I started this blog in 2010, when blogs were a thing, as I was transitioning out of a decade of Brand Dev, Marketing and PR. A very poignant time in my journey as I officially left the NYC rat race to walk my path as a healer and step out from behind the desk.
A few years leading up to this blog’s birth in 2010, I was inspired by one of the video games I was working on, Gardening Mamma, to grow some food on my rooftop in Brooklyn, yearning to be closer to my own grow, in real life – not a digital game/sim. (Or perhaps irl is a sim, and we’re actually in a video game… hmmmm… other topics for other days)
2008-2010 was also the time social media facebook groups were getting big for Consumer Products and Technology companies and I decided to take on the persona of the main character in the video game, Gardening Mama and host a FB group… I got so into it and it really birthed the Greenthumb Geek I AM, outside of my earliest greenthumb geek inspiration, mi alma, mi corazon, grandma Marion, and naturally, Pachamama who I’ve been ‘working with’ (flipping energetics) since I was little.
And so, I was persona: Gardening Mama at my agency during the day and out of office was moonlighting with healers and shamans while also farming on my rooftop in Brooklyn, around the corner from Grand Army Plaza and Prospect Park. A weird and magickal time.
While I was excited by this specific project I also began to get really overwhelmed by a life that I had created for myself in the agency world that no longer suited me. Greenthumbing and initiations into ‘healing’ tapped me into my Truth in a deeper way.
I could no longer sit behind a desk, even if video game PR was quite a trip. I was a healer since I was little, I was ready to stop fronting. I am also a dirt and Earth warrior, and no better expression than to work with her and honor her by growing food and living for a more sustainable future both within and without. So in 2008-2010 at the onset of businesses using Social Media I felt everything starting pick up in the matrix/world because of it and – I WANTED OUT OF THE RAT RACE… So I walked my truth…. I was a psychic, intuitive, healer behind a desk? Duh, GET OUT! Walk your path. Do you.
I didn’t post much content about my rooftop farm back then because I’ve always been quite private, which was amplified by a stalker neighbor of almost 3 years (I’ll leave that one there, ugh) but I still wanted to share here and there via the blog. It was an excercise in expression and I was trying to heal from the experience at the same time.
As I learned more and more, geeking out with others at my coop and in record stores I frequented, I began to get clients looking to grow organic food and medicine in small spaces. I was shifting into service to help others with their grows. Alas, working with others on their greenthumb geekery was such an amazing opportunity for I was never professionally educated in this space, yet with massive amount of hours and learning with trial and error, I was ready and clients yielded successful harvests. Pure magic. My vibration was lifting and I had dirt everywhere, loved it.
Forever in gratitude for the steps taken for my passions and Truths not only helped me transition out of agency life to work for mySelf, but also a non-agency related and totally new direction, which is not easy to do in NYC. I trusted myself and the path, my passions, desires, and service for I knew I was much more than a rat racer. It is possible to do. Break from the race, where everyday is a Saturday.
All was very aligned with my work through The Harmony Lab, my healing arts platform where we offer a variety of wellness modalities, programs and protocols for physical, energetic, emotional and mental wellness. I’m an Earth Guardian. I anchor my energy and my clients into Earth, so naturally, working with the Earth to grow food and medicine is just part of the tool box.
I ultimately left a life in New York City and Brooklyn to manage a biodynamic grow and offer my healing work at an upstart community and retreat center in Costa Rica. Followed by a bundle of time in Guatemala for volcanic Earth Vortex Lake Atitlan living, paired with travels to treat and delve deeper into studying with plants and other medicinal allies from the Amazon. These are stories for other times and realms.
At the start of the year (2020) I got the push to anchor in stateside for a bit and pull back from living internationally. I felt an urge to return to my roots, to root down a bit. All of this happened COVID-19 turned up just a few months after.
So, here we are.
At a time where it will be needed, we’ll be growing food for my NYC + Hudson Valley peeps with a few Summer CSAs as well. The apothecary is rebirthed and we are overflowing with medicines, herbal limpias, tinctures, brews and more.
More soon but get your seeds asap! We’re already into the sow-ing season in the NorthEast.