July 10, 2009
The time has come for goats to kid and for fresh goat cheese for the family. I use this recipe, but instead of store-bought goat milk, I use it fresh from the udder. The spices and other ingredients you can use for flavor are endless. Some of them are chocolate, mint, basil, oregano, garlic, onion, dill, and the list goes on. Whatever your favorite flavor is, you can have it your way with this simple homemade cheese recipe.
July 5, 2009
By Rady Ananda
Fresh shows how cheap food is an illusion. CAFOs require the use of antibiotics for the crowded, mostly immobile herd to survive. This encourages the development of antibiotic-resistant super bugs. The price is paid somewhere – by the public and the environment…
Hope is found in Fresh. Diana Endicott of Kansas’ Good Natured Family Farms alliance runs a 400-acre organic and a 400-acre transition farm. She markets locally grown and raised farm products to locally owned and operated food markets.
David Ball runs one of those supermarkets. With the rise of Wal-Mart and other big box stores, he saw his family-run store dying, along with a once-thriving local farm community. Partnering with area farmers through Good Natured Family Farms, he helps to reinvigorate the local economy.
Most exciting for urbanites will be Will Allen’s Growing Power Community Food Center. He trains urbanites how to feed themselves in sustainable ways. His org (and blog) teach people how to develop sustainable community food systems that provide healthy, safe and affordable food. These alternatives are growing in popularity across the nation, as they employ more people and improve local economies. They also teach “civilized” people what we should never have forgotten: how to feed ourselves…
July 3, 2009
July 1, 2009
Barb’s note:
This is part one of a three-part article giving a clear and concise picture of the future and how we can prepare for it so that we become “collapse-proof.” Dmitry Orlov has been there and done that, so what he proposes is, IMHO, right on the money for those of us who survive the FEMA camps, martial law, and forced vaccinations.
Thriving in the Age of Collapse Part 1
by Dmitry Orlov
A while ago Matt Savinar proposed that I write an article that specifically addresses the situations and concerns of some of the visitors to his Web site. He was also kind enough to provide me with three profiles, each of which is a composite of many people. One profile is of a young professional, another is of a middle-aged couple, and a third is of a high school student. My task was to adapt my knowledge of the circumstances in which people in Russia found themselves after the Soviet economy collapsed to the needs of diverse people in the United States. This I have tried to do. Keep in mind, however, that these are not real people, and that although I sometimes offer them detailed advice on subjects such as education, law, finance, and medicine, I do not practice any of these professions, and what I express here is mere opinion. (more…)
June 28, 2009
Do you want to know the safe alternative to warding off disease that does not include taking a poisonous vaccine? That alternative is a healthy immune system. By eating factory processed foods that contain preservatives, GMOs and all sorts of artificial ingredients, we are weakening our immune systems and leaving ourselves open to all sorts of illnesses.
In this fast-food day and age we have traded health for convenience. We go to the nearest store and get the latest quick fix food invention loaded with poison, pop it in the microwave, then go to the nearest clinic for vaccinations to ward off the impending diseases that we might get because we are systematically destroying our natural defenses.
Eating healthy and building up a strong immune system is essential for survival, and it is time we woke up to that fact. There is no magic vaccine bullet that will cure a lifetime of neglecting one’s immune system. The answer lies in healthy foods chock full of natural vitamins and minerals.
Sprouting is one of the ways to give our bodies a shot in the arm of high-density nutrition. Here is a rare video of Dr. Ann Wigmore, formerly of the Creative Health Institute (chiDiet) on sprouting.
June 24, 2009
By Barbara H. Peterson
Courtesy of Total Health Breakthroughs
Have you ever been hungry? Not just “skipped a meal” hungry, but really hungry. I am talking about the kind of hunger that won’t go away because the cupboard is bare. If you have, you will understand the need to store food. If you haven’t, this is your chance to learn from the experience of others before it happens to you, because if you run into hard times, or the store shelves run dry, you will need to have a backup supply of tasty, nutritious food. (more…)
June 19, 2009
Source: Rady Ananda
A new food safety bill is on the fast track in Congress-HR 2749, the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009. The bill needs to be stopped.
HR 2749 gives FDA tremendous power while significantly diminishing existing judicial restraints on actions taken by the agency. The bill would impose a one-size-fits-all regulatory scheme on small farms and local artisanal producers; and it would disproportionately impact their operations for the worse. READ MORE…
June 11, 2009
June 11, 2009
By Ed Howes
Happy Slaves
The lowly earthworm, slaughtered by the trillions or zillions by chemical, corporate, money lover agriculture, is worth many times the pennies it costs to buy your starter stock, if they are not readily available for free. The profitable organic food producer raises them in controlled conditions to increase their rates of reproduction, foil predators and to prevent their escape. Worms are the cheapest labor you can get for your food crops. They work night and day tilling soil for food, which you provide them. They like decaying plant material to eat and they especially like to eat compost. The castings, or worm manure is superior to fresh compost as plant food. As your worm farm – ranch grows in size, you have more and more to add to new garden beds and tree holes. Plant quality and crop volumes sky rocket, requiring mechanical supports. (more…)
June 6, 2009
Source: GM Contamination Register
This GM contamination register is the first of its kind in the world.
Genetically modified crops were first commercially grown on a wide scale in 1996. But, there has always been concern about their effects on both health and the environment. A specific concern has been that once released, it would not be possible to contain or control these organisms yet there is no global monitoring system.
Because of this failure of national and international agencies, GeneWatch UK and Greenpeace International launched this joint initiative in 2005 to record all incidents of contamination arising from the intentional or accidental release of genetically modified (GM) organisms (which are also known as genetically engineered (GE) organisms).
It also includes illegal plantings of GM crops and the negative agricultural side-effects that have been reported. Only those incidents which have been publically documented are recorded here. There may be others that are, as yet, undetected.
This site is intended to be a resource for individuals, public interest groups and governments. The register can be searched to see where, when and how contamination has taken place. It includes information about, and links to, sources and the GeneWatch UK and Greenpeace web sites as well as other useful sites.
If you would like to know when incidents are added to the GM Contamination Register, send an email to:
info@gmcontaminationregister.org
with ‘UPDATE’ in the subject line.
To view additions/updates to the contamination register go HERE
