We have an array of lovingly handcrafted products that cater to your well-being. From Bug Off Serums that effectively repel pesky insects to herbal whipped butters, salsas, and vitamin C jams, each creation is a testament to our commitment to excellence and quality. Indulge your taste buds with our mouthwatering curries that celebrate the art of culinary flavors.

As the beginnings of our Natural Health Food Store Pod, we aim to offer our community a variety of amazing products that embody the essence of holistic well-being. However, our secret ingredient lies within the microbes of our soil, which we carefully farm to ensure the highest nutritional value in all our plants.

Join us in this journey of regenerative agriculture and discover the wonders of microbe-rich foods, inspired by the abundance and wisdom of the Earth. Together, we can create a sustainable future and nurture a thriving community dedicated to holistic health and well-being.    To learn more about the nutrition loss, here is a great article https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/soil-depletion-aND-NUTRITION-LOSS/

At Living Ground, we are on a mission to restore the balance between our bodies and the Earth through nurturing the soil and harnessing the potential of beneficial microbes. Our Saturday market serves as a celebration of this vision, where we invite you to experience the joys of living in harmony with nature while nourishing your body and soul with our thoughtfully crafted offerings.

 

Are you looking for a transformative healing experience amidst nature’s embrace?

Welcome to Living Ground, a sanctuary for health and well-being, where we offer an array of holistic treatments and services to nurture your body and soul.

As soon as you arrive at our Microbe and Health Air BnB, you’ll have the opportunity to embark on a journey of self-discovery. Begin with a Live Blood Analysis, a cutting-edge assessment that reveals valuable insights about your health. Our practitioner, Leisha, will create a personalized healing protocol, recommending herbs, tinctures, elixirs, and treatments tailored to your specific needs.

Immerse yourself in a realm of healing possibilities as you book one of our rejuvenating treatments. Experience the gentle touch of Bowen therapy, the restorative power of lymphatic and gentle chiropractic, or the revitalizing effects of ozone breathing and insufflation therapy. Each treatment aims to restore balance, promote relaxation, and support your body’s innate healing abilities.

During your stay, you have the privilege of nourishing yourself with our delightful menu of healing juices, smoothies, and soul-soothing soups. Sourced from our microbe-rich market garden, just a 5-minute walk away, these nourishing creations are infused with the goodness of nature’s bounty. 

At Living Ground, we understand that each individual is unique, and so is their journey to well-being. That’s why our menu is thoughtfully designed to be flexible and customizable. After your Live Blood Analysis, Leisha will guide you through our menu, helping you choose the options that resonate with you and align with your health goals.

With our array of healing options at your disposal and the results of your Live Blood Analysis, you have the power to curate a menu that reflects your tastes, preferences, and health needs. Our team is dedicated to ensuring that you have a memorable and transformative experience during your stay with us.   Our out door jacuzzi tub can also be blending into your healing regime.   If you are open, we can also add our Microbe Compost full of beneficial microbes (mud bath).    All our microbe compost is microscope tested to ensure no pathogens are present.

At Living Ground, we believe that nourishment is not just about feeding the body, but also about nurturing the soul. Let our healing menu become a source of empowerment on your journey to self-discovery and vibrant health.

Feeling inspired to delve deeper into the world of soil and health? Join us for a tour of the Living Ground Project Site, located just 1 km away. Witness the magic of microbe-grown market gardens and explore the natural health food store, apothecary, and cafe. Let our expert guides unveil the wonders of the soil food web and its profound connection to human health.

At Living Ground, our mission is to educate and empower our guests to take charge of their well-being. We want you to return home not only feeling rejuvenated but also armed with self-knowledge and the tools to maintain your newfound vitality.

So, come and embrace this healing retreat at Living Ground, where the harmony of nature and innovative health practices unite to create a truly transformative experience. Step into a world of healing possibilities, and leave with a heart filled with gratitude and a body empowered with well-being.

Note: We kindly ask guests to pre-book their treatments and “basket of food” to ensure a personalized and enriching experience.   The basket is offerred with a little tour of the market garden to explain what we are growing and what is ready.   All our produce is from microbe grown soils.   We are confident they are full of nutrition.   

We are excited to welcome you to Living Ground, where healing and growth are nurtured in harmony with nature.

 

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Featured Videos

Here is a collection of our little video shorts that we share with the world around us.   They give clues to the fun we are having, the things we are creating and the steps we are taking to create the Living Ground Project.

The two videos presented here are the Project’s campaign videos that describe why we are doing what we are doing.    

