tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92158804132421447362024-03-12T15:58:48.528-07:00: aslan's how organics : july 15 - sept 23 :Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger405125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215880413242144736.post-74923929443672673322012-07-16T08:25:00.003-07:002012-07-16T08:25:32.678-07:00facebookI am doing most of my posts on facebook now. This blog has the beginnings of my farming experience, look at the earliest posts from years ago, they are from the first internship I had on Christie Stein's farm 'Riversong.' Riversong is a 40-60 person 20 week csa with apple orchard, u pick flowers, sheep wool and lots of steady love.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215880413242144736.post-36811244976800645802012-05-15T12:05:00.003-07:002012-05-15T12:05:46.981-07:00big helloblogger entries : frequency :: winter : springUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215880413242144736.post-85965316305486152252012-05-02T10:11:00.000-07:002012-05-02T10:11:24.665-07:00I appreciate you. Beginning rolls of summer! What are you growing this year? Where are your seeds from? Tell me about your weed management plans...<br />
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Hug,Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215880413242144736.post-7113324055510086122012-03-21T17:57:00.000-07:002012-03-21T17:57:11.579-07:00Alice Water = farming dignity<br />
I read this in the 'hemisphere' magazine on the airplane to visit C one time. It is so true it makes me grit my teeth when I read it. Beyond what we grow and save, we will spend more money at the Co-op for local doods this year.<br />
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HEMISPHERES: What is the one thing that we don’t understand about food?<br />
WATERS: That it’s precious. We need to pay for it. We need to pay for the food and pay the people who produce it. That’s profound and terribly important. We still think we can get it for free. And you know, it’s that idea that we have been indoctrinated to believe, that food should be fast, cheap and easy. And it’s really that kind of thinking that is destroying the world.<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215880413242144736.post-90481576132934722272012-03-10T11:41:00.000-08:002012-03-10T11:48:28.955-08:00chick chickidee chick chick<br />
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Our onions are 2" tall. Erik O. told me about pruning the transplants to 3" once (?) in growth to force root growth and before transplant to remove extra load. He read about it from Steve Solomon of Territorial, 'course.<br />
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'I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.' -Lewis in Silver Chair (!)<br />
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I sometimes feel appalled at the thought of the sum total of human <br />
misery all over the world at the present moment: the millions parted, <br />
fretting, wasting in unprofitable days - quite apart from torture, <br />
pain, death, bereavement, injustice. If anguish were visible, almost <br />
the whole of this benighted planet would be enveloped in a dense dark <br />
vapor, shrouded from the amazed vision of the heavens! And the products <br />
of it all will be mainly evil - historically considered. But the <br />
historic version is, of course, not the only one. All things and all <br />
deeds have a value in themselves, apart from their "causes" and <br />
"effects." No man can estimate what is really happening sub specie <br />
aeternitatis. All we do know, and that to a large extent by direct <br />
experience, is that evil labors with vast power and perpetual success - <br />
in vain: preparing always the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.<br />
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- cs lewis from "The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien"Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215880413242144736.post-34964616907331501342012-01-28T08:52:00.001-08:002012-01-28T08:52:38.753-08:00oh eber<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B4FaIebu2MY/TyQnz6wnaUI/AAAAAAAAA1g/M8n-EXzPq_I/s1600/shabbot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style=""><img border="0" height="244" width="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B4FaIebu2MY/TyQnz6wnaUI/AAAAAAAAA1g/M8n-EXzPq_I/s400/shabbot.jpg" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215880413242144736.post-23972207683530941712012-01-28T08:51:00.001-08:002012-01-28T08:51:40.955-08:00shabbot shalomWhen round the earth the Father's hands <br />
Have gently drawn the dark; <br />
Sent off the sun to fresher lands, <br />
And curtained in the lark; <br />
'Tis sweet, all tired with glowing day, <br />
To fade with faded light; <br />
To lie once more, the old weary way, <br />
Upfolded in the night. <br />
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A mother o'er the couch may bend, <br />
And rose-leaf kisses heap: <br />
In soothing dreams with sleep they blend, <br />
