Interviews with Leslie Goldman Your Enchanted Gardener
The Voice of San Diego interviews Leslie Goldman (Corrected Copy)
and other stories about Leslie Goldman,
Your Enchanted Gardener in the magazines
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HEALTH MAGIC THROUGH CHLOROPHYLL
THROUGH LIVING PLANT LIFE
by Dr. Bernard Jensen
I wrote this one from his words.
This book is available from Bernard Jensen International
This has six photos by Leslie Goldman
Your Enchanted Gardener
1:21 pm
June 10, 2010
DEDICATION IN
THE ULTIMATE GARDENER
CHARLIE NARDOZZI
of the NATIONAL GARDEN ASSOCIATION
COPYRIGHT CLARLIE NARDOZZI
To Leslie Goldman,
The Enchanted Gardener,
for planting dreams and
seeds of inspiration.
To all those who garden
and for those who dream to
have a garden one day.
BIO NOTE FROM
THE ULTIMATE GARDENER
ON LESLIE GOLDMAN
YOUR ENCHANTED GARDENER
Leslie Goldman, AKA Your Enchanted Gardener, plants seeds of
success for super ripe people and their dreams. The Ultimate Gardener morphed from a "Seed Dream" between Leslie and the
publisher, Peter Vegso, at the 2008 Book Expo America. Leslie's
companion is Keep The Beet Media Star, The World's First Talking Beet Plant.
Keep The Beet's message is that we can each grow our own food,
starting with growing a local, organic beet in a pot. "Keep the beet.
Eat the beet greens," is Beet's message. Leslie writes daily on the "Plant
Your Dream" blog, and sees photography as a way to show how he
sees the world. You can learn more about Leslie's Enchanted Garden Projects by viewing http://curezone.com/blogs/f.asp?f=92
. Post include "Plant Your Dream," Words Men Need to Know and Women Want to Hear," "The Seven Love Cures," "Job's Tears: Grow A Necklace,: "Super Ripe Images" and "Beep Keepers."
I won national honors two years in a row in the Hearst Feature Writing Contest. These feature stories were published in the Cal State Northridge student newspaper and the San Fernando Sun, where I had a part time job.
I was the editor of the San Fernando Sun for about two issues in February 1971. It was during those two weeks that the San Fernando Valley Earthquake hit. This is an amazing story that I have written about a number of times.
My journey into professional journalism detoured through a condition of paralyzing arthritis that developed early in my high school and college years. It was the Gift of this condition, called Angylosin Spondylitis in Western Medicine, that led me to meet Dr. Bernard Jensen, an elder in the Natural Healing Arts. I was the ghost writer and editor for a number of Dr. Bernard Jensen's books. He authored more than 50 books.
MY CEREMONIAL HAT--
RELATIONSHIP TO THE PACIFIC SYMPOSIUM AND
PACIFIC COLLEGE OF ORIENTAL MEDICINE SAN DIEGO CAMPUS
It was Dr. Bernard Jensen who open the door that brought through the gates of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He was a keynote speaker at one of the early Pacific Symposium, an international Conference. I called the President of the College, Jack Miller and suggested I introduce Dr. Bernard Jensen before his talk. My relationship with the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine grew out of that opening.
For many years, I would create an Enchanted Garden Installation at the Pacific Symposium. This demonstrated in my own way some of the basic principles of ancient Chinese Medicine. Many appreciated the installations that brought nature presence to the yearly conference.
Each year I would create an Altar where people attendees were invited to "Plant Your Dream!"
2010 was the last of these Enchanted Garden Installations and Official Closing Ceremonies.
I currently have a booth at the Pacific Symposium where I show some of my favorite products and give selected sponsors an opportunity to educate about the work that they do. In 2012, we featured, Robert Slovak, US Distributor for Original Quinton Marine Plasma and its new consumer versions of Original Quinton Marine Plasma called QuintEssential 0.9 and QuintEssential 3.3.
