Joe Hollis shares about living off a minimal income and meeting your needs in the garden. You’ll also hear about: Cultivating a botanical garden of useful plants On the Daoist tradition as a philosophy of how to live on Earth without messing it up On what can be accomplished in a lifetime  Joe shares his favorite adaptogens, and why everyone can grow them   ♥♥♥ Join The Earth Speak Collective Membership! Join like-hearted folks in a sacred container and community where you'll: Connect deeply to yourself, others, nature & spirit Learn to trust your intuition Activate your Earth magic Expand your healing & divination skills Put your intuition into practice in everyday life Stop feeling lonely on your spiritual path Embody & express your creative power & truths Experience safe space without agenda or judgment When you join the Collective, you get access to all of our past workshops, any live workshops happening while you're a member, live weekly energetic reset calls, monthly community rituals, all the secret episodes, member-run meetups to explore magical topics, and a lively members-only forum (that's not on FB!). ▶▶▶ Learn more and sign up for the Collective membership here: https://www.earthspeak.love/collective ***** For the past 25 years, Joe Hollis has been engaged in developing Mountain Gardens, a Paradise Garden on several acres of mountain woodland in western N. Carolina. For Joe, Paradise Garden is both a place to live and a way to live, and, above all ‘visionary ecological theater.’ He tries to act on deep instincts and archetypal images related to human habitat and niche as a way of providing a sustainable values system with sufficient appeal to challenge the dominant consumer culture. Take a garden tour with Joe and learn more, at the Mountain Gardens YouTube channel.  Mountain Gardens is a botanical garden of useful plants featuring the largest collection of native Appalachian and Chinese medicinal herbs in the Eastern US, organically grown at the foot of the Black Mountains in Western North Carolina. Mountain Gardens specialties include: native and oriental medicinal herbs, wild foods, perennial vegetables, craft plants, and other ethnobotanicals. Offering for sale seeds, plants, fresh and dried herb material, workshops, resources, a self-help herb center and so much more!   In this episode, we talk about: Joe shares some of his story and how Paradise Mountain found him On the events that changed Joe’s life trajectory forever  Culture shock and coming home from the Peace Corps in Borneo On what happened when ginseng spoke to Joe  On remembering another way to live from and with the Earth  Cultivating a botanical garden of useful plants  On growing the right plants for your bio-climate  Cultivating wild perennial foods  How agriculture changed the modern human relationship to the land  Tending to the diversity of the Earth, through the garden The special relationship between the plants of East Asia and Eastern North America  On getting out of the system of capitalism and into a more direct relationship with the Earth Building an intuitive relationship with the garden How Joe realized that he was in constant dialogue and communication with the plants On what can be accomplished in a lifetime  Joe shares how he utilizes the resources and organic materials from the land  Beauty as diversity  Joe shares his favorite and signature plant, and why everyone should grow them   How the plants teach us about the body  How adaptations boost the immune system and normalize systems within the body  On growing wasabi and specialist mountain plants  A day in the life of Joe  Advocating for a different lifestyle  On meeting your needs in the garden, instead of with money   Joe’s library legacy and herbal self-help help center On the Daoist tradition as a philosophy of how to live on Earth without messing it up Finding your nitch On the unequal distribution of resources and money as the blood of civilization  Living off a minim