Till even in dreams we sleep. <br />
And, if we wake while night is dumb, <br />
'Tis sweet to turn and say, <br />
It is an hour ere dawning come, <br />
And I will sleep till day. <br />
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II. <br />
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There is a dearer, warmer bed, <br />
Where one all day may lie, <br />
Earth's bosom pillowing the head, <br />
And let the world go by. <br />
Instead of mother's love-lit eyes, <br />
The church's storied pane, <br />
All blank beneath cold starry skies, <br />
Or sounding in the rain. <br />
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The great world, shouting, forward fares: <br />
This chamber, hid from none, <br />
Hides safe from all, for no one cares <br />
For those whose work is done. <br />
Cheer thee, my heart, though tired and slow <br />
An unknown grassy place <br />
Somewhere on earth is waiting now <br />
To rest thee from thy race. <br />
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III. <br />
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There is a calmer than all calms, <br />
A quiet more deep than death: <br />
A folding in the Father's palms, <br />
A breathing in his breath; <br />
A rest made deeper by alarms <br />
And stormy sounds combined: <br />
The child within its mother's arms <br />
Sleeps sounder for the wind. <br />
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There needs no curtained bed to hide <br />
The world with all its wars, <br />
Nor grassy cover to divide <br />
From sun and moon and stars <br />
A window open to the skies, <br />
A sense of changeless life, <br />
With oft returning still surprise <br />
Repels the sounds of strife. <br />
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IV. <br />
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As one bestrides a wild scared horse <br />
Beneath a stormy moon, <br />
And still his heart, with quiet force, <br />
Beats on its own calm tune; <br />
So if my heart with trouble now <br />
Be throbbing in my breast, <br />
Thou art my deeper heart, and Thou, <br />
O God, dost ever rest. <br />
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When mighty sea-winds madly blow, <br />
And tear the scattered waves; <br />
As still as summer woods, below <br />
Lie darkling ocean caves: <br />
The wind of words may toss my heart, <br />
But what is that to me! <br />
'Tis but a surface storm--Thou art <br />
My deep, still, resting sea. <br />
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(1864 George MacDonald)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215880413242144736.post-86521842762093113572012-01-27T13:35:00.000-08:002012-04-11T13:01:33.450-07:002012 ApplicationSend an email filling in the application below to aaron@aslans-how-organics.com .<br />
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Name: <br />
Address: <br />
Email: <br />
Phone: <br />
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Contact me about: <br />
[ ] csa cash subscription, $200 by june 15th<br />
food stamp sponsor $50/$100 per year,<br />
two canvas bags<br />
[ ] csa ebt subscription:<br />
$20 ebt each week, $20 cash down for possible missed week<br />
$15/wk and $10/wk sponsorship,<br />
we have you fill out an intent form to pickup each week for 10 weeks<br />
two canvas bags<br />
[ ] 1/2 acre collective farming plots, $500 per 1/2 acre per year<br />
Comes with water, tilling, greenhouse, fertilization, fall cover crop<br />
[ ] community garden parcel, free<br />
[ ] selecting one crops grown in 2012 that you want extra of<br />
[ ] 10 week egg csa $6/doz, ebt okay, or half share.<br />
[ ] work share, 3 hours per week for a csa subscription <br />
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EBT members, you have an opportunity to receive upto half of your weekly subscription cost reduced, <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dGlIbGN1TlBEOHNHTF9CT1V6WVhoeGc6MQ#gid=0">apply here</a>.<br />
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Cash paying members, you have the opportunity to pay $50 or $100 extra at the beginning of the season to reduce the weekly cost of produce for a family on food stamps (electronic benefit transfer, EBT), <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dDhtRU5Mc0VXcGZSVV91ODlhS2pHV0E6MQ#gid=0">apply here</a>.<br />
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Our season is from July 15th to September 23rd, 10 weeks. We charge $200 upfront or $20 per week for EBT members. We approximate our weekly produce value by monitoring Mount Vernon farmer market prices. Pickups are on Sundays between 4pm & 6pm from our farm stand at 4991 Chuckanut Drive, Bow WA. The weekly produce is enough for 2-4 adults for a week. We are USDA certified organic. You may work 3 hours a week in exchange for a full produce share. We offer half or full acre parcels if you would like to farm with us: USDA certified, greenhouse, tilled, water, fertilized, and with fall cover crop. This year we hope to do another workshare with the Oasis Teen Shelter or United Way; Sunday mornings teenagers come to work on our farm in exchange for a share of produce.<br />