UPDATE ON 12:08 am
NOVEMBER 24, 2012
KEET THE BEET IS FEATURED
IN THIS YOUTUBE
MADE AT SAGE MOUNTAIN FARM
in 2009
Thanks to the Valley News Network
for this wonderful clip.
LESLIE EXPLAINS
KEEPING THE BEAT WITH NATURE
THROUGH GROWING A BEET IN A POT.
Your Beet is intended to become
a life partner helping you
enter Plant Parenthood--
We are each called now to
regain our beet with nature.
Growing a Beet in a pot
is a good beginning.
Earth Day San Diego Arpil 2007
This Plant Your Dream
Blog is a compillation in one place
of activities I am integrating
During the Summer Shift 2010.
Pardon the dust.
I am regrouping....
Many of the materials
on this Plant Your Dream Blog
are copyrighted.
The concepts and ideas
and available
for use.
Just ask.
WAYS TO HELP OUT
Volunteer help is always needed
to help launch or partner on various
projects.
Feel free to contact me via Facebook
or using the Curezone email
under my name above.
EXCELLENT STORY BY DARRYN BENNETT
printed in The Voice of San DIego online paper
in August 2008.
I updated it and made a few corrections
June 10, 2010
Photo Fall 2009
Leslie and Keep The Beet Media Star
The World's First Talking Beet Plant
Photo by Sophia at City Farmers Nursery
THE ENCHANTED GARDENER:
QUESTIONS FOR LESLIE GOLDMAN
Leslie Goldman is also known as the "Enchanted Gardener."
Photo: Sam Hodgson
Posted: Saturday, July 12, 2008 12:00 am
| Updated: 7:18 am, Thu Dec 3, 2009.
Saturday, July 12, 2008 |
Wearing an Atlanta Braves baseball hat* and carrying a large potted plant, Leslie Goldman, also known as the "Enchanted Gardener," fancies himself a planter of dreams. A former journalism student and a freelance photographer by profession, he has spent the last 15 years traveling around telling people why they should grow their own food — or at least one plant — and buy locally grown, organic food. He’s convinced that if people feel more connected to what they eat, problems ranging from obesity and childhood sugar highs to hotly-contested immigration issues could be solved.
Goldman gave up his aspirations of becoming a mainstream reporter 40 years ago when he was diagnosed with a form of chronic arthritis. Looking for an alternative to prescription drugs, he came to San Diego from
Los Angeles and lived on a health ranch in Escondido. He left the Hidden Valley Health Ranch several years later when his health, but he has hung his hat in San Diego ever since.
The potted plant he totes is actually an organic — and edible, he points out — beet that he carries to promote his latest campaign encouraging everyone to own at least one plant. The motto of the campaign, called "Keep the Beet," is "one pot, one plant and I’m a gardener."
We caught up with the Enchanted Gardener and his beet, named Keep the Beet Media Star, on his way to the Farmers’ Market in Hillcrest.
Tell me about the "Enchanted Gardener."
It’s the persona I’ve created. I use to get very emotional early in my life when I would find forms that said, "what do you do?" you know, for a living, or even, "who are you?" But I just had my 60th birthday and I’m pretty clear about who I am right now, and who I am is the persona I’ve created, "The Enchanted Gardener." I basically plant dreams for super ripe people. I hold the highest aspirations for a beautiful world. In my persona as your enchanted gardener, I consider my employer Mother Earth.
Tell me about the beet you carry.
I travel with plants. I never go anywhere without plants and right now one of my seeds I’m planting is "Keep the Beet." "Keep the Beet" is an opportunity for me to encourage the people that I meet to reestablish their connection with growing food. I’d like them to regain the understanding that we can grow some of our food. You see, "Keep the Beet" is a locally grown, organic beet. The idea that I was inspired with is that you take one person plus one pot and I’m a gardener. All I’m asking is each person to get one locally grown organic beet — or the best they can get — put in a pot of the best soil they can get and grow that beet.
Why is it so important to grow a beet?
