July 2007 Newsletter
Available Vegetables, Certified Organic
Garlic! – Superior results with no-till farming
The Ultimate Detox Solution – Liquid Zeolite from Waiora – Natural Cellular Defense
Store Hours
We are resuming normal open hours of 9am-5pm M-F, 10am-5pm Saturday, closed Sunday.
Available Vegetables, Certified Organic
We have a variety of vegetables available for fresh picking. Currently, a few types of kale and chard, broccoli, and garlic. As the season progresses, we will have a couple of types of beans, carrots, squash, tomatoes, beets, and lettuces. Stop on in when you are in the area and in the market for fresh produce.
Garlic! – Superior results with no-till farming
We just pulled our garlic, and what a great surprise! This year’s bulbs are the largest the farm has ever produced with many at 0.5-0.75 lbs! Take a look at the monster below. It measures 4.25” across the bulb, and remember this is a spicy hot Italian – not elephant garlic.
Lorz Red Italian Garlic 2007
How did we do it? The largest garlic was achieved in the greenhouse (without cover all winter), with the other most consistently large garlic in the raised beds. Planting was completed by 11-25-07 into prepared soil of our Barefoot Soil Earthworm Castings, garlic planting mix, and canola meal. An additional fertilization with Nutri-Rich 4-3-3 and aerobically brewed worm tea was done March 28th. Full water was provided until July 7th and all was pulled July 16-17th.
This was a test of non-tilling vs. tilling. No tilling is ever done in the greenhouse and raised beds whereas general tilling (discing was done last year) was done for our field as well as local tilling for the BFS, garlic mix, and canola into the rows.
Although we won’t have complete comparisons until the garlic has cured and has been cleaned, preliminary results of the no-till method are a 30-40% increase in yield. This is also a 150-200% increase over conventional chemical growing!
Rye Straw – Certified Organic
We have 93 bales of straw available that was grown on our fields.
Take Care of Your Worms!
(From Don Chapman, President -
BioOrganics, Inc.)
A not-fully-appreciated factor in growing plants is the presence of
earthworms. Along with microscopic soil organisms, worms perform very
important digestive and processing of organic matter - transforming dead plant
material into forms that nourish plants.
In nature, everything is recycled. Dead leaves, spent annual grasses,
pine needles, fallen trees, bird droppings, etc. This constitutes the
major part of most plant's diet, and earthworms are one of the foremost components
of the recycling system. As soon as a dead leaf hits the ground,
decomposing fungi, bacteria, and earthworms "pounce" on it and their
eventual excretions become ideal fodder for the surrounding plants. This
is why mulches disappear fairly quickly in bio-active soils. The worms
also add the benefit of leaving rich castings down directly in the root zone
for more bacterial action and for mycorrhizal fungi to then transport into
their host plant roots.
In effect, this is a closed-loop system for nutrients, requiring only the
additions of solar energy (through photosynthesis) and water for perfect plant
nutrition. At least, perfect for native plants that are adapted to a
specific environment. We humans have altered the system in at least two
significant ways - placing plants outside their original habitat and removing
organic matter from the soil surface (raking leaves, removing grass clippings,
straw and other plant residues).
I once read that some forested park areas of Bavaria were declining, and it was
found to be due to the long-term removal of all the pine needles. Keeping
the forest floor swept clean was, in effect, starving the earthworms and
subsequently the trees themselves.
In many cases, this is true for many of our cultivated plants. If plant
residues do not provide food for worms and other soil critters, it creates
fertilizer-dependent plants. One need look no further than lawns that
have the clippings removed every mowing, or perfectly "clean"
orchards and vineyards to find human-fed plants that could otherwise be largely
self-sufficient, and probably far more disease-resistant. There is a
no-till and seed-through-residues trend developing for some crops that does
recognize the value of using natural recycling, but this is still the
exception.
A simple worm-count of a shovelful of soil will indicate the general health of
your farm or garden plot - no lab tests are needed. If your worms are
abundant, well-fed and happy, then your soil organisms will be providing the
good tilth and proper soil chemistry to grow strong productive plants.
Simple, really.
