It’s always the biggest treat to create and share nourishment at Jeela retreat. Seems that this gathering only gets juicier and ever more heart expansive! November’s retreat was so spectacular that I can only imagine how magical January’s will bee!! ✨🌈 Menu highlights: 🍛Poke bowls with watermelon “tuna” 🍲Oyster mushroom pozolé 🍅Fresh gazpacho & avo toasts 🍰Strawberry rose raw pie 🍚Foraged seaweed and mushroom Congee 🥞Coco cardamom gf bread pudding Mil gracias to the most gracious and down to dance kitchen helpers @mrgtbr & @maga_musica And to @jeela_retreat for creating the most luscious and cozy environment one could ever ask for 🥰

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Oyster mushrooms!! Sometimes I feel like mushrooms are looking for me. Especially when I’m not necessarily even looking for them. It’s like the more you eat mushrooms and think about them you become a walking branch of their Mycelial network and so naturally you communicate with other fungi. Oyster mushrooms are a great shroom to learn when first venturing into foraging because they are pretty unmistakable! And so delicious. I made this baby the centerpiece of tonight’s vegan gf pizza 🍕 I took home a piece of the inoculated log with some baby oysters growing on it and I will attempt to propagate more in the yard!! Viva el hongo 🍄🤍❤️

It finally happened. 4 weeks ago I handed over the keys to my beeloved home on wheels, Nube 🚐 ☁️ I never thought it’d be possible to feel so much affection for a vehicle. But she was my sanctuary, my safe place no matter where I wandered. She kept me warm and so well nourished and her girth reflected the size of her heart! Her spaciousness allowed me to carry more than I ever needed so that I could share abundance and warmth with those whose paths we crossed. She allowed us to distribute hundreds of pounds of dumpster dived chocolate, and to deliver thousands of pounds of food and herbal medicine donations to the refugees on the Tijuana border. She was home to dance parties, sleepovers, potion crafting, nourishment and rest, and so many lively ferments 🤪 Nubecita was not only my witch cave but also the home of my familiar.. my dear kitty companion Luz. In this transition I’ve also had to pass sweet Luz on to a trusted sister 🥺 The day I handed over Nube I drove off so light in the car of a new love with whom I imagined starting a new chapter. Yesterday I also had to say goodbye for good to that love. One week ago my Charango, my musical companion, shattered in front of me as well. So many releases. My heart is so tender. Yet I have no choice but to trust in the good things coming to me for which I have just made so much space. Calling in home and sanctuary and ever expanding love 💗 Here’s to new beginnings.

There are stories and sustenance and medicine in the algae of the sea! Eat what the mermaids do and you will bee slick as a seal 🦭🤍 Seaweed is rich in nutrients such as vitamins A, B complex, C, D, E and K. It also contains vital amino acids and minerals like iodine, sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, copper, zinc and manganese. It’s demulcent nature (meaning it’s slippery, soothing, nourishing) promotes healthy mucus membranes, supporting overall well-being, especially where those membranes really matter: the brain, throat, lungs, and digestive tract. Seaweed is an awesome gateway into foraging wild edibles because there is no known poisonous seaweed. (Note, seaweed is different than toxic algae blooms which sometimes occur). Make sure you’re harvesting from clean waters far from industrial areas 😉 Some of my foraging highlights: Bladderwrack ~ amazing thyroid booster for hypothyroid states, rich in beta carotene which when eaten with fat converts to vitamin A which supports healthy vision 👁 Gigartina ~ powerful antiviral, esp against the rona Sea lettuce ~ yummy raw in fresh salad with cucumber and sesame Rainbow leaf ~ literally glows iridescent rainbows in the water 🌈 You can really throw seaweed in anything you’re cooking and it will instantly have more complex flavor and medicinal value. I love blending dried seaweed into salt with toasted sesame seeds (gomasio), cutting it into strips for noodles, making it into wild fermented yummy beverage potions, or throwing it into the pot to amp up veggie broths and make beans more digestible! Oh and if you wanna go to the sirena spa: grind it up and add it to clay face masks, hot baths, and rose witch hazel facial toner 🧖‍♀️ 🧜‍♀️ Seaweed has improved my quality of life and enriched (and bewitched) my beach-going excursions. Get out there and nibble some nalgas! In the photos you sea the rich variety of colors and textures found and in the last photos my beachside lunch of coconut mushroom seaweed noodle soup 🍜 🍄 🌿

Garden carrot cake with tulsi white chocolate frosting 🥕 🌿 A sweet and sana (healthy) birthday gift to a fellow cancer crab brother 🦀 ♋️ 🎂 The sweetest part was gathering the carrots and flowers from his garden. I went into the garden and asked “Who wants to bee part of a celebration of sweet Pete, the beeing who planted you and waters and tends you?!” And I immediately felt the flowers so joyful to lend themselves to the celebration. Living such a nomadic life, I don’t get to watch my seeds grow so I am always SO grateful to get to play in the gardens of my deer friends ❤️🌺🌹🌻🌼💛 Planting and tending a garden is really tending your soul 💗 Cake Free from: gluten, dairy, eggs, soy, nuts, and refined sugar. FULL of: organic garden fresh goodness and LOVE Cake: Gluten free flour blend Sweet potatoes Carrots Rooibos chai powder Hemp milk Maple sugar Coco oil Vanilla bean Baking powder Baking soda Frosting: Cacau butter Coconut cream Tahini Powdered tulsi Powdered matcha Maple sugar Vanilla bean Lime juice