Northern Winter  2026

Citizens of the World
Advocating for Earth

Current Selection Chosen for Literary Advocacy

The Human Nature of NEED and FEED  -  A Modern Treatise

Otillia M. Richmond, MH

Find details In the Spotlight below.

*All proceeds from books ordered through Peasant House Press go directly to author.  Books are aslo available through major retailers, or inquire at your favorite bookstore.

Food for Thought

What does being educated mean in 2026?

Do you know?

Let's take a new stance and add why to the question 'do you know?' It is one thing to know, but why is imperative as well.  

A Look at Nature

Witness the beauty and learn more about the natural world to inspire respect for the Earth's ecosystem.

Links for Resources

Empower yourself with knowledge. Find selected contributions for reading, listening, and watching, plus links to science articles and news, health and diet ideas, and other topics making headlines.

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In the Spotlight

  • Are you concerned about your health or have questions about diet and nutrition?
  • Do you experience difficulty controlling your weight or staying fit?
  • Do you worry about the planet or wonder what you can do to make a difference?

Or, do you simply desire knowledge and perception to further your intuition, develop freedom, and most of all, find personal wellbeing? If yes answers any of these questions, this may be the read for you. 

This modern treatise uncovers the many facets of nature, exposing human strengths, frailties, and the crux at which humans have arrived, offering readers insight into current human needs and how these modern and civilized needs combine with our ancient human natures to contour who we are, how we live, and the world we occupy, influencing our wellbeing.

In book one, The Cat Searching for an Open Window, modern human needs are explored in depth, from air, water, nutrition, and medicine, needs on the inside, to needs on the outside-shelter, tools, education, time-including money, governance, and other external needs humans have industrialized to accept as needs.

Health from the Hearth, book two, translates human needs to our position in nature's scheme, introducing the varied and numerous resources for feed and futher need, delivering the necessary ingredients for a healthy human diet. You will discover how nature nurtures nature, and recognize how to formulate the recipes for health and cuisine, learning how to use these ingredients to craft a life fueling the body, feeding the spirit, and bringing peace to the mind.

And finding wellbeing doesn't stop there; this voice goes on to provide the basic formulas, simple recipes, and the necessary instruction to use nature's offerings how they are intended-earth to hearth. Whether making bread or brewing beer, making soup or soap, or in pursuit of natural remedies for healing, The Human Nature of NEED and FEED is truly the compendium to do so. This modern treatise allows everyone avenues to find personal wellbeing during a time when conservation, sustainability, and health are foremost in changing human behaviors.

 

 

Be it the knowledge to understand the whys, the practice to establish the hows, or the tools to make it happen. Decades of practice and study deliver a textbook from one human’s journey: years of education and exploration joined with philosophy, new and old, the hindsight of our history, and modern scientific discoveries and technologies.

The Human Nature of NEED and FEED is an easy to read manual for wisdom to pursue wellbeing and survival in this century, for those who have health, peace, independence, preparedness, and the planet Earth on their minds. These two books in one are worthy of a spot on the shelf or a place at the table.

 

 

800 pages
66 chapters
hard cover/color

BOOKS IN  1

full index
recipe index
appendix

BOOK ONE: 

Cat Searching for an Open Window

Part 1   the new nature of human need - finding wellbeing inside

Part 2   the new nature of human need - finding wellbeing outside

BOOK TWO:

Health from the Hearth

Part One   introduction to the kingdoms of life - elements for wellbeing

Part Two   crafting nature's ingredients - elements for living

 

 

About the Voice

Otillia M. Richmond, MH

Residing in the shadows of the Rocky Mountains, a modern sage-natural healer, master herbalist, gardener, and brewer, artist, educator, explorer, philosopher, and poet-Tilli uses her near lifetime of experience and study to offer readers, young and old, an elementary treatise of discovery and practice for environmenally conscience healthy living to

find wellbeing.

 

                                                                     Autumn 2023

Order NEED & FEED
Worth the Time. Worth the Price. A Great Gift.

 

The Human Nature of  NEED and FEED will enlighten and educate anyone who wants to know what they can do and, how they can do it, for a journey of self discovery to find personal wellbeing.


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All proceeds from books ordered through Peasant House Press go directly to author.

Books are aslo available through major retailers, or inquire at your favorite bookstore.

Good Reads to Borrow

These selected books and media were chosen by advocates for their contribution to understanding the world they occupy, available free through libraries in a variety of formats. 

History: 1177 B.C. The Year Civilization Collapsed, Eric H. Cline, 2021

Science: Nature and the Mind, Marc Berman, 2025

Art History:  Nature Van Gogh: The Life, Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, 2012

American History: Joseph Smith, Rough Rolling Stone, Richard Lyman Bushman, 2005

Great Courses Audio:

Democracy and Its Alternatives, Ethan Hollander, 2022

12 Revolutionary Discoveries That Could Change Everything, Laura Helmuth, 2024

Documentries to Stream:

 

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