Never underestimate the power of edible flowers, herbs and roots growing around your home.
Hi luv, Andrea here
Yesterday I was working in my humble garden along the side of my home. I love this home, I've lived here for eight years. I've grown my rose bushes tall and trimmed my hedges until my fingers bled. I had my friend from the gym "Dave" plant aloe bushes around the perimeter of my home last summer. I have an extensive herb garden that I harvest daily. And my vegetable garden looks pretty lavish if I do say so myself.
One of my greatest gifts however is drying out my herbs, boiling them down and making herbal tinctures. In fact, I've become quite the well known healer in these parts.
In fact, my alpocary room could stand up next to my Grandmother La Golda's white medicine cabinet and actually hold a candle to it these days.
People call, text and show up when they need help. I'm not sure when this began really. I'm not certain how it began either. One person came and told another person and then the people followed.
As a little girl, I knew and could see things that others simply couldn't. I could look into someone's eyes and see if they were sick or if they were healthy. I knew when they were in need of a cleanse, a particular herb or, if they were low in certain vitamins or minerals. I could also see when the end was near. Through several attempts to try and be "normal", I simply couldn't hide the fact that I was both intuitive and a healer.
I think both my mom and my grandma saw this in me. I just never wanted to accept it in myself.
Recently, I've made a choice to relocate out of San Diego towards a location that is more accepting of my medicine woman qualities that some see as a bit "witchy" but most see as magical! I've decided that New Mexico holds the vibration of my next creation. I've held this knowing within my heart for the past year without speaking about it publically.
San Diego has been very good to me. I've been featured on the news 6-7 times. I've appeared in San Diego Voyager and Del Mar Times magazine more than once. I've even come out in the Union Tribune and spoke at the National Cancer Conference here on the healing properties of juicing and wheatgrass. However California lays on a pluto line that is very disruptive for people trying to take from me in business. People who attempt to build off my back by using my written words as their own. I just shared about this yesterday in a Facebook post here.
So as I sat in my garden yesterday and witnessed one person come to pick up her remedy for low back pain, another come to lay down on the bio-mat for a sound healing and then a third pull up to cut some fresh rosemary who asked if I had any of that "burdock root tincture that makes her skin glow"... I finally realised that I accomplished what I came here to do.
I moved to California nine years ago with an over sized hand bag and my little husband with fur "Louis" under my arm with a dream to help people feel better. A dream to get people to go vegan. A dream to make the world a better place.
Never once was my dream to be seen or to gain a following. It was only to help people see the truth. The truth that "our issues live in our tissues" and in order to heal their relationships, they must first heal their bodies through the food and water that they drink and eat.
Although I had many people place obstacles in my way, I can see what it was all for. For me to see that I no longer want to be near clout chasers or energy vampires. I want to be where the true healers go... where the shamans and medicine women are free to "just be", just live and just write, create and heal without others trying to take what is rightfully theirs. What they have earned, written and what they own. What they have created.
About the photo above ... All roses are edible. Just make sure that they are not sprayed with any pesticides.
Sow thistle (milk weed), is a spicy edible weed that is great for the liver.
Lavender (also edible) gives meals an incredible scent.
Burdock root is excellent for both the liver and skin.
Ginger is excellent for digestion
Wash everything well as our precious wildlife uses mother nature as it’s toilet
Below Using the sun as your oven!
These vegetables were baked by the sun after marinating in gluten-free teriyaki sauce with olive oil and spices!
Crispy olive oil rose petals (They taste like potato chips). Onions eggplant and mushrooms are all from my garden topped with fresh rosemary from the rosemary bush. Almost all of the herbs shown here in the photo below are herbs from my tiny precious organic herb garden.
"Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine by thy food"!
I love you,
I only want the very best for you
please love yourself
and drink your green juice
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