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Beans and Healing in the Desert: A Closer Look at Nutrition, Ecology, and the Tepary Bean
Growing Up in a Food Desert I grew up in a food desert, an area where access to fresh, affordable food is limited. Ironically, this was near active farmland, yet most of the food available to me was packaged, processed, or came from school cafeteria lunches. My early relationship with food was shaped by convenience and scarcity, not by nutrition or tradition. Over the years, I explored various diets, trying to improve my health. But most of them left me hungry, overwhelmed, or burnt out. It wasn’t until I began somatic therapy for PTSD that something unexpected shifted: I learned about beans as a foundational building block for long-term resilience.…
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Where to dump yard waste in Picture Rocks, Arizona
Need to Dispose of Yard Waste? Instead of lighting it on fire, dumping it on someone’s property, or paying to take it to the dump, you can bring it to us. You’ll need an appointment, so call or text 520-314-5138
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Did the Chicken Even Make it Across the Road?
Because of the way humans have settled into cities in the US, it can be easy to forget that most living creatures travel for a living. In order to get what they need when they need it, they follow patterns given to them by the universe. Humans tend to get in the way of that process with our fences, walls, roads, pavement, clear cutting and otherwise obliterating sacred pathways of life. I’m sure you know about the decline of monarch butterflies, or how it’s harder for bats to find food – but those creatures can fly. Now, whether they can fly to the right place at the right time is…
