This final audio piece from David’s Ayurveda and Global Hunger presentation at the 2008 NAMA conference is a short and inspiring section that showcases some of the projects and people who are replanting the global garden in significant and meaningful ways. (more…)
Fragrant vetiver mats for cooling shade
On Monday we posted the first excerpt from David Crow’s presentation at the 2008 National Ayurvedic Medical Association annual conference. Below is another audio segment of his talk that we think you’ll find particularly inspiring. In this clip, David teaches us how one herb, vetiver (also known as khus), represents a model for how we can understand the function of plant-medicine from the context of both healing the body as well as healing the environment. (more…)
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Audio: David Crow-Ayurveda and Global Hunger
When David first told me the topic he had chosen for his presentation at the 2008 NAMA Conference (National Ayurvedic Medical Association) in Chicago, I must say that I was a bit apprehensive. I was having trouble seeing how to link Floracopeia to a talk entitled Ayurveda and Global Hunger. However, the more he told me about what he had in mind the more I began to see that what he was preparing was at the root of what Floracopeia is really about.