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INTRO
SHOCK AND DISBELIEF
AND AN INSPIRATION TO REVIEW AN AROSA CANYON JOURNEY
It is 6:05 am, January 10, 2012.
I just woke up in a state of shock and realized I needed FES Post Trauma Stabilizer.
I had a most terrifying experience yesterday, a few minutes before heading out to Pacific College for an Acupuncture treatment.
I felt the shock for 30 minutes, but then was distracted into a range of other wonderful emotions that continued through the day and night.
Then suddenly, this early morning, I awoke up in with this jolt of suppressed
panic.
This is what is happening.
Andrew, a new housemate, knocked on my door to alert me that there was a man who came to our door to announce he was going to be doing some brush clearing management. He was waiting for the fire department to meet him, so he could be directed on what to do.
I was finishing under pressure of time a story about the upcoming Honeyfest 2012, so I needed to get that done before leaving.
On the way out from our home, Nadine and I were already in the EG Mobile, my 68 VW Van. They this man I had never seen came up from the canyon carrying some native brush.
I did not want to be late for our appointment, but I felt it was crucial to make contact.
I introduced myself as a neighbor. He said his name was Josh. He said he was working for the neighbor across the canyon. I have not met this neighbor, even though for more than three to four months I have been working with other neighbors as best as possible to help them comply with the Brush Management Directives as well as stand up for the inherent rights of the future of this land.
We are in a very odd situation here that is bringing up the need for neighbors as well as the city and its fire department to come into community and conscious co-creatiion.
There are more that five neighbors from across the canyon whose land directly butts up against our property. This was never an issue for the more than 49 years I have lived on our 1/3 acre.
The neighbors and I never met, accept for one incident more than 11 years ago when we had a fire in the canyon, due to an overturned candle by an overnight guest here that burned down some of the stands of Arundo Donax.
It was in fact a large stand of lumber bamboo that created a fire wall that prevented the Arundo from coming too close to our house. By the time the fire department came the Arundo had burned.
The incident shifted life here for many years. We became extremely fire conscious. I met the neighbor who owed the property where we have gardened all these years organically.
In August again community life in our neighborhood and on our property shifted, when all neighbors received letters that we needed to comply with Brush Management Regulations.
This was an initial shock to many of the neighbors. I started to make contact with them as well as the Fire Prevention Bureau.
This is the unusual nature of this situation. None of the neighbors ever, or seldom came on our side of the canyon. A deep ravine as well as a canyon between us kept us apart, and there was never any conscious agreements in place regarding the use of the property, other than, that we in our own minds felt the land, right next to ours, on our side of the canyon, was land where we could tend and use.
On one property, grows a forty foot pine tree. This tree is one of my pride and joys in life. It was my first Christmas Tree in a pot for five years before it was planted in the ground about thirty feet from our house.
When I give tours, for many years, It never even dawned on me that i was walking on land owned by someone else.
FOOD AND TREES HAVE BEEN GROWING FOR DECADES
ON LAND THAT WE DID NOT OWN TECHNICALLY LOVED
AS OUR OWN
Artist Abegail gazes into a ripe fruit gift of a loquat on land and soil we tended, but was owned by neigbors across the Arosa Canyon Rim.
For years, our primary organic garden has been on another neighbors property. I have pictures that go back decades of housemates and guests have rich endearing experiences gardening here among beds of vegetables,
and delighting in the fruits of trees.
One of our most prolific loquat trees is here next to our organic garden.
We also have a shed where we store our garden implements.
Since may, tremendous expansion went on on one piece of the land, creating the beginning of terraces that brought great joy as numbers of trees, long in pots, finally came to root into the ground.
We had marvelous compost piles next to it, and hundred of ours went into helping the soil become more fertile and enriched.
from my ethical and moral sense of relationship to our future, and I mean the future of humanity, we each have an obligation to enrich the soil. This is part of my spiritual as well as an environmental practice--composting and soil building
Soil building is one of the primary downfalls of our economy. It is the greatest of dire education needs that is a foundation of our new economy and good health.
ARUNDO DONAX EDUCATION
There was another plant that spoke up loud and clear on the property that was according to property rights owned by one good neighbor.
When the fire prevention Brush Management dictates first came through a letter, I reached out to make friends with a very sweet city employee with good heart, Sylvia.
in our first phone, I was alerted to the fact that Arundo Donax was considered an invasive plant. The common practice was to use Roundup Herbicide to kill it.
This brought up a immediate call to action in my life.
