Shadowmyre Farm

04/04/2023

Grow Your Own Toilet Paper!

I am known around the world for many things, but one that has really stuck in the minds of many is that I grow my own toilet paper!
I absolutely LOVE growing my own toilet paper. It is one of the many ways that I have turned both of my cheeks on capitalism and consumerism. It is a means in which I demonstrate my deep trust that Earth can provide me with all of my basic needs.
My relationship with the Toilet Paper Plant, also known as the Blue Spur Flower or Plectranthus barbatus, is one of the many relationships I have developed with our plant relatives over the last decade. I love all my relatives, but the TP Plant holds a little bit of an extra space in my heart. Not just because it is so soft and comforting. Not just because it is the Charmin of the Garden. But because it serves as a messenger to humanity, to share that we can reconnect with Earth and break free from the rat race of life.

I am elated to share two announcements that my plant friend and I have for you.

We are going on a two week tour of Florida April 28th – May 14th to bring this message to the masses.
In every major city, I will set up my compost toilet right in the hustle and bustle of society. There I will sit on my compost toilet, with beautiful Toilet Paper Plants on either side of me, introducing this alternative way forward to all who care to spend a moment with us.

At the same time we are launching the Grow Your own TP Initiative with the mission of supporting 1,000 people in switching to homegrown toilet paper in 2023, while educating millions!
On a donation basis, I am now mailing cuttings of the TP Plant so that you can start growing your own TP too! Donations raised will fund food sovereignty initiatives to support regenerative, equitable and just food systems! So many of you have reached out asking where you can get this plant. I listened!

When I moved to Orlando, Florida in 2018 I planted two cuttings of a plant that a friend gave me and within one year I had a TP bush abundant enough to support a family of five, plus cuttings to share with hundreds of friends so they could grow their own TP too! I’m never going back to store-bought TP.

I’m elated to share this opportunity with you!
Love,
Robin
See tour dates, learn more, volunteer with the campaign in Florida and request your Toilet Paper Plant here:
www.robingreenfield.org/tp

02/28/2023

12/16/2022

SUNCHOKES! 🌻 Harvested sunchokes earlier today! It’s a species of sunflower that produces this root vegetable. 😱 Can use in recipes in place of potatoes or carrots! Raw, it has a great crunch and is like a radish that tastes like water chestnut. Nuttier when cooked! Also called Jerusalem artichoke or earth apple 🌱

12/11/2022

🍊 is a citrus hybrid (something like a cross between kumquat and tangerine)! They’re pretty sour and can be eaten whole like kumquats (but why?) lol. These will be excellent to experiment with, especially for preserving whole!

11/28/2022

Our first bench has been built! 🤩 This still needs a splash of paint, but we’re excited to build even more variations of this around the food forest. ☮️

11/27/2022

"Compost the Rich / Workers like this"
Seen in Timmins, Ontario

11/23/2022

If you're planning to enjoy pumpkin pie this week, you can thank mammoth p**p.

Tens of thousands of years ago in North America, squash were smaller than what we know today, and had bitter, toxic flesh—a natural defense against small animals eating their seeds.

Mastodons, mammoths and other giant herbivores ate the wild gourds because their taste buds didn’t register the bitterness, while their bodies were large enough to absorb the toxins without harm.

The seeds would pass through them, and be dispersed farther away along with the animal's p**p as fertilizer. How do we know? Squash seeds found in fossilized mammoth dung.

Wild squash grew throughout the landscape. Humans eventually cultivated larger and less bitter squash, like pumpkins.

This woolly mammoth skeleton is in Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

11/22/2022

Working on the bones of our farm.. establishing pathways and building more borders! Our farm is young, but it will be such a joy to watch it grow.
Happy to share this journey with you all. 🥰🌱

11/21/2022

Idk how we missed it, but we found a Queen Palm tree on the property and it’s loaded with fruit! This makes 3 edible palms on the farm. 😎🌴