Leslie Goldman @ 2010 Food Justice Conference by YourEnchantedGardener .....
Leslie Goldman, Workshop and Activity participation
at the 2010 Cultivating Food Justice Conference,
April 24-25, at San Diego State University.
Date: 3/31/2010 7:57:13 AM ( 14 y ago)
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KEEP THE BEET,
April 20, 2010
SCHEDULE FOR LESLIE GOLDMAN
AT THE 2010 CULTIVATING FOOD JUSTICE CONFERENCE
Saturday April 24
9:00 - 10:00 / Welcome and "What is Food Justice" Plenary.
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In a brief opening ceremony, we will plant our conference intention to Cultivate Food Justice in our city and in the world.
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Join us, as we collectively root this dream through re-potting four local, organic beets in a single pot grown by three beloved San Diego farmers, and one backyard gardener. Join together as we root our individual and collective beat with nature. We will also water a tree in a pot with locally collected rainwater and, after the conference, this tree will then be replanted at the New Roots Garden.
The brief opening part of the Plenary will be facilitated by San Diego's Enchanted Gardener, Leslie Goldman, and Cara Cadwallader
10:15 - 11:30 / Workshop Session 1 (1:15 minutes)
BASICS OF URBAN HOMESTEADING
Organized by Leslie Goldman
Speakers: Malaki Obado,: Carolyn Chase, Bill Tall, Leslie Goldman, plus you!
Be part of a lively discussion joined by other local inspirations living this lifestyle.
Description: Some say we will return to a bright green future with numbers of us growing food in our backyards supplanted by community gardens, and food grown by local organic farmers who we know and support. We will celebrate those who are growing some of their own food at home, growing food not lawns, being backyard farmers, and look at living in intentional community that is earth based. We will show the film "Homegrown Revolution" (Tentative) a 15 minute film about the Dervais community in Pasadena who are paving the way to "a Path to Freedom" through being sustainable right where they live.
11:30 - 12:00 / Networking Break
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12:00 - 1:00 / Lunch and Music
CONTAINER GARDENING WORKSHOP
1:00 - 1:45 / Workshop Session 2 (45 minutes)
Container gardening: Secrets Behind a Green Thumb
Organized by Julia Dashe
Speakers: Yael Zaidman, Leslie Goldman, Laura Parker.
Description: Gain confidence you can grow a bit of your own food. Learn you can repot a beet in a pot, keep the beet, and eat the beet greens. Orher foods, herbs, and edible flowers you can grow in a pot.
Free starter beet seeds and pots to Plant Your Dream!
3:45 - 4:00 / Closing Session*
The Opening Ceremony aspect can also fit here as well.
4:00 - 5:00 / Skavolutionary Orchestra
Sunday April 25
8:00 - 9:00 / Registration
8:30-9:00am / Morning Movement Ritual
Conference attendees will be led through a gentle movement practice that will include Tai Chi and Qigong principles in which we will: greet the rising sun
and honor the cardinal directions; warm-up our morning bodies by rooting our feet into Mother Earth and also unfolding up toward the great cosmos of Father Sky; and
find the meeting place of them all ~ here, at the very center of our very human Earth bodies. Led by Cara Cadwallader
9:00 - 10:00 / Maintaining Momentum
10:15 - 11:00 / Workshop 3 (45 Minutes)
Be One with the World Beat---
Organized by Vigillio Felix and Leslie Goldman
Speaker: Madeka Dread Cheatom,
Spend time with Madeka, founder of the World Beat Center in Baboa Park, midwife of the Raggae movement in San DIego, radio and T.V hostess,
and originator of the Prophet Restaurant, one of San Diego's most acclaimed vegetarian eating places of the 70's. Hear about how she founded the
ethno-botany garden in Balboa Park, and her new passion, Vertical Gardening in small spaces. Makeda is a pioneer of Global Food Justice for
more than 30 years. She will be interviewing Raj Patel and be part of our media team at our conference.
