Diet, farming and ascension: our Unique Perspective Living on the Land
Diet is a conversation of great interest in the community of Ascending Hearts. How do we best support the body as it infuses and becomes more and more of Light? Everyone has their unique experience and there is no judgement for the process or anyone’s unique journey. We shared this as a post in an Ascension Community to support another community member:
We would love to share another perspective that could be interesting to observe. To give some context, we currently have an organic farm, grow herbs and produce, raise fine wool sheep, and have a flock of laying hens. We live in a rural farming area and are a part of a truly amazing sustainable agriculture network.
Interestingly enough, we were both vegetarians before being called to the land and changed our diets as we communed more deeply with our relationship to food and where it comes from.
Food and stewardship to the land is a large part of our life and as you can imagine, a topic of many of our conversations.
We honor each sovereign soul and their way of parenting the body through the ascension process. We also honor that this is where we are today, and that tomorrow our body may not want what it wants today.
Responsible consumption
Personally, we choose to source meat and dairy from very special farms close to us. The animals are grazed rotationally, meaning they are moved across the land to fresh pasture almost daily. (I will explain the importance of this for Gaia, our beloved Earth, in the next section.) These animals are connected to Gaia. Their feet touch the ground. They are on clean, fresh pasture- not eating where their excrements are. They are happy animals, meaning they will lay down and relax after they have eaten. These are farms where the farmer truly cares about the land, stewardship and the animals. It is not an easy way of farming and these farms are becoming fewer and fewer. Some of the reasons are: It is difficult. It is expensive. It requires a lot of land. It is slower and labor intensive to move animals frequently, however it is in harmony with the rhythms of Gaia and how animals naturally wander. It takes true heart commitment and dedication to stewardship to farm like this.
I won’t get into alternative situations because they are not aligned with our values. We focus on amplifying what we want more of- stewardship.
This is not limited to farmers on the land- it stretches to fishermen in the sea as well. And to give you an example, one of our neighbors has a wild alaskan seafood company- he goes up every year to fish and ships it back to headquarters in rural Pennsylvania. Not only does responsible and sustainable fishing matter to him, but he is a huge advocate and supporter of keeping Bristol Bay clean from pebble mining and oil drilling. Bristol Bay is one of the few clean waters on the planet and the work he does as a professional and an activist supports a great picture of environmental stewardship.
There are so many Divine Humans supporting Gaia by interacting with her in different ways. Some of those ways may include producing food and animal products. We honor everyone’s unique path. Only Source Lovelight Intelligence knows the beauty of how each fractal perfectly fits into Unity Consciousness.
The Land Needs Animals To Move Across It
Gaia needs animals to move across her. Animals are the best stewards as they have no ego and are already in deep connection with her.
There is a beautiful harmony of animals moving across the land: The soil is the microbiome of Gaia. The soil is teaming and beaming with organic life and intelligence. This beautiful intelligence tells the grass to grow and collect light from Solaris. Animals, like our sheep, graze these little light catchers, filling their bellies with nourishment. In addition there is a harmonization of the animal’s microbiome with the soil microbiome- it is beautiful! The animal then produces waste which it gives back to feed the microbiome of the soil. This promotes the fertility of the land and soil. When you stack animal systems, they support each other and provide even more fertility to the land. Cows and larger animals move across the land first, eating the best of the tall grass and trampling the rest. Chickens can follow them. They love to scratch up the ground to find bugs. They will even scratch up the waste of the larger animals that will help it integrate better into the soil. Chickens will also eat any bugs that may show up in the waste of the larger animals as well, keeping the soil healthy for the next rotation. Pigs can follow the chickens and root up the ground, further incorporating the waste into the soil. You can imagine by this point, there is probably not much plant life at all, just very fertile soil– which would be preparatory for produce or herbs. Or you let the land rest as the animals move to the next paddock for rotation and the pasture is restored in due time. The soil has been fed and loved, the land will be so full of life and nutrients and if you measured, the organic matter would be very dense. It will grow back the most vital, strong, abundant, vibrant plants that reflect the harmony of life in the soil.
Life and Death
As you are caring for animals and the land, the cycle of life and death becomes a part of the experience. Animals get sick. Animals die. If you breed animals to keep your stock healthy and diverse, then you cannot keep all the males. As a farmer, you have to make choices to manage systems. You are in a position of making very difficult decisions sometimes. It is a practice of responsible farmers to use entire animals to honor the life lived. This is not removed from Gaia, the cycles of life and death, death supporting life, and life supporting life are part of the larger expression. We live in harmony with these systems, honoring all life, understanding that death is a part of life.
What may not be known, is that growing produce also has cycles of life and death that stretch beyond plants dying.
In the organic process of preparing the land for planting, land needs to be turned over many times in order to be clear enough to plant into. There are creatures that are lost in this process.
There is also death that feeds new life in this system. We plant what is called a cover crop at the end of each season. It has many benefits such as covering the soil to prevent erosion and collecting the nutrients from the sun and placing them back into the soil. When we turn over this land in order to plant into it, we kill the cover crop. This life however is broken down and feeds the soil, feeding the organic life in the soil, boosting fertility, for the next planting. It is another cycle of life and death, death feeding life, life feeding life.
Farming is a co-creation with Gaia. Gaia has this beautiful and wild nature. Everything is fluid.
Gaia is balance. Everything is balance.
Personally, we LOVE raw milk from a very special dairy that David previously worked at. The cows are rotationally grazed 365 days a year on organic grass (pasture). The milk is golden in color and tastes like ice cream. There is a connection for us, David has milked these cows himself. We feel blessed to have this available. We feel blessed to support the farm and the farmers. We feel blessed to support the land and the animals. It is beautiful and we are so grateful.
One day our bodies may feel like this is not for us anymore and we will honor that too.
We feel blessed to be a part of the Presence Collective this year to amplify more of what our unique hearts want to offer in service to this realm. For now we share our unique perspective of living on the land.
Many blessings to All.
