Still Time for Joy
Still Time for Joy features practical advice for weathering life's storms, and inspiring stories of resilience.
Host Sandra Levine interviews experts on caregiving, trauma, grief, and other intense challenges to provide a road map for survival. Heroes and healers, adventurers and innovators encourage you to pursue more self-care, reflection, connection, and fun—and your own unique and joyful purpose.
Sandra is a television producer, filmmaker, and speaker who spent 20 years as a caregiver, first for her husband Michael, who had a brain injury, and then for her mother Dorothy, who had Alzheimer's Disease. She created this show to share lessons learned from those experiences to help you get through difficult times, too.
Still Time for Joy is also available as a video podcast on YouTube @SandraLevineProd
Still Time for Joy
Help Heal Mother Earth with Trees & Native Plants - Tips from Author & Master Arborist Basil Camu
Do you want to help butterflies, birds, and bees thrive, and help mitigate some of the damage we've done to Mother Earth? Master Arborist, Basil Camu, wrote "From Wasteland to Wonder: Easy Ways We Can Help Heal Earth in the Sub/Urban Landscape" to provide practical ways everyone can do their part to help the planet. He is so committed to this work, he is offering the book to everyone for free.
After Camu began working in his family's tree service business, Leaf and Limb, in Raleigh, North Carolina, he realized cutting down trees was doing massive harm to the environment. He and his father, Colin, made the radical decision to stop cutting down trees, and concentrate on structural pruning, instead.
In this interview, Camu explains the difference between dirt and soil, and offers tips on improving soil health, reducing the size of lawns, creating meadows and pocket forests, and substituting compost for harmful chemicals.
Project Pando, a nonprofit Camu founded, engages people in collecting native seeds, which are then grown into saplings, and given away for planting.
Camu calls himself a "treecologist" and a "Wizard of Things"; through extensive reading and taking action, he's working to do his part to preserve nature for his children and generations to come.
Project Pando https://www.leaflimb.com/project-pando/
"From Wasteland to Wonder" https://www.leaflimb.com/wonder/
Sandra Levine Productions https://sandralevine.com
Watch "Still Time for Joy" as a video podcast on YouTube @SandraLevineProd
