Plant a Beet in a Pot. Gain confidence you can grow your own food and medicines at the Pacific Symposium ‘09 Conference Altar near registration
in the foyer of the Catamaran Resort Hotel, November 5-8. Google BEET KEEPERS for more information. Plantyourdream@cox.net
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WEB GALLERY LINK
PACIFIC SYMPOSIUM IMAGES 09
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May 26, 09
JULIA SUTTON, Student Council
Pacific College of Oriental Medicine,
was one of the key leaders
at the meeting I attended in late May.
She is runing for President. Wea re in touch via
FACEBOOK. I see her when I go to PCOM
She is a supporter of the J.R. Organic CSA.
ANDREW GAEDDERT,
of HEALTH CONCERNS
with KEEP The BEET Media Star.
Andrew has been one of our most
dedicated sponsors and supporters
of Enchanted Garden activities at
the Pacific Symposium for many years.
We want to thank him for making
our Altar possible. His name
is among those hanging on the
wall at PCOM next to Enchanted Garden
Art. One piece goes up each year.
MARIA LOPEZ, president of the Student Council
with JOE RODRIGUEZ JR, AKA JOE THE FARMER.
Maria helped get the CSA off the ground
at PCOM's San Diego Campus.
FEEL THE CHI--Many Attendees at last year's Pacific Symposium '09, trained
in feeling energy, could feel the life force in pots of growing wheat grass.
The grass grew from seed to six inches tall during its five day stay at
the Catamaran Resort Hotel. The dates of this year's Pacific Symposium '09 are November 5-8, 2009.
For more information about the conference, go here:
http://www.pacificsymposium.org/
GROW YOUR OWN FOOD
& MEDICINES at the PACIFIC SYM
KEEP The BEET attended Pacific Symposium ’08. She makes a return engagement this year. Her message is that we can each grow a bit of our own food, one person + one pot = You're a gardener.
"The Beat"--our connection with Nature--we have misplaced it. In spite of this condition, the future is bright. On the scene is KEEP The BEET Media Star, The World's first Talking Beet Plant. A living beet growing in a pot, KEEP The BEET is a cartoon character, a living beet given voice, that speaks to us as the "go to" plant with messages from mother nature herself.
Media Star? KEEP The BEET was quoted in the Huffington Post. She has a column "she writes" in the Space of Love international Magazine.
You will find her at the Plant Your Dream Conference Altar located across from registration. Here you will also find pots growing wheat grass. Last year, during five days at the Catamaran, the grass grew from seed to six inches tall. Attendees, this year will again be invited to feel the living chi of the grass growing, as well as plant beets, and beet seeds in pots as a way to root our dreams. Growing a beet in a pot is intended to give us confidence that we can grow our own food. A beet in a pot can grow for more than a year. In the second year, it will go to seed.
A popular website-- The BEET KEEPERS-- on the PLANT YOUR DREAM Blog gives these instructions: Get a large beet from a local, organic farmer. Repot the beet. Keep the beet. Eat the beet greens. The beet greens continue to grow as they are harvested. To grow a beet is to become a BEET KEEPER, and doing this is to take a step toward recovering our natural rhythm. The theme of this year’s Altar is BEET KEEPERS RETURN.
In previous years, one of the dreams planted at the Altar was to have PCOM San Diego students involved in the J.R. Organic CSA, a Community Supported Agriculture program. That program has now taken root. Each week boxes of the fresh-picked therapeutic quality, locally grown veggies and fruits now come right to campus. For more than a dozen years, the same farmer--Joe Rodriguez Jr. of J.R. Organics, the CSA source, has been donating flowers to spruce up the PCOM Clinic and the Pacific Symposium.
The flowers are a trade for acupuncture given to Leslie Goldman, who brings plants to Pacific Symposium. He has some of his photography hanging at the San Diego campus. "The Ultimate Gardener," a new book that came out during Spring 09, features six of his photos and mentions KEEP The BEET.
