DRAFT THREE:
2:54 PM



"The Beat"--our connection with Nature--we have misplaced it. In spite of this condition,the future is bright. On the scene is KEEP The BEET Media Star, The World's first Talking Beet Plant. A living beet growing in a pot, KEEP The BEET is a cartoon character, a living beet given voice, that speaks to us as the "go to" plant with messages from mother nature herself.

Media Star? KEEP The BEET was quoted in the Huffington Post. She has a column "she writes" In the Space of Love international Magazine, and she
is noted in the book, “The Ultimate Gardener.”

KEEP The BEET attended Pacific Symposium ’08. She makes a return engagement this year. Her message is that we can each grow a bit of our own food, one person + one pot=You're a gardener.

You will find her at the Plant Your Dream Conference Altar located across from registration. Here you will also find pots growing wheat grass.
Last year, during the days of the conference, the grass grew from seed to six inches tall. Attendees, this year will again be invited to feel the living chi and contemplate how fast we can each grow too as we recover our natural rhythms.

To grow a beet is to become a BEET KEEPER, and doing this is to take a step
toward recovering our natural rhythm. The theme of this year’s
Altar is BEET KEEPERS RETURN.

A popular website-- The BEET KEEPERS-- on Leslie's PLANT YOUR DREAM Blog gives these instructions: Get a large beet from a local, organic farmer. Repot the beet. Keep the beet. Eat the beet greens.
The beet greens continue to grow as they are harvested.

Growing a beet in a pot is intended to give us confidence that we can grow our own food. A beet in a pot can grow for more than a year.
In the second year, it will go to seed.

At the Altar this year, the conference community will also be invited to Plant Your Dream with living seeds, have a photo taken and Join the Enchanted Garden Club. The Club projects this year will encourage each person to grow food and medicinal seeds. Students of Pacific College and nearby SDSU will be invited to help create a garden at the Enchanted Garden Intentional Community, located about twenty minutes from PCOM.

In previous years, one of the dreams planted at the Altar was to have PCOM San Diego students involved in the J.R. Organic CSA, a Community Supported Agriculture program. That program has now taken root. Each week boxes of the fresh-picked therapeutic quality, locally grown veggies and fruits
now come right to campus.

For more than a dozen years, the same farmer--Joe Rodriguez Jr. of J.R. Organics, the CSA source, has been donating flowers to spruce up the PCOM Clinic and the Pacific Symposium. The flowers are a trade for acupuncture given to Leslie Goldman, who brings plants to Pacific Symposium.

Called Your Enchanted Gardener, Leslie leads us in a brief closing ceremony at each year's conference. His message is "Know Your Grower.
Grow some of your own food and medicines. Within a generation, most TCM herbs will be home-grown on American soil. In joining the ranks of the
Beet Keepers Through growing a beet, we can regain our relationship to the beat of life.

For a link to Leslie's Pacific Symposium Web Gallery,
google BEET KEEPERS.

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DRAFT TWO:

"The Beat"--our connection with Nature--

we have misplaced it. In spite of this condition,
the future is bright. On the scene is KEEP The BEET Media Star,

The World's first Talking Beet Plant.
A living beet growing in a pot, KEEP The
BEET is a cartoon character, a living beet
given voice, that speaks
to us as the "go to" plant with messages
from mother nature herself.
Media Star? KEEP The BEET
was quoted in the Huffington Post
above a quote from the Governor.
She has a column "she writes"
In the Space of Love international
Magazine.



KEEP The BEET makes 
a return engagement
to this year's Pacific Symposium 
'09.
You will find her at the Plant Your Dream Conference Altar
located across from registration.
Here you will find
 containers of wheat grass
growing from seed to six inches tall
during the conference. Attendees
are invited to feel the living chi and
comtemplate how fast we can each grow too
as we recover our natural rhythms.
You will also find
 Ms. Beet herself.



Her message is that we can each
grow a bit of our own food, one
person + one pot=You're a gardener.

A popular website--
The BEET KEEPERS blog
on Leslie's PLANT YOUR DREAM
 site,
gives these instruction:

Get a large beet from a local, organic farmer.
Repot the beet.
 Keep the beet. Eat the beet greens.
The beet greens continue to grow as they are harvested.
Growing a beet in a pot is intended to
give us confidence that we can grow our own food.
They grow for more than a seed,
and in the second year go to seed.

At the Conference Altar, the conference
community is also invited to Plant Your Dream
with living seeds, have 
a photo taken
and Join the Enchanted Garden Club.

The Club encourages each person
to grow
 food and medicinal seeds.
This year, students of Pacific
College and nearby SDSU will be encouraged
to help create a garden
at the Enchanted Garden Intentional Community,
located about twenty minutes from PCOM.

