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Being Mindful of Environmental Risks as we manage the Canyon
Being Mindful of Environmental Risks
as well as Fire Prevention as we manage the Canyon
Concerned about the recommendation of the
the Code Compliance Officer I am working with regarding the clearing of Arundo Donax. Round Up Ready Herbicide is recommended to kill off the roots of this invasive plant. I need to build the case against Arundo use here and get neighbor support asap. I will need widespread support on many levels for this project, and editing!!!
Date: 8/28/2011 11:02:50 AM ( 13 y ) ... viewed 858 times
Our Last Sunday of the Month
Gathering today
from 4-8 pm
August 28, 2011
will begin to address some of these issues...
Thank you for attending.
Leslie
THIS BLOG LINK
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1852136
9:01 am
August 28, 2011
Draft...
Took time to write this
just now...is likely needs
a lot of editing.
Theodora Filis...
you are in my mind now.
Leslie
CLEARING OUR OVERGROWTH
AND MANAGING THE CANYON
WITH THE QUESTIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL
RISK IN MIND
The need to clear overgrowth on our land on Arosa Street near SDSU
and the requests of our allies at the Fire Prevention Department has brought
up major concerns, as well as the opportunity to ensure good environmental
practices as we proceed with the needed clean up.
Dr, Bernard Jensen and Mark Anderson wrote a book in 1990 called
Empty Harvest. The book give reflection on some of the issues we face
today because we have lost our connection to the beat of nature.
It is my hope that in coming together to learn from
the present need to manage the overgrowth on the Arosa Street Enchanted
Garden property, and working in harmony with our neighbors and the good wishes
of the Fire Prevention Bureau to work together in behalf of the Arosa Street Canyon
we can ensure safety from fire, as well as prevent damage to ourselves and this land through environmental risk.
In order to do this, we are called to proceed wisely in a spirit of cooperation
as well as education.
One of the intents of our 1/3 acre property that borders the canyon
has been to create a nature preserve, that allows our residents and the
community to become more aware of our intrinsic relationship with
nature.
As we address our overgrowth, as well as the stands of Arundo Donax
cane in the canyon, we see a great opportunity for community building
as well as environmental education.
One of the management issues we will address on the land we
are tending is the working with the Arundo Donax. We will remove
much of this potentially invasive plant from our property and want
to help our neighbors understand some of the risks involved
in Round Up Read herbicide is used to attempt to kill off the extensive
root system.
I am currently doing important research on other ways to
eliminate the root system without harming the land.
Round Up Ready is very toxic to a healthy soil, as well
as to wildlife, other plants, and as information is now becoming
clear, to human health.
One of the inspirations for our land is Dr. Bernard Jensen,
and the men he honored who understood the laws of agriculture and
food growing in harmony with nature.
In the book “Empty Harvest” by Dr. Bernard Jensen and Mark Anderson,
we might many important reminders in the introductory first pages.
Dr. Bernard Jensen writes:
“It was only after near-fatal illness brought me to the brink of death
that I began to understand the link between mankind and the planet Earth.
The terrifying experience ws to become the cataylst for my life’s work in the
healing arts.”
Dr. Bernard Jensens work at the time of the writing of Empty Harvest in 1990
spaned more than fifty-five years and sixty countries. He lives eleven years longer
and during his final eleven years overcame a cancer as well as a paralyzing car
accident.
“Because nutrition had helped save my life, I began to study foods.
But I learned that one cannot really understand the value of foods without first
studying the soil, what it is, and how it contributes to life and health.
The book Empty Harvest is dedicated to many forward thinking men
who understood health and its relationship to soil.
Among these are Dr. William A Albrecht, PhD, professor of agriculture
at the University of Missouri, as well as Weston A Price, a dentist who made
a profound contribution to understand the problems we face today.
Weston A Price’s work is kept alive today through the Weston A Price Foundation
and its Farm to Consumer-Legal Defense Fund.
Dr, Albrecht taught that unhealthy soil will yield unhealthy plants; and humans
who subsist on plants grown in unhealthy soil will themselves grow weak.
Albrecht taught that soil can be ruined by several processes--most of them
involving man’s interference due to soil erosion and toxic chemicals.
“Misuse and overuse of chemical fertilizers and pesticides will kill
not only bad, but good forms of life in the soil, leaving only lifeless dust
behind.”
Weston A Price writes in 1945, In Nutrition and Physical Degeneration”
“The new generation has inherited depleted soil.”
The most serious problem confronting the coming generations
is this nearly unsurmountable handicap of depletion of the quality of the foods
bease of the depletion of the minerals of the soil. (p 192)
One of the principles we are working with on our property and
in the land we are tending at the end of the canyon, is to prevent and begin
to work against soil erosion, as well as the demonstration of the values
of organic growing of food.
Dr. Bernard Jensen continues:
With Silent Spring, [Rachel] Carson’s contribution was not the presentation of a doomsday sermon. Rather it has the careful and scientific documentation of damage done by human hands to our planet’s air, soil, river and oceans, through the year 1960.
“ We have to realize that men and women were unable to des troy the world before the twentieth century because they did not have the technology with which to do it. But the twentieth century has been an era of chemicals, drugs, and nuclear radiation. “
“Even without another world war, it is possible these days.... to destroy all life by poisoning the Earth--accidentally.”
We need to be careful and alert to FIre damage, and also
danger we cause ourselves, by making lesser choices
out of harmony with Nature.
He goes on to say,
For years, I have been a student of nature.
I have tried to listen to what nature has said.
I have tried to be sensitive to the needs of the soil;
to the plant life; to the nature of nature.
I have learned that when mankind departs from nature,
opposes nature; or treat nature ignorantly;
he does so at his own peril.
When we are able to accept the truth that this planet,
the soil, the air, the water, and the entire universe are living systems,
just as our bodies are composed of living systems,
it becomes logical for us to live according to natural laws
and processes that support and replenish those systems.
We must relearn how to “walk lightly on the land,” as our Native American
ancestors taught. We must learn to love this planet and heed the message
of the empty harvest. That is, in protecting the fate of the Earth Mother,
we protect our fates as well.
Dr. Bernard Jensen
Escondido, CA
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