Because we’re living in a world right now that has lost its relationship with growing things. I have a very close relationship with the organic farmers in San Diego. I notice that a number of the farmers who have been feeding me for many years are under duress right now … and they have had to cut back the amount of food that they’re growing. At the end of the day, consumers are not aware how important it is to support the local farmers.
Why is it important to support them?
Basically, I would say I’m very concerned with homeland security. I’m very concerned with earth-based homeland security. My idea to solve immigration problems is to make sure people’s needs are met. If our neighbors south of the border had the food that they really need to feed themselves in a healthy manner, that would make a difference. I’d rather see the people of Mexico thriving in their own home. As far as homeland security, more and more we are outsourcing our production of food. From my looking at this, what sense does it make to be building uncomfortable relationships with your neighbors, such as Mexico, and at the same time be asking them to grow our food? OK? I mean, that to me doesn’t make much sense.
Tell me more about why people should have at least one plant.
We need a moment of awakening. I am very sincere in honoring the value of science. But on the other hand, science needs to, and kids in the schools need to, have a foundation in nature. We can’t continue to create a generation of children who know more about Apple computers and uploading information and data into computers than they do about the fundamentals of how science works. When I water this plant, it reminds me to drink water. My plant has to be out in the sunshine. That reminds me, that as a human being, for my health, I have to go out in the sunshine. By encouraging each person to grow one plant, they can become connected again. We have a tendency now to become more and more fragmented.
What’s your take on biotechnology? Are there conflicts between the organic movement and technology?
I am welcoming a dialogue with my family in the biotech movement because science is a beautiful terrain … but we can’t lose sight of the overall picture. Being that we all live on the same planet, we have to be in dialogue. We need to sit down and look at the problems long-range and look at what we’re creating. Why solve problems through science or biotech that can be solved naturally. I mean, I understand that researchers get money from doing constant research, but we have to look long-term at the creations we do and what effect they’re going to have long-term. There’s no reason for anybody who has a brain to succeed in science to not come up with marvelous inventions, but I think we need an ethics behind that.
What kind of creations are you talking about?
There are major concerns about what happens when people change the nature of creation to create new things. We may have the ability, but do we have the wisdom? I mean, look, there’s certain creations I’d love to see. I mean, maybe, and I’m just playing, it would be not so bad to have a clone, you know? For people who are lonely, maybe a girlfriend or something. Or we could have extra body parts lying around when we needed them. You know what I mean? No, I’m just playing, but, there is a big contention that natural foods and biotech can’t coexist. When you put [technology] in the hands of people who don’t understand life or have the ethics in the first place … or are mainly are concerned with profit, then you can start hurting people. I would support biotech inventions within medicine and things like stem cells and prolonging life. But I would not support it in food. The solution isn’t in genetically engineered food. Don’t try to create new foods through science. There’s a natural way to do it. Build up the soil.
What’s your lifestyle like?
I live in a natural environment called the Enchanted Garden Intentional Community near SDSU. I live with other people, other adults. … I don’t live with people who necessarily agree with me and I eat with people who are eating all over the map — from food cllmaxs to desserts to sweets to everything. In other words, I enjoy a challenge. I’m not into preaching to the choir. I am basically a whole, pure natural eater. I like farm fresh, local, organic. I’m not a vegetarian. I’m eating more and more vegetarian according to what my body needs, but I feel some people basically need higher protein foods. But I do think the more we become educated about who we are, then the lower we can live on the food chain.
Do you have any final thoughts?
Of course. Local is becoming a catch phrase and a trend, but that’s fine. Everyone should grow something of their own or buy from a local grower. … I’d like to see everybody support the farmers markets. Go out of their way and go with neighbors. Anyone who goes is going to feel the power of local. You have people in social interaction. You find people conversing. You find people having fun. It’s a village. It is absolutely a village. And you know, we have to get the children back off the computer and get down some basics, and that’s tied in with food. Kids can’t just be exposed to sugar and getting whacked out. Now, Keep the Beet Media Star, if you ask her, she has far more radical ideas than I do.
