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Woot the Hoot!!! Happy New Years to all. My gardening operation is on severe hold due to the arctic air mass and the ground is frozen solid. I had everything ready to order. I'll get there. The frustration mounts and I have other projects.
Hi all. Being an eternal student has its advantages. Recently, I discovered an extra benefit of organic food crops grown in a healthy rhizosphere. The soil-borne organisms, which become part of the plant, greatly safeguard the intestinal flora balance, especially doing its part against excessive Candida. Furthermore, with the right balance (85/15), nutrition from these foods can be absorbed.
GMOs cannot be absorbed and one would do as well to swallow bits of cardboard as Frankenfrauds.
Vexari: sorry to everyone else for the O.T. I tried to P.M. you and will have to try on a Friday. Peace out!
sumisu: Ah, yes, Me and Julio down by the potting bench. [Whistles into a fade-out.]
From the I-Have-Been-Telling-Everyone-For-Years-Department:
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/08/04/monsanto-ghostwriting-stanford-university-hoover-institution-fellow/amp/
It is time to go back to all those forums and throw some rotten eggs on those shills.
sumisu: Forbes just came out with a hit piece against homesteaders. Yet 50 of Forbes 400 Richest in the U.S. receive farm subsidies.
Hello to all. I've had complications with my injuries, but found a holistic MD with whom I have a strong connection. Of all his recommendations, the Panasilver has been the most helpful. It differs from colloidal silver.
But that is not why I showed up. Hopefully, this is not a repeat post. I just came across this:
https://www.hortzone.com/blog/2017/07/16/plants-attract-ruthless-good-bugs/
Be well.
sumisu: surprisingly excellent articles. However, this board needs to start getting paid commissions from Azomite.
sumisu: Snick! Snick! This seems much harder than what I do. Chopping up leaves with a mower has drawbacks. Take a length of chicken wire and form a corral for leaves. Worms will take care of the rest. Partially decomposed leaves really do not blow around in the winter, so one can skip the plastic. A leaf corral is a year-around asset. It is a specialized compost and mulch pile all in one.
sumisu: as promised, the first video shows what the urban garden now looks like. The second is of our huge plot for next year's and beyond garden. Doctor said yesterday that I am healing well and won't need skin grafts. Woot! Hopefully be walking again soon.
Monksdream: I never have aphids, because I remove the rocks so that ants cannot nest. No ants = no aphids. I also attracted yellowjackets to nest nearby and built toad homes. Stink bugs originated in this area of the country, yet my combined predators kept them away from the garden even though they had flooded the house.
Lady bugs are the typical control for aphids.
sumisu: in the last year of my former garden, here's an example of what a root crop looks like in living soil augmented with a bit of sand. https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AedRoberts/posts/KwjjpCqbhZv
sumisu: my friend took a video Tuesday of what the garden looks like now. Also, he and his daughter went to our new garden and shot a video. He just needs to upload them and then I can give you the links.
Good earth appears in layers: bedrock, sedimentary rock, clay, sandy clay, loamy clay, and organic top soil. Because of human's discombobulation of soils, lower levels of clay often appear on the surface where we grow things. Clay retains nutrients, but in too concentrated of a form, the drainage is massively reduced. Thus sand abets drainage and extra sand for root crop areas produces monster plants. The sand was obtained from a reputable building supplies outfit. Two-foot parsnips are a low-end standard for me.
sumisu:Here are the three starter videos and to my aghast, no more were taken. However, I will petition for a video of what it looks like now.
sumisu: The videos of the urban garden were very spotty. I'll get my friend to send me the files and have him take a video of what it looks like now. When I was a young'n, a big bonfire roared every late winter in the family garden. My granddad taught me about it and dad would chuckle that I claimed all the chunks.
If I failed to put on Azomite, Chris would take me out of his will.
moxa1: MSM is organic sulfur. It is in all living things. Sprouts, you grow yourself, are a great source. Lettuce straight out of the garden, apple off the tree, etc. work well. MSM dissipates quickly when detached from living things. So processed foods have zero. The owner, Bill Rich, of Rich Distributing, is probably the best source of information, as he is a product of the product. I started taking it shortly after coming back from Malawi with malaria.
moxa1: the animal is being held for ten days (three remaining). I'm severely anti-vaccine. Being in a city reduces the likelihood of rabies or distemper. Yes; my friend got hydrogen peroxide at my directions. He does a far better job than the medical folks. The biggest problem is a skin avulsion occurred. The ECU was talking skin graft. We are ordering MSM liquid drops and lotion from the original guy, who used the substance for 70% burns on his body years ago. It's Rich Distributing. He also has kelp iodine. I have another appointment on the 21st. We are hoping that enough healing will have taken place that more sutures or maybe very minor reconstructive surgery will do the job.
Be well.
Hi everyone; I still love you all. Well, I was able to rent a large plot of land recently. It is on a broken-down farm without a clue of GMOs. The transaction had been put on hold because my dear friend and business partner's son was in a motorcycle accident and the claws of corporate, monopolistic "medicine" have their clutching. One of my friend's daughters is ferociously passionate about eating only organic. I set up an urban garden for her at a mutual friend's place. The spot lies at the bottom of a slope next to the house. It is shale clay. We brought in several truckloads of mushroom soil and some sand. I had her add some lime for ready use. I donated my mycorrhizae stash. Technically, it is a raised bed. Plants exploded. Yesterday, I enjoyed some beet greens, romaine, and zucchini which she donated.