We are setting up at Sonia’s Coffee Shop every Saturday morning (9-12)   

Making products..alchemizing from the the gardens

other Videos

Microbe Tourism

Welcome to our guest house, where you can experience and learn about the soil microbes and the need for our optimal health and wellness.   Book your stay today!

Health Tourism

As our guest, you can also do a liver blood test and receive a protocol with ingredients (medicines and food) fresh or alchemized from our land.

NIGHT

MINIMUM 3 NIGHTS STAY.

$39

  • INCLUDE A LIVE BLOOD ANALYSIS $50

WEEK

Perfect Experience

$220

  • INCLUDE A LIVE BLOOD ANALYSIS $50

MONTH

For Healing Experiences

$750

  • INCLUDES A LIVE BLOOD ANALYSIS

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             Keeping the little good guys informed   May 2023

Living Ground Symbiotic Muse

Living Ground is an ongoing creation using symbiosis as an anchor for operation.   Symbiosis is explained as a mutualistic relationship that benefits all.   And, it goes deeper than that as it creates tensions.     We observe the micro-world to discern our formation, and things are not always what we assume or want them to be.The microbiomes (biomes of the unseen world) hold secrets and widsom we are only discovering.  If we look at the biomes of soil, water, air or the human being, it isn’t always in harmonious cooperation.  Cooperation is more like an inherent tension. Most functioning partnerships arise from inherent tension.  

There is a lesson in this knowledge.     Microbes can be pathogenic and mutualistic at the exact same time. For example, the stomach bacterium Helicobacter pylori is the cause of ulcers and stomach cancer. Yet, it also protects against oesophageal cancer.   Actinobacteria is a bactera that works mutally and beneftis the Brassica plants but it will kill a root crop or other vegetables.  So it is neither a good nor a bad microbe; it’s both.  In the correct places and in balance, a pathogen can become mutualistic.In my studies with Dr Elaine, we learned how to identify the “good from the bad” in soil science.   The “bad” are labelled as pathogens and parasites.   And, yet, the soil food web, like the human microbiome, is also a symbiosis where some microbes partner in a tension — one consuming the other.  As a human, I consider those who get consumed may not feel mutualistic with the predators.   And,  that mutual tension of eating each other is how nutrients are rendered soluble for the plant.   It leaves one wondering perhaps symbiosis is a necessary conflict and a conflict that might never be resolved?   The microbes do give their life for the benefit of those up the food chain.The symbiotic relationships can, however, be managed and stabilised which is what we are attempting in our soil work and the investigations on-going with the human biomes.    

Our internal biology or the bioldoy of the soil has no ideology of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ microbes.  They evolve to work together.   There is a conflicting symbiosis happening all the time.The work is more about developing solutions to the ever-present conflicts that exist with our microbes.   The human reasoning function (science) is much like an enforcement of our contracts with them.  We restrict them to certain parts of our bodies by creating physical and chemical no-go zones. We are learning to nurture the species we want, using dedicated foods. We empower the immune system to keep the good guys in higher numbers.  We are selecting which species lives with us for our benefit.  It is a dance of symbiosis.

HG Wells wrote about this in 1930 in The Science of Life: “Every symbiosis is, in its degree, underlain with hostility, and only by proper regulation and often elaborate adjustment can the state of mutual benefit be maintained. Even in human affairs, the partnerships for mutual benefit are not so easily kept up, in spite of me being endowed with intelligence and so being able to grasp the meaning of such a relation. But in lower organisms, there is no such comprehension to help keep the relationship going. Mutual partnerships are adaptations as blindly entered into and as unconsciously brought about as any others.”I muse: are we still in a controlling phase?  Perhaps this means of control reflects the true lesson arising behind the microbiomes of life.    Nature is not inherently harmonious and cooperative, but that all the best relationships have tension and take work.  Symbiosis is tension, and tension is good

Project Site Update

Project Site foundation work has begun.  Our plans are grand and seem impossible but we strive in our dedication and vision to make this work and make this happen.   We broke ground.   And, we discovered the ground is terrible.  There is 5-6 feet of rocks and fill…compacted.   Oh dear!    A challenge for the Soil Squad.   We’ve got this and are trouble- shooting how to grow the world’s best food and medicines.   We are laying the rocks and building the garden first.    Microbe compost is on site.   There will be a market garden on site housing the gourmet foods.   We are also waiting for 133 exotic and unusal trees.   They arrive soon.We also hosted a very successful workshop sharing about the Project and how we are creating it.  The participants were amazing and are showing amazing support and interest in the Phase I. 

