Quetzalcoatl Moves into the Giving Garden!

About a week before 12/21/2012, Simone began her amazing mural above our veggie garden (bed is being redone). She didn't even know that she was painting Quetzalcoatl on the wall...here are the pics to prove it: Phillip and Funn power washing the walls. Blank canvas. La Selva. Thank you beautiful sister, Simone, for gracing our garden with the feathered serpent, fertility goddess and the jungle. Our harvest is sure to be bountiful in 2013 and beyond! Love you!

The Giving Garden Mural Project

In March of 2012, one my dreams was realized....with the help of my uber talented artist-nature loving friend, Marysia Miernowska, we began the Goddess Mural in our patio. What better way to be greeted when you enter our home then by beautiful goddesses?! Marysia is 5 months pregnant and beaming as per usual! I won't let a broken arm stop me! ;) Goddesses sometimes have to conceal their beauty...not everyone can handle it! Lovely Lara Catone, painted Lahksmi (to the right of the door),Hindu goddess of wealth, prosperity (both material and spiritual), fortune, and the embodiment of beauty. I painted Venus (to the left), Roman goddess whose functions encompass love, beauty, sex, fertility, prosperity and victory. I didn't know when I began painting that the planet Venus was transiting. It's when Venus passes directly between the sun and earth. This alignment is rare, coming in pairs that are eight years apart but separated by over a century. Very auspicious indeed! On the side wall, to the right of the door is Gidget's beautiful goddess/animal representation. I don't have any photo's at the moment. But here is what it will look like: Thanks to Marysia, Lara and Gidget for their enthusiasm,love and beautiful goddess energy! Our is all the more beautiful!

Laying lava rocks in the fire-pit area!

Thanks to Gidget, Tucker and Chad for hauling the rocks to our place! Thanks to Lara for making sure we gave the garden some love on Sat. Thanks to Marysia, Ahni, Geoff and Lara for Weeding and laying down the stones. And thanks Natalie for stopping by to say hi and making us smile and to Tony for his approving nods and toast! What a beautiful day!

Looking for free fruit trees?

What began as the mapping of fruit trees in LA neighborhoods grew into Fallen Fruit, a full-fledged activist art project and collaboration among David Burns, Matias Viegener, and Austin Young. Rooted in the notion that all of us deserve to have access to "public fruit," Fallen Fruit holds a pair of public fruit-tree adoptions, officially launching EATLACMA, the museum's year-long series of food-related talks, performances, exhibitions, and other events on culture, art, politics, and eatables. February 6, TreePeople Los Angeles sponsors the public fruit-tree adoption at Watts Towers, and on February 7, it moves to LACMA. Potential adoptive fruit parents are encouraged to arrive early for the best selection.

When

Sunday Feb 7 (noon)
Where

LACMA

5905 Wilshire Blvd

323-857-6000

Natural remedies for cough and sore throat

Greetings friends!

The winter season is here! Today the garden is being graced with nourishing rain. I can see her smiling!

A friend sent out these remedies using ingredients that come from the earth. This is where true healing begins:

Since ancient times people have been using ingredients such as thyme, sage, oregano, ginger, honey, golden seal, tea [green and black], olive leaf, onion, garlic, cayenne... etc... for healing cold remedies.

Cacao has been the most effective, for stopping coughing almost immediately after drinking it. It will not cure the cough all together, but when coughing can't stop and have a sore throat, it will soothe it and make the coughing stop for as long as a day...

Cacao recipe:

1 tbsp raw cacao powder [strong - adjust if you like it weeker] to a cup of water, add honey.

Other recipes:

Cough syrup: graded fresh ginger, warm liquid honey, and 1 lemon's juice ~ this one is really yummy and soothing

Teas:

• About 1tsp of: fresh sage, thyme and oregano, green tea, with honey per 1 cup of hot water [you can make tea with each individual herb as well]
• 1 tsp dried oregano per 1 cup of hot water, 1tsp honey ~ interestingly, dried oregano was more effective than fresh.

Gargling a full glass of warm sea salt water ~ this one is pretty effective too when done in the morning and night. Must gargle the whole glass!

When trying these recipes, try using high quality ingredients and organic whenever possible. Most of the herbs should be home or locally grown, the honey & cacao were raw... it isimportant to choose the best ingredients possible to get their best healing abilities, healthy herbs mean strong herbs!

Be well!!

Planting silver sheen with Chris Noell, Christian Rodriguez, Belsie Arevalo and Gidget Granillo.

Thanks to Simone Schulz for digging, planting and sprinkling your fairy dust in our lovely garden!!

Laying fire-pit area and planting drought tolerant plants!

Thanks to Simone Schulz, Thais Camacho and Gidget Granillo!!