My own involvement at my new plot is on hold, although his daughter is eager to get out there. Last week Wednesday, I was attacked by a pit bull. You cannot believe how sharp their teeth are. The point of bringing this up is due to my friend's care for me. Today, he made some coffee for me. He has brought washcloths and fresh clothes. As Eddie has so graciously supplied concepts of prepping, I am living a shard of it. Sipping this cup of coffee makes me feel human.
Once I am out and about again, we will take videos of the whole step by step process. It is NOT in Africa or Latin America, but I WILL get there, Chris.
sumisu: of course, you can. I'll check with my friend as to what other videos that he has, if you think they will help others.
sumisu: the problem was that my garden was on rented land. The last year of it, I spent more time harvesting than anything else, as living soil and ecology ran the show for me. I had invested a great deal of time and energy developing a chinampas garden down in the swampy meadow. Here's its early development:
Reports of my internment in a concentration camp are overly exaggerated. However, my food sources have changed as I was forced to move from my long-standing country garden. Yet, I am alive and well.
excel: to eat them: raw, steamed, or sauteed, summer and zucchini squashes are definitely better, when small. However, large zucchinis are an excuse to core them out (saving or grinding the seeds for the mix) and stuff and bake them. Stuffing choice is personal preference.
Sliced stuffed zucchini will not keep, at a party.
gentlemen: when I was in Malawi, I commonly was served steamed Moringa leaves as a relish for the sema.
I first learned of the plant through ECHO a number of years prior.
http://echonet.org/moringa/
Monksdream: Not doubt that the ersatz pollen makes the urban circuit. My specific concern is that with GMO corn, as honey bees become active after bumble bees and Mason/Wood bees. The corn pollen has historically been an important early food for them.
Good to hear your report of their numbers Charlotte. Thanks!
This is quite subjective; yet in harmony with one of my theories. I have spent a lot of time lately in a large city. I have noticed a fair amount of wild honey bees. These honey bees are in areas that are close to the Interstate and ramp ways. These areas are commonly sprayed - granted: it's mainly herbicides.
My take is that there is not any GMO fields, especially that of corn. I personally hold this as a far more pressing problem for honey bees than neonicotinoids. Just my 13 1/2 cents (adjusted for inflation).
michael03332002: another wannabe expert making things complicated. One does not compost manure except by itself. It is only after the manure is composted that one can add it to a mix. I hope the thermometer that she uses is of the rectal nature.
IxCimi: Please tell me that those are Criollo.
Vexari: Yeah! I'm glad that you joined the party! I hope that you are doing well.
I am a bit surprised that no one posted about the judge's ruling.
http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/16/pandora-songwriter-royalty-ruling/
hotrod34racer: Howdy; chickens are important part of integrated agriculture EVEN if one never eats them or the eggs. Placing some in chicken tractors and locating them strategically will greatly help prep the soil for that area. They are more dynamic when placed in pastures after cattle.
You might want to consider a food forest. Also, the health and balance of your insects and birds and the like need very little attention. Setting up perching sites for kestrels shouldn't be overlooked.
Break in the weather allowed me to dig up some parsnips yesterday. I was limited as to how much tolerance my hands could take washing my precious soil off in my water buckets. I sliced the parsnips thin and slowly sautéed them in a pan. A significant amount of the complex starches had converted into complex sugars that they caramelized in the pan.
Whole foods offer so many simple and awesome pleasures.
I was looking to post this several days ago, but I had to stop using Firefox because their inability and/or unwillingness to deal with the Chrome scripts problem. It all started with an Avast update.
Well, it is sort of better to live on the East Coast.
http://www.redflagnews.com/headlines/#sthash.pzq6KZgG.D8pwihWP.dpbs
I almost do not even know where to begin here, other than you just cannot make this stuff up. We at the PBR are not exactly enamored with the state or statism. I only supply this month-old article from the lamestream media (ABTTN), because the story and its depth is vetted by an extremely reliable source. So let the discussion begin.
http://www.phillyrecord.com/2012/11/privatizing-the-pa-lottery-corbett-seeks-to-sell-it-despite-its-ace-service-to-seniors/
An ally from a social media community similar to this has his eBook, How to Build a Greenhouse on a Shoestring Budget, out on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00G9HW3OE/ref=cm_sw_su_dp
This may interest a few here.
The worst enemy that Viet Nam Veterans have had to face is elements of our own government and the several corporations, like Monsanto.
This article is a few days old, but it still boils me.
http://therightscoop.com/unbelievable-police-force-vietnam-veterans-to-vacate-vietnam-veterans-memorial/
Woot! An experiment gone right! I have a super crop of parsnips this year and with 4-6 weeks before a killer frost, they have been talking to me. Yesterday, I got an idea. I pulled up one of the monsters and stuck it in the freezer. This evening, after a thawing out, I sauteed it. Voila!!! It is sweet!
oxnous: too bad the author is the same shithead and tyrant who okayed GMO crops for his company and the Amerikkkan consumers. http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_22449.cfm
It is getting closer to the point when the only safe food in the U.S.A. will be grown with techniques like hydroponics as the soil will have already been killed. http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/files/soypr_full_82913_96812.pdf
bagwa-john: there have always been a modest amount of sparrows here. They've always been easy pickings for the protege hawks. Finches, especially the yellow ones, dominate the meadow. They, like bluebirds, tend to stay low.
A set of pictures; not for the faint of heart.
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3016003/these-horrifying-photos-show-a-destroyed-american-landscape-that-agriculture-giants-dont-wan