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  • Ten Life Lessons from Ten+ Years Living Off Grid

    I lived without utility supplied electricity, water, or sanitation for over a decade. Was it all romance, extensive fanfare, and free living? Not a chance. It was time consuming, high maintenance work requiring constant presence. Living off grid means you are a chief maintenance person, head of parts, repairs and the main author and chief responder […]

    Ben Porchuk

    January 6, 2017
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    Climate Change, Comfort, Conservation, Daily Life Cycles, Independent Homesteading, Life Lessons, Little Cabin, nature, Off the Grid Living, Pelee Island, Restorative Nature Experiences, Solar Panels, Water, Water Conservation, Wind Turbines
  • Remember Climbing Trees? People Are Taking to the Trees Again

    The act is natural, refreshing and fun. Do you realize that tree climbing can help save your sanity, tone your muscles, quiet your mind, and create strong leadership sorely needed for this generation and those to follow? Climbing itself builds balance, confidence, wherewithal, and courage. It allows us to toy with our playful selves, stretching […]

    Ben Porchuk

    December 29, 2016
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    American Beech, Black Maple, Blue Racer Snake, Cockspur Hawthorn, Forest Bathing, Forest therapy, Jack Cooke, London Canada, London England, nature, Norway Spruce, Out of Doors, Restorative Nature Experiences, shinrin-yoku, Sugar Maple, Sycamore, The Tree Climbing Guide, Tree Climbing, Trees
  • Responsible Ways to Share Spiritual Experiences with Your Dog in Nature

    There’s nothing like watching a dog let loose in open nature. They live for this experience. It supercharges their vitality. Leaping, chasing, sniffing, racing…the whole nine yards. I often find I live for these same freedoms and experiences after spending so much time inside. I’ve also observed my dogs in poignant moments outside as well. […]

    Ben Porchuk

    December 17, 2016
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    association of nature and forest therapy guides and programs, ben porchuk, Breath, Dogs, Dogs in Nature, Dutch Shepherd, Forest therapy, Mindfullness, Off Leash, Responsible Pet Owner, Restorative Nature, restorative nature experience, shinrin-yoku, Siberian Husky, Spiritual Dog Walk
  • Wonder for Water…

    Water is a wonder in my life. I visualize amazing, purified water in ponds, streams, lakes and oceans. I watch the beauty with my mind’s eye, as water purifies, all of her dependents breathe deeply with a sigh of relief. I love water in any state. Wherever I go, whatever water I interact with, whether […]

    Ben Porchuk

    December 8, 2016
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    Appreciation for Water, ben porchuk, Breathe, Cooling, Drinking Water, Ice, Intimacy, Love, Ocean, Polluted Water, Pond, Purified Water, Rain Storm, Restorative Nature Experiences, River, Sea, Slough, Stream, Warming, Water, Wonder
  • Spirit Water-Broken Water; A Drink of Leadership For the Ages

    Poetically, it is the life blood of the Earth. Vitally, it easily trumps oil as our number one resource. Commonly, it is just boring, old water.  Our continued blind-eyed indifference, however, has put Earth in the waiting room for a transfusion. Or have we already accepted and doctored the equivalent? That’s what Chief Leslee White-Eye […]

    Ben Porchuk

    November 25, 2016
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  • Conversations with Plant

    About 7 years ago I lead a Traditional Medicinal Native Plant inventory in a Native community not far from my home. I describe it as the highlight of my ecological consulting career. But it was way more than that. I remember vividly the moment a Native Elder put me in my place. His timing was impeccable. […]

    Ben Porchuk

    November 19, 2016
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    ben porchuk, Calling All Plant Lovers, ecological spirituality, First Nations Traditional Medicine, healing plants, Intimacy with Nature, Listening to Plants, nature, Plant Auras, Plant Power, Plant Spirituality, Plant talking, talking to nature, Talking to Plants, Talking with Plants
  • Look-a-Likes Welcome Winter

    Last night the moon was so bright and the sky was super clear. But, was it cold! There’s something about 3 or 4’C that often seems colder to me than when the mercury dips below zero. This is my ultra-short homage to the greener, warmer days of spring, summer and fall. Enjoy these ‘look-a-likes.’ These […]

    Ben Porchuk

    November 14, 2016
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    alligator rock, ben porchuk, fun in nature, homage to warmer weather, lighter side of nature, lost and found in nature, moon goddess, nature, sand sculpture
  • Deep Connection with Wild Animals: Avenues for Right Relationship with Earth

    Being one of millions and millions of ‘living*’ planets now discovered, the Earth, in essence, is a wild animal within a greater population. We’re in sad and yet exciting times. We know a lot. We are aware. We are very skilled, loving and crafty beings. All of this and since I was born (1970) we […]

    Ben Porchuk

    October 31, 2016
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    Bald Eagle, ben porchuk, Connecting with Animals, Consciousness, Ecological Recovery, Forest Bathing, Forest therapy, Intimacy, nature, Reiki, restorative nature experience, Right Relationship, Self Awareness, self discovery, shinrin-yoku, Wild Animals
  • Big Impacts Across Small Spaces…Doug Tallamy Photosynthesizes the Case for Native Plants

    All photographs by Ben Porchuk. Tallamy talks nature in Toronto. Toronto… and nature? Yes, Toronto, the city of over 6 million people. It might not be the first place that comes to mind when you think of re-building the natural world. But Doug Tallamy,  an entomologist from the University of Delaware, was invited specifically to […]

    Ben Porchuk

    October 28, 2016
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    attracting wildlife to garden, ben porchuk, carolinian canada, Doug Tallamy, go wild grow wild, in the zone gardens, Jarmo Jalava, leamington, london ontario, Lorraine Johnson, lost and found in nature, Michael Moore, Native plants, nature, outdoors, restorative nature experience, screech owls, sex, toronto, Urban ecology, world wildlife fund canada
  • Who, Me, You? A Forest Therapy Guide?

    If anyone out there is remotely considering becoming a Forest Therapy Guide and the upcoming New Zealand training is on your radar, then I’d strongly recommend waiting no longer. But, who am I to say? It recently occurred to me that every person I have recommended to go to guide training camp has come to […]

    Ben Porchuk

    August 9, 2016
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    association of nature and forest therapy guides and programs, ben porchuk, experiential, Forest therapy, nature, nature training, outdoors, restorative, restorative nature experience, right action man, self discovery, self help, shinrin-yoku, spiritual
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