An exploration of our connection to earth through conversations with experts and celebrities who have formed their own profound relationships to the natural world.
Gardens of Earthly Delight
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An exploration of our connection to earth through conversations with experts and celebrities who have formed their own profound relationships to the natural world.
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April 24, 2026
The Healing Sting w/ Kate Hinkens
<p>Kate Hinkens had been dealing with Lyme disease since she was seven years old. After years of misdiagnosis, relapse, and months of intravenous antibiotics that left her sleeping eighteen hours a day and unable to finish a sentence, she found her way to bee venom therapy - ordering bees online, standing in her bathroom with tweezers, and stinging herself until something shifted.</p><p>Kate is now a beekeeper and bee venom therapy practitioner who teaches people how to self-administer BVT for chronic illness. In this episode we get into the biochemistry of why bee venom can do things antibiotics can't, what a low-histamine diet looks like during treatment, the full medicine cabinet of the hive: honey, propolis, royal jelly, bee pollen, bee bread, the ethics of beekeeping, and what bees have to teach us about reciprocity with the natural world.</p><p><strong>TIMESTAMPS: <br></strong>00:00 Intro <br>01:28 Kate's Lyme disease history and years of misdiagnosis <br>03:17 Why Lyme is so hard to diagnose and treat <br>05:00 The antibiotic route and why it stopped working <br>08:25 Discovering bee venom therapy <br>10:00 The science: melittin, biofilms, and chronic Lyme <br>12:30 Apamin and the blood-brain barrier <br>14:00 Immune regulation and systemic inflammation <br>16:00 Diet and detox during BVT <br>19:00 Alpha-gal and the Lone Star tick <br>21:30 Andrew's own Lyme disease experience <br>23:00 Royal jelly, propolis, honey, bee pollen, and bee bread <br>32:00 The ethics of beekeeping and native bee populations <br>40:00 Does it matter what species of bee you use? <br>43:00 The honeybee's origins in North America <br>45:00 The ethics of using bees for BVT <br>49:00 Fun facts: how honey is actually made <br>54:00 How bees make decisions <br>57:00 The geometry of the honeycomb <br>59:00 The vibrational frequency of bees and healing <br>1:01:20 Kate's bee boxes and her BVT practice <br>1:02:41 How this deepened her connection to nature <br>1:05:07 Favorite food memory</p><p><strong>CONNECT WITH KATE HINKENS <br>Website:</strong> <a href="https://www.stinglab.org/">stinglab.org</a><br><strong>Instagram: </strong><a href="https://www.instagram.com/katehinkens/">@katehinkens</a></p><p><strong>FOLLOW GARDENS OF EARTHLY DELIGHT</strong></p><p><strong>Substack:</strong> <a href="https://gardensofearthlydelight.substack.com/">gardensofearthlydelight.substack.com</a><br><strong>Instagram:</strong> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/gardensofearthlydelightpod/">@gardensofearthlydelightpod</a><br><strong>Podcast:</strong> <a href="https://gardensofearthlydelight.com/subscribe">gardensofearthlydelight.com/subscribe</a></p><p><strong>Music by:</strong> <a href="https://felte.lnk.to/constant-smiles">Constant Smiles</a><br><strong>Logo design by:</strong> <a href="https://www.altonkyle.com/">Hunky Kitty</a></p> <strong> <a href="https://buymeacoffee.com/gardens" rel="payment" title="★ Support this podcast ★">★ Support this podcast ★</a> </strong>
April 9, 2026
The Less You Dig, The More You Grow w/ Charles Dowding
<p>Charles Dowding is something of a legendary gardener. He coined the term "no dig" and created an entire movement and method to home and market gardening - all focused on the health of the soil. Charles is the author of 16 books - his latest, "Grow Together" being released just yesterday, April 9, 2026.</p><p>I visited Charles at his market garden, Home Acres, in late February and we covered a lot of ground. We get into how no dig began, what thirteen years of side-by-side dig versus no dig trials actually show in the soil data, and why he waited 20 years to write his first book. We also talk about humanure and a trial that produced surprising results, copper garden tools and the work of Viktor Schauberger, water memory, structuring devices on the hose, and a farmer in the Austrian Alps a hundred years ago who sang to his water and had the best crops in the region.