If you can tolerate the cold, there is an untapped health resource at your fingertips emerging in the northern latitudes!
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You may have seen one of my previous posts on the D-Minder app - which based on your % skin exposed, skin type, lattitude, time of day and year etc calculates how much vitamin D you can synthesize from the sun. 6 days ago in Vancouver BC was our first day to get vitamin D from the sun based on the suns angle
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Had a pair of socks on, and put a blanket on the chair, literally just wearing a pair of exercise shorts - got over 50 minutes of sunshine and over 1k IU of vitamin D!
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Most people wait until May or June to really benefit from the sunshine, but you can very much extend this window of solar energy for your physiological benefit by many weeks... Enjoy 🌞🔆❄
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You may have seen one of my previous posts on the D-Minder app - which based on your % skin exposed, skin type, lattitude, time of day and year etc calculates how much vitamin D you can synthesize from the sun. 6 days ago in Vancouver BC was our first day to get vitamin D from the sun based on the suns angle
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Had a pair of socks on, and put a blanket on the chair, literally just wearing a pair of exercise shorts - got over 50 minutes of sunshine and over 1k IU of vitamin D!
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Most people wait until May or June to really benefit from the sunshine, but you can very much extend this window of solar energy for your physiological benefit by many weeks... Enjoy 🌞🔆❄
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Protestors rally against idea of "Vaccine Passports" - Paris, France
Slightly different post here.. if you'd like to support or listen to me and my friends new collab album, check it here! Jam/indie/electronic/psychedelic/chill - more to come as we upgrade and enhance our skill for the next album!!
https://salalridge.bandcamp.com/album/resonations
https://salalridge.bandcamp.com/album/resonations
Salal Ridge
Resonations, by Salal Ridge
6 track album
This whole area was once a lawn, chewed up by a local beetle infestation - we installed 2 large and very accessible elevated vegetable garden beds, and later on in the season the main lawn was re-sown with bee enhancing micro-clover, and then the whole strip along the sidewalk was planted with a butterfly and beneficial pollinator wildflower blend
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In order to make your home a bit more in tune with the planet + food secure, you don't have to do anything over the top! A few small projects go a long way towards you being a regenerative land owner 🌳👨🌾🏡
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In order to make your home a bit more in tune with the planet + food secure, you don't have to do anything over the top! A few small projects go a long way towards you being a regenerative land owner 🌳👨🌾🏡
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In the modern world we consider water lifeless and inert, but as our wisdom and knowledge grow we will see it to be a living, energy rich, almost MAGICAL substance 🌊⛲💧
This forested canyon holds a special place in my heart - it's the first place I found a Lion's Mane mushroom
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Still was overjoyed to find this species despite it being far too gone and mushy (pun intended) to harvest or ingest. Perhaps 10+ days earlier and it would have served up several batches of Lion's Mane jalapeno poppers or something creative like that 👨🍳
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Still was overjoyed to find this species despite it being far too gone and mushy (pun intended) to harvest or ingest. Perhaps 10+ days earlier and it would have served up several batches of Lion's Mane jalapeno poppers or something creative like that 👨🍳
Felt great after the winter to get out and do some small harvesting of nettles.. Which have an amazing aroma (if you've picked nettles before, you know the deeply nourishing smell they give off while harvesting)
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You'll see I dug up a bit of the nettle root as well, which has an incredible tonic effect for men: prostate health, protecting healthy testosterone levels, reducing hay fever/seasonal allergies, and even benefiting heart health..
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Whenever you are out foraging, if you are considering harvesting roots, be extremely selective and take a very limited amount, OR just buy sustainably harvested extracts from companies you trust. Many plants that are great herbal tonics provide important ecological functions and there is a big list of over-harvested plants that are on the verge of extinction! Forage mindfully 🙏
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The roots here will be used in a blend of herbs to protect against environmental toxins, improve cortisol levels, and benefit optimal hormone levels - the leaves got made into a peso 🌿🌰👨🍳
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You'll see I dug up a bit of the nettle root as well, which has an incredible tonic effect for men: prostate health, protecting healthy testosterone levels, reducing hay fever/seasonal allergies, and even benefiting heart health..
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Whenever you are out foraging, if you are considering harvesting roots, be extremely selective and take a very limited amount, OR just buy sustainably harvested extracts from companies you trust. Many plants that are great herbal tonics provide important ecological functions and there is a big list of over-harvested plants that are on the verge of extinction! Forage mindfully 🙏
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The roots here will be used in a blend of herbs to protect against environmental toxins, improve cortisol levels, and benefit optimal hormone levels - the leaves got made into a peso 🌿🌰👨🍳
Here's the nettle pesto I made last night, and the washed nettle roots which have been dried in the oven overnight. They will be chopped and then shredded up in a coffee grinder, ready to add to an herbal tea formula which I'll post about soon 🍵