FLETCHER MORGAN AND ANDREW BLUME,
PLOTTING THE FUTURE OF ARUNDO DONAX
PLOTTING THE FUTURE OF ARUNDO DONAX
Pioneers in the Arundo Donax Collective...Opportunity...
to hire returning Military...what other industries can Arundo
give beside filling up our landfill with unused organic waste?
--Your Enchanted Gardener
April 28, 2012
CHINA IS OUT OF CHOPSTICKS
We can make chopsticks out of Arundo...this is one of 102 uses....says Your Enchanted Gardener, listening to the beat of nature....
AN OPEN LETTER TO KAREN
OF ARCH'S ACRES
Archi's Acres Website
Archi’s Acres™ is a small-scale organic farm in Southern California established in 2007 by a decorated Marine Sergeant Colin and his wife Karen.
We are a pro-American, pro-Veteran company that utilizes innovative growing techniques to produce the highest quality, nutritious, great tasting locally grown organic food. These techniques maximize efficient use of our precious available resources, ensuring sustainability of our planet. Our goal is to augment and accelerate (exponentially) the agricultural revolution across America, in partnership with our military veterans.
At Archi’s Acres™ we have created the program VSAT to offer our combat veterans meaningful employment opportunities in the high growth industry of sustainable crop production. Our philosophy is to call up and redirect our veteran’s attributes of leadership, tenaciousness, adaptability, as well as willingness to take on severe challenges, self-knowledge and appetite for the continual improvement.
http://archisacres.com/
To Karen of Arch's Acres
April 29, 2012
Earth Day Week
Dear Karen,
I have had one of your graduates here at the Enchanted Garden Intentional Community Growing Grounds for six months now. He tells me he is now moving out. One of the first calls I got around the same time was from another young woman who loves animals. She called to tell me that she liked to garden, and was interested in living here, however, after we talked for 45 minutes she told me that she loves animals more than gardening, and really didn't have the money to live here; however, she wants to meet me at the Wild Willow Farm this Satuday, April 29, where my housemate David Pearl will be showing his incredible film, Polycultures."
The young woman who loves animals more than gardening told me she also has a boyfriend. He is another graduate of your program at Arch's Acres. He is also having problems finding a job after graduating from your program.
I feel that there will be many men coming home from the war now who need to be prepared to meet our National Food Emergency and that your program of training former military to garden is a winner. My experience so far is showing me that there needs to be more government assistance or private sponsorships for these returning military men that could gain so much from gardening.
We have a lot of work here at the Enchanted Garden Intentional Community Growing Grounds.
We have 1/3 acre within walking distance of San Diego State University. I want this to be a Park someday.
We also border the Arosa Canyon Rim where I have been working for more than six now to hold back spraying of our side of the Canyon rim from Round up Herbicide.
Right now, I need help to manage the Arundo Donax that borders our property. My neighbor across the canyong spent more than 3000.00 I estimate to get this enormous stand of Arundo Donax cut down. We also spent about $400.00 on his property cutting this Arundo. Since then, to prevent further use of Roundup Herbicide, I have asked our miltary graduate to take on the Arundo Donax.
He has been going down on the rim and snapping off the new growth for months, and he tells me this is good for exercise; however, because of his need to make the financial nut, he cannot be snapping off the Arundo because he finds this too time consuming and interfering with his other garden projects that he had in mind here.
So, I want to have a meeting with you to discuss how we can hire him and other graduates of Arch's Acres to come up with a long range plant to have my 1/3 acre be sustainable.
I also want to look how steps to manage this Arundo Donax, The Giant Reed Crop.
Misha Cohen, the outstanding Farm Manager at the Wild Willow Education Center, has pointed out to me that when Arundo Donax is seen as a crop to be harvested, rather than an invasive species, it is now a problem.
They have even been using the Arundo Donax on their land to build a very ingenious structure. Paul Mashka, of the Seeds for City, project has been leading that project.
So here is what I want to do.
I would like my friends at the USDA to change their policy if necessary, and commit to look at how to make a crop out of Arundo Donax, rather than have our friends at Monsanto Corporation continue to sponsor Invasive Councils around the country that say that Arundo is 1. an invader. 2. needs to be killed with Roundup Herbicide.