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Crop list for 2012 is <a href="http://aslans-how.blogspot.com/2012/01/2012-csa-enrollment.html">here</a> and a freshsheet example from last year is <a href="http://aslans-how-organics.com/2012/110904%20Week%2007.jpg">here</a>. Bellingham people... last year we had the Mills-Luke-McMaster trio trading off on pickup days. Some form of this will be going this year.<br />
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huge velvet lion paws,<br />
Aaron & Carolyn Luke<br />
aslans-how-organics.com<br />
cell 360-820-0143<br />
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Sorry to be slow to reply. Been thinking about this – we had a conversation about this yesterday at our staff meeting.<br />
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First of all – DISCLAIMER – I am not an attorney and am not giving legal advice ……..<br />
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There is a legal framework to protect seeds and tubers – the Plant Variety Protection Act. The variety has to be registered and protection approved by the Plant Variety Protection Office of USDA.<br />
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If the variety is not registered, generally seeds and tubers can be propagated and sold - by anyone to anyone<br />
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A farmer can always save his own seed, even if it is protected, and plant it again on their farm.<br />
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A name connected to a variety may be able to be trademarked or otherwise legally protected from use by non-authorized persons.<br />
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Separate from the legal issue, there is doing what is fair and equitable. Trading heirloom seeds between farmers has been in existence since the first wheat and lentil plants were cultivated! <br />
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There are also cultural and social factors, and Native American tribes are adamant about protecting their culture and rightfully sensitive to exploitation.<br />
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I support maintaining the genetic quality of heirloom varieties and development of new public varieties through traditional crossing and selection methods.<br />
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See below for more!<br />
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D<br />
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Hiding heirloom seed will not protect it from corporate criminals; get reproducible heirloom seeds into the hands of farmers who can propagate it correctly<br />
--yes!<br />
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Mexico/Oaxaca has cultural treasure laws that would disallow a patent on a purely indigenous Oaxacan strain in America. Encourage this.<br />
--Complicated issue – see above, but should not be used for multi-national pharmaceutical/seed companies to remove heirloom varieties from general distribution<br />
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Don't believe in patenting life; it is something to put a life work and fight against, to violate any heirloom seed patenting laws as necessary<br />
--amen – heirloom and public varieties are the way to go<br />
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Corporations are focusing on patenting hybrid and gmo seeds, not currently on heirloom<br />
--Yes – generally varieties that are ideal for ripening, harvesting, and processing on a massive scale – or well suited to long travels in an imaginary ripened conditionUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215880413242144736.post-48424271069209403332012-01-26T19:10:00.000-08:002012-01-26T19:10:41.426-08:00(this chick cheeks chickens)A little out of date but interesting graphics:<br />
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Corporate owned organic companies<br />
<a href="http://www.cornucopia.org/wp-content/themes/Cornucopia/downloads/OrganicT30J09.pdf">http://www.cornucopia.org/wp-content/themes/Cornucopia/downloads/OrganicT30J09.pdf</a><br />
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Independent organic companies<br />
<a href="http://www.cornucopia.org/wp-content/themes/Cornucopia/downloads/OrganicIndJan08.pdf">http://www.cornucopia.org/wp-content/themes/Cornucopia/downloads/OrganicIndJan08.pdf</a><br />
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-Carolyn Goodrich LukeUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215880413242144736.post-46010990394700793192012-01-19T09:10:00.001-08:002012-01-19T09:10:40.551-08:00bird of the air'I come into the peace of wild things who do<br />
not tax their lives with forethought of grief.'<br />
-Wendell Berry<br />
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Maybe aslan was wrong about as 'carefree as the bird'.<br />
During this large snow storm all these birds around our house<br />
keep hitting the windows looking for food or a place to land.<br />
