Three things I'm currently excited about:
1.
'Ice Cream Bean' Fruits :) This evening I found a new (to me) fruit in a local store in Ojai, called "
The Ice Cream Bean" fruit, or "Inga edulis" by its Latin name...it is *so* cool :) It is shaped like a huge
green pod, which opens up to reveal
cotton-candy-like white pods of fruit, wrapped around black beans. The white fruit tastes like *
vanilla ice cream* and apparently in some places the black beans are cooked and eaten too...wow :) It is native to
S. America, so hopefully we'll be able to grow it in Ecuador... We filmed a video on this yummy fruit tonight, that we'll post over at
TheRawFoodWorld.TV soon...
2.
Permaculture in Vilcabamba...I recently found out that there's a Canadian guy called
Yves running a 10 acre
Permaculture village on the outskirts of Vilcabamba - YAY :) He went there at the tender age of 20 with less than $2000 to his name and a
vision in his heart ;) He now has a community with abode/cob buildings, a
yurt, a humanure system, amazing gardens and the intention to run
Permaculture courses there in the future - *LOVE* it - we hope to connect with him when we get back down there soon...you can read more abt Yves' adventures
HERE.
3.
Green Smoooothies - I am *loving* drinking
green smoothies at the moment, throughout the day...as some of you know, I have a
sweeet tooth and whenever I eat something
savoury, I always want to eat smthg
sweet after it, which can lead to other-than-optimal
food combinations...my current side-step of this pattern involves drinking
green juices and smoothies throughout the day...because green smoothies are already
sweet, I feel no pull to have anything else sweet after them - in fact the only thing I add in is
Spirulina Manna sprinkled on top, so I have '
spirulina-mouth' condition more-or-less most of the time at the moment... ;)
What are *you* excited about, dear reader...?
on
February the 10th it was mmmmmy sister's 35th birthday and I enjoyed:
1 quart water
2 cups greeeeeen juice
2 cups greeeeeeen smoothie: apple, sunflower greens, meiner's lettuce,
chia flour, water, with
Spirulina Manna sprinkled on top
2 cups water
1.5 cups
reishi/shilajit/ormus tea
2 cups greeeeeeeeen juice
1 quart greeeeeeen smoothie: apple, sunflower greens, meiner's lettuce,
chia flour, water, with
Spirulina Manna sprinkled on top
3 cups greeeeeeen smoothie: apple, cilantro, meiner's lettuce,
chia flour, water, with
Spirulina Manna sprinkled on top
2 cups
reishi/shilajit/ormus tea
2 cups water
I've been doing quite a lot of '
manual labour' in the last week or so, at our
warehouse, where things have been
intensely expanding and there is a lot to 'do' every day...I actually really
enjoy it - I love doing
physical work and used to do a lot of it before I started the
RawReform website in 2004. Prior to
website-ery I was working on farms, teaching English to
primary school children, working in
greenhouses and so on...and these last few years I've been tapping a lot on
computer keyboards instead... ;) Mmmmm...it feels so *right* to be moving around all day... So, I'm really enjoying
helping out in the warehouse, movin' and shakin' all day long and am even further excited to get back down to our land in
Ecuador in a couple of weeks, to start channeling my activity into the
land there - yeeeeeeee-HAH :)
on
February the 11th I loved:
1 quart water
1.5 cups
reishi/shilajit/ormus tea
2 cups greeeeen juice
2 cups greeeeeeen smoothie: apple, meiner's lettuce, parsley,
chia flour,
Ormus Greens, water, with
Spirulina Manna sprinkled on top
2 cups greeeeeeen smoothie: apple, meiner's lettuce, parsley,
chia flour,
Ormus Greens, water, with
Spirulina Manna sprinkled on top
1 quart greeeen smoothie: apple, meiner's lettuce, parsley,
chia flour,
Ormus Greens, water, with
Spirulina Manna sprinkled on top
2 cups greeeeeen juice
3 cups greeeeen smooothie: papaya, boysenberries, sunflower greens, romaine lettuce,
chia flour, water, with
Spirulina Manna sprinkled on top
1.5 cups
reishi/shilajit/ormus tea
2 cups water
In the midst of the warehouse
cyclone of activity this week, our dear friend
Kiumars Imandel of
TheGuruOfYou.com came to visit, mid-Juice Feast, to pick up some juicy supplies, share some much-appreciated
energy work with us and do some filming - fun :) He
interviewed me for about an hour and is posting the clips up to his
YouTube account - you can see the first one here:
Kiu's a
great interviewer and asked lots of
insightful, juicy Qs about my life pre-raw, our intentions in Ecuador, the relationship between Mr. M and I, my 'spiritual'
life practices and lots more...enjoy ;)
All love,
Ms. Stokes-Monarch. xxx