</p><p><br>It was an honor to visit Charles at his homestead, even being late February (perhaps the slowest time of year for a garden) it was still filled with life and growth. </p><p><strong>TIMESTAMPS:<br></strong>00:00 Intro/Origins of Gardening and Market Gardening Journey<br>03:06 Discovering No Dig Gardening<br>06:53 The Role of Cardboard in No Dig Gardening<br>09:48 Addressing Purity in Gardening Practices<br>11:41 Climate Change and Its Impact on Gardening<br>14:13 Education and Transition to Full-Time Gardening<br>16:05 The Benefits of No Dig Gardening<br>18:26 Exploring Humanure in Gardening<br>22:55 Comparative Trials in Gardening Practices<br>26:15 Innovative Water Management in Agriculture<br>32:25 The Distinction Between Farming and Market Gardening<br>34:50 Nutrient Density and Soil Health<br>37:06 Starting from Scratch: Soil Remediation Techniques<br>38:26 The Spiritual Connection to Gardening<br>43:29 The Power of Observation in Gardening<br>46:16 Water Memory and Its Impact on Gardening<br>51:21 Favorite and Least Favorite Crops & Favorite Food Memory<br>53:58 New Book Release: Grow Together</p><p><strong>RESOURCES MENTIONED</strong></p><p><strong>Charles Dowding:</strong></p><ul><li>Website: <a href="https://charlesdowding.co.uk/">charlesdowding.co.uk</a></li><li>New book: <a href="https://charlesdowding.co.uk/products/grow-together-50-planting-partnerships-to-boost-your-harvests?variant=54104622104899">Grow Together (DK, 2026)</a></li><li><a href="https://charlesdowding.co.uk/products/new-energies-for-gardening?variant=52745942827331">New Energies for Gardening by Charles Dowding</a></li></ul><p><strong>Books & People:</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Farmers-Forty-Centuries-Organic-Farming/dp/0486436098">Farmers of Forty Centuries by F.H. King</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Phase-Water-Beyond-Liquid/dp/0962689548/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3SPF0AYICV68N&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.xkkaRCnvUBHa1VioJQ4zF_eH-kPX1B-VjMMLI5CiyvGg-EQqzg2Ru6KiZtP9edP7hRcrhKEhAZ5HnYVrMV0hmTm9JSfu6l8nX3Ws9itlpXw.swcEhdRfJ8S3fEoJI-mZlOPeJpw5i8k1LxFEPHvizLU&dib_tag=se&keywords=The+Fourth+Phase+of+Water+by+Gerald+Pollack&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1775766528&s=books&sprefix=the+fourth+phase+of+water+by+gerald+pollack%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C262&sr=1-1">The Fourth Phase of Water by Gerald Pollack</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/yXPrLGUGZsw?si=cXMw4f128pksA4Sk">Viktor Schauberger - Comprehend and Copy Nature Documentary</a></li><li>Rudolf Steiner</li><li>Paul Stamets</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>CONNECT WITH CHARLES DOWDING</strong> <br>Website: <a href="https://charlesdowding.co.uk/">charlesdowding.co.uk </a><br>YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@CharlesDowding1nodig">@CharlesDowding1nodig</a> <br>Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/charles_dowding/">@charles_dowding</a><br>Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CharlesDowdingNoDigGardening">facebook.com/CharlesDowdingNoDigGardening</a><br>Substack: <a href="https://substack.com/@charlesdowding549359">substack.com/@charlesdowding549359</a></p><p><strong>FOLLOW GARDENS OF EARTHLY DELIGHT</strong></p><p><strong>Substack:</strong> <a href="https://gardensofearthlydelight.substack.com/">gardensofearthlydelight.substack.com</a><br><strong>Instagram:</strong> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/gardensofearthlydelightpod/">@gardensofearthlydelightpod</a><br><strong>Podcast:</strong> <a href="https://gardensofearthlydelight.com/subscribe">gardensofearthlydelight.com/subscribe</a></p><p><strong>Music by:</strong> <a href="https://felte.lnk.to/constant-smiles">Constant Smiles</a><br><strong>Logo design by:</strong> <a href="https://www.altonkyle.com/">Hunky Kitty</a></p> <strong> <a href="https://buymeacoffee.com/gardens" rel="payment" title="★ Support this podcast ★">★ Support this podcast ★</a> </strong>
March 27, 2026
Make Me Good Soil w/ Sophie Strand