They look horribly distressed. Will they die? Could've they stored<br />
up just a few seeds for a bad winter? Or is death considered terribly<br />
okay, a rite of passage? Or does my sense of justice point to aslan?<br />
carolyn and i put out bird food and perches this morning. we will embody justice!<br />
-aaronUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215880413242144736.post-47557115261583111542012-01-19T06:47:00.000-08:002012-01-19T06:47:58.066-08:00shabbat shalom(i love our earthy hebraic roots)<br />
The word Shabbat derives from the Hebrew verb shavat. Although frequently translated as "rest" (noun or verb), another accurate translation of these words is "ceasing [from work]", as resting is not necessarily denoted. The related modern Hebrew word shevita, (labor strike), has the same implication of active rather than passive abstinence from work. The notion of active cessation from labor is also regarded as more consistent with an omnipotent God's activity on the seventh day of Creation according to Genesis. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabbat">wiki</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215880413242144736.post-39201116685167186312012-01-19T06:36:00.000-08:002012-01-26T16:40:35.193-08:00protecting our heirloom seedsL and D,<br />
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Thanks L for the information from the Makah potato. Carolyn and I will talk about contacting Pure Potato. I read the Presidium is teaching Makah youth to farm their own potato not exploiting their culture. I found on the newly working Wikipedia that a 'presidium' preserves. This makes sense. Do they have a legal framework to protect the genes against patenting and exploitation? Maybe they just use social pressure?<br />
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I talked with Crystine at Uprising Organics by phone. While talking, I primarily focused on developing my stance towards Oaxacan heirloom radish seeds in light of the negative email I received. Which as W. Berry says 'You got to appreciate these people because they get you thinking'. I posted that email chain below your email.<br />
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D, can you reply with your personal reaction to my heirloom seed manifesto:<br />
<ul><li>Hiding heirloom seed will not protect it from corporate criminals; get reproducible heirloom seeds into the hands of farmers who can propagate it correctly</li>
<li>Mexico/Oaxaca has cultural treasure laws that would disallow a patent on a purely indigenous Oaxacan strain in America. Encourage this.</li>
<li>Don't believe in patenting life; it is something to put a life work and fight against, to violate any heirloom seed patenting laws as necessary</li>
<li>Corporations are focusing on patenting hybrid and gmo seeds, not currently on heirloom</li>
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Take good care this day, shabbat shalom,<br />
+Aaron<br />
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 9:12 PM, L wrote:<br />
Hi Aaron,<br />
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D forwarded me a email you posted on the Whatcom Farmers listserv about the Oaxacan radish seeds. We have not heard of anyone being troubled by your postings through Live Market. I can certainly give you more background about the Maka Ozette potato from my tenure in Slow Food leadership. I was very involved with biodiversity projects.<br />
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I know the Makah Ozette potato preservation efforts included conversations- through a series of stakeholder meetings led by Slow Food Seattle- with the Makah tribe. The historical connection is represented in the potato name- even though most farmers who grow ozettes leave off the ever important Makah descriptor when marketing it. The Makah tribe's involvement with saving this potato from extinction is an important part of the story.<br />
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The best source of information about the Makah Ozette seed availability is at Slow Food Seattle's website. It was Slow Food Seattle Ark of taste/presidia project that brought the potato back from the brink of extinction. Here's a rather old list of seed potato resources. I sent a note to Gerry Warren who is the mastermind behind Slow Food's Makah Ozette potato project-availability changes every year but this source list from 2010 is a good place to start. There is also a PDF you can download about the potato history if you are interested.<br />
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<a href="http://slowfoodseattle.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/ozetteseed/">http://slowfoodseattle.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/ozetteseed/</a><br />
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Here is Gerry's very quick reply- please feel free to share:<br />
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The Makah Ozette seed source Pure Potato will be planting pre nuclear mini tubers this spring. There will be no affordable seed available in 2012 from them.<br />