BEET KEEPERS RETURN! is the Plant Your Dream 
Altar theme for Pacific Symposium 
'09. Students at the San Diego Pacific College of Oriental Medicine.
have already responded

 in beginning to reestablish
a connection to nature through support a local farmer.

Numbers of PCOM students belong to a
 Community Supported Ag (CSA) Program 
coordinated by the Student Council. 
Each week boxes of the fresh-picked 
therapeutic quality, locally grown veggies and fruits 
now come right to campus.

For more than a dozen years,
 the same farmer--Joe Rodriguez Jr., the CSA source,
 has been donating flowers to spruce up the PCOM Clinic
 and the Pacific Symposium. The flowers are a trade
 for acupuncture given to Leslie Goldman, who 
brings plants to Pacific Symposium.

Called Your Enchanted Gardener, Leslie leads us in a brief 
closing ceremony at each year's conference.
 His message is "Know
 Your Grower.
Grow some of your own food and medicines.
 Within a generation,
most TCM herbs will be home-grown on
 American soil.
Join the ranks of the
 Beet Keepers
Through growing a beet, we can regain our
relationship to the beat of life.

For a link to Leslie's Pacific Symposium Web Gallery,

google BEET KEEPERS.



FIRST DRAFT:
May 25, 09

MARIA LOPEZ, president of the Student Council
with JOE RODRIGUEZ JR, AKA JOE THE FARMER.
Maria helped get the CSA off the ground
at PCOM's San Diego Campus I introduced
her to Joe.


"The Beat"--our connection with Nature--
we have misplaced it. We are reminded
now that water has memory,
that it picks up our intentions and emotions
as it travels through pipes to get to us.
Our seas--they are inundated with plastic,
the by-product of a thrown away society.
Our international seed supply--it asks
that we each grow plants for seed
if we are to have seeds that are
local and healthy. Our local family owned organic farmers--
they are a near extinct species, even here in San Diego
where we grow food 12 months a year and can
grow enough food to feed our state
and a good part of our nation.

In spite of these conditions, the future is bright.
On the scene is KEEP The BEET Media Star,
The World's first Talking Beet Plant. She makes
a return engagement to this year's Pacific Symposium
'09. KEEP The BEET, a living plant growing
in a pot, is the centerpiece of the Plant Your Dream
conference altar, located near registration.

As you enter our conference, you will witness
containers of grass growing day by day
and Ms. Beet herself.


At the Conference Altar, you can
Plant Your Dream with living seeds, have
a photo taken and Join the Enchanted Garden Club.
The Club encourages each person to grow
food and medicinal seeds. A popular website--
The BEET KEEPERS blog, on Leslie's PLANT YOUR DREAM
site, gives these instruction:
"Get a large beet from a local, organic farmer. Repot the beet.
Keep the beet. Eat the beet greens. You will regain confidence
that you too, grow your own food. One pot + One
Person, You're a gardener!" says KEEP The BEET Media Star.

Quoted in the Huffington Post, KEEP The BEET, embodied
as a cartoon character, is coming alive in Hollywood, where she is
the standard bearer for a moment of awakening that
includes a message that prevention, nutrition and
accupuncture are tools to revive
our health care system.

BEET KEEPERS RETURN! is the Plant Your Dream
Altar theme for Pacific Symposium
'09. Students at our local Pacific College of Oriental Medicine.
have already responded

PCOM students belong to a
Community Supported Ag (CSA) Program
coordinated by the Student Council.
Each week boxes of the fresh-picked
therapeutic quality, locally grown veggies and fruits
now come right to campus. For more than a dozen years,
the same farmer--Joe Rodriguez Jr., the CSA source,
has been donating flowers to spruce up the PCOM Clinic
and the Pacific Symposium. The flowers are a trade
for acupuncture given to Leslie Goldman, who
for many years, brings plants to Pacific Symposium
to bring in Feng Shui elements and living Chi.

Called Your Enchanted Gardener, Leslie leads us in a brief
closing Ceremony at each year's conference.
The message is the same. " Know
Your Grower. Grow some of your own food and medicines.
Within a generation, most TCM herbs will be home-grown on
American soil. Join the ranks of the
Beet Keepers."

Leslie offically launches the ENCHANTED GARDEN GROWERS
Network at Symposium '09, that aims to align
PCOM Students, local organic gardeners,
and local farmers with Medicinal Herbs Consortium,
inviting each to garden at the nearby ENCHANTED
GARDEN INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY, located about
20 minutes from the San Diego Campus.
The consortium is a project of former Symposium
Speaker Jean Giblette.

For a link to Leslie's Pacific Symposium Web Gallery,
google BEET KEEPERS.