Gardener Joe Hollis on Cultivating a Garden of Useful Plants & Thriving Off a Minimal Income [episode 73]

UPDATE! There was a catastrophic fire at Joe’s place, Mountain Gardens. To support his rebuilding, donate to the gofundme: https://gofund.me/07358a1c 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   ♥♥♥ Join The Earth Speak Collective Membership! Join like-hearted folks in a sacred container and community where you'll: Connect deeply to yourself, others, nature & spirit Learn to trust your intuition Activate your Earth magic Expand your healing & divination skills Put your intuition into practice in everyday life Stop feeling lonely on your spiritual path Embody & express your creative power & truths Experience safe space without agenda or judgment When you join the Collective, you get access to all of our past workshops, any live workshops happening while you're a member, live weekly energetic reset calls, monthly community rituals, all the secret episodes, member-run meetups to explore magical topics, and a lively members-only forum (that's not on FB!). ▶▶▶ Learn more and sign up for the Collective membership here: https://www.earthspeak.love/collective ***** 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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Links: Join the Earth Speak Collective Membership at https://www.earthspeak.love/collective Learn more and connect with Jasper Joy @queerconjure // http://www.instagram.com/queerconjure  // www.queerconjure.org  Purchase a one-time pass to the live Interpreting the Wisdom of Water Workshop, with Veda Austin https://www.earthspeak.love/workshops?  Learn more about Joe’s offerings at www.mountaingardensherbs.com Connect with Joe on Instagram @mountaingardens // https://www.instagram.com/mountaingardens/ Connect with Guest on Facebook @MountainGardensHerbs Explore the Guest’s YouTube channel Get the secret episodes at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret  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. 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