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Join Us June 10th To Make The First Microbe Pile On Site.Opportunity to connect, see the Project Site and lend a helping hand!   june 10th at 10 am Contact Us

POD Updates

One of the PODS of the Living Ground Project is to create the world’s most amazing foods.   The gardens are growing, and we have recently hired another local who is in training to learn the art and science of Microbes.    We welcome Jenny to our team.    One of my favorite PODs we are creating in the Living Ground Project is the Commercial Kithen and Apothecary Pod.   This is the POD that will alchemize the food and medicinal plants from the Microbe Rich Soils to create amazing, nutritious and beneficial products.    Basically our aim is to make the world’s best food ever!   Over the past 3 years, I have attempted to secure the “cultures” for Spirulina and Chlorella.   Five attempts!   All attempts failed whether it was because they were forgotten and never travelled or the culture was not viable by the time it arrived.    That changed this week!    Cultures of both were delivered and I anxiously looked under the microscope to see the living evidence they were viable and usable.    They were!     

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Education

One aspect of the Living Ground mission is education.   The importance of this is primary.    As we learn more about the life of the soil, it is clear the “war” mentality has to be dismantled.   Yet this approach is very much a part of the human brain due to manipulation and programming.   It shows up in insidious ways as a fear of the pathogens.    Everytime you reach for an antibiotic or a natural parasite herb, you are in the act of war.   War doesn’t distunguish between the good and bad guys.    This is of primary importance.  This is of primary importance.  Whether it be the war on the soil (with neem, garlic, cayenne or chemical pesticides) or an antibiotic chemical or herbal, the approach is the same….WAR!

So, we have created a Microbiome E-book to empower our clients, customers, and supporters.   It is a 22 page guideline to understanding the human microbiome and how we can encourage the “good guys”.   While we have created the Apothecary Products for this protocol, we also offer you, freely, the recipes to make your own.  Our tonics, elixirs, tinctures and ferments all come from Microbe Rich Soils.

We are most happy to share this protocol with those interested in a different way.    Personally, I feel there is no other way.   Contact us for more information.Big microbial hug, Leisha and the soil squad.    

 

Launch special – buy one 50 lb bag and get the second 1/2 price

Since last September 2022, we have been working very hard to bring this community the best biocomplete, micorbe rich compost possible.   This is a science and it takes time.    We perfected our recipes for the mass production and trained our staff.   We’ve taken temperatures, tested water content and review the microscope data daily.

WE ARE READY!    The Microbe Compost has passed all inspections and we are proud to now share this!    Contact us for for this offering info@livingground.art 

We are grateful and most honored to offer this amazing compost.   Remember, it is the good guy microbes that offer protection from the bad guys, ensure the plant is receiving nutrient uptake and prevents compaction and soil errosion. 

Capturing the Memories

We have hired a local girl named Jenny who is great in the gardens.   We are training her is the microbes and the market garden techniques.    The soil is getting better and better as we monitor and adjust the Organic Matter and Microbe ammendments.   It is a challenge in Ecuador because of the “bugs” and we are following and applying the science.    This gardens we are building and growing will be supplying the Microbe Weekly Basket Program sharing the nutritious and gourmet food with the community.

 

 

One of my favorite POD we are creating in the Living Ground Project is the Commercial Kithen and Apothecary Pod.   This is the POD that will alchemize the food and medicine plants from the Microbe Rich Soils to create amazing, nutritious and beneficial products.    Basically our aim is to make the world’s best food ever!    

Over the past 3 years, I have attempted to secure the “cultures” for Spirulina and Chlorella.   Five attempts!   All attempts failed whether it was because they were forgotten and never travelled or the culture was not viable by the time it arrived.    That changed this week!    Cultures of both were delivered and I anxiously looked under the microscope to see the living evidence they were viable and usable.    They were!

Chlorella and spirulina are among the most nutritious foods available today.  They are superfoods and powerhouses of nutrition.  These two super greens are pure, wholesome foods that have been used as a food source by ancient communities. Spirulina was a staple of the Aztecs and Mesoamericans. In the Far East, chlorella has been used as an alternative medicine since the ancient times. Chlorella is a type of green algae that grows in fresh water. It is a close cousin to the salt-water based Spirulina

Living Ground’s mission is to care for and increase the good guy microbes for the benefit of all and especially the human.   Just as the microbes are important for health soil, microbes are also the most important aspect of the human microbiome health.  Good gut flora is linked to strong immune system, meaning less allergies, a healthy digestive system meaning management of digestive issues such as leaky gut and IBS, good urinary tract and vaginal health, meaning less UTI’s, BV (Bacterial Vaginosis) and yeast infections.  The list goes on and on.  The research shows that chlorella and spirulina both help balance gut bacteria, which helps us digest and absorb nutrients from our food (source 1, source 2).  It is not mistake this is a benefit of increasing the microbes in our plant gardens and human garden.

