Sisters of the Valley is a group of women who are activists on a mission to ’empower people to heal themselves’. The Sisterhood promotes plant medicines and the sisters make their products in harmony with the cycles of the moon
This week, the Sisters who currently live on the little one-acre farm in Merced County, California, developed their recipe during the long winter months of the pandemic.
The Sisters achieved the mood-stabilizing effects they wanted, and much more. “Branching out to functional mushrooms seems like a natural to us; there are many similarities to the magical qualities of the hemp plant,” reports Sister Kate.
The Sisters named their coffee Super 17, for the seventeen ingredients: cocoa, black tea, reishi, lion’s mane, cordyceps, turkey tail, chaga, shitake, ashwagandha, turmeric, salt, ginger root, cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, black pepper.
The Sisters remind everyone that functional mushrooms are a relatively new frontier in the world of nutrition, so they advise everyone to listen to their bodies. “Yes, take part in this great human healing experiment with functional mushrooms, but be mindful and listen to your body,” warns Sister Sophia. “Just as some people can’t drink coffee-bean coffee, we may learn that some can’t take mushroom coffee either. We are all learning together.”
Sisters of the Valley has become known world-wide partly because of their close relationship with the cannabis plant, and partly because of their devotion to women empowerment, political activism and radical change. Re-defining the meaning of clergy can be said to be one part of this radical change – embracing plant-based diets and medicine is another.
Super 17 Mushroom Coffee is available for purchase at www.sistersofthevalley.org