I am convinced this can be a very important crop for San DIego County.
Here are a couple of examples:
Osccar Romo, the Watershed Coordinator for the Tijuana River National Estuarine Reserch Reserve, told me recently this story:
Once upon a time, before we were so focused on building an enormous wall between our two peace loving nations, Mexico and the US, before the age of Terrorism sponsored by the last Admin, the people of Tijuana would come over to their former land called the USA and harvest the Arundo that was growing there. Then, they would turn the Arundo into many marvelous baskets, and little souvenirs that they would sell to the American Tourists.
There was never a problem with the Arundo. No one even knew it was growing there, because these wonderful simple people of Tijuana valued and honored this crop.
Then, we decided to build a very sturdy wall, and spend millions of dollars to keep our neighbors out of their former property that we won in the some previous war.
Now, they could no longer get to the Arundo. Suddenly this plant got out of hand, as amazing plants do when they are not cared for and loved.
What happened?
We started to call the Arundo and invader. We began to make war on the Arundo. We spent millions to kill the Arundo through making war, not love, with Arundo.
This began a marvelous money maker for my friends at Monsanto Corp. They began to sell more and more Roundup Herbicide.
This was a very good idea to help their investors, sell more Roundup Herbicide. The only problem is, the marketing genius at Monsanto, who set out to make profits for their investors, did not do enough research.
Roundup herbicide is now in many people's urine. It is in the air we breathe. It comes down on us from clouds. It is in our watershed. It is in our soil. We really need to make sure that they facts are true, as the PAN--Pesticide group says.
We could hire college students at SDSU and UCSD to do some real science on Arundo. Then we could find out.
I feel that Monsanto should sponsor some of this real science from some of the money they have made poisoning our environment. I do not feel that they meant to do harm. They just love money, which is no different than most of us.
We have an organization you may have heard of called the EPA, The Environmental Protection Agency. Right now, the EPA is asking our city of San Diego to stop polluting our Watershed. We have a marvelous project called Think Blue.
I suspect that the EPA would also want to give Arch"s Acres about 1,000,000 to hire a few former graduates to come up with solutions to prevent further damage here. IF we can show some results here with our Arundo, we can shift the balance of nature, and therefore help our nation survive the Job Crisis.
Right now, my friends at Monsanto have a lot of money, and because my President Barack Obama has a headache, maybe from the poison in our clouds, he is under the impression that Biotechnology applied to Agriculture is a good idea.
It helps to believe this, especially since there is no real science about Biotechnology applied to Ag. Accept of course for the Real Science done by the Organic Center; but who wants real science when we can make money?
Anyway, Karen, I love what you are doing starting to help people like my housemate, a grad of your program who is now planning to move out because he cannot crack the financial nut.
Maybe we can intervene somehow, and show him that even in the Enchanted Garden we have problems to work out.
In friendship,
Leslie Goldman
Your Enchanted Gardener
April 28, 2012
8:47 am
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Portland HIres Farmers to Grow Arundo Donax
Portland hires farmers to Grow Arundo.
It is one of the best candidates for a substitute for coal,
Portland GE says.
The Quest for Arundo Donax
A music curriculum teaching about a queen who thought Arundo Donax was so valuable that she hires spies to go into France to figure out how to get some of their Arundo. Why did she need Arundo?
Arundo Donax Adds to the sound of Music in our World
Today, there are companies that make a living making musical reeds out of this Giant Reed! Clarinet reeds, bassoon reeds, bagpipes, they make reeds out of Arundo Donax
Private Property Owners decides to allow farmers to grow food on his land
He said it was a win-win.
Report from the recent Tribute to CC at the ECC April 21, 2012
This Plant Your Dream Blog was is channeled from the mind of
Keep the Beet Media Star, The World's First Talking Beet plant with a little help form Leslie Goldman, Your Enchanted Gardener
Hey Gang!
Go on an Internet "Easter Egg" hunt...
What to do:
Copy this Raw unedited Plant Your Dream Blog into a Comment.
