Earth Speak with Natalie Ross and Friends: Gardener Joe Hollis on Cultivating a Garden of Useful Plants & Thriving Off a Minimal Income [episode 73]

Gardener Joe Hollis on Cultivating a Garden of Useful Plants & Thriving Off a Minimal Income [episode 73]

Jan 27, 2022

UPDATE! There was a catastrophic fire at Joe’s place, Mountain Gardens. To support his rebuilding, donate to the gofundme: https://gofund.me/07358a1c

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

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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 minimal income and the resources of the Earth
Choosing a different path from the norm
Joe’s upcoming book - ‘Make Paradise Not Money’
Practicing neo-primitive living
How the universe responds to our sincerity
And so much more!

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Earth Speak with Natalie Ross and Friends

Gardener Joe Hollis on Cultivating a Garden of Useful Plants & Thriving Off a Minimal Income [episode 73]

Gardener Joe Hollis on Cultivating a Garden of Useful Plants & Thriving Off a Minimal Income [episode 73]

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