Journal

Building immunity in Autumn and Winter

This week Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula experienced an onslaught of rain and wind, accompanied by a deep dive in temperatures. As we’d bot...

Medicinal Mushrooms and their Powerful Health Benefits

Mushrooms have been sought for millennia as a source of both food and medicine. For over 3,000 years Traditional Chinese Medicine has revered certa...

Self-care, Nourishment and Rest for Autumn

After a scant summer, autumn is beginning to show on the Mornington Peninsula with brisk mornings, light rain and the smell of fireplaces tinting t...

Wooden Spoon Herbs plant medicine at Seek Solitude

Behind the Brand: Wooden Spoon Herbs

For a long time we’ve coveted Wooden Spoon Herbs, completely infatuated by their 70s sensibilities and deep understanding of wild plants and their ...

Building Facade in India sharing Hindu Cultural Rituals

From Routine to Ritual

Our society has a relentless appetite for self-optimisation that is explained by psychologist Svend Brinkmann as ‘in an accelerating culture, we ar...

How to make meditation a habitual part of daily life

Just as we always have tended to the physical body through food and movement in its various forms, in recent decades increased consideration has al...

Self-Care and the Eight Pillars of Wellness

2020’s been a big year. We got married, moved to the Mornington Peninsula, got a dog (Lazlo), a warehouse space, phased out of our old work, and st...