalised flora.

I hope i can give clues to how easy it is to take a significant step back from the consumption of mass market poison masquarading through marketing as balanced nutrition. This sorrowful excuse for food being bought by people unaware of other, simpler, easier, more efficient choices allows the continuation of planetary rape conducted to produce food to dull the minds and souls of a global village. On a world where resources are shrinking, Im on a mission to make a dent in this waste of humanity by revealing tips, hints, blags and design solutions for urban and rural living.

As I have only just got back into any semblence of mental health and peace of mind following my outrageous treatment at the hands of prejudiced police in Devon, Im now burstin to relay all the news from the many exciting events and places i have been to since that day in may 2007, as well as to talk about the coincidences, life changing and life-affirming happenings which offset the dusting down of myself after the towers i built came crashing down around my ears.

I will inevitably  wax lyrical about my-first-ever-real-time in-the-now-soul mate-love affair which sems inevitable as i walk this path. As i meet more amazing healers, be they with herbs , homeopathy, energy healers, shamens, reiki mistresses, dowsers or many others, i feel more and more blessed to be knowing them and to be able to assist any crossing my path who need help. Once again, the people i meet are touching my soul and giving me great hope for humanity (after the mass extinction of course!)

Some of the plants ive met this year on my travels have been old friends not seen in the wild or for a while, whereas others are seen in their naturalised state for the first time by these eyes, examples im thinking of right now include Sapponaria oficinalis (Soapwort), Amoracia rusticana  (Horseradish), Lycopus europaeus (Gypsywort) Water speedwell (Veronica anagallis-aquatica)  as well as a still unspecifically identified Ulmus (Elm) plant. The chances of it being an english elm are prety small but it seems there are a few escaping cultivars of Elm which have various degrees of resistance to ‘dutch elm disease’ Other plants i have the pleasure to live with and near on the river include Mentha aquatica (Watermint)  Watercress, (Nasturtium officinale)and certain members of the voluminous, formerly leguminosae(Fabaceae) family including gorgeous crimson clovers living with the red and the white near to each other on the same land near the thames in oxfordshire.

More later today…