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Seed Dreams I am Planting Now- Chapter Two
The Power In Pizza to Transform a Nation's Eating Habits
Date: 12/26/2012 8:06:24 AM ( 12 y ) ... viewed 1692 times
THESE ARE THE SEED DREAMS I AM PLANTING NOW
Leslie, that"s me, drawing water from the pond at Luther Burbank's Home and Garden, a day before the beginning of the 2nd Annual Natiional Heirloom Expo, September 10, 2012. Luther Burbank, was the esteemed Gardener who planted many of our biodiverse foods we eat today. He is my hero gardener. I may never equal his qift with the evolution of plants, but I would like to be as effective inspiring human souls to flower. Burbank drew similarities between the way that plants and humans grow. My work, Plant Your Dream, is based on similar principles.
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BOB QUINN (R) KAMUT ® BRAND KHORASAN ANCIENT WHEAT'S FRIEND WITH
HIS FRIEND CARLO PETRINI, HEAD OF THE SLOW FOOD MOVEMENT
Both signed the 2012 original version of the 7.5 Mllion + 2 Petition that instigated the Campaign to Grow A Healthier Pizza.
These are my Seed Dreams I am planting now, as the days begin to contain more and more light.
Pizza is now the most popular food in the USA, if not the Industrialized world. In the recent Historic California Prop 37 Campaign, a Vote that attempted to establish the Right to Know and Label GMO's, more than 6,000,000 people said Yes, "Label It!" in spite of more than $42 Million being spent in a deceptive campaign masterminded by some of our lead Biochemical and Food Industry Corporations who helped convince anotgher 6 million that it was not in their best interest to have this Right to Know.
Some Prop 37 Ads convinced people that their food costs would go up by $400.00. Local organic farmers were reminded of Prop 65, another initiative that backfired years ago that assaulted some companies (and herb companies) with expenses bills as a result of court cases fighting off lawyes. The well managed No campaign said that local San Diego farmers, already straddled with mounds of Red Tape and Beaurocratic details, would be under siege from Lawyers.
In the final month of the campaign I found myself spending countless hours working to convince a few key farmers that YES on 37 would not harm them; in the final tally, the No side prevailed by less than 400,0000 votes.
Pamm Larry, the instigator of what became the Prop 37 Campaign, told me early on that it would take a simple majority of CA voters to win this. By my simple calculations that meant 7.5 Million, half of the 15 million registered California voters, plus maybe two people. Thus the magical figure came into my mind.
It would take 7.5 Million + 2 California Voters to win this.
My strategy early on, was to hold an intention that 7.5 Million + 2 would vote yes.
The Campaign to Grow A Healthier Pizza started to come into form, based on two very special seeds coming into my life.
BOB QUINN WITH LESLIE AT THE ORGANIC SUMMIT SEPTEMBER 2011
Bob Quinn inspired my dreams of working with KAMUT ® Brand Khorasan Ancient Wheat when we talked at the Organic Summit in Fall 2011 in Baltimore.
The first was KAMUT ® Brand Khorasan Ancient Wheat, a gift from Bob Quinn, who was personally responsible for growing acres of this wheat from a handful of kernels in less that three decades.
Ancient Wheat has a very special place in my life. I am one of the last ordained Essene Ministers of Edmond Bordeaux Szekely, the co-founder of Rancho La Puerta, the #1 Destination Spa in the world, located about 90 minutes from my house across the border in Tecate, Mexico.
Szekely, in his book, "The Legend of Zoroaster," wrote about a King on a Fiscal Cliff of nightmares, who plants a grain of ancient wheat and has the destiny of his nation saved as Persian turns back to its Garden Ways.
KAMUT ® Brand Khorasan wheat is this Ancient Kernel of Wheat. Our nation is on a Fiscal Cliff. The US is bigger than Persia, but the solution to our economic dilemma is the same-- return to Grassroots; Learn to Grow some of our own Food.
As a Ceremonialist, I set out to grow the Greatest Grassroots Movement in CA History through literally growing KAMUT ® Khorasan ancient wheat in a pots that traveled with me for more than six months on a journey to convince others that to reap the benefits of victory at the polls November 6, we needed to regain our beat with nature.