Edit it as you see fit.
Find the URl's that go with the links.
Search the internet for all Plant Your Dream Blogs by Your Enchanted Gardener on Arundo Donax.
Payment: Free Organic Coupons,
and Free Non GMO Tomato Seeds from Baker Creek
Heirloom Seed Company Sponsors of the 2nd Annual
National Heirloom Seed Exposition, September 11,12,13, 2012
http://www.theheirloomexpo.com/
SPONSORS OF THE ARUNDO DONAX RECYCLING PROJECT
This Plant Your Dream Blog is looking for sponsors to join
Anthony Zolezzi, the World's more inventive Entrepreneur.
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‘Sustainability’ can only be sustained if people’s lives are made sustainable
April 22, 2012
As I’m writing this, yet another Earth Day has rolled around – but I must admit that this year I’m seeing things from a somewhat different perspective. That is to say, I’ve come to the conclusion that merely focusing on “pure” sustainability efforts is currently the wrong approach to preserving the planet. While it has been increasingly evident for years, I am just now realizing that having so many people engaged in a struggle for daily survival is seriously detracting from the issues involved in saving the environment. So today, I have begun putting my energies into innovation and entrepreneurship that will help create new economic opportunities while curtailing the waste of our resources that is a key aspect of the sustainability challenge. This shift in direction reflects my conviction that relieving social stress will become more and more intertwined with sustainability, and, like that old song said about love and marriage, “You can’t have one without the other.”
Recently I was asked to speak at the Middle East Growth Conference, where representatives of various countries in the region will assemble in an effort to promote entrepreneurship. One of the main motivating factors of the so-called “Arab Spring,” in fact, was the need to put millions of destitute and economically forsaken citizens of those countries to work. But while this is going on, millions of once middle class Americans are also unemployed, many of them facing eviction and depending on food pantries – and they’re hardly in a position right now to give much thought to saving the Earth. Yet if we abandon all our environmental concerns, the threats to people’s existence will grow exponentially.
So this year, I am changing my focus to developing enterprises that will create jobs while filling fundamental social needs and reducing or eliminating waste in the process – goals that I think will address both the long-term survival of the planet and the immediate needs of its inhabitants. Our team will be starting with a company called Food Star Partners, which will intercept food that would ordinarily go to waste and sell at deep discounts to the roughly 44 million Americans who are currently food-security-challenged, and a reclamation business that will start putting such resources as used products and electronics back into use here in the U.S., rather than being shipped off to China.
In short, “sustainability” isn’t something that can be sustained unless people’s lives are also made sustainable.
http://www.anthonyzolezzi.com/blog/
Read About Anthony Zolezzi here:
http://greenopolis.com/people/anthony-zolezzi
Anthony Zolezzi Sustainability Expert
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1366598
Would you like to be part of exploring setting up a local Biofuel conversion
factory in San Diego County? Kids will be paid, as a summer job to collect
Arundo. The Arundo will be turned into crops to be sold to tourists.
If Arundo proves a useful substitute for coal, our Arundo collective will sponsor a local enterprise to convert our stands of Arundo to useful gasoline substitute. The collective will hire former military men to Make Peace not War against Arundo Donax, The Giant Reed.
RELATED:
POLYCULTURE ARRIVES IN SAN DIEGO
APRIL 29, 2012 AT WILD WILLOW FARM
http://polycultures.blogspot.com/
..
Arch's Acres Web site
Arundo Donax Wrap UP
http://plantyourdream.net/?p=9771
Portland HIres Farmers to Grow Arundo Donax
Portland hires farmers to Grow Arundo.
It is one of the best candidates for a substitute for coal,
Portland GE says.
The Quest for Arundo Donax
A music curriculum teaching about a queen who thought Arundo Donax was so valuable that she hires spies to go into France to figure out how to get some of their Arundo. Why did she need Arundo?
Arundo Donax Adds to the sound of Music in our World
Today, there are companies that make a living making musical reeds out of this Giant Reed! Clarinet reeds, bassoon reeds, bagpipes, they make reeds out of Arundo Donax
Private Property Owners decides to allow farmers to grow food on his land
He said it was a win-win.