Called Your Enchanted Gardener, Leslie leads a brief closing ceremony at each year's conference. His message is "Know Your Grower. Grow some of your own food and medicines. Within a generation, most TCM herbs will be home-grown on American soil." A new project being rooted this year will be to have students of Pacific College and nearby SDSU help create a garden at the Enchanted Garden Intentional Community, located about twenty minutes from PCOM.
In joining the ranks of the Beet Keepers through growing a beet, we can regain our relationship to the beat of life. KEEP The BEET is rooting for us to do that, said Leslie.
WEB GALLERY LINK
PACIFIC SYMPOSIUM IMAGES 09
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GOOGLE GROW YOUR OWN FOOD & PACIFIC SYMPOSIUM '09
for more information and links about gaining confidence
that you can grow your own food.
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1425092
RELATED:
BEET KEEPERS:
http://www.curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1209704
Plant a Beet in a Pot. Gain confidence you can grow your own food and medicines at the Pacific Symposium ‘09 Conference Altar near registration
in the foyer of the Catamaran Resort Hotel, November 5-8. Google BEET KEEPERS for more information. Plantyourdream@cox.net
Corrections
June 11, 09
DRAFT FOUR
finished,
6:03 PM
__
JUNE, LATE SPRING:
GROWING YOUR OWN PRODUCE
MAY BE SIMPLER THAN YOU THINK
From the BROOK LARIOS story
in the EXAMINER, June 3, 09
“I’m playing with the story of an actual beet
that decided she was tired of just sitting
in the ground, watching the human race
become more and more fragmented,
and the beet, whose name is Keep the Beet,
decided to speak up,” said Goldman,
also known to friends as The Enchanted Gardener.
Keep the Beet encourages people to make friends
with a local, organic farmer; purchase the largest beet
they can find and repot it, keeping it alive
as it sprouts billowing, edible green leaves.
RELATED LINKS:
BEET KEEPERS
http://www.curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1209704
HIGH FALLS GARDEN
JEAN GIBLETTE:
http://www.highfallsgardens.net/newsletters/index.html
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7:55 AM
May 25, 09
Newspaper Story for PACIFIC SYMPOSIUM '09
Edition.
PACIFIC SYMPOSIUM & PCOM WEB GALLERIES
MARIA LOPEZ VISITS
THE HILLCREST FARMERS MARKET
and LAUNCHES CSA at PCOM San Diego:
http://gallery.me.com/lesliegoldman1#101590
RELATED:
In the Grass, 08
Robert Slovak
explains Seed Dreams,
http://www.curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1299264
Plant a Beet in a Pot. Gain confidence you can grow your own food and medicines at the Pacific Symposium ‘09 Conference Altar near registration
in the foyer of the Catamaran Resort Hotel, November 5-8. Google BEET KEEPERS for more information. Plantyourdream@cox.net
Corrections
June 11, 09
DRAFT FOUR
finished,
6:03 PM
__
JUNE, LATE SPRING:
GROWING YOUR OWN PRODUCE
MAY BE SIMPLER THAN YOU THINK
From the BROOK LARIOS story
in the EXAMINER, June 3, 09
“I’m playing with the story of an actual beet
that decided she was tired of just sitting
in the ground, watching the human race
become more and more fragmented,
and the beet, whose name is Keep the Beet,
decided to speak up,” said Goldman,
also known to friends as The Enchanted Gardener.
Keep the Beet encourages people to make friends
with a local, organic farmer; purchase the largest beet
they can find and repot it, keeping it alive
as it sprouts billowing, edible green leaves.
RELATED LINKS:
BEET KEEPERS
http://www.curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1209704
HIGH FALLS GARDEN
JEAN GIBLETTE:
http://www.highfallsgardens.net/newsletters/index.html
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7:55 AM
May 25, 09
Newspaper Story for PACIFIC SYMPOSIUM '09
Edition.
PACIFIC SYMPOSIUM & PCOM WEB GALLERIES
MARIA LOPEZ VISITS
THE HILLCREST FARMERS MARKET
and LAUNCHES CSA at PCOM San Diego:
http://gallery.me.com/lesliegoldman1#101590
RELATED:
In the Grass, 08
Robert Slovak
explains Seed Dreams,
http://www.curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1299264