Living Ground is a soil-to-plate project in southern Ecuador, connecting healthy soil, nourishing food, natural medicine, education, and community.
2026 – 2028 WORKSHOPS ARE NOW OPEN
COME LEARN WITH ME AT LIVING GROUND
Come to southern Ecuador and spend a week learning through doing. Work with blood under the microscope, enter the microbial world of the soil, grow your own food and medicine, ferment, make herbal preparations and learn practical skills that bring you closer to your own health, your food and the living world around you.
Dried Blood Analysis | Live Blood Analysis | Soil Food Web | Plant & Kitchen Alchemy
Growing From the Ground Up
Living Ground is an evolving Project in southern Ecuador, rooted in
living soil, microbes, gardens, food, medicinal plants, education
and practical self-reliance.
Our gardens, café, apothecary, workshops, food systems and microbiome
work have all grown through experimentation, challenges, changes
and successes. They are different parts of the same living Project.
A history of our growth, challenges, experiments,
changes and successes.
GRATITUDE CAFÉ
Garden-fresh food, ferments, herbal drinks and creative meals from our café.
PERSONAL HEALTH STAYS
A private, one-on-one stay centred around your body, your food and your terrain.
SELF-RELIANCE COURSES
Practical learning in soil, food, microbes, plants and living systems.
LIVING GROUND HOSTEL
Stay with us in the mountains of southern Ecuador and experience Living Ground.
LAND CONSULTATIONS
Practical guidance for healthier soil, productive gardens and resilient living land.
HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS
Immersive learning in soil, microscopy, plants, food and living systems.
VISIT OUR GARDENS, STORE, CAFE, AND SECRET GARDEN — OUR GARDENS ARE OUR LIFE AND OUR TEACHING TOOL. HOSTEL AND EDUCATION CENTER FOR ECO-TOURISM, APPRENTICESHIPS, AND VOLUNTEERS.
The Live Blood Guide
This guide reveals the hidden story within your blood, teaching you how to observe, understand, and restore your inner terrain through holistic, microbe-friendly practices.
The Soil Microbiome
Explore the unseen life beneath your feet, learning how soil microbes create fertility, resilience, and health for plants, animals, and humans in a thriving ecosystem.
Human Microbiome
Discover the vibrant microbial universe within your body, and how nourishing your inner ecology supports immunity, digestion, mental health, and balance through food, connection, and care.
Stay Connected
Stay connected with new articles, reflections, medicinal plant knowledge, soil and microbiome education, self reliance ideas, garden experiments, and updates from Living Ground in Ecuador.