More data rolling regarding the next big grand solar minimum! Major food disruptions, record cold weather events, record low sunspot activity based on 400 years of solar observations

Friends in the Northern Hemisphere, you can still get vitamin D this time of year! A handful of solid days left (speaking from my location 49° latitude) to soak up the noontime rays to absorb vitamin D through your skin and stock up for the winter season! Go get it! Literally no one is going out this time of year only wearing shorts, or a bikini etc. It's a completely untapped health resource.. Currently with my app, the window is only from about 11:07am-2:07pm to convert sunlight into vitamin D. So next few days if you get the opportunity, try to get perhaps 45 minutes or more of good sun exposure and your health and vitality will thank you 😊

An amazing read for humans who want to cultivate more stability and calm in these rapidly shifting times ⤴️

Missing this summer time forest-bathing! Here is a little snippet of me recording a first person view of my barefoot hiking experience in the beautiful mountains of the Pacific Northwest

No harvest is too small 🦪🍄

Who's ready for the snow? With all the lockdown madness, collective fear around health, and general disruption in daily life, it's never been more important to get connected to nature and one's innate vitality and power
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Regardless of what perspective you hold on this year's current global situation, it's always fruitful to supercharge your health and vigor!
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This year I've done more fitness activity and movement cumulatively than I have in many years, also more river and cold plunges than I have in many years, so it's time to continue this trend and level up a bit..
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My grandmother has told me stories from Finland about my great grandfather, whom during the winter time, would exit the sauna, and go lay down in the snow and roll around, rubbing his skin with handfuls of icy powder (just imagine the burn ❄🔥). He lived into his mid-nineties, befriending the icy cold, the sauna heat, plucking and eating fresh carrots from their garden, and working until his last few months of life
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In Finland there is a concept known as "sisu" which roughly translates into stubbornness or vigor, toughness. In this modern world of convenience and comfort, we could use a little more sisu
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So in honor of my roots and cultivating this innate sisu, I'm gearing up to start doing late fall/winter cold exposure (river or snow) a little bit at a time - which will be a solid LEVEL UP from my current practice of spring/summer cold swimming, cold showers etc
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Make friends with the cold 🧊🧘‍♂️

Have you heard of the town of Todmorden? One of the most self-sufficient towns in the world, has gardens at the police station, fruit trees at the city hall, berry bushes along some streets, a "pollinator avenue" and edible installations at 40 different public areas. This is the type of future we can create together!

One of the least well known edible trees - grown as an ornamental in the Pacific Northwest..
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This beautiful tree is from Japan, and produces edible pulp that tastes a bit like a less sweet version of mango and apple. The seeds are not edible, so the best way I found to eat them is to break the fruit in half, squeeze out and eat the pulp and make sure to spit the seeds out! While this fruit isn't completely ready for eating off the tree like other edibles, and does require a bit more work, it's an excellent snack if you pick a big handful on the go 😁
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This is just one example of a way we can still keep urban and home landacapes looking nice and ornamental, yet are very functional and overflowing with edible plants 🏡
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