A valuable plant for both dietary and medicinal purposes. Its seeds, leaves, and flowers all contribute to its overall health benefits.

Properties, sustainability, interesting facts and a simple vegan face mask recipe for soft and soothed skin.

Fragments of time spent in my garden tending to plants and connecting with nature.

“Trees fall with spectacular crashes. But planting is silent and growth is invisible.”

“What we care for, we will grow to resemble. And what we resemble will hold us, when we are us no longer ” …

↟ Most tree roots stay in the top 18 inches of soil, but they can also grow above ground (mangroves, banyan figs) or dive a few hundred feet deep.

↟ Coconut palm trees produce roots that grow just below the surface in a fibrous mass, reaching out distances that are as far as the tree is tall…