Roundup herbicide and organic living do not mix.
I had to do everything possible to regin to remedy the Arundo invasion.
In my mind, It never dawned on me that I was not responsible for this plant that within feet of our organic garden.
I, as many neighbors, was short of funds.
I reached out to one of my Enchanted Garden sponsors with the idea that we could buy a chipper grinder to turn the Arundo into mulch that could then be spread to enrich the soil.
THe need to immediately begin taking action for brush management on our 1/3 acre was put in the backseat to spending money to cut and shread the Arundo and come up with an immediate solution.
I was propelled on a three month journey of working with a youthful arborist tp cut back the Arundo and other trees.
I was propelled into meeting and attempting to find solutions with neighbors, and the first prevention bureau. The fire prevention bureau and its staff turned into allies.
I spend numbers of talks getting to know Sylvia, our compliance authority here for our neighborhood.
CODES IN PLACE
Sylvia early on shared codes that indicated environmental awareness. There were practices that wanted to ensure the growth of native plants in our canyon.
Sylvia had been trained in learning some of the names of these plants, and she was understanding to see that ground where we had planted fruit trees and vegetables also had earth rights here to grow.
THROUGHOUT THE JOURNEY THE ISSUE OF AVOIDING ROUNDUP HERBICIDE
WAS IN MY MIND
Throughout the journey, I was drawn deeper and deeper into the issue of Arundo Donax and how to manage it. I came to realize this plant could cause fire hazard if not managed or monitored, however, it had many powerful positive uses.
I started to imagine an E book, that has started in many Plant Your Dream Blogs about the 102 uses of Arundo Donax.
MONSANTO MAKES GREAT PROFITS FROM THE ERADICATION OF ARUNDO WITH ROUNDUP HERBICIDE AND OTHE GLYSOPHATE PRODUCTS
Many income producing ideas came up as I came into studying Arundo Donax. I saw that wherever nations and people were attempting to live in harmony with the beat of nature, and this plant, the plant itself was a source of great economic blessing.
I wrote numbers of blogs on this.
It became clear that Arundo was a source of music in our world. There was a whole children's cirriculum called The Quest for Aroundo Donax. The use of Arundo Donax to make musical reeds for clarinets, oboes, bassoons inspired this delightful program for children musical education.
I found Youtubes detailing how to harvest Arundo Donax, and how it was seen as a crop to make bagpipes.
The list of powerful positive uses goes on and on.
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I also came to realize that the dominant money making value in So Cal and among many other places was to put Arundo on the top list of Public Enemy Plants and then set out to kill it.
Roundup Herbicide and its derivitive Glysophate products is one of the big
profit makers for the Monsanto Corporation, and this goes hand in hand with the use of Roundup to eradicate Arundo.
This heart plant is so difficult to kill that it is called the Devil Weed. It keeps massive amounts of money flowing into the Monsanto company, as Park and Rec and many cities attempt to kill the plant that simply will not die without
numbers of applications.
IS ROUNDUP AS SAFE AS TAUTED?
Roundup herbicide is touted as safe by Monsanto, but is it really? This is the same company that has shown itself over decades to put profits over people's well being, and many question if anything Monsanto tells us about its products can be trusted.
A persistent history had followed Monsanto, making it one of the most disliked companies on the planet.
I had been writing about the dangers of GMO Roundup Ready Technology and the dangers of GMO Technology for years on the Plant Your Dream Blog, but a new dimension came into my life when the threat of Roundup Herbicide came into my own back yard.
HERE ARE LINKS TO THOSE PLANT YOUR DREAM BLOGS
SYSTEMIC HERBICIDES AND PESTICIDES AND THE VANISHING OF OUR BEES
Roundup Herbicide is also implicated in the Vanishing of our Bees.
It is clear from watching the award winning documentary of that name that bees and systemic herbicides and pesticides--a trend in the last decade or more to put these killers on seeds and within genes--is a factor in the Colony Collapse.
The pollen from bees contaminated by residues of Roundup and other systemic poisons. These are used as an attempt to save a big Ag model of Monoculture planting that is bringing us as a civilization to the edge of destruction.
7:15 am
to be continued...
6:47 am
January 11, 2012
We need to work together in the best interests of the Arosa Canyon as well as property rights and concerns for fire prevention.
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SHOCK AND DISBELIEF
AND AN INSPIRATION TO REVIEW AN AROSA CANYON JOURNEY
ON LAND THAT WE DID NOT OWN TECHNICALLY LOVED
AS OUR OWN