11:15 - 12:00 Workshop Session 4 (45 Minutes)
A 30 minute Briefing on the Food Safety Modernization Act #s-510
Organized by Leslie Goldman
Speakers: Leslie Goldman,
Description: The (FDA) Food Safety Modernization Act was being discussed behind closed doors
in Washington around Apiil 10 and has been pending passage for months. This 20-minute briefing will
help you understand how the international Codex Alimentarius Commission has influenced this bill. This bill may have already passed by the time of our conference. Hear the positive side of the FDA now coming to our local farmers' markets. A brief intro to the FDA. What can we do not
to educate ourselves and others about real Food Safety based on supporting local organic farmers? Why do we have a pressing need to coalese all our local food groups so we can create the movement
President Obama has asked to see before he will take action.
2:30pm - 3:45pm / Barry Logan
3:45pm - 4:00pm / Closing Ceremony
In a brief closing ceremony, we will water our shared conference intentions
expressed as one beet, many pulses growing in a single pot,
symbolizing our collective movement toward Cultivating Food Justice in our city and in the world.
[Let's celebrate the powerful rooting of the Cultivating Food Justice Conference as well as our individual and collective beat with nature.
Drum and dance awake a tree that will soon grow big and strong in the fertile soil of the New Roots Community Garden.]
Led by Leslie Goldman, AKA Your Enchanted Gardener
Closing Ceremony
may include Cara Cadwallader, and others.]
4:00pm - 5:00pm / Satan's Dance Party
PRESS RELEASE FOR LESLIE GOLDMAN
NO Embargo
Leslie Goldman, AKA Your Enchanted Gardener
will participate in the 2010 Cultivating Food Justice
Conference, April 24-25 at San Diego State University (SDSU).
One of more than 30 workshop leaders teaching Food
Justice 101, and introductions to local and global solutions
to Food Issues, the free two day conference is gearing up
to host more than 1000. Local policy makers and Washington
policy Makers are invited to participate. Videos of the conference
will be available.
Keynote speakers will include Raj Patel, accalimed author
of "Stuffed and Starved" and "The Value of Nothing." Also
keynoting is San Diego local food grower Barry Logan of
the La Milpa Organica Farm Community, recently sited
for using apprentice farm labor among other violations
of code.
Goldman, who is said to take his marching orders
from a talking beet, will co-lead a workshop
on Container Gardening; as well as Participate in
a round table, Basics of Urban Homesteading.
He will also participate in the Opening Plenary
and Closing Ceremony.
His organization, Beet Keepers, Return!
will be one of 25 groups exhibiting at the
conference. The Beet Keepers will provide
a table with a Come Root Your Dream Plant
Altar, where conference attendees may
take Beet Seeds out of a beautiful Box
that represents our Dreams in hiding in boxes.
"We now live in a world where seeds
are planted that are bearing the fruit of
food injustice. It is time now to root new dreams.
This is the time to take other dreams out of hiding
and plant them in fertile soil,
said Goldman, known on the internet as Your Enchanted Gardener.
Together, hearing each other, we can co-create a
world that is One Beet. Many Pulses. each beat,
and heartbeat serving our a bright Green sustainable future in harmony
with the best intentions of our Earth as a whole."
MORE QUOTES FROM LESLIE GOLDMAN
ON THE FDA, AND THE
#s-510, THE (FDA) FOOD SAFETY MODERNIZATION ACT
if Hippocrates, the father of western medicine were in business
today, he would be arrested for practicing medicine
without a license. Hippocrates taught,
"Let Food Be Thy Medicine." What we serve
our kids today at nutrition break in our schools fosters
a breakdown in health. Our investments
in Food Safety legislation, #s-510,
The (FDA) Food Safety Modernization Act,
dictates a food policy that is out of order
and harmony with authentic earth-based
homeland food security.
We support selling
commodities that do not deserve FDA or
USDA approval, and that are unhealthy
from a health reform perspective.