That Groundswell of support that will inevitably, Label GMO's nationally will come as I see it from having a foundation of eminent Gardeners with one hand in the political arena and the other in the garden.
I am reminded that many of the first presidents of the US were such eminent gardeners. Garden Wisdom, in my premise, created the intelligence, to build a sound US economy.
BAKER CREEK ON THE SCENE WITH ITS SAN MARZANO TOMATOES
This is a Baker Creek San Marzano Tomato Plant growing in a Pot that I carried through the Caravan, September 1-10, to the National Heirloom Expo in Santa Rosa. This was taken at the Frey Vineyard in Redwood Valley, I, and Nadine, visited a week before the National Heirloom Expo, September 11-12-13, 2012.
There was another fateful seed that came into my life early on in the Prop 37 Campaign.
I was already gathering signatures to help get on the ballot in California. each Sunday, I have claimed for myself a rather unique role at the Hillcrest Farmers Market. During the week, I am constantly at my computer Blogging on tghe Plant Your Dream Blog, but on Sunday's I leave my computer publishing to become the master networker. I stand side by side with the carrots, lettuce, and sprouts to rally shoppers for numbers of the local vendors.
One day, at the Hillcrest Farmers' Market, three women showed up--a grandma, a mother, and a small daughter, who were handing out Free Packets of San Marzano Non GMO Tomato Seeds.
San Marzano Tomatoes are one of the most popular tomatoes for making tomato sauce! I took home a few of those packets. It was like I had picked a card from a Tarot Deck of Fortune that was to determine by fate and the direction of my life during the next few years.
I would grow a Healthier Pizza!
DEBORAH SZEKELY INFLUENCES MY KITCHEN PLATE
For Deborah Szekely, 90 feels like being 60 years old. This is a photo of Deborah, called the Godmother of the Fitness Revolution, at her 60th Birthday Party in May of 2012. When you live as a Wellness Warrior, 90 will look like 60. In the early days of Rancho La Puerta, wheat was hand ground and made fresh into bread. I have returned whole ancient KAMUT ® wheat to Rancho La Puerta. I ground some fresh there on my 65th Birthday on November 19, 2012 with Ludwig Max Fischer, co-authoring a book to reawaken the work of Professor Szekely. I was one of his last Essene Ministers. I call myself Your Enchanted Gardener to keep things simple.
Deborah Szekely is the co-founder with Edmond Bordeaux Szekely of Rancho La Puerta. in May, I attended her 60th Birthday Party at Professor's Park in Tecate. I was planting seed dreams. I few weeks later, I heard her speak at nearby Rancho La Puerta!
In her fireside talk, she told about a new organization she was founding that was going to take on Washington D.C. It was called Wellness Warrior. That night, Deborah spoke about recent events in Washington D.C, where congress had agreed that "Pizza was a Vegetable!" if it had about two ounces of tomato Sauce.
Deborah said, "We cannot let Congress get away with saying that Pizza is a Vegetable!"
I was already growing a healthier pizza when I heard her say that, but hearing about that historic event---crystalized my one thinking. A Campaign to Grow a Healthier Pizza was born.
I created the 7.5 Million + 2 Petition.
Somewhere in the small print, was my Caveat. If we were to win Prop 37, we needed to become a Grassroots movement of gardeners, who had regained their beat with nature.
I also saw that in order to win, a tipping point needed to be grounded between Organic Industry leaders, Consumer Advocates, and grassroots activities. THis book will look into that question: How well did we do in creating the Crassroots we needed?
THE CARAVAN, SEPTEMBER 1-10 TO THE NATIONAL HEIRLOOM EXPO, SEPTEMBER 11-12--13 IN SANTA ROSA, CA
This is the EG Mobile, my 68 VW Van at a rest stop above Santa Barbara in route to the National Heirloom Expo, September 11-12-13, 2012. in 2011, there was one time when I could not keep her going. She was in the shop once a week for more than eight weeks various breakdowns in her generative system. Then, in 2012, I committed to take her to the Natiional Heirloom Expo, a journey that turned out to be more than 1600 miles!!! That is part of the story of "Grow A Healthier Pizza!" the book. FYI, the three potted plants are L to R: San Marzano GMO Tomatoes, KAMUT ® Brand Khorasan Wheat,and Keep The Beet Media Star, The World's First Talking Beet Plant.
