Brief Opening & Closing Set for National Heirloom Expo by YourEnchantedGardener .....
Brief Opening & Closing Set for National Heirloom Expo
Date: 8/15/2012 6:54:39 PM ( 12 y ago)
NICE STORY IN SAN FRANCISCO PAPER
AT NATIONAL HEIRLOOM EXPO
SEPTEMBER 11,12, 13, 2012
There are few places where cattle wranglers, worm farmers and rare-fruit aficionados, can mingle with world-renowned scientists and environmental visionaries. Whether it's heritage breeds or heirloom seeds, genetic conservation is at the core of the second annual National Heirloom Exposition, Tuesday through Sept. 13, at Santa Rosa's Sonoma County Fairgrounds.
Billed as the world's only pure food fair, the not-for-profit educational expo is attracting not only backyard gardeners and seed-collecting hobbyists but also activists hoping to use the event as a platform for the California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act initiative, otherwise known as Proposition 37. If passed in November, it would require food companies to label genetically modified foods - those that have been altered in the laboratory to boost resistance to weed killers and pests; increase yield per acre; and reduce the need for fertilizer.
While the Food and Drug Administration considers these foods safe, Prop. 37's proponents say consumers have a right to know what they're eating, especially when the long-term effects are unknown. Opponents argue that the benefits outweigh the negatives and worry that labeling will send consumers the wrong message about bioengineered foods. No state has been able to pass such a law so far, although many other countries routinely provide this information on their food products.
Meet at Luther Burbank’s Garden & home–Gather our excitement and dreams together for the National Heirloom Expo as we remember the words and works of Luther Burbank, one of the great horticultural experts of all ages.
BRIEF OPENING CEREMONY BEFORE WATCHING THE VIDEO
OF VANDANA SHIVA
join us in a Brief Opening Ceremony as we send good will and thoughts to international hero Vandana Shiva who is in Japan now receiving THE Fukuoka Prize, A prestigious award given to those people who contribute to the academy, arts and culture in Asia.
Watch a stunning video of one of the world's leading Sacred Seed Advocates speaks about her work.
Vandana Shiva Award...she will be in Japan during the 2nd Annual
National Heirloom Expo. A Powerful Video is being sent.
NOTES ON THE INTERNATIONAL AWARD THAT VADANA SHIVA
WILL RECEIVE IN SEPTEMBER 2012
Fukuoka Prize is the prestigious award and given to those people who contribute to the academy, arts and culture in Asia. Earlier, Pandit Ravi Shankar, Padma Subrahmanyam, Romila Thapar and Ashis Nandy were the famous personalities who were honoured by this award. http://www.jagranjosh.com/current-affairs/the-government-of-japan-decided-to-...
LINK ABOUT VANDANA SHIVA
--SEED AS SACRED
The Government of Japan on 23 July 2012 decided to honour Indian Environmental philosopher Vandana Shiva with Fukuoka Prize 2012. The award ceremony will be held by the Government of Japan in Fukuoka city in September 2012. Vandana Shiva is the seventh Indian who received this prestigious award. She enlightens people about the ideas for the love of nature.
She is the director of The Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology. She had completed the Doctorate from Canada. Dr. Vandana Shiva was born in Dehradun in the year 1952. She had successfully completed her Masters in Philosophy of Science from the University of Guelph, Canada.
Dr. Shiva is the founder of Navdanya. It is an NGO which was established in the year 1991. She commenced her work in the field of conservation of traditionally used seeds, organic farming and fair trade. In 1993, she had received Right Livelihood Award which is known as the Alternative Nobel Prize.
In the year 2001, she set up an international college for sustainable living. Dr. Shiva had written numerous books based on the issues of environment. Some of the books wrote by her are:-Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace, The Violence of the Green Revolution, Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology, and Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Survival in India. Many of her books were translated into the Japanese language. Her basic philosophy behind her work is Earth democracy.
Fukuoka Prize is the prestigious award and given to those people who contribute to the academy, arts and culture in Asia. Earlier, Pandit Ravi Shankar, Padma Subrahmanyam, Romila Thapar and Ashis Nandy were the famous personalities who were honoured by this award. http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_17383.cfm
CLOSING CEREMONY WORDS
BEFORE ANDREW KIMBRELL...
Planting the Greatest Grass Roots Movement in CA history--
Leslie Goldman, Your Enchanted Gardener will plant Seeds for Winning Prop 37. Join us for a brief moment of resolve before Andrew Kimbrell, of the Center for Food Safety, delivers a powerful Keynote, to close the National Heirloom Expo, 7 pm, Thursday.
Speak out your intentions with seeds in hand. Claim our Right to Know what is in our foods and Label Genetically Engineered foods. Join in community now,
and Plant Your Dream with Sacred Heirloom Seeds of Ancient KAMUT ® Khorasan Wheat and Baker Creek Seeds. We need 7.5 Million + 2--a simple majority based on 08 voting numbers--to win Prop 37. Let us go out and get this done.
READ ANDREW KIMBRELL'S BIO HERE
FROM THE NATIONAL HEIRLOOM EXPO
7.5 Million + 2 Californians- Will Vote Yes to Label GMOs
It will take '7.5 Million + 2' of us to Create the Greatest Grass Roots Movement in California History to Win Prop 37, the Right to Know-Label GMOs. Our Rally Cry is Grow a Healthier Pizza! Californians are poised to make history and Our Cheerleaders from every state in the Union and Nation are invited to sign too!
HOW TO PLANT YOUR DREAM FOR VOTE YES ON PROP 37 VICTORY
Thank you for Growing your Beat with Nature
as you Grow A Healthier Pizza!
saying these words will connect your
life scriipt with the beat of nature
updated on july 22, 2012
38 days to go until i leave on the caravan
"sacred seed, sacred plant!
i hold you in my hands
and hold you as my future.
thank you for representing
wishes i am planting.
as you grow,
so will my seed dreams.
growing you will help me
celebrate the harvest
in my life. thank you
for reminding me
i am a sacred seed.
thank you for reminding me
that the universe thrives
as i thrive.
today we grow
a new enchanted garden,
a renewed earth!
today, i am planting my dream!
today i am planting a beautiful tomorrow!
this prayer is a reminder why we need heirloom seeds to 'plant your dream!"
“if you watch the growth of this seed...
you will find that there is an indestructible
and mysterious power in it--the power of life.
if you watch long enough,
you will see that the grain disappears
and is replaced by a plant
which will triumph over
all obstacles and opposition--
which will grow higher and higher
and higher because it has life within it.”
from "the book of asha,"
by Edmond Bordeaux. Szekely
Put copy of pages of or smilebox here and print for my voices page....
4:52 pm
POWERFUL SERIES OF FILMS AT NATIONAL HEIRLOOM EXPO
