Grow your biggest and best garden ever.
Tatas'juanna has been growing prolific gardens in the Arizona desert for decades. He shares how you can implement indigenous farming practices to grow your most bountiful garden yet.
Bad soil? You can still have good crops.
Dry conditions? Water has a memory. Learn why this is important.
Tatas'juanna opens part two of our “Getting to the Root” conversation talking about his battle for water and his plans for a walk along the Colorado River from Mexico to Moab, Utah.
He then speaks about indigenous farming practices including developing a relationship with your seeds, fortifying them with moon energy, and most importantly having a strong expectation of abundance.
Akin to the observer effect in quantum physics, this consistent expectation of abundance yields extraordinary results.
He then reveals the best fertilizer you can use. Hint: it’s not compost, manure, bonemeal, fish emulsions, etc.
Discover how indigenous farming practices traveled with the ancient Pueblo people from Mesoamerica to the Arizona desert.
Circle back to an exploration of root words.
This conversation will likely have you thinking very differently about what it means to be a shaman or a witch. Find out that words of affirmation in Tatas’juanna’s culture have the same meaning as “Namaste” or “Amen”.
Explore how honouring ancestral earth connections may bear abundant fruit (and veggies).
Tatas’juanna
John Mahkewa is a Tewa/Hopi wisdom keeper, artist, permaculturalist, and the grandson of noted Hopi potter and medicine woman, Grace Chapella. After a death experience 12 years ago, he was awakened to the Hopi prophecy and the stories his grandmother told him. He is known and shares under the title given to him by his uncle/clan grandfather Alberta Yava, Tatas'juanna, The Peacemaker.
He devotes his time to mentoring, healing others, and advocating for water.