In September 2011, through the help of sponsors, I attended the Organic Summit in Baltimore, MD. It was here that I connected more strongly with Bob Quinn and the KAMUT ® grains he had in his hat!
In February of 2012, I discovered that Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, was going to be doing the 2nd Annual National Heirloom Expo in Santa Cruz.
I determined when I saw the notice of this event, that I would be staying in California in the Fall of 2012. I set a goal to travel to the National Heirloom Expo, rather than return to Baltimore in 2012.
The idea of traveling north in my 68 VW Van--and creating a Caravan to do so--was born.
And so the story unfolds!
PAUL WALLACE WITH LESLIE AT THE PETALUMA SEED BANK
This is Paul Wallace, left, with Leslie Goldman, Your EG, at the Petaluma Seed Bank, a few days before the National Heirloom Expo. I wanted to have an opening and closing ceremony at the show. This was a new idea. When all was said and done there was a brief opening and closing ceremony, and how that happened is part of the story. My Seed Dream is that I lead a more integrated Opening and Closing in 2013.
PIZZA CHOSEN AS THEME FOR THE NO CAMPAIGN
I was already deep into planning the trip to the National Heirloom Expo when the No Campaign started its Ad campaign to defeat the people's initiative. The 7.5 Million + 2 Petition was now a reality.
One of their ads, in an attempt to confuse the simple wording of Prop 37, asked why certain Pizza's needed a Label and others not?
To me the answer was clear: Yes, GE Pizza needed to be labeled, and junk food, chemical pizza, wasn't worth the time eating.
If Congress was going to say that Pizza was a Vegtable, then We, the People, would Grow A Healthier Pizza, starting with KAMUT ® Brand Khorasan Wheat and Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds.
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THE POWER IN PIZZA TO TRANSFORM A NATION'S EATING HABITS
This is a flyer for a proposed idea....that grew out of Nadine, my sweetheart, starting to make pizza flour crust out of 100 % KAMUT ® Brand Khorasan Wheat. She has been helping all year leading various kid activities where we have ground the wheat. Most of us have lost our beat with nature. This action of seeing whole grains turned into flour and then become pizza helps restore the idea--grain, to flour, to food, to garden. There are stages of learning in between. I have made contact with the local students of SDSU who live not far from our home. I see our home being a place where students can eat healthy food as well as garden.
NEW BIZ CARD 2013
So here we stand entering 2013, and these are the Seed Dreams I am planting:
GROW A HEALTHIER PIZZA WILL BECOME A BOOK THAT HELPS EDUCATE AND TRANSFORM THE NATION'S APPETITES FOR GMO AND OTHER JUNK FOOD
Out of the mass of papers and activity of my 2012, I will assemble a manuscript that makes sense and tells a compelling story that educates and transforms the Nation's Appetites for GMO and Other Junk Food.
I INTEND TO INSPIRE A NEW MOVEMENT IN AMERICA OF HEALTHIER PIZZA GROWERS
We can each be competition for GE Seeds through Growing Non GMO Heirloom Seeds. We need a groundswell of support, "Beet Keepers, Return!"
If Pizza is now the US favorite food, if not in the industrial world, then the Campaign to Grow A Healthier Pizza will aim--intend to inspire a new movement in America of Healthier Pizza Growers!
GIVING THANKS AND WELCOMING NEW SUPPORT FOR THE 2013 CAMPAIGN TO GROW A HEALTHIER PIZZA
CAMPAIGN TO GROW A HEALTHIER PIZZA ON FACEBOOK
http://www.facebook.com/GrowAHealthierPizza
I will begin with establishing a Baker Creek Enchanted Garden Outpost in my home.
Through the Power of Pizza, I am setting out to Transform a Nation's Eating Habits!
THE WORK OF DR BERNARD JENSEN WILL AGAIN COME ALIVE
The work of Bernard Jensen will come alive again through my work. He was my spiritual father and mentor in the national healing arts. He introduced me to the work of Alfred McCann, the much racker Journalist. Dr. Bernard Jensen set me on a path to pick up the threads of this work. Now is the time
I plant these Seed Dreams with ancient wheat and Baker Creek Seeds now growing!
Leslie Goldman
Your Enchanted Gardener
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