Feminine Food Forest Design & Higher Possibility for Humanity with Ash Coombs

Support us to create more episodes like this one on Patreon here  Follow the podcast on Instagram Follow Ash on Instagram  Visit Ash's business website, Seed of the Soul here In this interview with food forest designer Ash Coombs, we dive into how she’s created a thriving career for herself in this (literally!) growing industry, and the importance of restoring our direct relationship to the master artist of Earth. Cultivating this direct relationship through food forests reconnects us with the ability to meet our own basic needs, a crucial step for humanity in this global moment. We flesh out the vision of this higher possibility for empowered society, as well as going into the practical steps of how Ash has educated herself and started her business. Ash shares with us resources she recommends for anyone wanting to get into or advance in this line of work (she even has a mentorship program!) and the whole episode will help you remember our power as co-creators in shifting from being consumers to producers!  Show notes:  Definition of a food forest: An assembly of plants that mimics the ecosystem with layers of edible and medicinal plants, that’s also closed-loop, self-sustaining and symbiotic. Meeting our needs for food, oxygen, medicines, and construction material so that we don’t have to travel far away for or import. Holding the vision, streets lined with trees dripping gemstone fruit and how there’s such a thin barrier between our current reality and this higher possibility Ash’s practical steps to establishing her business: utilizing free educational resources & on the ground training, doing Geoff Lawton’s PDC, formulating the template of her business by asking herself what she would want from a business & writing it down - includes questionnaires to clarify goals (lighthouses to keep us on track), costs  & how to work it out in phases (starting with longer lived perennials that should go in ASAP & ending with shrub/herbaceous layer), 3  different package options for people with different levels of cost and engagement How to implement food forests on a large scale: Discussing why it’s important & naming understanding and motivation for change as the biggest weak spots of humanity Food forest growing as the experience of miracles & magic, and as a team sport! So much more! Resources from Ash for onboarding into this career: This podcast! Geoff Lawton’s Permaculture Design Course (online or in person)  Book: Gaia’s Garden by Toby Hemenway  Masanobu Fukuoka’s One Straw Revolution  Bill Mollison’s lectures on Youtube