Tiferet Test by The Home Grown Institute

Week 3 - Tiferet Drinking from the Flow of Nourishment Blessing to Count the Omer The week is an opportunity for...

Welcoming Nourishment at the Edges Where Hesed releases the ow of nourishment, and Gevurah de nes the boundaries, Tiferet provides access points - places and processes that allow all of life to drink from the ow. Look within: to the magni cence of the microbiome, an entire microscopic community working in tandem with our gut biologies. Look without: to green leaves stretching to the sun, to deep roots spreading to soak up rain. Look between: to where many systems, species, and entities meet at the edges. There is potency in these interdependencies, these meeting points of exchange, balance, and innate generosity.

Tiferet “Experiential Flashes From Reb Zalman z”l A loving hug, the compassion of the sacred hear Whole Earth Tree of Lif • Photosynthesi • Fermentatio • Microbiom • Culture

Sample of What’s Coming This Week.. • 10 Easy Home Ferment • Creating Indoor/Outdoor Altar • Correcting History - Dr George Washington Carver

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15th Day of the Omer

Hesed sh'b' Tiferet Welcoming Nourishment at the Edges EXPLODING INTO LIF Seeds sprouting create their own small altars honoring the the life force. What is exploding into Life around you

Tap/Click to Watch 10 Day Growth

A Visual Germination Trea An under-ground and over-ground treat. 10 days of growth of a runner bean. (time-lapsed 1.5 min, no sound

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An Audio Visual Germination Trea GARIN KATAN/(A Tiny Seed)/in Em/ a song of shifting paradigms/

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Garin Katan

Hebrew and Melody, by an unknown author/English lyrics, Arrangement and Recording by Rabbi Jack Schechtman Gabriel/all rights reserved. Time-lapsed video footage copyright free. Thanks to Megan Tabaque for a/v scoring.)

(3 min 15 sec, Jack singing)

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16th Day of the Omer

Gevurah sh'b' Tiferet Welcoming Nourishment at the Edges MULTIPLE FUNCTIONAL EDGES OF HERB Every spring I buy a rosemary plant and put it right outside my front door… for the express purpose of running my ngers through her as I come and go, activating her aromatic qualities. Good for the hair and scalp, I also use some drops of her essential oil in diluted apple cider vinegar as a rinse. So generous is she that she also gifts us with culinary and medicinal properties If some of your friends are herbs and you want to get to know them better... in the herbalist community, training is done by writing monographs to become intimate with speci c herbs. So, if you google “monograph” with the name of any herb, you get solid peek into their world Here are two examples of herbal monographs • Ginger monograph at the Sloan Kettering websit • Rosemary monograph from Herb Rally

Tap to Watch Encounter with Sage in Switzer Canyon (37 seconds)

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17th Day of the Omer

Tiferet sh'b' Tiferet Welcoming Nourishment at the Edges OUR INTERNAL MICROBIOM The Ultimate Human Edges Drinking-in-Nourishment.. “The foundation that the gut and its vast microbiome provide for human health cannot be over emphasized. In a profoundly eloquent method of checks and balances, mother nature has designed our gut barrier (the primary structure that de nes your human selfidentity at the biologic level) to be completely dependent on its continuous contact with the vast microbial population of the earth. Everything you breathe, eat, and touch is an extension of your microbiome, making you and the natural world inevitably intertwined towards health.” (Zach Bush, triple board certi ed MD) Jicama, a crunchy, refreshing, prebiotic treat for the microbiome

Watch: Zach Bush on Gut Health (6 minutes) Recipe: My Ever-Changing Green Smoothie

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18th Day of the Omer DEEP OLD Sounds of the Forest

Netzach sh'b' Tiferet Welcoming Nourishment at the Edges

Visit random forests around the world through their sounds. tree.fm is a project in the Creative Commons.

Rethinking ‘Forest Bathing I used to equate my Contemplative Forest Walks with ‘Forest Bathing’ or ‘Forest Therapy’ but those phrases always struck me as a little off. It likely plays differently in its native Japanese, but for me, the phrases feel privileged and extractive, (hmmm... big thoughts/feelings!) as they edge around our identity as consumers-of-nature and separate-from-nature.

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My current work/play is guring out ways to decolonize these practices by shifting relationships with other-than-human beings, from thinking of them as objects to relating to them as subjects. ‘Gaia’ is one big home and we are all living in it together. One part of the practice is inviting other-than-human friendships into my heart and recognizing all as Kin.

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tree.fm

So, when I go out for an intentional nature encounter, rather than ‘bathing’ or ‘therapy’, I visualize crossing a threshold - often an actual physical demarkation - where I notice the diversity of conversations going on whether I am there or not, ha! and choose where to join in.

(Sounds in the forest - random selection)

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19th Day of the Omer

Hod sh'b' Tiferet Welcoming Nourishment at the Edges Tap to Watch/Listen

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An Indoor Altar

An Outdoor Altar

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20th Day of the Omer

CORRECTING HISTORY Watch about George Washington Carver (13 minutes, invest the time!)

Yesod sh'b' Tiferet Welcoming Nourishment at the Edges IT’S ALL ABOUT THE SOI Boom!! It was 2006, and my worldview was forever altered when I read Chapter 8 of Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma. There, Pollan described the regenerative eco-system, food-system, choreographed like an elegant ballet, at Polyface Farm and how it is all about the soil. What really blew my mind was how, as a voracious life-long-learner, I had reached 48 and knew nothing about soil! So I dove in.. No-till gardening, nitrogen- xing cover crop, season extension, composting, vermi-composting, permaculture, bee-keeping, water catchment, backyard chickens, food forests, aquaponics, fermentation, mushroom cultivation, mycoremediation.. If these words and concepts are new for you and you want to dip your toes in, you could start here or here. If you want to start composting, here are the basics/(pdf for printing). And, of course, you could get to the library and read Michael Pollan.

21st Day of the Omer

Malkhut sh'b' Tiferet Welcoming Nourishment at the Edges MAKING FRIENDS WITH PROBIOTIC Bacteria and fungi have been carried by the winds around the edges of Gaia for millions of years. Humans apparently learned to capture these microorganisms to ferment food as long ago as 13,000 years ago 10 Fermented Foods You Can Easily Make at Home About Dairy Ke r

The microorganisms from the wind are in cahoots with the microbiome in our gut... the fermented foods are essentially predigested and make nutrients more accessible for our human nourishment So thank the fungi when you consume coffee, cheese, sourdough, sour cream, wine, sauerkraut, soy sauce, kimchi, natto, miso... the list goes on...