Nurturing Your Inner Garden for Optimal Health: April Lake Permaculture Meeting

Name: Nurturing Your Inner Garden for Optimal Health: April Lake Permaculture Meeting
Start: 2026-04-07T18:01:00-04:00
End: 2026-04-07T21:03:00-04:00
Location: Groveland Exchange

Schedule

Tue Apr 07 2026 at 06:01 pm to 09:03 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Groveland Exchange | Groveland, FL

First Tuesday April 7th, 2026, Lake Permaculture's monthly meeting, 7pm presentation, at the new Groveland Exchange. Setup at 6pm, please bring folding chairs if available. Open to the public for all interested.
Dr. Tia Jolie Phillips brings a fresh, systems-based perspective to health that resonates deeply with the principles of permaculture. In her talk, Gut Babies: Nurturing Your Inner Garden for Optimal Health, she draws a clear parallel between the health of the soil and the health of the human gut. She explains how the microbiome—our internal ecosystem of bacteria, fungi, and microbes—functions just like a living soil system, requiring balance, diversity, proper pH, and nutrient-rich inputs to thrive. Just as a permaculturalist builds fertile soil to grow resilient plants, we must cultivate our internal terrain to support energy, clarity, and long-term health.
This presentation connects the dots between gut health, brain function, and the vagus nerve, while emphasizing the role of plant fibers, living foods, and fermentation in creating a thriving internal environment. Dr. Phillips reframes digestion as either fermentation or putrefaction, highlighting how modern dietary patterns disrupt natural processes and how a return to garden-based nutrition restores balance. For anyone who understands the importance of regenerative systems in nature, this talk offers a powerful realization: the same principles that heal the land can heal the body.
Snacks and coffee drinks will be available from the venue, so please leave other food or drinks at home. Water bottles are ok. We are short on chairs, bring some if you have them. Please bring seeds, cutting, potted plants, tools or permaculture books for the sharing table.