FOOD SHORTAGES? Let us turn crisis into opportunity, at home, with our neighbors

March 12, 2022

Add these up: supply line interruptions, most fertilizer and 30% of world’s wheat no longer coming from Russia, plus massive inflation affecting food and transport of food, and what do you have?

Well, for one thing, we have fewer processed, glyphosated, pesticided, GMO foods, i.e., fewer fake foods produced through Big Ag that render us sullen, addicted, and obese: three big plusses.

And actually, what we have, once we stop complaining and hoarding and instead get our very souls activated, is a revolution in our way of life. We know what it is already; it’s been coming for years: support local food 100%. This includes supporting local farmers through CSA’s and farmers’ markets, a new focus on organics, permaculture, seed and tool sharing, farm-to-table restaurants, local food co-ops, gardens replacing lawns for both homes and institutions, even parks, school yards, and . . . dearest to my heart, something we’re demonstrating as a tiny template in Green Acres Permaculture Village, this, already practiced elsewhere . . .

And, if you have no place to grow food except an apartment or condo patio, see how my inventor son Colin’s Garden Tower Project can help. Medical intuitive, astrologer, and blogger Laura Bruno, who also sports a wondrous “green thumb,” in this post on her garden, shows how she utilizes her Garden Tower in a beautiful, delicious manner, despite pesky critters trying to get in.

Just imagine: meeting with all your nearby neighbors, to decide which foods of your mutually envisioned cornucopia each of you will grow, and exchange with others — and, when necessary, calling upon each others’ helpful skills and/or tools. For example here, each year we give one of our garden beds to a neighbor across the street, as well as share with them our roomy street front for chip drop loads. Another neighbor is going to give us space to grow our tomatoes in the back of their yard. I’ve been handing them produce for years, and they’ve been handing me delicious Armenian borscht, among other delectables. Last year, our greenhouse (which used to be a garage) was utilized by other urban farmers in town to start their seeds, since our greenhouse has  enough room for them, too.

Get the picture? This could be a good time, as we learn to live, as far as possible, below money.

Money does not make the world go round. Nor is money the “bottom line.”

The bottom line is NATURE and that includes our own precious bodies, each a quivering antenna linking Earth below to Heavens above.

Our “all-too-human” energy, pulled in from both Above and Below to circulate through and radiate from our willing, open hearts, when expressed productively and cooperatively, makes our beautiful planet grow round.

See the last five weekly (Sunday) posts on our Green Acres Permaculture Village site, where through photos we indicate how we get our garden going each spring, starting with cleaning, sharpening, oiling tools, disinfecting walls, trays and pots, then only then mixing substances needed for soil to start seeds.

We’re also on facebook and Instagram.

And see our site in the Foundation for Intentional Communities website for the larger context. The ic.org site might give YOU ideas as to how to begin your own intentional community right where you live, at your own home with neighbors. It’s a lot more fun when we grow food together.

Here we are, back in January, cleaning, sharpening, and oiling tools.

Seedlings as of this afternoon, March 12, an unusually cold day for this time of year. Tomorrow temps much warmer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

UKRAINE WAR: the rapidly dissolving context, the desolation, the longing.

March 12, 2022

Like most people who try to critically ascertain just what is happening during this especially ugly, volatile, and increasingly foggy, dangerous war in Ukraine, and as one who tends to side with Putin over NATO, the EU and the US, I can’t help but gravitate to this visual:

I think this way especially when contemplating “politically correct” attitudes like this, exaggerated, but all too common in the college town where I live.

Meanwhile, if the Mercola post that follows is true, then the (vaxxed) millennial generation (ages 25-32) better get their heads out of their screens and pay close attention to their own bodies, in terms of nutrition, supplements, physical exercise, sleep, and of course (or actually, above all!) meditative awareness of how F.E.A.R. (False Evidence Appearing Real) is itself an extreme stressor to the immune system.

https://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2022/03/11/shocking-findings-on-increased-deaths-in-25-to-44yearolds.aspx

In short, the Millennial Generation, within the past six months, endured the same number of deaths that my generation endured during the entirety of the Vietnam War. The difference? Nary a peep out of the millennials, compared to our generation, aroused to such fury that we finally forced an end at that war. The difference? Our young men were conscripted to fight a futile war in a foreign land. This time the war is both global and internal, to each of us, whether or not we succumb to the cultural hypnotic spell (called mass formation) cast by F.E.A.R. — first of Covid, and now of Nuclear War ignited by Russia Russia Russia. The object of my generation’s fury was much more obvious. On the other hand, this millennial generation better get its head out of not just its screens, but its ass, because my generation is about done here, and you’re just getting started. Or are you?

What’s next? You know the NWO/WEF psychopaths are going to ignite another F.E.A.R.ful phenomenon. If not nuclear war (that would be the most efficient in killing us off), then perhaps another biological (more deadly, they hope) weapon! Hell yes, and of course, by Russia Russia Russia as Nuland hastened to add, after replying to RINO Rubio’s first question when she suddenly, inexplicably, told the truth, let the cat out of the bag.

So, yesterday, some kind of process at the UN (itself a thoroughly corrupt institution), Russia and China trying to nail the U.S. for bio-weapons in Ukraine, and of course the U.S. denied it. I ask myself, does Russia have bio-labs? Does China? Well, of course (though not right on our borders). In fact, if you read the following post,  six nations sport  biological WMDs ready to go, and the list doesn’t include the U.S.!

https://www.wionews.com/science/what-are-biological-weapons-here-is-a-list-of-countries-that-possess-them-330033

Yeah, the U.S. is the good guy, remember? That is, until Nuland’s startling (to Rubio, who expected her to deny it) admission.

I’m gratified to see that lots of digital soldier citizen journalists are now digging into “what’s really going on” in Ukraine, attempting to give perspective, to widen the context, as in the cartoon above.  George Webb, for example, has been on this complicated, dot-connecting story for years, and is now happy to have company:

https://rumble.com/vw14kb-tpc-719-george-webb-ukrainian-us-bio-labs.html

Here’s one of the newbies:

https://twitter.com/threadsirish2/status/1502600307708088321

Meanwhile, how many people have died since the war began? (It’s too late to call it an “incursion.”) The numbers given, in the thousands, are all over the place. There do appear to be more dead Russians than Ukrainians. True? And is Putin paying close attention, attempting to target military and bio-lab installations, plus Ukrainian nazified soldiers who, as they have done in the past, appear to be using civilians as shields?

So here we are, wasting human lives when we could be celebrating, bowing down to the extraordinary capacity residing within the human spirit. I end with two beautiful songs from Ukraine and Russia, directly from the heart and soul of us all, resounding through one people, one planet.