Week 19: The Emerald Veil

The Emerald Veil

We’re over the horizon and glimpsing summer now during this first week of May.

The forest buzzes and tweets with life. The soil is warming and this years bloom of the Vanilla Leaf plant is becoming noticeable at trails edge during morning hikes.

Reproducing by underground rhizomes allows for an intimate connection with the entire forest community; sharing information, food and medicine through the mycelial mat weaving through the soil connects the vanilla leaf into an ecosystem that operates on a system of sacred reciprocity - never taking more than is needed; offering in return what is needed.