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[Hallease] I first learned about Semi-Hydroponics or the LECA system right as the United States
began to go on lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
Like many of you, I was working through this new reality, the economic losses, the constant
concern about my safety and the safety of the ones I love, and also mourning and grieving
the loss.
The loss of human life and also the loss of hope that a new year usually brings.
And then while looking for how to get rid of gnats I stumbled upon LECA here on YouTube
and became completely obsessed with it.
With the beauty of hindsight, I know now the reason why.
It was a paradigm shift, a new truth.
[faucet water running]
All my life I had lived in the truth that plants grow in dirt and soil.
There were exceptions but that was the rule.
LECA changed that, it showed me that on a small scale -- what you hold to be a truth
- your reality, it can change.
In an instant.
It’s like Erykah Badu had said “The man that knows something knows that he knows nothing
at all’
My perceived ideal ecosystem for my plants was a half-truth based on my extremely limited
knowledge of plants and their root systems.
I found it incredibly refreshing and humbling to learn of my half-truth.
I’ve been watching a lot of you go through your own awakenings and realizing your own
half-truths, about yourself, about this country, it’s history and it’s present.
It’s uncomfortable.
When you put a plant that was in soil into LECA -- it’s a shock.
The plant is used to one environment and your putting it into a new one.
You ease that shock by giving it SuperThrive, a boost of nutrients to help it adjust and
you take it even further by ph balancing the water.
If you’re going through a paradigm shift right now, what is your superthrive?
What can you do to balance your pH?
Maybe you’re getting used to saying Black Lives Matter?
The significance of Juneteenth.
Maybe you’re working through how you’ve unconsciously and unknowingly benefited from
a system at the expense of others and are working through the shame of that.
Whatever it is, figure out what your superthrive is to get through it, figure out what it means
for you to find your pH Balance.
And don’t freak out when you’ve gotta measure out the pH a few times.
We all do.
I enjoy LECA because on a small scale it’s shown me that I am adaptable and am willing
to unlearn and relearn over and over again.
The man that knows something, knows that he knows nothing at all.
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