— Interview by DARRYN BENNETT
* WEARING AN ATLANTA BRAVES
BASEBALL HAT?
I met Darryn Bennett at BIO 2008.
The next BIO was going to be in Atlanta.
I made some wonderful friends from Atlanta.
I was imagining that I would be in Atlanta
the next year, or at a future BIO (Biotechnology Industry Organization)
annual meeting. I see myself teaching about
organic farming and addressing the questions
about how Biotechnology and organic farming can co-exist.
THE DIALOGUE ON SCIENCE, ETHICS
AND FOOD begain in Spring 2010.
DoSEF was inspired by DOSER,
a project of the AAAS
The Project invites all voices across the broad spectrum
of agriculture to join hands and dialogue for the betterment
of humanity. I have a bias, that whole, pure, natural and fresh
food is best. I am very much interesting in hearing and listening
to all points of view. This discussion is healthy and vital
for healthy people and a healthy planet.
THE UNCLE SAM MARRIES AUNTIE GMO CAMPAIGN
I am honored to have friends within the Biotechnology industry,
including those who believe in Biotechnology and its uses
in agriculture. Washington is Pro-GMO, and committed
foremost to investing in Science and Technology based
on Biotechnology and potentially NanoTechnology. I do not
believe this is wise.
The Uncle Sam Marries Auntie GMO Campaign was birthed
in the Spring of 2010 to give Washington an opportunity
to balance their outlook. I see a movement of 10 million
joining this campaign. It will launch in good time.
SUMMER SHIFT 2010
My current project, June-September 2010,
is stabilizing the Enchanted Garden Intentional Community,
and its growing grounds in San Diego.
I believe what we do in our own backyard
can determine the health of the world.
When all is said and done, the decisions we make now,
1000 years from now, could allow us to look back
and see that we were a generation that seeded 1000 years of peace.
I see humanity perched as a Rock,
as a rock in motion destined to move one way or
another.
The decisions we each make now will determine
if that rock falls down or goes right up to heaven.
--Beet Keepers
A rock falling right up to heaven?
Is that possible.
PLANT YOUR DREAM
I am here to encourage 144,000 of us to Plant Your Dream,
rooting your Soul Inspired expression through remember
how to keep the beat with nature through growing a bit of your food.
Begin with growing a one beet in a pot.
I am alive that 1000 years from now,
humanity will look back and note the previous
1000 years as the Enchanted Garden Era.
WHAT IS THE ENCHANTED GARDEN
ACCORDING TO LESLIE GOLDMAN
YOUR ENCHANTED GARDENER?
The Enchanted Garden is a name for our renewed Earth
that we can grow one person and plant at a time,
beginning in our own backyard. For those who
have no backyard, I highly recommend one pot.
this is the essence of the Beet Keeper campaign
ENCHANTED GARDEN
COMMUNITY MEMBERSHIP
JOIN THE ENCHANTED GARDEN
INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY ON
FACEBOOK
Please see
Beet Keepers of the World Unite for an
"shotgun" introduction and view of some of the
graphics that will appear in ebooks and
hard copy books. http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1209704
BOOKS BY LESLIE GOLDMAN
I am listed as editor for a number of the books of
Dr. Bernard Jensen (1907-2001) I was his ghost writer for these books
and consider him one of my "ghost" writers now.
I am here to bridge some of his nature studies and
the work of some of the mentors he had and who we
both share. I will bring forward some of the work
of V.G. Rocine that Dr. Bernard Jensen evolved through
his own understanding. My aim will be to translate this work
using current graphic potentials that they did not have.
"I’ve been waiting half my life to tell somebody about Leslie Goldman.
Always figured I’d wait for some desperate moment.
Now it’s here."-- Bob Baker, Los Angeles times Magazine
"Do you remember, a lifetime ago,
when Nat King Cole had a hit song
called "Nature Boy"? It told about
"a strange, enchanted boy"
who wandered far, very far,
and when he met you,
he taught you many things.
I've met that boy,
or someone very much like him,
and he is now a man known as
"The Enchanted Gardener..."