Food Safety is gearing up to bring us
into harmony with international Food Safety
laws that aim to make Food Safe for international
trade more than insure the safety of small
farmers, the backbone of our nation,
or consumers who seek safe food when
they shop.
Current food legislation, #US BIll 2749
that passed the House in July, and #s-510, the (FDA) Food
Safety Modernization Act, soon to go through the Senate
some time in April, (or perhaps May) extend
FDA control to the farmers' Market level.
I clearly understand the need for increased
Food Safety, yet in our currently established Agricultural
system, contamination may go with the territory of taking
food production farther and farther from the local level.
When we have local organic farmers eating their own
foods and knowing their customers by name, we have less
poisoning of our food supply.
As our nation, and nations increase support
for more farmers and more gardeners,
we health will be reformed, and our health costs will lessen.
This can begin with a program of
each being Beet Keepers in an age of
Beet Keepers, Return!
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One pot+ one person= You are a Gardener.
One Pot + one person= A Nation of Gardeners.
One Pot + one person= A world of Food Safety
and Food Security.
The FDA has a clear bias in favor of a drug approach to health
as well as centralized farming practices that they imagine
will more easily control food safety and ensure food security.
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Our senate eyes, as of April 10, unknowing or unknowinging,
out of the view of the consumer,
are aimed at harmonizing US law
with the international Codex Food Rules and Laws that designate
nutrients as toxins, and pharmaceutical drugs as the
way to mitigate disease. The FDA definition of Food Safety
backs Risk Assessment approaches whose primarily
purpose is to make Food Safe for trade more than
individual human health.
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The new Food Safety laws, #s-510,
The (FDA) Food Safety Modernization Act,
if not carefully
designed to support local farming, takes us farther
from Food Safety and True homeland Food Security.
I am not opposed to Biotechnology and its applications
where appropriate. Dialogue is needed now between
GMO and Organic Lovers and all Voices in between.
Together, Policy Makers in Washington and in every
local community, can plan and develop an agricultural
model, and a health model that will return
true health to America and restore us
our beat with nature. Much education once
commonly known, needs to be remembered.
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We are intended to be a nation of gardeners
living on a planet that honors small farmers everywhere.
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Biodiversity is the name of the game for Planet Earth.
Wall Street needs to put its money behind this--behind the Bank
of Compost. Our president needs to continue
to invest in Science and Technology, as he is doing now;
yet remember that Nature's Original Technology
is an art as well as a science that goes hand in hand
with prevention. Follow nature. Return to the beet,
my President. Plant trees and gardens
along Main Street and Main Street will return to prosperity.
Send Wall Street to the Sunday
Hillcrest Farmers' Market of San Diego
Get some common sense
going on the hill, an herb garden to back
up your White House Garden.
Our financial underpinnings will once
again have roots.
ON THE FARM BILL
The US Farm bill goes before Congress every five years.
The last time out some shifts in the bill paved the way for
the Know Your Farmer. Know Your Food USDA program,
yet billions today still go to subsidize the growing of crops
that promote obesity and diabetes.
ABOUT CONTAINER GARDENING
What would sustainable living look like on a local
and global level? One solution at the most local level, our own
home, would be to regain confidence that we can
each grow a bit of our own food.
This can begin with something as simple as taking
an ordinary local organic beet, that we get from a local
organic farmer or gardener, and begin to grow it in a pot.
Begin with one beet. Keep the Beet. Repot your beet.
Eat the greens. Keep tending the beet in a pot.
Let the very process of growing the beet become a teaching.
Let the beet become your teacher. This is called
Plant Parenthood. Plant Parenthood is a two way sustainable
practice. When we learn what it takes to grow a beet in a pot
we are allowing nature to remind us what it takes to grow
a healthy human being. We both need air. We both need sunshine,
We both need soil to grow from, rich in minerals and full of
probiotic relationships that go with the terrain of being alive.
