WWOOFing: week 3; SO STIMULATED

July 13, 2015

Stimulated with life, love, and especially sami.

You see, my boss is kind of an expert in the Inca culture. Living in Peru amongst gurus and blood-related Incas has left her utterly educated in the works of nature, living with nature, and understanding nature. The Inca culture has survived long enough to still be taught/practiced to this day. That is because what they believed in, living energy, is scientific and logical. The transfer of energy within and between nature and human being and animals. It is the unseen, all-shared feeling you get in your gut, or burst of endorphins after you take a walk outside; something that can be felt. These are ideas that Nikola Tesla almost changed the world with. (I say almost because the ideas were so natural and free that the government stole and hid the ideas for none of us to profit from.) Anyways... Her expertise has been taught to us all week with morning classes on recognizing, controlling, digesting, and transferring the sami (light energy) into ourselves from the galaxies and releasing the hoocha (heavy energy) into Mother Earth. The flow of vibrations constantly recycling in and out of nature and ourselves which keeps life going. (Think about how perfect the mutualistic relationship between trees exhaling what we need as we exhale what they need). Now this is probably sounding very hocus pocus-ish and maybe scary you, especially to my mom, but it is just a form of life which works within the earth and I believe it should be researched and at least given a chance to learn of. If you would like to read more, which you should, check out my boss's, Elizabeth Jenkins, bestselling book, The Fourth Level.

This is her third book.

After educating ourselves with the workings of the world, we also became masters of a micro world: the macnut business. We have finally completed each step with grace and expertise.

Hours have been spent waiting for these puppies to drop from the trees and allow us to collect as many as we can to harvest into something nutritious and delicious. (You should see our thighs from these next-level squats)

You can never have enough.

Then on to the de-husking and disposal of cracked or infected nuts.

The "pretty" nuts' inner shell is cracked for us to see just how pretty they are on the inside. Any ugly insides are disposed to the sheep. We're down to the white nut you can eat.

When washing, they are reviewed once more to pick out any ones unworthy of experiencing this farm's dehydration technique which makes them so famous.

For four days these guys lose all their water but retain the essential oils, nutrients, and DELICIOUS flavor in this machine our other boss MADE HIMSELF.

This is the final (fifth) time the nuts are reviewed and only the golden ones remain.

The perfectly selected white nuts are weighed, packaged, and sealed raw...

Or turned into brittle...

Or macnut butter (chocolate or white chocolate)....

Oh yeah, and honey.

I know you're drooling.

The coolest part about this awesome

business is how many sustainable practices there are throughout the whole process.

Here's a few...

1 No till farming allows good decomposition and regeneration of soil nutrients

2 The use of sheep to recycle compost back into fertilizer naturally as well as maintain weed growth/ mow fields

3 field rotation of sheep reduces soil compaction

4 borders pine trees around farm to reduce wind erosion

5 No herbicide/ pesticide usage

6 alternates crops/ trees planted to not use up all soil nutrients

7 wastewater recycled as grey water for irrigation

8 all waste products of macnuts can be fed to sheep or birds (zero waste)

9 mutulistic relationship between sheep eating husk and rats eating nut (of fallen nuts) so soil doesn't become too acidic during decomposition of unpicked nuts

10 solar heated water in all buildings

by the way....Macnuts cause toxic shock in dogs

If the world went into chaos, I know my boss wouldn't be too worried about survival.

Other than all those life lessons we remodeled a backyard weed field into a growth bed garden