So we are testing the production process and have started our first culture.   Fingers crossed we are success.  If so, we intend on being suppliers to our local community…and offering both fresh and dried.   I have also spent a lot of time researching the nutrients required and how to obtain them “naturally”.    Most add “fertilizers”.    My goal is to discover how these amazing foods grow in nature and duplicate.   I will share updates as we progress with this experiment in making and creating our own medicines and foods.

We will be offering this to the community both fresh and dried.   This is very, very, very exciting.

 

 

LIVING GROUND NEWSPAPER APRIL 2023

        KEEPING THE LITTLE GOOD GUYS INFORMED   APRIL 2023

Sacred Commerce Workshop April 29-30

Are you curious about what Living Ground Project is all about?    Are you wondering how to get involved and/or support the Project?

We invite you to our base-line workshop where we dive into the creation of Living Ground, it’s purpose, mission, values and the lego blocks of the creative intentions.    This is a 2-day workshop that is also an event to help with the financial support required to begin the lift off.

Last week, we legally acquired the Project Site located in Masanamaca.   This is a one hectare land with a very large 1000 m2 building.   Our vision for this site is for it to become the Microbe Education and Tourism headquarters for Ecuador (and even South America).    The business model is is a creative construction of values and intentions to place people before profits through collaboration and interdependent “pods”.    

This workshop is a invitation for all locals to learn, discover and possibily get involved.    Day 2 is optional for those who are inspired and wish to go deeper into collaboration.   We are sharing the concept of sacred commerce, the measurement of success and intending to raise leaders in the Project’s purpose.

We, the Soil Squad, do feel this is a Project for World Changers!    We have the concept, the project site and the plan!    You are officially welcomed to join us and let’s change the world!

To discover why this project is important in the climate of today’s world, here are 30 base reasons (and we can find more)

Please RSVP to info@livingground.art or whatsapp 0988771568.    We are “looking forward” and excited about this gathering.Workshop Details on our website

 

In Gratitude!

The creation process has begun.   Our first mission is to lay the foundation of microbes and gardens on the Project site.   We are planning out the special gardens that will include a “secret garden” and a fully opertational Market Garden.     We are decorating the site with rare, unusual and special trees as well.   

Microbe Compost

Our Microbe Compost is ready.   As we regularly check all our compost with the microscope, we are confident all the good guys are home.   We are very proud of our Ecuadorian team who have been learning, studying and labouring in the Microbe Compost creation.   They care for the piles like their own children.    We are sharing the microscope skills with them too so that one day, they can monitor and measure success on their own.   To purchase our compost, please visit HERE or contact Nic to place an order.   We are also selling matured Organic Matter in blends (perfect food for the microbes), microbe extracts and teas (specially made to order to ensure they are aerobic) and we are actively consulting with land owners to spread the magic of the microbes. 

Rising of the Microbe Coop Basket POD

One market garden is already in full production and we are gearing up to offer weekly baskets of microbe grown food to our customers.   This offering will be available in May.    Our baskets will include a mixture of greens, herbs, vegetables, fruits inlcuding berries, gourmet dressings and samples of gourmet products made from microbe grown plants.     To register for this program and enjoy the nutritious harvests, please email Jimini

Microbe & Health Tourism

One of the PODS of the Living Ground Project is to establish tourism for those interested in health and microbes.    We have been busy working on a “launch” site for this offering and will be ready very, very soon to offer tourism and health packages to the world.    The Project Site has huge possibility for this POD with the potential to create comfortable rooms for both individuals and families.   It is our intention to launch our “test” in the month of May.   This space will include all tools necessary for a healing, health and educational experience for both locals and internationals.

 

Living Ground, Suelo Vivo   www.livingground.art  email:  info@livingground.art

 

Are you curious about what Living Ground Project is all about?    Are you wondering how to get involved and/or support the Project?

We invite you to our base-line workshop where we dive into the creation of Living Ground, it’s purpose, mission, values and the lego blocks of the creative intentions.    This is a 2-day workshop that is also an event to help with the financial support required to begin the lift off.

