Healing Treasure

Ok, i borrowed the title from the post from one of the websites i frequent, Heavy Petal. Find out about one of their covert greeny garden ideas here.

We finally got around to doing an unplugged kid project! The theme from a little bit ago was Petal...

i came across a brilliant use of the petal-ly persuasion at Resurrection Fern. I ADORE the beautiful treasures created and observed on this blog. It is deeply inspiring. So, for our petal project the lion cub and i deconstructed and reconstructed some flowers...it was perfect for a rainy overcast afternoon.

the materials have been gathered

now for some fuel!


yes, we made sure to use some recycled paper

I really love the blog Green and Crunchy. I find Sheri and her Kale-Popsicle toting crew with their raw recipes and adventures deeply inspiring. They are probably really fun neighbors.

A couple of days ago she put up a post on making Raw Vegan Parmesan "Cheese". We had all the ingredients in hand so...viola! a few food-processing moments later we were sprinkling the stuff on everything!

Not only is it delicious, but you get tons of B-vitamins, protein, and Omega fatty acids from the delightful combination of Nutritional Yeast and Walnuts. (i am not totally sure that Nutritional Yeast is Raw, btw. i have heard its not.)

here is the recipe according to her daughter, "Annaya's Parmesan Method: She placed 1 cup of raw walnuts in the food processor and ground them until they were in small chunks. Then she added 1 cup of nutritional yeast and ground it some more. Lastly she added a pinch of sea salt and ground to a nice powder. Done!"

And here is a little person i know eating it sprinkled on organic multi-colored heirloom popcorn.

The shift back to the east coast has been relatively smooth. The sound of the ocean is missed though and my little one keeps on asking to go to the beach...who can blame him?

Akumal, the place of the turtles and this amazing art gallery!