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KAMUT ® Ancient Wheat Activity 2011-2012
KAMUT ® Ancient Wheat Activity 2011-2012
Date: 1/5/2013 12:19:30 PM ( 11 y ) ... viewed 956 times
CHAPTER SIX
"GROW A HEALTHIER PIZZA"
HOW THE CAMPAIGN TO GROW A HEALTHIER PIZZA WAS BORN
KAMUT ® KHORASAN ANCIENT WHEAT 2011- 2012 ACTIVITIES
SUMMARY
Growing KAMUT ® Khorasan Ancient wheat in 2012 was a way to help youth and adults reestablish their connection with nature through growing this Sacred Seed. Through having the experience of grinding wheat in different venues, I, and then, later with my partner Nadine, created an engaging activity. Many enjoyed the experience of grinding the wheat and seeing it turn into dough.
In 2012, at home, we began to explore making the ancient wheat into recipes such as pizza crust. An added dimension came in as well--growing a Healthier and Challah--The Jewish Ritual Bread-- as well as a Passover Matzah--made of KAMUT ® Brand Khorasan Ancient Wheat.
Nadine Dominguez, my partner and housemate, was invaluable throughout the year. Nadine has a natural gift in the kitchen. Grow A Healthier Pizza began because a number of seeds came into my life--including the KSMUT ®; but then, with the addition of Nadine's natural gift in the kitchen, the idea expanded into the quest to create the ultimate Healthier Pizza made out of Freshly ground whole grains of KAMUT®. There were many photo opportunities, including videos.
Many of my ideas take form through graphics inspired by deeply seated dreams that later take form.
By late fall the idea of Nadine's Healthier Pizzeria jelled as a Poster out of activities taking place in our Enchanted Garden Kitchen. Throughout hte year, this Seed Dream of Grow A Healthier Pizza, sprung to life with delicious fresh smells of 100% KAMUT ® Khorasan wheat, that had been ground by children and adults, filling our i kitchen with delightful sights of pizza being made. Nadine was excellent working with the children at numbers of events as well.
THE YES ON 37 CAMPAIGN
Throughout 2012, I introduced KAMUT ® Khorasan wheat to many people, and began to use it in my Plant Your Dream ritual. For many months of 2012, I was deeply involved in the Yes on Prop 37 Campaign. I saw early on that victory November 6, the day of the California Election-- would come out of growing a Grassroots movement from bottom to top and top to bottom. All of us--from Organic Industry stakeholders to Grassroots Activists needed to see that we were growing in the same pot. Many of the activities had never entered the political arena. There were many lessons to be learned, and this book will detail out some of the lessons that I learned as well as tell about the role I saw myself playing toward Prop 37.
THE MAGICAL NUMBER 7.5 MILLION +2
I saw that the magical number 7.5 Million + 2, a simple majority of all who registered to vote in 2008, would be needed to win Prop 37, the Right to Know Label Genetically Engineered Food Act.
. I did my best planting this dream throughout the year of 2012. KAMUT ® was literally being planted in pots at various events. More than 6 million voted yes on Prop 37. Grow a Healthier Pizza was the Rally Cry I added to the Campaign. I knew throughout the year that I was on to a deep truth. We were asking a lot of people to vote YES who for the most part unaware of the importance of healthy food. We were asking them to vote yes on their Right to Know, but when push came to shove, the fear that their grocery bills might go up, whether this was true or false, was more important to them than voting YES on Prop 37.
THE CARAVAN, SEPTEMBER 1-10, TO THE NATIONAL HEIRLOOM EXPO
In the book, I present my case, that for America the Beautiful to return, we need a nation of gardeners. Grow A Healthier Pizza took form through my intention to caravan with plants September 1-10, to the 2nd Annual National Heirloom Expo, September 11-12, 13. The accomplishment of this was a big win for many reasons.
The Caravan idea was tied in with a profound sense that I needed to be a part of the National Heirloom Expo in September. This dovetailed with a Petition online.to ask 7.5 Million + 2 people to come into agreement-- that we would Grow A Healthier Pizza as a way of putting Special Interests in their place.
In the end, many leaders of the Prop 37 Campaign signed the Petition but I did not feel effective in conveying the message that we needed not only the Right to Know, but had to awaken the Know how to grow some of our own food if we were to come out the other side of our Food Emergency.
Labeling GMO's was the focus, but this was only a part of the job that I saw needing to be done.
2013 was all about going back to the drawing board--writing and organizing in Winter, preparing the book online and beautiful graphics and a book online that could help create the Grassroots movement that would not only label GMOs, but through Food Reform, end our current Food Emergency.
WILL KAMUT ® Brand Khorasan Ancient Wheat grow in a pot?
In my first year of adopting this plant as a friend, I successfully took it from seed to seed and came up with a handful of kernels to harvest. As Professor Edmond Bordeaux Szekely often said, "Siempre Major!" Always better. As Your Enchanted Gardener, each year I take on a few seeds to befriend in what I call Plant Parenthood. KAMUT ® Khorasan Wheat is now rooting in my life, and through the Campaign to Grow A Healthier Pizza will root in many other lives as well.
Leslie Goldman
Your Enchanted Gardener
ORIGINAL OF 2011-2012 CONTINUES HERE...
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