OoOOoOooooo I am having FUN in the south-west of England :)
I arrived here on Monday evening and have been staying with my lovely hosts Lisa and John in North Devon. Lisa runs RawLisa.com, sharing raw classes, gatherings and info in this area. Yesterday we went on a wonderful day trip to Glastonbury where Lisa organised a speaking event for me in the evening and we had major fun all day connecting with the sites and people of Glastonbury :)
As I wrote before, I'd never been to Glastonbury previously and it was wonderful to climb the 'Tor' where the Michael and Mary leylines conjoin, taking in the lovely views for miles all around. Then we visited the peaceful oasis of Shekinashram, where it turned out an old friend was now living and he showed us around :) This ashram used to be a raw food community and is now vegan with a lot of raw options. They have accommodation, courses, workshops and so on. Lovely atmosphere and a great-looking sauna too ;)
Then we went to lunch with the delicious Andrew and Angela of TheRawFoodSchool.com - YUMMMMMM :) What a treat. This gorgeous couple definitely know how to serve up the g
ood raw eats. MASSES of fresh raw greens, simple, delicious and full of LOVE :) They run raw food prep courses both here and in London - see their site HERE for more info. They are also creating an edible forest garden around their home - love it :)
A walk through Glastonbury high street led us to, through and in to a myriad of amazing little shops abundant with crystals, eco-friendly goods, handmade clothes and crafts and so on...I suspect I could have happily lost myself into these little lanes for at least a week to explore all the shiny things ;O We pressed on to Mr. Free Love's Hemp Shop though, where we were lovingly greeted with more greeeeeeeeeeeeeeen liquid love and eye-fuls of hemp goodies...
Old friends seemed to pop up all over the place - pretty amusing in a town I'd never been to... Well, it's a small raw world... ;)
Thanks to everyone who came along to the talk last night too - it was lovely to share. I also speak tomorrow night (thursday 26th) in Barnstaple - details HERE. Hope to see you there if you're in this area... ;)
on February the 22nd I had:
1 quart water
big mug of fresh ginger/lemon tea
3 cups green juice: celery, cucumber, local greeeens, spinach, Jerusalem artichoke, ginger, lime
30 chlorella ‘nuts’
2 tbsp bee pollen
2 cups green juice: celery, cucumber, local greeeens, spinach, Jerusalem artichoke, ginger, lime
2 apples
2 cups water
1 tbsp bee pollen
2 tbsp Sproutein
2 cups green juice: celery, cucumber, local greeeens, spinach, Jerusalem artichoke, ginger, lime
big mug of ginger/lemon/goji tea
Great news for all you budding raw athletes out there - HealthBookSummaries.com recently released their summary of Brendan Brazier's raw book 'The Thrive Diet'. If you're not familiar with Brendan's work, he is a 
professional Ironman triathelete, creator of the 'Vega' range of raw nutritional products and eats 100% plant-based foods. You can see masses more about him HERE and you can access the FREE summary of his wonderful book from HealthBookSummaries HERE.
He has masses of great info to share...ENJOY :)
on February the 23rd I had:
1 quart water
big mug of ginger/lemon tea
2 cups green juice: celery, cucumber, local greeeens, spinach, Jerusalem artichoke, ginger, lime
30 chlorella ‘nuts’
3 cups green juice: celery, cucumber, local greeeens, spinach, Jerusalem artichoke, ginger, lime
2 cups energy soup with okra and tahini on the side
cup of spicy tea
2 cups green juice: celery, cucumber, local greeeens, spinach, Jerusalem artichoke, ginger, lime mixed with 1 cup rejuvelac
tub of fresh pineapple with a few gojis
2 tbsp bee pollen
2 cups water
on February the 24th I had:
1 quart water
cup of ginger/lemon tea
2 cups green smoothie - orange, parsley, broccoli
3 yummy little apples
30 chlorella 'nuts', little handful of goji berries
AMAZING raw lunch with Andrew and Angela from TheRawFoodSchool.com (thanks, lovelies ;) - a gorgeous spread of lashings of green juice, homegrown kale/avo salad on a bed of fresh arugula, with crackers and outrageously delicious 'cheese' spread, followed by a slice of marvellously moist carrot cake. MmMmmMmmm :)
2 cups water
2 cups green/hemp juice from the magical Mr. Free Love's Hemp Shop ;)
mug of rooibus tea with more carrot cake and a chunk of handmade raw carob bar
1 quart water
MmMMmm, I started watching a WONDERFUL series of four videos on Permaculture before I left on this trip. They feature Bill Mollison - the 'father' of Permaculture - and they are all about using permaculture in urban settings. It was really fascinating to me to see the contrasts between a Western 'civilised' city like New York 
where tiny patches of food production had been eeked out here and there, compared to a city in Nigeria, where food grows abundantly all over the place and there are local markets all around the city.
Later in the vids, Bill visits the REMARKABLE looking 'Village Homes' eco-settlement in the city of Davis, N. California. WOW - what absolute blisssssful living they seem to have set up in this community. It seems long established now and listening to some of the residents discuss how amazing it has been for them to raise children there is just beautiful. The children have the run of the land, have grown up with food all around them, have many more people looking out for them than their parents alone, are healthy, strong, active, engaged with nature...just wonderful and so inspiring...
You can see these 4 videos HERE in a long playlist of Permaculture titles - these ones start at number 10 in the list - they're called 'Urban Permaculture Strategies' - ENJOY :)
All love and abundantly juicy flow,
Miss Stokes. xxx
