@pick.lenik

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The scene:

We are in Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, harvesting arugula seeds, in Nikoll’s gorgeous oasis garden. It is toasty and humid and breezy. We are brandishing garden shears, cutting the seed stalks to dry in a hand-built dryer with screen trays. Nikoll takes care of the garden and property in exchange for her very cute home, where she also makes a variety of fermented products with vegetables grown in her garden. I’m obsessed with her Kimchi, pesto, fermented fruit kefirs, and baba ghanoush - you can buy these and her veggies and herbs at the weekly local farmer’s market from her business Pickle Nik. Join us in the garden as we wind our way through the rows of Nikoll’s life passion.

Highlights:

• Nikoll is originally from Guadalajara. She has lived in Todos Santos, BCS for 7 years
• She came to Todos Santos to do her agriculture internship in biodiverse organic farming
• The Mexican government school teaching Agricologia (organic farming) as a career is called Sagarpa, in Texcoco outside Mexico City
• Todos Santos is an oasis in the desert of Baja, where a lot of water runs down from the mountains
• The soil here is very rich due to the minerals brought in by the arroyo (river)
• The biodiversity in her garden includes insects, frogs, and land crabs
• The climate here changes quickly - from hot to cold to warm to cold
• Most passionate about: nature…just being in nature in any way, nurturing ecosystems, protecting environments
• This land was transformed from a sugar cane crop, then wasn’t used (rested, which is good for soil to replenish with nutrients), then got taken over by an invasive grass that dries and becomes a fire hazard
• Having a garden creates biodiversity by attracting pollinators and other animals
• The length of time it takes to enrich soil depends on weather, temperature, water, compost, animal presence, past chemical usage, etc…
• Everything grown in the garden goes to use - if the veggies don’t sell, they are fermented or made into sauces, etc.
• You don’t have to have your own land to be a farmer - you can work someone else’s land
• Helpful traits: stubbornness, energy, excitement. Unhelpful traits: stubbornness (hah!), impatience
• Nikoll is able to live rent-free and have free veggies in exchange for running the garden
• If everyone grows different things, everyone benefits from many farmers
• Nikoll volunteered at a co-op farm on Vancouver Island in Canada called Amara, run by all women, who split the work at the farm and farmer’s market
• Nikoll trades for some of her life expenses (physical therapy, swim lessons) with her farm-grown/made goods
• Advice to her younger self: start sooner (aka go for it!)
• We talk about how our judgments of others are actually a symptom of a problem we are creating within ourselves
• Nikoll asks me what advice I would give to others from my viewpoint now in my life journey

A taste:

“Always try to get everything as local as you can. That is the healthiest thing you can do for your body, for your community, for the planet. It has less carbon footprint. Even though sometimes it’s not the most organic thing…as local as you can get is always going to be better than having something shipped…from Europe, that’s in a plastic container… Sometimes you don’t even know how it’s actually grown… Or where does it come from, or how do they treat their workers? When you’re supporting local, you’re getting to know your community…you’re supporting the people you live with.”

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The scene:

We are walking and watching big, wild waves being surfed at Playa El Pedrito in Pescadero, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Elodie is camped with me in the van for the second night. The previous night, we did a Temezcal (sweat lodge) together in Todos Santos and camped in a cactus forest. The wild wondrous adventure I’m explaining seems to be just life with Elodie, in my experience. She is a light-ball of energetic joy and spreads that everywhere her wings flutter. Join us at the beach to hear about her life, thoughts, and vision.

Highlights:

