Our Facebook friend Jacquelyn Palmer loves to share her homesteading world. Chemically sensitive, she’s been living a non-toxic lifestyle for over 10 years now and she and her boyfriend John live life to the fullest. When she’s not harvesting fresh grown veggies and herbs from her garden, you can find her tending the chickens, reading, practicing yoga, camping out, or kayaking on the lake near her home. She shares the journey from garden to plate her homegrown basil recently took, below.
Harvesting basil leaves and pruning off the flowers.
The making of the pesto. She froze some and used the rest for dinner.
To make this pesto, Jacquelyn chopped up the basil then added olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, hot peppers, cashews and/or pine nuts, grated cheese, and sea salt. Yum!
Jacquelyn’s dinner: basil pesto tossed with brown rice noodles, brocoli, tomatoes, mushrooms, and chicken.
She makes it look so easy, doesn’t she?!
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Earthwalker is the username that PT founder Julie Genser created for her online interactions so many years ago when first creating Planet Thrive.
Julie's (Earthwalker's) life was derailed over twenty years ago when she had a very large organic mercury exposure after she naively used a mouth thermometer to measure the temperature of just-boiled milk while making her very first pizza at home. The mercury instantly expanded into a gas form and exploded out the back of the thermometer right into her face. Unaware that mercury was the third most neurotoxic element on Earth, Julie had no idea she had just received a very high dose of a poisonous substance.
A series of subsequent toxic exposures over the next few years -- to smoke from two fires (including 9/11), toxic mold, lyme disease, and chemical injuries -- caused catastrophic damage to her health. While figuring out how to survive day-to-day, and often minute-to-minute, she created Planet Thrive to help others avoid some of the misdiagnoses and struggles she had experienced.
She has clawed her way over many health mountains to get to where she is today. She is excited to bring the latest iteration of Planet Thrive to the chronic illness community.
In 2019, Julie published her very first cookbook e-book called Low Lectin Lunches (+ Dinners, Too!) after discovering how a low lectin, gluten free diet was helping manage her chronic fascia/muscle pain.
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this looks wonderful. thanks for sharing this inspiring story. jules8
I haven’t been able to tolerate basil for a few years now…but this recipe makes me want to hurry up and try it again. The ingredients are so fresh, so pure, so yum. Thanks, Jacki, for letting us share your harvest with our readers!!