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Cate’s Kitchen Sadhana in Autumn

Kitchen Sādhanā

Kitchen =  where you prepare your food body
Sadhana = Sanskrit साधना, literally “a means of accomplishing something”)

I first learned about kitchen sadhana from Maya Tiwari’s, Ayurveda: A Life of Balance. I checked this book out of the Jackson Hole library in during the winter of 1997. It deepened my calling. What I’ve found over … Read more

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Mother Nature – Are you with her or against her?

This much has become clear:

Either you’re lining up or you’re not.
Two steps forward, one step back is still  lining up in my book.

Nature can’t not nourish you.

(Thank you Douglas Brooks for introducing me to the power of double negation.)
The more I start eating out of the woods the more food I notice. When you start … Read more

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Wild Foods Ayurveda: Service Berries, Wild Currants, and planting fruit trees.

We’re zoning in on the Autumn Equinox and in full blown wild berry season in the Tetons. People around here focus on huckleberries. Granted, they are probably the sweetest edible that grows wild in our woods.

I interpret preference for sweet taste as a first sign of disease. Most people when given a wild food with a mix of sweet, … Read more

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Free Dental Care is in your Hands

(The Witch on the Mountain Bike is back for the next round!)

My dentist (hyperlink) and I were chatting about how dentists make a living off the residue left by soda pop, candy, and just about everything else sold at the grocery store. He explained to me that modern dentistry is not founded in prevention. Its founded in minimizing the damage and aftermath of eating unnaturally. Our teeth aren’t designed to decay.

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The Witch on the Mountain Bike

I’m awakening to the reality that I’m a present day witch. From what I know of the witches of yore they spent their time gathering plants, making concoctions or decoctions, chanting, and doing the general work of healing (warding off evil, if you may). Sure, they got a bad rap when patriarchy emerged full force in the beginnings of the … Read more

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