The very act of growing a beet or beets in one pot also gives us
lessons. Through growing the beet, we can regain our relationship
with the beat of life. Most of us have cracks in our lives.
We are simply out of touch with the beat of life
and how it might work to create a world that works for
everyone.
ON "CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY"
Michael Moore points out in his film "Capitalism, A Love Story"
that 99% of the wealth of our nation is owned by 1% of the people,
or something like that. The fear of the 1%, according to Moore,
is that the other 99% will start communicating and recognize, as he has,
that our system right now is out of order.
He ends his film on Wall Street, wanting to make a citizen's arrest. He would
like more of us to stand with him.
He says we still have a constitution in this
country, and applying that will help correct the condition.
RAJ PATEL TELLS US WE ARE IN A GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS.
THERE ARE FOOD RIOTS. PEOPLE ARE ANGRY
ABOUT EXTREME PRICES INCREASES IN FOOD.
SOME TELLS US THAT THERE are SOLUTIONS
UNDERFOOT FOR THE CURRENT
FOOD CRISIS AND FOR FOOD RIOTS
1. One solution, some say, is to create camps
of interment to hold people for the times
when food riots break out.
2. Another solution is to return to more and more people
confidence they that can each can grow food. Encourage this.
Give people a taste of good food. Makes sure
people have their eyes open to what is good for them.
Encourage people to plant again. Help them see
that dreams, when grounded, are planted.
This is education.
COMMUNITY GARDENS AND FOOD JUSTICE
RE: CITY PLANNING
Include areas for food growing as part of the infrastructure
of City Planning, as part of the design. Make sure every school
has a garden, and every garden adequate
room for each person to garden.
To do this, would be an act of Food Justice.
OTHER NOTES
GMO and ORGANIC FOOD LABELING
We have reached a moment due to lack of food labeling
when only whole, pure, natural, and fresh organic food
can be considered potentially Safe Food.
"A genetically modified organism (GMO) is the result of a laboratory process that takes genes from one species and inserts them into another hoping to obtain a desired trait or characteristic. The US does not require that GM foods be labeled even though most processed foods in the US have GM ingredients." --Center for Food Safety Literature
What are the issues?
Why are GMO Foods unlabeled?
Can wetrust organic certification?
GMO ingredients are now allowed to some degree
in organic foods.
The USDA says that GE Ag, Conventional
and Organic can coexist.
What Regulations would are in place to allow for this?
What solutions can, as a group are the recommendations
from our conference to local and national policy makers?
Leslie Goldman
Your Enchanted Gardener
To be issued at the
2010 Cultivating Food Justice Conference
No embargo.
For immediate Release
BIO NOTE ON LESLIE GOLDMAN
AKA YOUR ENCHANTED GARDENER
Leslie Goldman, the “Enchanted Gardener,” is a gardener
from Southern California who for more than 35 years
has experienced an intuitive relationship with the earth.
He writes daily on the Plant Your Dream Blog, and lives
with others in the Enchanted Garden Intentional Community
located within walking distance of SDSU. Beet Keepers sponsors
numbers of projects including a Dialogue on Science, Ethics,
and Food that aims to lessen the tension and create understanding
between all voices in agriculture,
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HERE is ONE OF OUR BEET KEEPER GROWERS
PHIL NOBLE OF SAGE MOUNTAIN FARM
BEING INTERVIEWED. View KEEP THE BEET
MEDIA STAR, THE WORLD's FIRST TALKING BEET PLANTS.
MY DIALOGUE SPONSORS
Biosmart's Anthony Russo is a sustainability expert who is helping
200 small farming families in Asia through making this
wonderful alternative to styrofoam. Biosmart compost friendly
take out ware are made of sugar cane bagasse,
a byproduct that could be a waste. Through his efforts,
we know have an industry creating a wonderful green solution.
