Sage Garden Barbados in St Andrews | Agriculture

Sage Garden Barbados

Locality: St Andrews

Phone: +1 242-823-7973

Address: Turners Hall BB25025 St Andrews, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.sagegardenbarbados.com

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23.01.2022 Our ancestors have been using earth medicine from time immemorial to clear our bodies of illness, poisons and toxins while moving blockages in our energetic bodies to make way for the spirit of healing our ancestral lines of traumas. This medicine is plentiful on our six acres, and during this drought, the vines are sprouting, happy and miraculous in their spread. The Earth Mother is witnessing the spread of this disease and in her generosity, growing medicine all over as a r...eminder of her love and care towards humanity. Cerasee, Momordica Charantia, is a herbaceous tropical vine from the Cucurbitaceae family, widely grown in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. It is also known as bitter melon, bitter squash, or balsam-pear, and is believed to have originated in India and was later introduced into China in the 14th century. The yellow fruit which the plant produces, bitter melon or bitter guard, can be eaten raw and is cooked in many Chinese and Indian dishes. As a child once ripened, we would suck the red seeds, although now we know that this can be poisonous. Across the Caribbean, cerasee's leaves and stem are usually boiled or drawn into a tea and taken for a number of ailments including hypertension, diabetes, parasitic worms, abdominal pains, and purging/detoxing the body and blood. Cerasee is also used for constipation, and it is sometimes given to children for fevers and colds. In addition, cerasee is also used sometimes with other herbs to make a bush bath to treat skin problems like rashes and eczema. Cerasee is also used as a tea to reduce menstrual pains and to cure urinary tract infections. Spiritually it is used to clear energetic blockages, it aids in loosening spiritual cords and decreasing negative attachments, and it is a visioning medicine. There are other applications around this plant medicine that we would love to know more about. Please share knowledge of your traditions and customs and how you use this in your immunity arsenal. #sagegardenbarbados #healinggarden #sagegarden #turnershall #barbados #nature #regenerativeagriculture #ancestralknowledge #sacredspace #healing #seedsforthefuture #foodsecurity #beyondtheplantation #feedbarbados #greeningmotherearth #seedkeeping #phytoremediation #permaculture #organicagriculture #postplantationhealing #agriculture #cerasee #bittermelon #spiritualproperties #indigenousmedicine

23.01.2022 The rains of nourishment in Turners Hall. February 2020

14.01.2022 Today we had the pleasure of welcoming the Hon. Rabindre Parmessar, Minister of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries of Suriname and Tania Lieuw-A-Soe, Chairman of the Woman’s Agricultural Corporative @wiumafusranan to our Sage Garden. Many thanks to the @ministryofagriculturebarbados @badmc246 for this connection as Barbados and Suriname strengthen ties to develop awareness around Brokopondo Programme. This programme focuses on build a thriving exchange environment to support food security and knowledge transfer between the countries. We are thankful for the opportunity to share in our journey. #sagegardenbarbados #brokopnodoprogramme #foodsecurity #caricomwukking #barbadosagriculture #scotlandistrict #turnershall #sagegarden #healingspaces #womeninagriculture #afrofest2020 #agriculture #suriname #feedprogrammebarbados

09.01.2022 Cherita and I have been taking a lot of time developing an intimate space for us to share and grow our gifts. I won't lie, the energectic chaos that we are all feeling as a collective is bearing now and overspilling revealing the raw, worn, hurt and traumatised parts of ourselves. This low vibrational energy if not contained, managed and or transmuted can dredge up patterns of fear, hostility, resentment all evidenced by the hoarding, xenophobia, upswing of nationalism, and ...the political tactics of late-stage capitalism which will severely impact the elderly, poor, and underdeveloped countries of the global south, which we in the Caribbean are a part of. Like most allies, I want to tap out of the fear and into something else. Into something rich, cosmic, interconnected and creative. I want for this celestial shift of Saturn/Pluto conjunct (structure butting up with the shadow and underworld) and the Age of Aquarius, to shed light on the systems that continue to compromise our hearts and souls from healing, expansion and evolution. I believe the core of this is grounding is in spiritual practice, rooted in ancestral knowledge and alignment within Mother Nature. Earth's Energetics are powerful and we neglect her ability to heal even when we have pushed her capacity and bled her of resources, poisoning ourselves in return. We have moved far away from our purpose, our intentionality and I know many of us are struggling to find homes of reconnection and spaces where we can feel like we belong or be in our truth, irrespective of how brutal or difficult they might be. I feel this sense of home when I am grounding my feet in Mother Earth, when my hands are wrapped in soil, and when my heart space is comforted by the quiet, colours, skies and wind. I feel this infinite peace, the ancestors and cosmic connectivity and when I brush up against a plant that calls out to me when the medicine that I am unaware I need moves into orbit with me. In this moment I am transformed, healed and held. I still don't yet fully understand how Sage Garden Barbados will manifest and what it will become outside of our hard work, passion and our fathers working double time in the ancestral realm to become upright and to bring this knowledge to us. The one thing I know is that being on the land makes me happy. The energetic chaos of this moment doesn't enter into our space, the land provides a vortex where other thoughts, cosmologies and other realities are abundant. This Earth (elemental) medicine is potent, resourceful, dangerous, sacred and willfully stubborn. With love and earth blessings, Holly #sagegardenbarbados #healinggarden #sagegarden #turnershall #barbados #nature #regenerativeagriculture #ancestralknowledge #sacredspace #healing #seedsforthefuture #foodsecurity #beyondtheplantation #histories #calm #borage #wildplants

07.01.2022 When we were granted the six acres of land through the FEED programme scheme, we knew that it was going to be quite difficult to think about what sustainability would mean as Barbados, a water-scarce country, has entered one of the most severe droughts since the 1940s. Aquifers are at their lowest levels in years, and April showers have been slow to come and when and if the June showers arrive we want to be able to be prepared to store as much as we can and be in an environme...nt that offers clear and safe passage to the nourishment. Across our islands, we live in disconnection with nature. By observing this, we are understanding less and less about our role as stewards and equals to nature. When we chose to not care for our environment, we dirty our homes and spread energectic disharmony with nature. This blockage needs to be cleared; the first thing that we can do is to take track of our actions around and within nature. And so, during the end of January early February, we undertook a few days of walking the stream that runs to the northern end of the land, surveying, clearing and cleaning it of debris and garbage. We worked with Sky our neighbour from the Sojourner Foundation, Adrian, Ramo, Brad and had fun with makeshift rakes, chainsaws and fire. A few days after we did the work, as predicted by several professionals from the Soil Conservation Unit, the stream dried up. We will be using the waterway during the rainy season as a point of collection and in the coming years, the banks to grow beautiful tropical flowers and even more medicine. #sagegardenbarbados #healinggarden #sagegarden #turnershall #barbados #nature #regenerativeagriculture #ancestralknowledge #sacredspace #healing #seedsforthefuture #foodsecurity #beyondtheplantation #water #waterstewards #prayersforrain