--- title: "Resources - Huachuma Foundation" description: "Books, notes and recordings the Foundation points people to, including Keeper Trout's archive and four books by Javier Regueiro. All of it is free." url: https://huachumafoundation.org/resources/ updated: 2026-10-30 language: en format: a Markdown copy of the page at the url above --- # Resources Books, notes and recordings What the Foundation points people to when they want to learn about this plant, and what it publishes itself. All of it is free. [Listen to the Podcast](https://huachumafoundation.org/podcast/) [Trout’s Notes](https://troutsnotes.com) Books and notes Keeper Trout’s archive and four books by Javier Regueiro. Every episode Sixteen conversations, with a line on what each one is about. On this site Nine pages on the plant, the garden and the Foundation. ![A drawing of a Huachuma stem cut across: seven rounded ribs, the green flesh, the ring of vessels and the pale center](https://huachumafoundation.org/media/section.svg) ## Books and Notes Other people’s work ![A dense stand of tall mature Huachuma columns growing among dry grass, a hillside and blue sky behind](https://huachumafoundation.org/media/a-stand-of-mature-huachuma-columns-16x9-800.jpg) ### Trout’s Notes Keeper Trout has done the most thorough work on these cacti that exists, and much of it is free at [troutsnotes.com](https://troutsnotes.com). - Pachanoi or Pachanot is where to start. It is the fastest way to see what the common garden plant actually is. - For anybody who wants more than mescaline in the answer, Trout has written at length on the alkaloids these cacti carry. An alkaloid list is only as long as the analysis that made it. Keep that in mind before comparing one plant with another. ### Four Books Javier Regueiro came to Peru in 2004, built a healing center of his own by hand, and wrote four books. The first of them is about this plant. - San Pedro / Huachuma: Opening the Pathways of the Heart - Ayahuasca: Soul Medicine of the Amazon Jungle - The Toé / Datura Diaries - A Gift of Love: Poems, Prayers, and Stories from the Long and Dusty Road ## Every Episode Sixteen conversations Plant More, Worry Less has been running since August 2025. Newest first. [Listen to the Podcast](https://huachumafoundation.org/podcast/) | The Heart Is the Medicine October 15, 2026. | Robin Flynn and Darcy Kopas, guest teachers in Huachuma Wisdom’s 2027 season, on what a mesa is, ceremony held at night in as much darkness as possible, and why every purification needs a flowering. | | --- | --- | | It’s All Sausage and Peppers October 5, 2026. | A comedian on grief after losing his son, mushrooms taken in silence and darkness, and the difference between the Huachuma sold in the States and what grows in Peru. | | The Megaphone and the Whisper September 7, 2026. | Our first conversation about Iboga, and it turned out to be a conversation about almost everything. | | The Wonderful Web of Huachuma August 20, 2026. | A full season in Peru: two retreats in the Sacred Valley, a pilgrimage to the temple at Chavín de Huántar, and a first diet with Huachuma. | | Seed to Ceremony April 23, 2026. | Growing from seed to ceremony, and one grower’s approach to propagation. | | Heart Mind Over Logical Mind April 7, 2026. | What a decade of devoted work with this plant actually looks like, and the difference between the logical mind and the heart mind. | | Soul Rewilding and the Breath of Return March 9, 2026. | Breathwork and somatic practice, why freedom asks for structure, and what integration really means. | | Keeper of the Cactus February 26, 2026. | Tending land, planting grandfathers, and the long road to Huachuma. | | Into the Sacred Andes January 28, 2026. | What a stay in the Sacred Valley involves: the ceremonies, the cooking, and planting cactus at the garden. | | When Grandfather Sits on the Back Porch January 12, 2026. | Why this plant asks to be met halfway, and why integration is most of the work. | | The Blueprint Behind the Medicine December 17, 2025. | Embodiment over intellectual spirituality, and telling a true calling from a decision made by the mind. | | Opening to the Cactus Consciousness November 21, 2025. | The questions listeners ask most: the species, the alkaloids beyond mescaline, and how to find a facilitator. | | The Chakana November 6, 2025. | The Andean cross, and how one teacher wove it into a yoga practice. | | The Knowing September 28, 2025. | A near-death experience, and the long road through plant medicine that followed it. | | Ross’s Journey Through Plant Medicine September 2, 2025. | A chance meeting in the Amazon jungle, the teachers it led to, and the seeds of what became this Foundation. | | Plant More, Worry Less Podcast, Episode 1 August 4, 2025. | Where the Foundation came from, what Huachuma is, and how Pray More, Worry Less became Plant More, Worry Less. | ## On This Site Written here ### [About Huachuma](https://huachumafoundation.org/what-is-huachuma/) A group of tall Andean cacti rather than one species. ### [Where Huachuma Grows](https://huachumafoundation.org/where-huachuma-grows/) Where the plant comes from, and where it is planted now. ### [Growing Huachuma](https://huachumafoundation.org/growing-huachuma/) A harvest can leave more plants standing than it started with. ### [Choosing a Facilitator](https://huachumafoundation.org/choosing-a-facilitator/) What to ask before you decide who to sit with. ### [Huachuma at Chavín](https://huachumafoundation.org/huachuma-at-chavin/) The plant carved into a temple three thousand years old. ### [The Taray Garden](https://huachumafoundation.org/projects/taray/) The preservation garden in the Sacred Valley. ### [Facilitator Ethics](https://huachumafoundation.org/facilitator-ethics/) What we look for in the people who hold this medicine. ### [Our Story](https://huachumafoundation.org/our-story/) How the Foundation started, and what it has done since. ### [Podcast](https://huachumafoundation.org/podcast/) Plant More, Worry Less, every episode. ![Dozens of young Huachuma cuttings standing in red earth across a terraced slope, with the cut bank rising behind them](https://huachumafoundation.org/media/taray-garden-cuttings-across-the-slope-16x9-high-800.jpg) ## The Garden Taray, Sacred Valley [Donate](https://huachumafoundation.org/donate/) [The Taray Garden](https://huachumafoundation.org/projects/taray/)