Planty Mamma

14/12/2025

Well known Central Otago resident Sam Neill posted this statement just a few hours ago on social media, and has been flooded with support and comments in opposition to the mine (thousands of likes, and hundreds of comments already).

Sam's family has lived in Otago for over 160 years, and he's obviously felt so strongly against the controversial mine that he's chosen to speak out.

Thank you, Sam, for using your mana and platform to highlight this fast-track horror. It's great to know we are not alone. Legend!

If you're reading this and you have not yet added your name in opposition, do so here: http://eepurl.com/jsaheU and find out more here: https://sustainabletarras.com/nomine/

09/12/2025

09/12/2025

The words of Hubert Reeves call attention to a paradox woven into human behavior. We often look beyond the physical world for meaning while forgetting the living systems that sustain our bodies, breath, and future. His reflection reminds us that the sacred is not distant or abstract; it is present in every tree, river, and species sharing this planet with us.

For thousands of years, spiritual traditions have taught that the Earth itself is a living being — a companion on our journey rather than an object to be consumed. When we disregard this relationship, we drift further from balance, creating loss not only in the environment but within our own consciousness. The fractures we see in nature mirror the fractures within humanity.

Recognizing this connection invites a shift in perspective. Instead of seeking the divine only through belief, we can witness it through the harmony and intelligence expressed everywhere in the natural world. Every ecosystem is a lesson in cooperation. Every cycle is an expression of renewal. Every species holds wisdom that complements our own.

When we damage Earth, we also damage the inner landscape that longs for peace, stability, and resonance. Healing one requires healing the other. It is an invitation to return to a more mindful way of living, where reverence becomes part of daily action rather than a distant ideal.

Reeves’ message challenges us to examine how we care for the world that cares for us. Transformation begins the moment we choose to honor the life around us as deeply as we honor the unseen mysteries of existence.

20/11/2025

Menopause & Estrogen

Estrogen is not one thing.
Estrogen receptors are not fussy.
They accept many forms of estrogen.
Because women make many kinds of estrogen.

Menopause is the cessation of only one of the estrogens we make.
It is not "the end of estrogen."
It does not cause problems with your bones or heart.
Supplemental hormones don't give you strong bones or a healthy heart.
Lifestyle choices do that.

Estrogenic chemicals in our environment are known to cause cancer.
How can we believe that taking supplemental estrogen
For any reason
Will be healthy?
It isn't.

Supplemental hormones are dangerous.
Removing the warning label doesn't remove the danger.

Menopause is a time of changing hormones.
Estradiol is on the way out.
But women make other estrogens
From tissues other than their ovaries.
Women can make plenty of estrogen after menopause.
Even after surgical menopause.

Millions of women lead long, active, healthy lives without hormone supplements
Even if they no longer have their ovaries.

Busy women with lots of responsibilities
Still have a responsibility to their own health.
That's one of the gifts of menopause.

There is no habit that pays off more than making
And drinking
A daily quart of nourishing herbal infusion.

Make your next day's nourishing herbal infusion
While you brush your teeth.
Weigh herb into jar.
Put water up to boil.
Brush teeth.
Pour boiling water into jar; add lid.
Turn off the stove and go to sleep.
Next morning, infusion is ready.
Take with you to work.
Or put it in the fridge.
Strain as you use it.
So easy.

I rotate through five herbs.
I do not mix them together.

These five herbs are superfoods.
They are adaptogens.
They are safe and useful for everyone
At every age
In every condition.

Comfrey builds the world's strongest bones.
Keeps you flexible.
Worried about comfrey?
Check out The Comfrey Conference
www.wisewomanschool.com/p/the-comfrey-conference
🌿
And put your mind at ease.

Oatstraw restores libido
Keeps you juicy, calm, ready to deal with life.
Green oat tops does it too.
Said to "extend healthy years of life."

Nettle builds your energy from the roots to the flowers.
Makes your hair shine,
Your skin glow,
And restores youthful activity to the cardiovascular system.

Red clover is really not very hormonal at all.
Check out The Red Clover Conference
www.wisewomanschool.com/p/red-clover-con
🌿
For David Hoffmann's take on the misinformation
About comfrey and estrogen.
Red clover is a big hug from the earth to you.
Full of love.
Full of minerals.

Linden is the world's best anti-inflammatory.
Rebrew for even more lubricating mucilage.
(Comfrey rebrews too, but not the others.)
The Linden Conference will amaze you.
www.wisewomanschool.com/p/soothing-linden-conference
🌿

There is a huge community of women who trust their bodies
Who know menopause is puberty prime
And who have completed their passage to power without drugs.
Are you with us?
Will you join us?
Do you dare to claim your full power?

It is in beauty.
It is a giveaway dance.
We breathe with the plants.
Our hearts beat as one with the heartbeat of the earth.
We are surrounded by green blessings.
Gratitude
Gratitude
Gratitude
Joy

20/11/2025

Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard.
Do not let pain make you hate.
Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.
Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree,
you still believe it to be a beautiful place. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

09/11/2025

06/11/2025

04/11/2025

Trump just gave away America’s last wild frontier — to Big Oil. It’s the largest giveaway of public land to fossil fuel companies in modern history. The announcement, made Thursday by Trump’s Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, opens 1.56 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge wilderness to oil and gas drilling.

Burgum bragged that “Alaska is open for business,” calling it a win for “energy independence.” Translation: the Arctic is open for destruction.

And this isn’t just about drilling in the Arctic. Trump’s team also reissued permits for the Ambler Road Project — a 211-mile industrial road slicing through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, home to more than 200,000 migratory birds and dozens of tribal communities that rely on the land for hunting and fishing.

Thirty-nine Alaskan villages and 37 tribes have already said no. Trump didn’t care.
As if that weren’t enough, the White House also greenlit new oil and gas lease sales across the National Petroleum Reserve, reversing Biden’s 2024 decision to expand protections there.

Let that sink in: during a government shutdown, when public workers go unpaid, Trump found time to hand Big Oil the keys to the Arctic — and the shovels to dig its grave.

Environmental groups are furious — and rightly so.
“The Arctic Refuge is the crown jewel of our public lands system,” said the Alaska Wilderness League. “Opening it to drilling would destroy one of the most ecologically significant landscapes on Earth.”

The Sierra Club called it what it is: “A collective wrecking ball aimed at fragile Alaskan ecosystems, all to boost the bottom lines of CEOs.”

And the Gwich’in people, whose ancestors have protected this land for millennia, called it a “direct assault on our culture, our food security, and our future.”
This isn’t about jobs. It’s not about energy independence. It’s about greed — pure and simple.

Trump’s “America First” energy plan is really Planet Last.

He’s trading caribou for campaign checks, glaciers for gas wells, and Indigenous rights for profit margins.

If this makes you angry, you’re paying attention. Because when Trump says “America is open for business,” what he really means is: our future is for sale.