Monsanto’s near-monopoly gives the company the right to control access to a staple food item that is found in a wide range of consumer products.“Consider that by exerting this level of control over the food supply, Monsanto is rapidly creating a world in which people have to pay fealty to the corporation in order to grow food and/or consume it. In this sense, Monsanto gains enormous power to determine who is allowed to eat – and thus who lives or dies.
Category: Adventures in Permaculture
Growing your own food is like printing your own money
Wellness space…
In front of my sister’s biz, the day before she moved out of state to start a new adventure. Getting ready for my own move next week to greener pastures with my kiddo to get some writing done and food in the ground – exciting and busy times require we stop and remember our roots. And to smell the flowers when you can.
“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.”
Colorado Farmer Plants Nation’s First Commercial Hemp Crop in 60 Years
For the first time in over 60 years, the United States is reintroducing a former agricultural staple, hemp, back into the market.
On Monday, Ryan Loflin of Springfield, Colorado began planting the first industrial hemp crop on 60 acres of farmland previously used for alfalfa.
“We are told “no,” we’re unimportant, we’re peripheral. “Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.” And then you’re a player, you don’t want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.”
— Terence McKennamedians
Colorado Farmer Plants Nation’s First Commercial Hemp Crop in 60 Years
Episode Extra: A Flower’s Electric Field
In the “Electric Buzzaloo” episode I did on YouTube, I showed you not only how bees find flowers using UV vision, but also mentioned that they can sense a flower’s electric field. What does that look like?
This image captures the slightly negative electric charge that most flowers carry since they’re literally grounded. After being visited by one bee, it sheds some of that negative buzz to the positively-charged pollinator. If another bee comes along, it won’t be attracted to the less charged (and less nectar-filled) flower.
This maximizes a bee’s chances of visiting fresh flowers and not wasting their time at an empty well. Read more at Nature News.
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