Month: April 2021

Mario in an orchard community on The Positive Fantastic

An Orchard Community

My tenth episode is called “An Orchard Community.” I interview a long time friend, Mario Kashou, who has taken the art of creating orchards to most awesome levels. I visited Mario Ka-shoe-a on the land he tends West of Ukiah where he has several hundred fruit trees growing on the sloped terrain where he lives.…
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HappyDay Farmers on The Positive Fantastic

Another Day in Paradise

Celebrating 4/20, I interviewed my HappyDay Farm friends about their lives as farmers in beautiful Bell Springs Road in Laytonville in “Another Day in Paradise” –a special edition episode (for this NorCal holiday) on “The Positive Fantastic” podcast. I know it’s not part of the moon cycle rhythm of publishing episodes, but, in honor of…
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Kristy Hellum poet on The Positive Fantastic

Love Mischief

In the eighth episode of “The Positive Fantastic” Podcast my poet friend and I played some “Love Mischief.” This dark moon episode dives deep into the ocean of evocative word waves with Humboldt County poet Kristy Hellum. I visited Kristy in Arcata where we had a marvelous time playing with semiotics and meaning, crafting a…
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DeAnna GuaSha The Positive Fantastic

Health Education For Everyone

DeAnna Batdorff, founder of the Dhyana Center in Sebastopol, joined “The Positive Fantastic” podcast for episode seven, “Health Education For Everyone.” We discussed Batdorf’s decades-long devotional practice of bringing healing and health care modalities to Northern California. Batdorff has created a thriving center that offers treatments, classes, products, and a spa in downtown Sebastopol to…
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