I may never be the same."
--Paul Froemming,
Montecito Journal,
July 16, '99
"A magic day he passed my way and while we spoke
of many things Fools and Kings, this he said to me,
'The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be
loved in return." -- "Nature Boy," written by eden
ahbez, recorded by Nat King Cole in 1947.
BRAND PHOTO FOR LESLIE GOLDMAN
YOUR ENCHANTED GARDENER
ENCHANTED GARDEN PROJECTS
FALL 2010-SPRING 2011
BEET KEEPERS, RETURN!
A Nation Of Gardeners!
One Pot + One Person = You're a Gardener
KEEP THE BEET MEDIA STAR,
THE WORLD's FIRST TALKING BEET PLANT
REVIEWING OF HOW TO GROW A BEET
IN A POT
With Lindsay Maliaka, designer, her two children, Grace and Sophia,
and friend Courtney at the Hillcrest Farmers' Market, June 13, 2010
TESTIMONIALS
LESLIE GOLDMAN
YOUR ENCHANTED GARDENER
"I’ve been waiting half my life to tell somebody about Leslie Goldman.
Always figured I’d wait for some desperate moment.
Now it’s here."-- Bob Baker, Los Angeles times Magazine
"Do you remember, a lifetime ago,
when Nat King Cole had a hit song
called "Nature Boy"? It told about
"a strange, enchanted boy"
who wandered far, very far,
and when he met you,
he taught you many things.
I've met that boy,
or someone very much like him,
and he is now a man known as
"The Enchanted Gardener..."
I may never be the same."
--Paul Froemming,
Montecito Journal,
July 16, '99
"A magic day he passed my way and while we spoke
of many things Fools and Kings, this he said to me,
'The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be
loved in return." -- "Nature Boy," written by eden
ahbez, recorded by Nat King Cole in 1947.
Thank you Google for your help in
organizing. I appreciate you very much.
Leslie
June 10, 2010
2:43 pm
Thank you Google for your help in
organizing. I appreciate you very much.
Leslie
June 10, 2010
2:43 pm
BEET KEEPER SPONSORS
and those making the
PLANT YOUR DREAM BLOG
POSSIBLE.
On the Plant Your Dream Blog,
I intent to help make the world a more
beautiful place one plant and Seed Dream at a
time. It only takes so many of us aspiring to
do good in the world to bring in 1000 years of
peace. The following are some of my Beet Keeper
Sponsors I admire and who help me sustain
my full time work blogging.
Many thanks to Curezone.com for their relentless
pursuit of helping our world transition from Medicating
to Educating. It is a privilege to write the Plant Your Dream Blog
on Curezone and be associated with this outstanding
website dedicated to the public good. Curezone is the
#2 alternative health site in the world. I encourage you
to click on the many links of the sponsors who make
this site possible. To Become a Curezone Sponsor go here: http://dir.curezone.com/sponsorship.asp
Biosmart is the primary sponsor of the
The End of Styrofoam campaign
to inspire enligihtened use
of water and our oceans and land.
Anothony Russo the founder of Biosmart
and Earthsmart helps many farmers in Asia
earn a livelihood through turning sugar cane
bagasse, a sugar cane by-product, into a useful
100% sustainable packaging and serviceware
made from 100% natral sugar cane.
CITY FARMERS NURSERY,
The place to go in San Diego
for a wonderful outing! Spent time with
one of San Diego's most delightful City Farmers,
Bill Tall and staff. Outlet for Exotica Rare Fruit Nursery
Trees, herbs, berries, and flowers. A favorite hangout
for Keep the Beet Media Star, The World's First Talking Beet Plant.
Bill Tall is one of San Diego's most generous citizens.
He is a model of giving back to his community.
He provided the trees for the Michelle Obama visit
April 15. During the Pacific Symposium 09, Bill and his
staff were on site introduction the students to the wonders
of how to grow some of their own food.
We planted Seed Dreams for further interaction between
Pacific College of Oriental Medicine and City Farmer Nursery.
