[Scpg] Happy Summer Solstice from Baja!/ Gabriel Howearth Buena Fortuna Gardens UPDATE

Fri Jun 18 05:59:55 PDT 2010

Dear Friends and family:

May this letter find you in good health and enjoying a nice summer.

It has been 6 months already since we sent you the last update.

First of all, we want to reiterate our gratitude 
to all friends and family members that helped us 
thru Gabriel's health challenges that started a 
year and a half ago in the wet tropics where 
Gabriel was diagnosed with meningitis and 
pneumonia. It has been quite a journeyŠ your 
support and friendship definitely has been a key 
factor in his recovery.

Gabriel come back to the Buena Fortuna Gardens on 
December 2009 (from the clinic in the USA after 
he had pneumonia for the second time) , when he 
arrived he could barely move, he was very weak 
and his lungs were delicate (according to the 
doctors in Aug. 2009 only one of his lugs was 
working and only on 1/3 of its capacity).

Now his lungs are strong and he is back into seed cleaningŠ

All this time at Buena Fortuna he has been 
treated only with herbs and good food -away from 
medications. Even the few times at the beginning 
when he coughed blood, we successfully treated 
him with herbs. We are grateful to Dr. Gerry 
Lehrberger, Dr. Karen Ferrera and Dr. Ingrid 
Naiman whom have continued giving us advice and 
support thru this healing process and shared many 
high quality healing herbs and homeopathic 
remedies . And also thanks to Ambaya, from Ambaya 
Gold whose brain tonics and herbal supplements 
have been an incredible asset to his health.

Gabriel's health has improved tremendously, he 
has gained weight and strength. He is still a 
very knowledgeable teacher, maintaining his 
passion to share and teach. He has never lost his 
incredible botanical knowledge and the clarity of 
his mental processes.

His main challenge at this moment is Nerve damage 
that has caused him not to be able to move the 
right side of his body and so affecting his 
speech (that actually has improved in the last 
few months) it also affects his walking because 
of the low nerve conductivity the responses of 
his right leg are slow, so he has a hard time 
walking (which he does with a cane as a part of 
his therapy, but for the most part we move him on 
a wheel chair). The greatest challenge resulted 
from nerve damage is that he is unable to move 
his right hand, which is now semi-paralyzed. 
However he has manages to work daily at the 
garden, using his left hand to weed, plant, 
harvest and clean seeds. Gabriel gets picked up 
on the wheel chair at 6:30 every morning and 
brought down to the earth to weed and plant at 
the garden until its time to give botanical 
tours, workshops or clean seeds. His 
determination and will to live are amazing. His 
commitment to work for the Earth is always 
present.

We are planning for Gabriel to go receive 
therapies at Dr. William Hitt Center in T.J. 
Mexico (treatments sponsored by John Roulac, 
Nutiva organic products) and also treatments at 
Health Walk in Carlsbad, Ca, (Treatments 
sponsored by Mark D. Hinds and supported by 
Patricia Braggs) so he can continue his healing 
journey until completion to perhaps recover 
movement of his right side. In order to do this 
we are currently working on getting him 
assistant/ companion for a week to 10 days in T. 
J. on the 3rd week of July and potentially in 
Carlsbad the end of July- beginning of August. If 
you or somebody you know is interested in 
assisting him or you would like to support this 
treatments in any way, please email us.

We are also currently looking for a therapist 
that would like to come and spend the fall/winter 
months learning organic gardening and medicinal 
herbs cultivation from Gabriel to, in exchange 
give him daily therapies. Please share the 
information of this apprenticeship opportunity 
with whomever might be qualify and interested.

Gabriel is feeling better every day. Being around 
his children at the garden, having organic meals, 
fresh healing herbs and high quality supplements 
and his positive attitude are playing a big roll 
in his recovery.
We are now planing a permaculture course in 
December 6 to 19 at BF, for more information see 
<http://www.rawpermaculture.org/2010/04/mexico-retreat/>http://www.rawpermaculture.org/2010/04/mexico-retreat/

The Buena Fortuna Botanical Garden are green and 
lush and many tropical fruits are now 
ripeningŠ.plus many seeds, too many to mention.

Thank you so much for being here for us.

May the Earth Bless you with abundance!

Hope to see you some time at our garden in Baja.

Kitzia Danel & Gabriel Howearth

Buena Fortuna Botanical Garden

La Ribera, B.C.S.

Cel. 011 52 1 624 1683225

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