Last week, we legally acquired the Project Site located in Masanamaca.   This is a one hectare land with a very large 1000 m2 building.   Our vision for this site is for it to become the Microbe Education and Tourism headquarters for Ecuador (and even South America).    The business model is is a creative construction of values and intentions to place people before profits through collaboration and interdependent “pods”.    

This workshop is a invitation for all locals to learn, discover and possibily get involved.    Day 2 is optional for those who are inspired and wish to go deeper into collaboration.   We are sharing the concept of sacred commerce, the measurement of success and intending to raise leaders in the Project’s purpose.

We, the Soil Squad, do feel this is a Project for World Changers!    We have the concept, the project site and the plan!    You are officially welcomed.

To discover why this project is important in the climate of today’s world, here are 30 base reasons (and we can find more)

Please RSVP to info@livingground.art or whatsapp 0988771568.    We are “looking forward” and excited about this gathering.

 

With 30 days left in our fundraising effort  we share 30 reasons for our work and the action of our words.   The challenges couple with the potentials are the fuel that feeds our misson.     

To understand what the project is, see this post!

If we will have the wisdom to survive,
to stand like slow growing trees
on a ruined place, renewing, enriching it…
then a long time after we are dead
the lives our lives prepare will live
here, their houses strongly placed
upon the valley sides…
The river will run
clear, as we will never know it…
On the steeps where greed and ignorance cut down
the old forest, an old forest will stand,
its rich leaf-fall drifting on its roots.
The veins of forgotten springs will have opened.
Families will be singing in the fields…
Memory, native to this valley, will spread over it
like a grove, and memory will grow
into legend, legend into song, song
into sacrament. The abundance of this place,
the songs of its people and its birds,
will be health and wisdom and indwelling
light. This is no paradisal dream.
Its hardship is its reality.

– Wendell Berry

 

Here we share the vision of the Project Site and how we see it functioning in the future.     As of today, there are 32 days left to meet our fundraising deadline.    We are optimistic and hopeful.   Please watch and consider sharing.   The youtube link is https://youtu.be/K6RtJf53AYE   

 

 

We’re  in trouble!   Our soils are dirt.  Soil is the most valuable and least valued resource. There is drought, flooding and leaching of our soils.    People are diseased.   Our food is deplete of nutrition (even organic)  and we face a growing public health crisis triggered by the decline of  beneficial  microbes and the rise of pathogens.   Mother Nature does not need us…but we need her healthy and strong.

We are have raised 28% of the goal to acquire the Project site.  

Now for the good news. Living Ground is in the business of mimicking Nature and farming  beneficial microbes.  We have created a change the world project that addresses and initiates solutions for many problems.    Our  primary intention is to heal the soil by farming and spreading the beneficial microbes but Living Ground is so much more. We’ve created a whole system where microbes, people and plants can  enjoy success and health!   Microbe tourism, education center, gardens, restaurant, cooperative, gourmet store, essential oils, apprenticeships, health clinic, regenerating sugar cane and corn fields, office to preserve land and water……and more!!!!! We’ve created a whole system where microbes, people and plants can enjoy meaningful employment, success and health.  The Soil Squad Ecuador found the perfect site for our microbe mission to house the Microbe Education Center.  BUT, we discovered a gas station was interested in this same property. So, we made a deal to purchase without the funds needed.

https://fundrazr.com/livingground?ref=ab_7BVyw4

We have 2 months (march 15 deadline)  Imagine a project that circulates around the beneficial microbes to ensure success, health, healing and touches life with hope!

 

It is important everyone understands that soils (sand, silt and clay) hold massive amounts of nutrients in every soil every where…..but these nutrients are not in available form for the plants without the beneficial microbes. Humans have destroyed this microbial web. We have a chance to reverse this in a way to rises microbes, humans and health. Our mission is to empower the web of life.  It is time to gather everyone who gets the importance of this work, Please join us in a brainstorm “session” for the “what next” success.   When the little guys come together, everyone wins.

 

inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Living Ground Project – Acquiring the Project Site
Time: Jan 21, 2023 10:30 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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COME WITH IDEAS, PRAYERS, WILLINGNESS AND INSPIRATION!

 

WHEN WE GIVE LIFE TO THE “LITTLE GUYS” EVERYONE WINS!

The Launch Day was a success!    Below are some snap shots of the event day sharing the “happy people”.     We are still tallying up the expenses but it looks like we raised $1000!  Thank you Vilcabamba!       