Anthony is Keep the Beet Media Star's lead on her "The End of
Stryofoam" campaign. His pots are the centerpiece of our planting
program with kids, and kids of all ages. We plant the beet seeds
in these pots, and prefer Foxfarm soil as the base.
Ordering the product at this link
helps support the Plant Your Dream Blog and
my many Non-profit projects,
including the new Diaglogue on Science, Ethics, and Food.
I just met Tina Koenemann
from Westbridge.
She tells me her company is often just called
Westbridge. Westbridge is short
for Westbridge Agricultural Products.
Her company manufactures Organic Liquid
Plant Nutrients, surfactants.
Tina is a cosponsor of the Dialogue on
Science, Ethics, and Food. She is also co-sponsoring
the Hamilton High Enchanted Garden Project, my own
contribution to the Hamilton High School garden now
in progress.
CERTIFIED NUTS! TERRA BELLA RANCH's YUMMY OFFERING
I have been admiring the products of Terra Bella Ranch at our Hillcrest Farmers' Market for weeks I enjoy their certified Organic Nuts.
Watch the Youtube here!!!!
HILLCREST FARMERS' MARKET
SUNDAYS 9 AM-2 PM
at the San Diego DMV!!!!
Come see me most Sundays for a tour at 11 AM.
Meet the the JR Organic Stall across from the music.
Call me 619.384.2631 on my cell to find me.
CITY FARMERS NURSERY,
The place to go in San Diego
for a wonderful outing! Spent time with
one of San Diego's most delightful City Farmers,
Bill Tall and staff. Outlet for Exotica Rare Fruit Nursery
Trees, herbs, berries, and flowers. A favorite hangout
for Keep the Beet Media Star, The World's First Talking Beet Plant.
A place to come and Get Away with Being a Kid!!!
4832 Home Avenue (@ Euclid Ave) San Diego, CA USA 92105
Directions
Monday-Saturday, 9am-5pm
NOW OPEN Sunday 9am-3pm
(619) 284-6358 http://www.CityFarmersNursery.com
LESLIE talking about the KEEP THE BEAT
with the students of SDSU, 2008
Earth Day
in 07
ON THE THE FARM BILL
The US Farm bill goes before Congress every five years.
The last time out some shifts in the bill paved the way for
the Know Your Farmer. Know Your Food USDA program,
yet billions today still go to subsidize the growing of crops
that promote obesity and diabetes.
We will look at some of these issues in the
Introduction to the farm bill workshop.
"If you pay taxes, care about the
nutritional values of school lunches,
worry about the plight of biodiversity or the loss of farmland
and open space, you have a personal stake in the tens of
billions of dollars annually committed to agriculture and food
policies." --Daniel Imhoff, from this article
EXCELLENT VIDEO FROM
TOM VILSACK,
Secretary of Ag,
#1 Man at USDA
AN INTRODUCTION TO GMO and ORGANIC FOOD LABELING.
"A genetically modified organism (GMO) is the result of a laboratory process that takes genes from one species and inserts them into another hoping to obtain a desired trait or characteristic. The US does not require that GM foods be labeled even though most processed foods in the US have GM ingredients." --Center for Food Safety Literature
What are the issues? Why are GMO Foods unlabeled? Can we
trust organic certification? GMO ingredients in organic foods.
The USDA says that GE Ag, Conventional
and Organic can coexist. What Regulations would are in place to allow for this? What solutions can, as a group are the recommendations
from our conference to local and national policy makers?
A genetically modified organism (GMO) is the result of a laboratory process that takes genes from one species and inserts them into another hoping to obtain a desired trait or characteristic. The US does not require that GM foods be labeled even though most processed foods in the US have GM ingredients.
RAJ PATEL SPEAKS ON STUFFED AND STARVED
Raj Patel speaks about soy toward the beginning about soy at the beginning of this video
but does not mention that most soy is GMO
Grown, and is allowed to be classified as Organic Food by the USDA.
If it does not say Organic Soy, you are eating GMO
Soy.
