RE: First time eating fresh bamboo shoots from our forest 🌱

Wow! You were quick! You did pick quite a few bamboo shoots. I must say Sabrina is a wonderful cook, I should take some cooking lessons from her!

The food just looked fantastic, not the usual bamboo dishes we had here.

The garden looks very artistic. You could survive on bamboo shoots, do some bamboo pickle then it will last over a year or two. You could rinse them before cooking them as usual. But if you have bamboo shoots all year round, you won’t need to pickle them. Here, the bamboo shoots are out of season in dry weather.

You’re so grounded that you could converse with Mother Earth. I sometimes could hear the voices or vibrations of nature (the earth and trees and all). At first I didn’t know what it was. Later on I realised that they vibrate all the time. The mind has to be ‘empty’ and quiet to receive this music in the air.

I think you’ll do very well around this bamboo jungle.

After you mentioned it last week we went down there almost immediately and was very surprised to find any at all. In my memory there were none. Am wondering now at what time of year they stop producing shoots? We will see...

And we will unquestionably try pickling them in order that we can keep on enjoying all year round. Thank you so much for this great idea to eat them 🙏

Wonderful you are able to hear the voices & vibrations. I can't really say that i hear them, just that i am guided by them. I do hear different tones in my ears but have not yet been able to understand them.

I can tell when there is an approval of whatever plan i am up to each day because the birds and insects seem to fly closer, while the wind will caress the trees more softly and the light will sparkle more brightly. The project will just click together so easily when i am on the right path, with each required item being presented to me just when i need it. Like the metal piece which went under the bamboo platform. Esteban asked me if he could launch his drone from it and suddenly i realised what i needed it for. This is all part of it. While on other days i can't find the required item, the weather feels heavy and there is less 'life' in the air. On these days i know to stop doing whatever i was hoping to do and return another day with fresh eyes & mind, at which point i will almost always see a better way to get the job done. The strongest sensation of all has been in these last few weeks, telling me to focus not on growing more food (we have a lot already) but on spaces for meditation and having fun.

Forever grateful for the bamboo forest which just keeps on giving!