Hi Leslie, thanks so much for doing the article and coming to the expo. Thanks also for all your work promoting good food and the National exposition. Have a great weekend,
Jere
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This year I am creating the intention that there is a celebratory Wedding up ahead for the United States to regain our original vision. Will you help build a grassroots movement so that Uncle Sam gives up his unholy relationship with Biotech GMO in the farm bed and gets married to “Anti” (Auntie) GMO? The invitation to the wedding goes out to all who get engaged growing Heirloom seeds and ancient grain. The wedding date is in your hands! Being a matchmaker for this wedding is a job that belongs to many Anti-GMO Activists who I want to encourage to become gardeners. In taking up gardening, we can fulfill the vision of the Founding Presidents of America.
Our first Presidents had deep relationships with nature. I believe their vision can literally restore a more beautiful America. Andrea Wulf took up the theme in her book, “Founding Gardeners.” She states, " It’s impossible to understand the making of America without looking at the founding fathers as farmers and gardeners."
I see the need for thousands more gardeners and small size farmers rather than have our food supply centralized in the hands of a few growers. This is the continuation of our original vision.
This year, I want to encourage you not only to fight against a system of agriculture that is failing us, with power over food in the hands of a few, but through gardening with intention, help return a new vision of America the Beautiful. For more information, please join The Campaign to Grow A Healthier Pizza on Facebook.
Many seed freedom enthusiasts will be coming together at the upcoming National Heirloom Expo September 9, 10, 11 in Santa Rosa, California.
I can be reached at Plantyourdream AT cox.net or at 619.384.2631. To see the Presenters list, go to the National Heirloom Expo website here.
NATIONAL HEIRLOOM EXPO SPEAKERS
http://theheirloomexpo.com/speakers/
My most recent version is here:
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June 20, 2014
Leslie Goldman, Your Enchanted Gardener, and Plant Your Dream blogger, shares inspirations from the Campaign to Grow A Healthier Pizza.
Robert Muller, then U.N. Assistant Secretary General, gave Leslie a U.N. Peace Medal in 1983 for the work he would do in his lifetime. That work continues to this day helping people everywhere to win back nature’s sacred heirloom seeds and nature’s original technology for life.
ABOUT THE NATIONAL HEIRLOOM EXPO SEPTEMBER
9,10,11, 2014
The National Heirloom Expo, September 9-11, 2014 is an annual event held in Santa Rosa, CA. The event is a convergence of all those who aspire to live in the kind of relationship to earth that nature had in mind. It is a gathering Pure Food Seed Freedom enthusiasts.
The second day of the National Heirloom Expo, the World’s Pure Food Fair, brings together busloads of children to focus on healthy food, and to encourage school gardens. In 2013, I presented an activity about how to create a healthier pizza. I gave away Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds donated by the Expo organizer. My intention was to foster healthier ingredients in the foods our children eat most often and introduce these rare seeds to new plant parents. I will do the same program with the children this year.
In working with youth, we renew our nation. "This is the true myth of America. She starts old, old, wrinkled and writhing in an old skin. And there is a gradual sloughing off of the old skin, towards a new youth. It is the myth of America."
—
D.H. Lawrence.
Insert Photo of child attending the National Heirloom Expo, receiving gift of seeds
HELPING UNCLE SAM MARRY ‘ANTI’ GMO
This year I am creating the intention that there is a celebratory Wedding up ahead for the United States to regain its original vision. The original vision was of American the Beautiful. Our first Presidents had deep relationships with nature. Andrea Wulf took up the theme in her book, “Founding Gardeners.” She states, "It’s impossible to understand the making of America without looking at the founding fathers as farmers and gardeners."
I see the need for thousands more gardeners and small size farmers rather than have our food supply centralized in the hands of a few growers. This is the continuation of our original vision.
WHERE IS OUR GOVERNMENT TAKING US NOW?
Uncle Sam, initials U.S., is the personification of our Government. The U.S. Government is currently in the farm bed with biotechnology. It appears that our government has become committed to a path of technology that best serves a One-Size-Fits-All Model. Government appears to listen to the "moneybags" who benefit most from seeds, and foods that are standardized for commercial gain. My Campaign To Grow A Healthier Pizza encourages growing ancient wheat and heirloom seeds of many varieties. In 2011, The Campaign To Grow A Healthier Pizza began when the food industry convinced Congress to define pizza as a vegetable. I was also inspired when I received one of the 160,000 packets of San Marzano Non-GMO tomato seeds from Baker Creek, donated to California’s 2012 Prop 37 that aimed to Label Genetically Engineered foods. My love affair with Kamut® Khorasan ancient wheat began the year before. Heirloom tomato seeds and Kamut® Khorasan are two ingredients that can be used to make a healthier pizza.
