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Steven Martyn - GNOSIS
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Steven Martyn - The Sacred Gardener
M.A. (traditional plant use), B.F.A. honours, artist, farmer, wildcrafter, builder, teacher, writer, visionary.
Steven has more than thirty years experience living co-creatively with the Earth, practicing traditional living skills of growing food, building and healing. Steven created Livingstone & Greenbloom in 1986, Toronto’s first green landscaping company.
In 1996, he created the Algonquin Tea Company, North America’s premiere bioregional tea company. He has given talks and run workshops internationally for more than twenty years and taught plant identification and wilderness skills at Algonquin college for 11 years, and at the Orphan Wisdom School for eight years. In 2014, Megan and Steven started the Sacred Gardener Earth Wisdom School. Steven released his first book The Story of the Madawaska Forest Garden in 2016, his second, Sacred Gardening in June 2017 and The Roundhouse in 2022.
“After passing from my body when I was 19 I saw what my life purpose was, and that I had fallen well short. I was given back my body to fulfill a very specific purpose in this life. Since that time forty some years ago I have spent my life spreading the green gospel and bringing people back to be healed by our Great Mother Earth. I spent many years teaching traditional plant use and many more de-programing colonial thinking, opening peoples minds and hearts to a sacred relationship with land, and specifically with the plant people. I practice and teach forms of sacred agriculture and “wildculturing” that our ancestors have practiced since the Paleocene, that generate such abundance the land easily feeds our family, school and friends.”
His new book is Gnosis, and he says,
“In Gnosis we enter a silence so deep and still space is created for the animate world around us, to step up and tell us their story, how they birthed us, protected us, nurtured us and continue to do so. Our culture came about from our divine marriages to beings from other dimensions, from fire, to the materials of our arts; like agriculture, healing, ceramics, weaving, writing and mathematics, the origins of everything in our culture is sacred. The hope is that by getting back to these foundation stones of our culture we can rebuild a sacred reality once again as our ancestors did.”
Steven Martyn's book - GNOSIS:
https://www.amazon.ca/Gnosis-Growing-Culture-Reclamation-Marriages-ebook/dp/B0FBHRFXB3/
The Sacred Gardener website:
The Sacred Gardener Workshops and Events:
https://sacredgardener.ca/workshops-events-2/
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