Evolving US Food Crisis
Continuing to monitor what is happening to our food supply:
Bees: Colony Collapse Disorder. “"Colony Collapse Disorder" has been reported in 35 states, 5 Canadian provinces, a dozen European countries, China, Taiwan, Guatemala and Brazil. And today I learned from the Apiary Inspectors of America President, Jerry Hayes, who has been in Russia the past three weeks, that Ukraine honey bee keepers have reported massive disappearances through March of this year as well. The Apiary Inspectors estimate that a quarter of American beekeeping operations in the United States lost more than 50% of their colonies between September 2006 and March 2007, and that some beekeepers lost 90%.” read on
Locally, according to local bee keeper Dave Mitman, CCD does not appear to be happening in Washington State to any large degree.
Drought: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Monday June 17th: "If we have another dry season like this I would say that it will be catastrophic, it will be a disaster," said the governor. read on
Food prices:
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CORN-BASED ETHANOL ADDS TO GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS
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"The stage is now
set for direct competition for grain between the 800 million people who own
automobiles, and the world's 2 billion poorest people." Lester Brown from the Earth Policy Institute speaking at a
briefing to the US Senate one month ago.
The grain required to fill a 25 gallon gas tank with ethanol would feed one person for a year.
An Inconvenient Truth I
Al Gore was in Seattle last month promoting his new book, The Assault on Reason. In a radio interview on KUOW’s Weekday program, he emphasized that in the early forecasts of the effects of global warming, scientists gave him three predictions: best case, middle of the road, and worst case scenarios. That was many years ago. Now, in all measurable areas, scientists say we are in the worst case situation. Moreover, artic ice melt is 20% ahead of what was the worst case predictions back then. Maybe we are in the worst of the worst? Expect huge environmental changes as a result of rising temperatures and melting ice.
An Inconvenient Truth II
Defined: man made synthetic chemicals in everyday products and in the environment are ruining your health
In China last week, this truth got very inconvenient for one man. Whether due to political pressure coming from the American markets due to pet food poisoning or toxic chemicals on child toys, the equivalent to the head of our FDA was summarily executed for prematurely allowing drugs onto the market which killed people :
“Zheng, 63, was
convicted by a Beijing court of "taking bribes and dereliction of
duty" on charges of illegally taking cash and gifts worth more than 6.49
million yuan (850,000 dollars).
Earlier reports said
he had accepted about 5 million yuan (651,000 dollars) in bribes from
pharmaceutical firms to certify new and only partially tested medicines.
At least 10 people died as a result of the use of improperly tested drugs,
state media reported.” read more
In the US, drugs
have been prematurely approved that have killed tens of thousands. Viox is a perfect example with an estimated
35,000 dying from heart attacks before the FDA moved to take it off of the
market.
Moreover, the medical system is politicized – perhaps never before as now. The same day the above report came out, 3 former Surgeon Generals testified to Congress that they were not allowed to do their job. Each stated that the executive branch would not allow them to do what they thought would protect the health of the American public. read more
The Ultimate Detox Solution – Liquid Zeolite from Waiora – Natural Cellular Defense*
Given all of the information in the previous newsletters on toxins in our environment and bodies and their devastating effects on human health, we continue to stock Waiora’s Natural Cellular Defence Liquid Zeolite and Karen Yule’s products to rid yourself of them.
Waiora’s Natural Cellular Defence Liquid Zeolite 15ml bottle can be purchased online here or here for $49.95 plus shipping, handling and tax, or we are carrying it at the farm for $45.- One bottle lasts one month at a 3 drop 3 times a day maintenance level. At the recommended 10 drop 3 times a day detox level, it lasts about 1/3 of a month.
The most complete website about Natural Cellular Defense (Liquid Zeolite) is:http://www.liquidzeolite.org Other websites with great info:http://www.cancerfightingstrategies.com/zeolite.htmlhttp://www.zeoliteinfo.comhttp://shop4health.info/INTERVIEW.htmhttp://zeoliteautismstudy.com/1-Rik-clips.htm
http://www.celestialshaman.com/scripts/Wiaora_Natural_Cellular_Defense_WhitePaper.pdf
*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
More facts:
“Showering in chlorinated water causes lung cancer, even more
than tobacco.
There is enough fluoride in a single tube to kill a 25
pound child.”
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Basil Gold website http://www.basilgoldtv.com/didyouknow.html
“It is estimated that one glass of commercial,
non-organic milk purchased from a grocery store may contain the residue of up
to 100 different antibiotics. Beyond
the hormones that are injected into the animal, many of the meats we eat come
from the animals fed with antibiotic-laden feeds.”
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Health, wealth, and
wisdom, Vol. 1, Issue 3, July 2007
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