THE PIZZA BOX METAPHOR
The Pizza Box is a metaphor not only for our current food delivery system, but the awareness that many of us have dreams that have been boxed in. Each person's task is to take our Sacred Seeds out of the symbolic Pizza Box and Plant your Dream. This is what I mean when I say Win Back Our Sacred Seeds. Many of us have become the equivalent of a piece of pizza in a box, feeding appetites with food that is no longer nutrient rich, grown with seeds of wheat, corn, and vegetables that have been genetically modified, and buying into a system that has no foundation in nature.
Inspired by modern research, GMOs, genetically modified organisms, do not compare to nature’s original technology. My dream is that Washington will accept that GMOs in our food supply are not healthy or good for us. GMO proliferation is a symptom of our estrangement from nature, and contrary to the nature of our soul. Nature's original technology represents a marriage of soul and nature, encourages individual dreams, and brings the best out of each person.
TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR KNOWING HOW TO GROW SOME OF YOUR OWN FOOD
The Right to Know what is in our food, and the Know How to Grow Our Own Food go hand in hand. I see it as inevitable that we will Label GMOs. I believe a shift in consciousness is being asked for Uncle Sam to move closer to outgrowing GMOs. Food reform will come as we return to becoming a nation of many more eminent gardeners who have shifted our consciousness and healed our estrangement from nature. Eminence grows from planting your dream, living your dream, and growing some of your own food.
I see a grassroots movement made up of individuals living their dreams as a pre-requisite to influencing the consciousness of Washington. A marriage is needed that begins with us, inside us. I am speaking of a marriage between the soul - our essence - and nature. There are already so many of us who are in touch with the beat of nature. We will eventually create a ground swell that will touch more individuals in Washington.
People are becoming more and more engaged in the fight against GMOs. We are marching. We are creating consumer demand for labeling. There is a growing awareness that biotechnology in the farm field is a lost cause for many reasons. The Non-GMO Project verification process and consumer demand are creating a tipping point where more and more companies are producing products without GMOs, but there is still something deeper that is being asked by nature.
So much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does he not yet possess. “ In his ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson.
CULTIVATING A GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT
You are invited to a wedding. The wedding couple is Uncle Sam - representing the U.S Government - and the "Anti" GMO movement. The date of the Wedding is in your hands. Are you ready to join this Grassroots movement?
The invitation to the wedding goes out to all who grow Heirloom seeds and ancient grains. Growing Heirloom seeds and thousands of new gardeners go hand in hand. We are preserving multi-cultural biodiversity as we garden with heirloom seeds. Join me to engage more people with the power of connecting our intentions with the growth of heirloom seeds and healthy plants.
When I see seeds growing in a single pot that I have planted with intention, and as I tend the plant, I am reminded how dreams and I, do in fact, grow naturally.
MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH KAMUT® ANCIENT KHORASAN WHEAT GRASS
When I plant and grow Kamut® ancient Khorasan wheat into grass, this ancient grain reminds me of our grassroots movement growing. I am reminded of this quote: "When I touch grass, I touch infinity. Through the grass, I talk to the infinite, which is only a silent force. This is not a physical contact. It is not in the earthquake, wind, or fire. It is the invisible world of nature, of which I, too, am a part." — George Washington Carver.
Kamut® ancient wheat is a reminder of my reconnection with nature. It symbolizes a return to an earlier time when wheat was the staff of life and still can be. Planting Kamut® wheat seeds reminds me that every time an heirloom seed is planted with intention we can come one organic step closer to restoring the dream of America the beautiful, and cultivating the grassroots movement inside each of us. I am reminded of the power of a dream to grow. How Fast can a Dream Grow? ~ As Fast as a Blade of Grass!
The Sacred Seed Prayer
By Leslie Goldman, Your Enchanted Gardener
To shift your own seed relationship, I ask you to hold Sacred Seeds in hand, and engage with these words.
Sacred Seed, Sacred Plant!
I hold you in my hands,
and I hold you as my future.
Thank you for representing the 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!
Monday, 4:54 am
July 21, 2014
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