<p>Sophie Strand is a writer and author of The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine, The Madonna Secret, and her most recent book, a memoir called The Body Is a Doorway. She lives in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York where she writes about mythology, ecology, and the intersection between storytelling and the more-than-human world.</p><p>This conversation spans a lot of ground. We talk about what it means to be from a place versus being of a place, Tom Bombadil and what Lord of the Rings has to teach us about ecology, communicating with plants through dreams, the concept of pharmacon and the problems with how we use psychedelics, making good soil as both metaphor and practice, and how Sophie's experience with chronic illness has deepened her relationship with the natural world.</p><p>A brief note: This conversation includes some discussion of drug use and psychedelics in the context of plant medicine and healing.</p><p><strong><br>TIMESTAMPS</strong></p><p>00:00 - The Hudson Valley as savior<br> 04:42 - Being from a place vs. being of a place<br> 06:38 - Human beings as peripatetic wanderers<br> 09:07 - Sardinian throat singing and inherited traditions<br> 11:16 - Eucatastrophe: the happy disaster<br> 15:31 - Tom Bombadil and ecological wisdom<br> 19:26 - Communicating with plants<br> 20:13 - Dreams as messages from plants<br> 22:23 - Dreams come from a place<br> 27:34 - Being an instrument played by fungi<br> 28:51 - Naming and ownership<br> 35:25 - Hopi language and present tense<br> 37:09 - Telepathic communication as wordless<br> 39:24 - Psychedelics and plant medicine<br> 41:17 - Pharmacon: potion and poison<br> 43:10 - Our culture of addiction<br> 46:39 - Ayahuasca and ego death<br> 50:39 - Creating communities that honor intuition<br> 54:31 - Aphids, ladybugs, and observation<br> 56:41 - Make me good soil<br> 57:21 - Degenerative connective tissue disease<br> 59:36 - Soil as tomb and womb<br> 01:01:44 - Nature and healing<br> 01:07:18 - The blue heron as messenger<br> 01:09:36 - Favorite food memory: apples and cheddar</p><p><strong><br>RESOURCES MENTIONED</strong></p><p><strong>Sophie Strand:</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://sophiestrand.substack.com/">Substack: Make Me Good Soil</a></li><li>Books: <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-flowering-wand-sophie-strand/1140894946">The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine</a>, <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Madonna-Secret/Sophie-Strand/9781591434672">The Madonna Secret</a>, <a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sophie-strand/the-body-is-a-doorway-a-memoir/9780762487417/">The Body Is a Doorway</a></li></ul><p><strong>Books & Media:</strong></p><ul><li>Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien</li><li>The Telepathy Tapes podcast</li><li>Landmarks by Robert McFarlane</li><li>Time and Again (speculative fiction book)</li><li>The Never-Ending Story (film)</li></ul><p><strong>People Mentioned:</strong></p><ul><li>Tom Bombadil (Lord of the Rings character)</li><li>C.S. Lewis</li><li>James Hillman (mythopoetic thinker)</li><li>Patricia Kaishian (mycologist and writer)</li></ul><p><strong>Places:</strong></p><ul><li>Hudson Valley, New York</li><li>Overlook Mountain</li><li>Ashokan Reservoir</li><li>Woodstock, New York</li></ul><p><strong>Concepts:</strong></p><ul><li>Eucatastrophe (Tolkien)</li><li>Pharmacon (Greek concept)</li><li>Mycorrhizal fungi</li><li>Healthism</li></ul><p><strong><br>CONNECT WITH SOPHIE STRAND<br>Website: </strong><a href="https://sophiestrand.com/">sophiestrand.com</a></p><p><strong>Substack:</strong> <a href="https://sophiestrand.substack.com/">Make Me Good Soil</a><br><strong>Instagram: </strong><a href="https://www.instagram.com/cosmogyny/">@cosmogyny</a><strong> </strong><br> <strong>Books:</strong> <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-flowering-wand-sophie-strand/1140894946">The Flowering Wand</a>, <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Madonna-Secret/Sophie-Strand/9781591434672">The Madonna Secret</a>, <a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sophie-strand/the-body-is-a-doorway-a-memoir/9780762487417/">The Body Is a Doorway</a></p><p><strong><br>FOLLOW GARDENS OF EARTHLY DELIGHT</strong></p><p><strong>Substack:</strong> <a href="https://gardensofearthlydelight.substack.com/">gardensofearthlydelight.substack.com</a><br> <strong>Instagram:</strong> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/gardensofearthlydelightpod/">@gardensofearthlydelightpod</a><br> <strong>Podcast:</strong> <a href="https://gardensofearthlydelight.com/subscribe">gardensofearthlydelight.com/subscribe</a></p><p><strong>Music by:</strong> <a href="https://felte.lnk.to/constant-smiles">Constant Smiles</a><br> <strong>Logo design by:</strong> <a href="https://www.altonkyle.com/">Hunky Kitty</a></p> <strong> <a href="https://buymeacoffee.com/gardens" rel="payment" title="★ Support this podcast ★">★ Support this podcast ★</a> </strong>
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