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Joe Hollis shares about living off a minimal income and meeting your needs in the garden. You’ll also hear about:

• Cultivating a botanical garden of useful plants
• On the Daoist tradition as a philosophy of how to live on Earth without messing it up
• On what can be accomplished in a lifetime 
• Joe shares his favorite adaptogens, and why everyone can grow them  

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For the past 25 years, Joe Hollis has been engaged in developing Mountain Gardens, a Paradise Garden on several acres of mountain woodland in western N. Carolina. For Joe, Paradise Garden is both a place to live and a way to live, and, above all ‘visionary ecological theater.’ He tries to act on deep instincts and archetypal images related to human habitat and niche as a way of providing a sustainable values system with sufficient appeal to challenge the dominant consumer culture. Take a garden tour with Joe and learn more, at the Mountain Gardens YouTube channel. 

Mountain Gardens is a botanical garden of useful plants featuring the largest collection of native Appalachian and Chinese medicinal herbs in the Eastern US, organically grown at the foot of the Black Mountains in Western North Carolina. Mountain Gardens specialties include: native and oriental medicinal herbs, wild foods, perennial vegetables, craft plants, and other ethnobotanicals. Offering for sale seeds, plants, fresh and dried herb material, workshops, resources, a self-help herb center and so much more!

 

In this episode, we talk about:

• Joe shares some of his story and how Paradise Mountain found him
• On the events that changed Joe’s life trajectory forever 
• Culture shock and coming home from the Peace Corps in Borneo
• On what happened when ginseng spoke to Joe 
• On remembering another way to live from and with the Earth 
• Cultivating a botanical garden of useful plants 
• On growing the right plants for your bio-climate 
• Cultivating wild perennial foods 
• How agriculture changed the modern human relationship to the land 
• Tending to the diversity of the Earth, through the garden
• The special relationship between the plants of East Asia and Eastern North America 
• On getting out of the system of capitalism and into a more direct relationship with the Earth
• Building an intuitive relationship with the garden
• How Joe realized that he was in constant dialogue and communication with the plants
• On what can be accomplished in a lifetime 
• Joe shares how he utilizes the resources and organic materials from the land 
• Beauty as diversity 
• Joe shares his favorite and signature plant, and why everyone should grow them  
• How the plants teach us about the body 
• How adaptations boost the immune system and normalize systems within the body 
• On growing wasabi and specialist mountain plants 
• A day in the life of Joe 
• Advocating for a different lifestyle 
• On meeting your needs in the garden, instead of with money  
• Joe’s library legacy and herbal self-help help center
• On the Daoist tradition as a philosophy of how to live on
• Earth without messing it up
• Finding your nitch
• On the unequal distribution of resources and money as the blood of civilization 
• Living off a minimal income and the resources of the Earth 
• Choosing a different path from the norm 
• Joe’s upcoming book - ‘Make Paradise Not Money’ 
• Practicing neo-primitive living 
• How the universe responds to our sincerity 
• And so much more!

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References:

• Veda Austin || Ep 72 https://www.earthspeak.love/shows-1/veda-austin-72  
• Water Consciousness workshop with Veda Austin https://www.earthspeak.love/interpreting-the-wisdom-of-water 
• Ancestry DNA https://www.ancestry.com/
• Peace Corps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_Corps
• Longhouse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longhouse   
• Ginseng https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginseng
• Strip mine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_mining
• Poplars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populus
• Foxfire magazine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxfire_(magazine)
• Adaptogen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptogen
• Whole Earth Catalog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Earth_Catalog
• Mother Earth News https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Earth_News
• Back-to-the-land https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-to-the-land_movement
• Rosemary Gladstar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Gladstar
• Goldenseal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldenseal
• Keystone species https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_species
• Circumpolar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumpolar_distribution
• Solomons seal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygonatum
• Black cohosh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actaea_racemosa
• Wild yam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dioscorea_villosa
• Sansai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sansai
• Ramps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allium_tricoccum
• Permaculture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture
• French intensive gardening https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_intensive_gardening
• Plant communities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_community
• Gaia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia
• Dao https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao
• Cob https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cob_(material)
• Double digging https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_digging
• Mountain Water || Shan Shui https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shan_shui
• Yin and Yang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_and_yang
• The Dumbarton Oaks Anthology of Chinese Garden Literature || Book https://amzn.to/3I8vdKZ
• Aesthetics at Mountain Gardens || Essay https://www.mountaingardensherbs.com/aesthetics-at-mountain-gardens
• Science and Civilisation in China || Book https://amzn.to/3tlmXDc
• Jiaogulan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gynostemma_pentaphyllum
• TCM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_medicine
• Adaptogens and Russian Olympians https://on.natgeo.com/3Ikz2Nl
• Siberian ginseng https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleutherococcus_senticosus
• Nicotinic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotinic_acetylcholine_receptor
• Muscarinic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscarinic_acetylcholine_receptor
• Amanita muscaria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria
• Ginsenoside https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginsenoside
• Stevia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevia
• Wasabi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasabi
• Lantern Restaurant https://www.lanternrestaurant.com/
• Slow Food https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Food
• California Farm Stewardship https://www.carolinafarmstewards.org/
• Carlo Petrini https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Petrini
• Horseradish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseradish
• Tissue culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tissue_culture
• Chinese angelica https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelica_sinensis
• Daoist Traditions College of Chinese Medical Arts https://daoisttraditions.edu/
• Jeffrey C. Yuen https://daoisttraditions.edu/our-college/jeffrey-yuen-acupuncture-conferences/
• Chinas Green Religion || https://amzn.to/3Id0sEN
• UNC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_North_Carolina_at_Chapel_Hill
• Civilization and Its Discontents || Book https://amzn.to/3KfTJvg
• Greenpeace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenpeace
• Tincture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tincture
• WWOF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWOOF
• Work Away https://www.workaway.info/
• Arthur Morgan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Ernest_Morgan
• TVA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority
• Celo Community https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celo_Community
• Arthur Morgan School https://www.arthurmorganschool.org/
• Montessori https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori_education   

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