They expect to have Generation seed available in the spring of 2013 at $2.00 per pound.<br />
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It would be very important to have farmers let Marlys Bedlingham know what they estimate the amount of seed they would be interested in getting in 2013 so she can anticipate how much to try and grow out. If you can get them to do that it would be a great help. (marlys@purepotato.com).<br />
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The only other source that might still have any quantity of seed is Potato Garden in Colorado. Irish Eyes Seed in Oregon is selling some at $4.00/pound in 4 pound quantities if they just want to try some this year.<br />
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I hope this helps.<br />
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-L<br />
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From: A<br />
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 11:52 AM<br />
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To: Nancy<br />
Subject: Re: Farmers Market talk and Potatoes/seed sharing<br />
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I checked his website AFTER I wrote you this message and it appears his contacts in Mexico are with the locals, who freely gave him the radishes- but that person may not realize what they are doing to themselves because of their trust in Aaron. Also, I am amazed he put the story on his website! I am very interested in the heritage justice issue re the third world and patenting of seed. I haven't quite understood the resurgence of heirloom seed and how that counters the patenting folks, if there are any protections - an international law should be passed where something labelled heirloom cannot be patented but then you have to get it labelled to be afforded the protection. Someone with more legal knowlege than me is likely working to figure that out. The heritage of the folks in the southern hemisphere is being stolen. I noted the Makah potatoes have similar issues. I think they have been protected to the Makah people but not sure.<br />
-A<br />
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On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Nans <nancy@livewellventures.com> wrote:<br />
very interesting perspective, I will ask! Nancy<br />
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You know, a very long time ago I heard from a botanist friend of mine who was working on the issue of seedpatenting how Mexican corn was stolen across the border by a farmer in Texas, then he patented the seed and put out of business the Mexicans who were bringing the corn across the border to sell in spanish markets to those mexicans and mexican americans here - he actually sued these folks to prevent them from selling. We really have to be conscious of what we are doing. I am not sure the approach to heirloom, but I think we need to be careful about stealing the last of the bounty these third world countries have- their genetic diversity. I am very much into justice and do not think it correct to take seed that then you can sell without compensating those you got it from. Perhaps he was given this seed or the radishes as a gift, I don't know. <br />
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I don't know what kind of ethics are established in the heirloom movement, but I think racial/ethnic justice is an important thing to be sensitive about . I know that nature gives us these things but i really worry about companies getting ahold of this radish seed and deciding to patent or to mine its genes and then preventing the Oaxacans from getting their value from it. That is a very ignorant thing in my view. Well intentioned and with an open heart, but ignorant. I don't know Aaron or if he knows what he is doing. do you think he does and do you know what I am talking about?<br />
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-A</nancy@livewellventures.com></lu-.org>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215880413242144736.post-83501389032648967342012-01-13T16:26:00.000-08:002012-01-13T16:26:09.269-08:00interview someone poor (monetarily)adult in debt more than worth (beside mortgages)<br />
old person confined to their home<br />
student with loan not removed in bankruptcy<br />
working for $10/hr or less<br />
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hope to survive... did that play into your financial decisions?<br />
your people's health, did that cause additional burden?<br />
do you feel you have dignified labor?<br />
do you have a mentor to look at your resume for mock interviews and such?<br />
can you run your budget. are you kicking good ass in life?<br />
do you get to hug someone daily at your retirement home?<br />
what do you have to say to me, someone still in the middle class?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215880413242144736.post-70865540346219392972012-01-13T08:00:00.001-08:002012-01-27T11:18:16.916-08:002012 Crop ListNew Crops in 2012:<br />
Brussels Sprouts<br />
Kale, Black<br />
