If you follow the potcast you know cannabis is my co-pilot and my cannabis infused meditation is my most important meeting of the day. I invited fellow writer and medical cannabis user, Kerri Connor to join me on the potcast to discuss the ins and outs and misconceptions of meditation. She shares her story of opioid addiction and the discovery of acupuncture and cannabis-infused meditation to heal her mind, body, and soul. Which inspired her to write Wake Bake and Meditate: Take Your Spiritual Practice to a Higher Level with Cannabis. 

If you’re a meditation newbie, this potcast is for you. It’s also for anyone looking for some peace in an overstimulated world. So, give yourself the mother of all breaks and settle in for a look at medicated meditation. It’s time to get casually baked.

I’m happy to be your cannabis lifestyle guide and share what I know and learn with you. So if you feel inspired, please take a beat to rate and review Casually Baked on iTunes or Apple Podcasts. That simple action helps other canna-curious folks find this highly responsible cannabis content.

Kumbaya and cannabis, -Jo 💚

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‘After the Show’ Notes

Remember, meditation is a skill you must commit to practicing in order to hone. The rewards of quieting the noise and focusing your mind are priceless. I recently attended a webinar for female entrepreneurs about ditching the imposter syndrome. I learned that 1 in 5 entrepreneurs use vision boards and 76% of entrepreneurs confirmed their business became what they envisioned. And I love this statistic - Professionals using meditation programs experienced a 520% profit increase. Who doesn’t want that?!

In just two weeks of daily meditation, you have the potential to increase your productivity by 120%. So stop focusing on problems and what you don’t want. Instead, give your time, attention and words to what you do want and celebrate what’s going right. Because your thoughts really do become things. Start practicing the life of a conscious creator, and joyfully adventure anywhere from here!

✌️💚, -Jo

Kerri Connor is the author of Wake, Bake & Meditate: Take Your Spiritual Practice to a Higher Level with Cannabis (Llewellyn Worldwide), Spells for Tough Times (Llewellyn Worldwide), The Pocket Spell Creator: Magickal References at Your Fingertips (New Page Books), The Pocket Guide to Rituals: Magickal References at Your Fingertips (New Page Books), and The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Potions (Alpha Books).

She has been published in several magazines and newsletters including The Blessed Bee, Sage Woman, PanGaia and New Witch, and a dozen of Llewellyn's annuals. Currently, she runs The Pagan Review, The Weed Witch, The Spiral Labyrinth, and Wake, Bake and Meditate - all on Facebook. Kerri has led the group The Gathering Grove since 2003.

A graduate from the University of Wisconsin, Kerri holds a B.A. in Communications. She lives in rural Illinois with her husband, son, and a plethora of critters. She is working to convert a portion of their land into a spiritual sanctuary.

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Soil is the foundation of most types of agriculture. And as a country girl, who grew up around mono-cropped farms, I’m all about educating farmers on alternatives. It’s a careless agricultural practice of growing the same crop on the same plot of land year after year - making it less productive over time.

Soil degradation threatens the productivity and overall health of our food crops which in turn, affects our diet and overall health. 

In the US, industrial farming practices often include the rotation of soybeans and corn. Technically, because two crops are in rotation, this doesn’t get classified as a “monoculture.” However, this “simple” form of crop rotation does not provide the same benefit to the soil as do complex systems (in which three or more crops are rotated over a period of one year or longer). When crops are grown in complex rotation, yields go up by as much as 10 percent in a non-drought year.

Mono-cropping or even the “simple” two crop rotation causes a cascade of problems, necessitating not only the use of synthetic fertilizers (because the soil becomes depleted), but also the use of pesticides to control pests, like soil fungi, insects, and other agricultural nuisances. Fields that include a diversity of crops (which is called a polyculture) are less attractive to insect predators. 

Soil scientists have also discovered that monocropping alters the microbial landscape of soil, decreasing beneficial microbes and causing poor plant growth over time. 

It is possible to create and maintain a healthy soil structure, rich in nutrients, in sustainable agricultural systems without the use of synthetic fertilizers or pesticides. Sustainable farmers use varying techniques including:

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• Adding animals on pasture or animal manure to farm systems and crop rotation

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Support farmers working to build healthy soils by shopping locally and buying organic products when you can.

It just makes sense that monocropping is a bad idea. Imagine if you had to do or eat or say the same thing over and over and over again year after year after year. I’d lose my shit. Just like the soil does. Variety will always be the spice of life! 

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