Our Soil Squad gave it our all to serve and present to our community and share the mission and vision on Living Ground ~ Suelo Vivo.   Our compost is ready and we are spreading the microbes

We continue with our Fundraising efforts as we are charged with an important mission.  There is a huge crises on the soil front as we have lost vast amounts of soil organic matter and we continue to lose soil organic matter at a rapid pace. There is a severe water stress. There is very widespread loss of biodiversity.   Collectivelly, we are heading towards disaster, food crisis and health crisis.   Our project is about reversing this damage and mimicing nature both in operations (business structure) and in restoring the soil to ensure health for all living things.       Our deadline to acquire the project site is March 15.    We continue to ask for support.  Our intuitions are strong this project will rise when the “little good guys” come together.    There is still sharing and supporting required to reach our goal.   

Will you be a part of this important project?

Fundraiser

               

                      

Here we present the Project with love, intention and courage!         

 

Welcome to the last day of 2022.
This is a note to thank you all those who came to support us last Thursday night at the Gala and Launch where we shared our passion the Soil Squad has for our work in spreading the microbes.  We also hope you see the intensity and importance of this work, this mission and how it is foundational for health and change.     As we shared, this is a paradigm shift and we are dedicated to the SOILution and the way forward.
We continue to ask for help and support.   We do not wish to take for taking-sakes and are willing to work with people to give-back so that everyone wins.    We are requesting you share our mission as we do sense and feel deeply this will be successful when the “little good guys” amass and work together.
If you feel inclined and moved to financially support this project, we are willing to discuss possibilities for us to give back to you.  We desire to mimic the microbes so that everyone wins!
Here we share a “garden package” – instant garden – where all proceeds will go to the fundraiser.   Perhaps we could consult!   I am also willing to offer Live Blood Consults too.    Our microbe compost is ready and so are we.   There are so many possibilities in the collaboration project as diversity and symbiosis wins!  Our primary mission, share and move the microbes, is in full speed ahead.
Also, we invite locals to come visit the project site and take a peek at the potential.   Come take a walk with us around the site and buildings and see our vision with us.    We’d be honored!
Thank you again from the bottom of our hearts!  Let’s make 2023 the BEST EVER!
Leisha and the Soil Squad

I am begining to understand that the desception of the matrix in ways deeper than imagined and it is digusting.   Species banking is becoming big business…and it is putting a “worth” on nature. The deception forms as many are participating  thinking they are “protecting” nature. It appears good…and it is not. The worth of a species or a sector of nature is now determined by the law of economics – when there is low supply, demand and value increases.

Under the layers….more is being revealled.    Can economics blend with ecology?

“Eco” is our dwelling, our house. “Ology” is the study, observation and learning. Nomics is “law”. The study of our dwelling and the law of our dwelling. Again, can they be blended?

Giving “credit” to nature is how the matrix is connecting ecology and economics. It is already big business as it snuck in from the sidelines disguising as something “good” for nature. It gives value on nature as exchangable credits…good credits offset bad credits. It is giving permision for destruction as long as good credits are held.

Biodiversity is now an economic farm of capital, nature capital.  This is the business of nature. They have made nature a commodity.

This IS THE MATRIX!     

We have been trying to save nature because it is the “right thing to do” and systems have been created to “save”. My gosh, this is so horrible. The scales have tipped…and the pricelessness of nature is now given value. Whenever we put a “value” on nature, we are participating. I don’t know what the answer is…and I am not sure we will find one now other than taking a good look out our personal selves and where it is participates in that Matrix and buy into it.

Personally, I am committed to doing more research and taking a good scrutinizing look at the model created for Living Ground. Where is it buying into this matrix? Where can it be separated so that it is NOT in that matrix?

Philosophically, this is a challenge!  But it is not impossible.   Our task at Living Ground is to consider and ensure we are not swallowed into the matrix.   We are not sure how to do this…but placing attention on this the future.

To start, we are detailing our “values manifesto” so that now and in the future, it is a map or frame-work so that deceipt can not penetrate.     We also are considering offering a mandatory “Living Ground Boot Camp” mini course for any current and future leader of Living Ground.   This mini course will educate on the “little guys” and challenge the programs of our thinking and concieving that has been muddied and muddlied form our cultural learning.   All leaders must go through this mini course!

Our task now is research and deep thought.   I think it is time to change the view of “as above, so below” to “so below as above”.    What can the community of microbes teach us about operating?