Planting Traditional Chinese Medicines in America Soil has
been an intention set in motion more than ten years ago.
Bill Tall, helping the students of Pacific College of Oriental Medicine
(PCOM) is taking steps to fulfill that Dream.
4832 Home Avenue (@ Euclid Ave) San Diego, CA USA 92105
Directions
Monday-Saturday, 9am-5pm
NOW OPEN Sunday 9am-3pm
(619) 284-6358 http://www.CityFarmersNursery.com
YouTube made at the Pacific Symposium 2009 features
Bill Tall and Dr. Wang, an esteemed practitioner of Traditional
Chinese Medicine in San Diego. She is an avid gardener
and had profoundly helped me in my healing over the years.
Numbers of Beet Keeper Sponsors
sell at the Hillcrest Farmers' Market,
San Diego.
Come see me most Sundays for a tour at 11 AM.
Meet the the JR Organic Stall across from the music.
Call me 619.384.2631 on my cell to find me.
KEEP the BEET, sometimes given voice by
by Leslie Goldman, Your Enchanted Gardener, who
speaks the international language of beet,
the new Esperanto of our times,
will present a thank you to Monsanto for its projected wise decision
to 100 % support local organic farmers.
Keep the beet's message is that through growing a simple
beet in a pot we can regain our beat with nature and counterbalance
the prevalent disease of our age, fragmentation.
For more on Fragmentation, please read chapter
five of THE WHEEL OF HEALTH (1938) by G.T. WRENCH.
One version is available free online.
The beet, KT Beet MS sez,
"Plant beet seeds. reenforce your dream with a beet you
get from a local, organic farmer whenever possible."
In San Diego, get your beets from the Beet Keeper beet
growers, BARRY LOGAN of LA MILPA ORGANICA FARM;
PHIL NOBLE of SAGE MT FARM and
JOE RODRIGUEZ JR & FAMILY of JR ORGANIC.
MORE CSA MEMBERS
and HILLCREST FARMERS' MARKET SHOPPERS
ARE WOULD BE APPRECIATED
NOTE: Both SAGE MOUNTAIN FARM and
JR ORGANIC are available to serve 50 more members each in their
wonderful CSA'S.
BARRY LOGAN OF THE
LA MILPA ORGANIC COMMUNITY FARM
We are Seed Dreaming about a BEET KEEPER combination
CSA box box that will express the concept of coop farming
that we preach and practice.
SAMMY AND BEE
OF THE RODRIGUEZ
GROWING UP ON THE FARM
FIFTH GENERATION FARMING COUSINS
This is a video clip I made at the HILLCREST FARMERS' MARKET of BEA RODRIGUEZ and her Cousin SAMMY, the daughter of SYLVIA RODRIGUEZ. I have been watching both this offspring of the RODRIGUEZ family grow up. It adds so much to my life to feel a part of this family and help in every way I can on most Sundays when I am in town. If you live in San Diego, please come by to the market. It is a wonderful experience. We can do some commerce over purple beans, but something much deeper we will exchange. Please support your local organic farmer. Feel the love of those growing real food. Help every way you can. Join a local CSA--Community Supported Agriculture. Our future of Food Safety depends on this.
I have been admiring the products of Terra Bella Ranch at our Hillcrest Farmers' Market for weeks I enjoy their certified Organic Nuts. I also had in mind yesterday to get show a draft of the Playbook I will be taking to the Natural Product Expo West this week. That all added up to making this Youtube for Nicolina Alves. Hope you like this! I love their Certified Nuts--Organically grown that is!
I just met Tina Koenemann
from Westbridge.
She tells me her company is often just called
Westbridge. Westbridge is short
for Westbridge Agricultural Products.
Her company manufactures Organic Liquid
Plant Nutrients, surfactants.
Tina is a cosponsor of the Dialogue on
Science, Ethics, and Food. She is also co-sponsoring
the Hamilton High Enchanted Garden Project, my own
contribution to the Hamilton High School garden now
in progress.
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