Broccoli, Purple Peacock<br />
Squash, Yellow Patty Pan<br />
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Crops List:<br />
Red Russian Kale<br />
Purple Cabbage<br />
Potato, Russet<br />
Potato, Red<br />
Potato, Gold<br />
Arugula<br />
Spinach<br />
Radish<br />
Cilantro<br />
Chard, Swiss<br />
Chard, Rainbow<br />
Onion, Storing<br />
Broccoli, Fiesta<br />
Carrots, Orange, Yellow, Purple<br />
Fava Beans<br />
Artichokes<br />
Bush Pea<br />
Fennel<br />
Lettuce, Romaine-ish<br />
Lettuce, Head<br />
Squash, Zucchini<br />
Basil<br />
Dill<br />
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(He is not a tame Lion)<br />
+Aaron & CarolynUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215880413242144736.post-46761097439294163062012-01-08T09:28:00.000-08:002012-01-09T06:29:48.356-08:00mlk day coming. i can change.<div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://aslans-how-organics.com/2012/king1.mp3" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://aslans-how-organics.com/2012/king1.mp3</a><br />
<a href="http://aslans-how-organics.com/2012/king2.mp3" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://aslans-how-organics.com/2012/king2.mp3</a><br><br />
I am clear that,<br />
whilst this machine age aims at converting men into machines,<br />
I am aiming at reinstating man turned machine into his original estate.<br />
(gandhi)<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y7p8DbaU7oI/TwnTthJagFI/AAAAAAAAA1E/MPOR4d-1d2I/s1600/child%2Blabour.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y7p8DbaU7oI/TwnTthJagFI/AAAAAAAAA1E/MPOR4d-1d2I/s320/child%2Blabour.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215880413242144736.post-70874113468569598162012-01-06T11:31:00.000-08:002012-01-06T11:31:09.726-08:00farm updateTomorrow we are butchering 3 chickens... 2 plymouth rocks and 1 rhode island red. Matthew is bringing 5 or so other birds. Valerie will buy 5lbs of pea seed. I purchased seeds for 2012 from Territorial. I will keep my CSA to 10 people because of the joy and pay/benefits of my day job. I will not sell retail or to the Co-op... only a 1/4 acre versus 3/4 last year. Despite the reduction I am increasing my crop diversity and spiritual involvement. I can see my friends now. Smiling. Beautiful. Dirty. Soul=dirt+god's breath (not man=soul+body) means mud on our cheeks!<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8slF5PiseqM/TwdLvpO5U-I/AAAAAAAAA0w/5JHGEnypu4U/s1600/IMG_7364.JPG" imageanchor="1" style=""><img border="0" height="300" width="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8slF5PiseqM/TwdLvpO5U-I/AAAAAAAAA0w/5JHGEnypu4U/s400/IMG_7364.JPG" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215880413242144736.post-88846877033425776832012-01-06T11:08:00.000-08:002012-01-06T11:54:39.012-08:00body is soul not suit: sister radishHoly. How does Wendell have such... 'suchness' as they say? His glowing essayist life is funny in contrast to his wrinkles. And pictures of Lewis juxtaposed with Narnian river nymphs. I was raised evangelical Christian and taught the earth will burn (fuck the earth), pure market economies stay true (why not move in: 401k, walmart 8%). Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr had the pivotal moment when he realized the innocence of mankind in the individual-soul not in collective-behavior. Enter nonviolent resistance. Enter aslan's how. Aslan didn't come into Narnia to alleviate suffering but to teach how to suffer properly. Highlights from <a href="http://aslans-how.blogspot.com/2011/11/christianity-and-survival-of-creation.html" target="_blank">here</a>:<br />
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They conclude that the formula for man-making is: man = body + soul. But that conclusion cannot be derived, except by violence, from Genesis 2:7, which is not dualistic. The formula given in Genesis is not man = body + soul; the formula there is soul = dust + breath. ...<br />
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If we credit the Bible's description of the relationship between Creator and Creation, then we cannot deny the spiritual importance of our economic life. Then we see how religious issues lead to issues of economy, and how issues of economy lead to issues of art, of how to make things. If we understand that no artist--no maker--can work except by reworking the works of Creation, then we see that by our work, by the way we practice our arts, we reveal what we think of the works of God. How we take our lives from this world, how we work, what work we do, how well we use the materials we use and what we do with them after we have used them--all these are questions of the highest and gravest religious significance. These questions cannot be answered by thinking, but only by doing. In answering them, we practice, or do not practice, our religion.<br />
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The significance--and ultimately the quality--of the work we do is determined by our understanding of the story in which we are taking part.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0