Report from the recent Tribute to CC at the ECC April 21, 2012
This Plant Your Dream Blog was is channeled from the mind of
Keep the Beet Media Star, The World's First Talking Beet plant with a little help form Leslie Goldman, Your Enchanted Gardener
Hey Gang!
Go on an Internet "Easter Egg" hunt...
What to do:
Copy this Raw unedited Plant Your Dream Blog into a Comment.
Edit it as you see fit.
Find the URl's that go with the links.
Search the internet for all Plant Your Dream Blogs by Your Enchanted Gardener on Arundo Donax.
Payment: Free Organic Coupons,
and Free Non GMO Tomato Seeds from Baker Creek
Heirloom Seed Company Sponsors of the 2nd Annual
National Heirloom Seed Exposition, September 11,12,13, 2012
http://www.theheirloomexpo.com/
SPONSORS OF THE ARUNDO DONAX RECYCLING PROJECT
This Plant Your Dream Blog is looking for sponsors to join
Anthony Zolezzi, the World's more inventive Entrepreneur.
FROM THE ANTHONY ZOLEZZI BLOG
Anthony Zolezzi
HOME ABOUT CLIENTS PRESS INSIGHTS BOOKS & FILMS CONTACT BLOG
ZCause Blog
SHARE
‘Sustainability’ can only be sustained if people’s lives are made sustainable
April 22, 2012
As I’m writing this, yet another Earth Day has rolled around – but I must admit that this year I’m seeing things from a somewhat different perspective. That is to say, I’ve come to the conclusion that merely focusing on “pure” sustainability efforts is currently the wrong approach to preserving the planet. While it has been increasingly evident for years, I am just now realizing that having so many people engaged in a struggle for daily survival is seriously detracting from the issues involved in saving the environment. So today, I have begun putting my energies into innovation and entrepreneurship that will help create new economic opportunities while curtailing the waste of our resources that is a key aspect of the sustainability challenge. This shift in direction reflects my conviction that relieving social stress will become more and more intertwined with sustainability, and, like that old song said about love and marriage, “You can’t have one without the other.”
Recently I was asked to speak at the Middle East Growth Conference, where representatives of various countries in the region will assemble in an effort to promote entrepreneurship. One of the main motivating factors of the so-called “Arab Spring,” in fact, was the need to put millions of destitute and economically forsaken citizens of those countries to work. But while this is going on, millions of once middle class Americans are also unemployed, many of them facing eviction and depending on food pantries – and they’re hardly in a position right now to give much thought to saving the Earth. Yet if we abandon all our environmental concerns, the threats to people’s existence will grow exponentially.
So this year, I am changing my focus to developing enterprises that will create jobs while filling fundamental social needs and reducing or eliminating waste in the process – goals that I think will address both the long-term survival of the planet and the immediate needs of its inhabitants. Our team will be starting with a company called Food Star Partners, which will intercept food that would ordinarily go to waste and sell at deep discounts to the roughly 44 million Americans who are currently food-security-challenged, and a reclamation business that will start putting such resources as used products and electronics back into use here in the U.S., rather than being shipped off to China.
In short, “sustainability” isn’t something that can be sustained unless people’s lives are also made sustainable.
http://www.anthonyzolezzi.com/blog/
Read About Anthony Zolezzi here:
http://greenopolis.com/people/anthony-zolezzi
Anthony Zolezzi Sustainability Expert
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1366598
Would you like to be part of exploring setting up a local Biofuel conversion
factory in San Diego County? Kids will be paid, as a summer job to collect
Arundo. The Arundo will be turned into crops to be sold to tourists.
If Arundo proves a useful substitute for coal, our Arundo collective will sponsor a local enterprise to convert our stands of Arundo to useful gasoline substitute. The collective will hire former military men to Make Peace not War against Arundo Donax, The Giant Reed.
RELATED:
POLYCULTURE ARRIVES IN SAN DIEGO
APRIL 29, 2012 AT WILD WILLOW FARM
http://polycultures.blogspot.com/
..