• Elodie is from France
• Chance meeting through hitch-hiking
• Painting a mural in bikinis on the beach
• She’s most passionate about finding herself
• Finding yourself though others
• Painting is an energy
• Manifesting with your heart
• Hitch-hiking around the world giving tattoos
• We love you Adriana! @tierrasantabcs
• #cacao (everything)
• Elodie’s tattoo creation process (is an awesome whole-day experience)
• Being tattooed in my van, in an oasis, near the ocean, with horses
• Ayahuasca opened her mind to knowing what her passion purpose is
• Being “too happy” and being authentic are her strengths
• Fear, talking too much, and making quick judgements are challenges for her
• Staying happy = staying centered
• When you feel an obligation to your own truth, nothing can hold you back
• You can say YES, and you can say NO
• Using your intuition and trusting the universe to avoid dangers
• Changing disempowering situations into powerful ones
• Humanizing others out of predatory patterns
• Shining a light through others’ darkness to help them see their own humanity
• A scary story about hitchhiking with men (when weed and cops save the day)
• Knowing who your soul family is (and trusting their feedback)
• Sharing the experience of self-discovery through instagram videos
• Wanting to inspire others
• Learning to not paint everything (and making time for experiences)
• Creating your future though drawing and painting
• Trust in your creativity - it is your power
• Remember to dance, stay curious, and play in your imagination
• Being a conduit and interpreter for others’
• Teaching a French person to speak English with an American accent
• Sometimes stereotypes are true
• Creating your own alphabet (downloaded cosmically from the ancient underwater city of Atlantis)
• Trusting your body to draw your chosen family to you
• The Universe is like a big internet
• Advice: elevate your frequency, and wait… (fear takes your power)

A taste:

“I’m not just a woman in the car with a man. And the man is not [simply] a predator. He is a man with a soul. He likes singing, he likes everything, he has a family. So, all the time I ask, “Do you have children? Where does your family live?” Because he’s a human. And if you change the situation like that, the man that was like, “I want ‘something’ with this woman” is now like, “Oh, she is interested in me, she wants to hear my story.”

Favorite Quotes:

“Sorry. Excuse me. Thank you. I love you.” - Ho'oponopono Mantra (for transmutation of energies)

“I am…”

“I can wait. I can think. I can fast.”

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@tierrasantabcs

The scene:

We are in Todos Santos, B.C.S. (Baja California Sur), at Adriana’s house sitting on her covered outdoor living area with hot tea watching the sun set into the pacific ocean. Yeah WTF is right. Adriana graciously invited me to her currently-being-built-home, which is a bold move considering we just met. Within minutes of meeting, I asked if I could live in her shop (because I love it so much) and she said yes I could put my bed near the altar, and well, the rest is history. Adriana is one of the most chill, kind, easeful, and heart-honest humans I have ever met. Join us on the deck as our interview takes us into the dark (and back into the light).

Highlights:

• Hearing ourselves speak the words we want creates the manifestation
• Todos Santos is the beginning of the earth
• Passing the Baja test
• Numerology
• Spirituality being the thing you’re most passionate about in life
• America as in all the Americas
• Mishika traditions (Aztec)
• Mayan cosmology
• Native American practices in South Dakota
• Mishika had a very advanced culture and they mixed all the cultures they encountered
• The Mayan calendar Nawales are for self-knowledge and service to others
• Archeology
• Mythology and archetypes
• Moondance: 4 night ceremony of fasting, dancing, and temezcal (sweat lodge)
• Adriana’s Mayan animal medicine is Jaguar, who shines light into the darkness
• Life brought Adriana to cacao medicine so she could help others understand their own gifts
• Born in Durango, Mexico - one of the biggest and most unpopulated areas, where the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains and desert meet (there is snow in Mexico!)
• Feeling different and like you don’t belong
• At age 17, lived in Brussels, Belgium for two years (and speaks French beautifully)
• Studied “Mother Languages” for teaching and translation
• Went to a Montessori elementary school and used it as inspiration to teach language
• Grew up fast caring for her younger brother
• Learning to trust your own judgment
• Not working for anyone else
• There’s nothing more rewarding than doing what you believe in
• Community support has been essential to continuing her work
• Giving back to the community
• Staying open to how big your dreams can become
• Geographic places that feel like home
• The giving and receiving law of life
• Learning to relax into life, living in a place of collective conscious relaxation
• Making free time, changing family programming
• Being passionate about what you do makes it not feel like work
• Changing the pace of life by following the seasons
• We all do what we can with what we have

A taste:

“Cacao is a beautiful medicine that is in the service of helping people reconnect with the real - with nature, and with earth - and with their gifts, and to break up the illusion of fear, and of being in this capitalistic system that isolates us and makes us believe we need to do things that are not aligned with our spirits.”

Favorite Song Line:

“Todos caminamos bajo la misma luna.” (“We all walk under the same moon.”) by Calle 13

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