I WAS TRANSFIXED AND DELIGHTED THAT ARUNDO DONAX, THE GIANT REED,
CALLED TRASH BY THE CITY OF SAN DIEGO. BECAME MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
AT THE WINTER SOLSTICE AT CENTRO DE LA RAZA
Arundo Donax, The Giant Reed, music makers
MAKE LOVE, NOT WAR WITH ARUNDO DONAX, THE GIANT REED
The City of San Diego, and its Fire Department, and most Cities that work with Brush Management are currently in a war with Arundo Donax, The Giant Reed. They consider it a Fire Hazard and recommend an arsenal of Roundup Herbicide and other weed killers to deal with the problem than now costs millions of dollars and adds millions of dollars to the Monsanto profit margin. This magnificent gift from Nature has more than 102 Uses I am exploring, including the latest…valued as Musical Instruments by lovely participants in the Winter Solstice at the Centro De La Raze leading into 2012. I am taking a stand to demonstrate on the Enchanted Garden Intentional Community Growing Grounds near SDSU some of the benefits of Arundo Donax. I proclaim this land the last stand for Roundup Herbicide. I am calling on you to support this through signing a petition to Outlaw Roundup Herbicide and also coming out to help transform a patch of Arundo Donax into a demonstration plot. This little spot currently will be herbicided unless education takes place. To borrow from another spiritual tradition, I see the holding off of Roundup Herbicide on this little plot as a Chanukah Story. Will the Arundo Donax Macabee Warriors hold off the Roundup Herbicide? Innocent good neighbors, threatened by the high cost of brush management of fears that Arundo might come back, want to use the Roundup. Roundup herbicide is the most common approach to killing Arundo now; but why not just make peace with the plant and find its many uses as a crop?
I will expand and repeat the Arundo Donax Blessing Ceremony at the 2012 Ascension event at the World Beat Center, December 31-January 1, 2012.
Amazing Videos testify to conclusions I have been reaching after three months of looking deep into this amazing plant that is a source of tremendous expense and stress to my neighbors who feel compelled to use Roundup Herbicide in a attempt to kill the plant. Meanwhile others, are beginning to spend money to grow it for its many uses.
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