Land Food Medicine: "A love song to the Earth"
- mia8893
- Dec 10, 2025
- 4 min read
Updated: Dec 22, 2025
Deep into the earth I go
Deep into the earth I know
Hold my hand sibling
Hold my hand, hold my hand sibling, hold my hand
Founded deep on the land at 42 Acres, Somerset, Land Food Medicine exists to cultivate our sacred relationship with the earth. Through growing food and medicine, mentoring and teaching, running outreach programs, and hosting events, they bring this core mission to life. Be The Earth is proud to have helped seed the start-up of this vital work.
Tasha Elena, Founder
Tasha carries a dual heritage from Nicaragua and England, and her understanding of small scale farming and Indigenous culture shapes her approach to land, food, and medicine.
She is a creative visionary whose work bridges worlds and opens pathways for community rooted, land based learning.
Years of living off grid inform her resourceful, low impact way of bringing ideas into form. Through careful listening she develops offerings that align with the needs of the land and community.
Tasha founded Land, Food and Medicine in 2024 at 42 Acres, where the collective cultivates medicinal crops and mushrooms using gentle, reciprocal methods.
End of year reflection, by Tasha
Land food and medicine: is a love song to the earth
As an intuitive I have allowed and continue to allow the organisation to emerge and show me where we need to go…
We are growing like a mushroom each mycelium reaching out to create a multitude of seed bearing fruits in the world,
No single throng is what we do, all of it is…
There’s space for listening, witnessing, co creating, chaos and creation, we are just clay walking, hummus, human…
As our work grows deeper, so do we. We grow and we learn and this year the medicine has been as much in the community as in the medicinal foods we make.
Its truly a deep honour to tend the land and the eco-system of which we are part in the way. Through this work we bring to the centre the sacred feminine to nurture all life and the need to support and receive support from our community and go deeper and deeper still.
To midwife in a time of sacred magic, abundance and the medicine of mother earth, every day…
We have collectively welcomed an abundance of life to this land.
We welcomed the golden sea of yellow and orange sea buckthorn berries
We welcomed native white reishi, gonoderma applanatum, fruiting proudly in the mushroom farm
We welcomed the rose-hips which were so sweet in the autumn sun
Last but not least, we welcomed the arrival of angel wing mushrooms in the mossy forest.
We have held hundreds of people through transformational processes, through courses, workshops, qi-gong, nature connection sessions for marginalised peoples and Emerging Earth — our four day gathering on Land, Spirituality and Sacred Activism. And more recently, spreading our knowledge to support those following in our path — helping to set up others farms and projects. Most recently, as paid consultants through Devon County Council.
Jen has been lovingly leading and tending the Roots to Resilience work with Laura — our free to access community outreach project. We run year round, six-week nature connection courses for adults struggling with their mental health and one day retreats for women from the refugee community.
So far, Roots to Resilience has welcomed 39 participants, 93% of whom could not usually access 42 Acres. 86% reported improved well-being and resilience.
We’d love to support this important work to continue and grow.
From our Tiny Wild Kitchen we cook up land magic day after day, producing 40,000 doses of medicinal foods since we began two years ago, harnessing the abundant season. From Tiny Wild Kitchen, our Artisan community has emerged, homing multiple micro-businesses from traditional pro-biotic Japanese miso, to kefir ice-cream to Alison’s home-grown jams and chutneys. Women feeding their communities with delicious medicinal foods.
Tiny Wild Festival Café, has been wildly popular. We have fed this year alone well over 1,000 people with mushrooms from our farm, regenerative vegetables and wild food from the land — making meals affordable through cooking at scale on wood.
Our community of customers supported us when we put each meal up by £1 to support Palestine. We were able to send £900 to a Israeli/ Palestinian coalition of Buddhists managing to bring food parcels by hand into Palestine through cross cultural solidarity work.
It is with deep deep gratitude and thanks to 42 Acres, the team, and Be The Earth who have worked hard to support us to experiment and to run a tandem project on the site. It took trust and a really big LEAP of faith from all of us.
Trust that layering the projects would not diminish but enhance each of our own missions. That we could work together to make something greater than each one of us could do on our own.
It’s been incredible to receive this support and the grant support for our start-up costs from Be The Earth. Both sister organisations of whom are invaluable friends, allies, and partners.
Looking ahead, we are currently working with The Nest — a non-profit creative agency in service to regenerative farmers, growers and producers — who have beautifully redesigned our website and are supporting us with marketing.
We wish to continue our work to preserve the native wild mushrooms species present on this land, as well as produce for medicine. We wish to expand our outreach work to hold both Roots to Resilience, and also offer supported drop-in sessions for alumni and community members to be held and supported through up-skilling and land work.
And last but not least — to develop juicy, expansive collaborations and seek to create a permanent base to house this sacred work.
We are a wild tending project, advocacy hub, artisan business holding transformation experiences through outreach and offerings. We want to continue to develop our mycelium identity to grow out in many directions.
We don’t need to limit ourselves with the confines of the current system, but create something new that fits the time we are living in.
We welcome your support on this journey.
We welcome any gift of support in any form.
With deepest thanks.
📸 Photography by: Zsuzsa Zicho
