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sounds like your local supermarket ! (I guess this should read convenience store in Yankese.) Gideon. - Original Message - From: Allan Balliett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 5:42 AM Subject: Re: csa names Vital Vittles Nurtu-R-Us Working Share Caring Shares Sharing-Crops Thanks, Manfred!! I like your stick-to-it-ness!!! I'm back to 'fresh and local CSA' which is freshandlocalcsa.com Did this name not work for you folks? -Allan
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sounds like your local supermarket ! (I guess this should read convenience store in Yankese.) Actually, Gideon, 'local' is what separates it from 'supermarket.' The phrase is one that has been picked like 'authentic food' as a way of indicating that if you buy Fresh (picked this morning) and Local (within 100 miles), you've pretty much moved to supporting small, value-driven farms. My gut feeling, though, is similar to your, or I would have embraced this one. The blockage here is the difficulty with the word CSA Let's face it, if this were 'really' CSA, there w.b. a core group pulling this together while I keep working on the artichoke and the ginger management plans. But, CSA has its meaning to people who want fresh and locally grown food. Good to hear from you, my man. I wish you'd find time to write more. -Allan
Re: Hugh's in Moriarty, NM!
Hugh called to let me know he was in Moriarty this evening and let me know everything was OK. LOCK UP YOUR WIMMEN
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Allan: You wrote: the difficulty with the word CSA. Yes and yes again. On the one hand, you say, CSA has meaning for the people in the niche you're appealing to ... on the other hand, the term is difficult. Consider dropping it. Let Fresh and Local become its own raison d'etre. As you say, it doesn't sound like a real CSA anyway, or you, the farmer, wouldn't be choosing the name, drawing up the promotional materials, and all the rest; the core group would be doing it during the winter while you're resting [imagine that!]. I say, dump the term. Requires too much explaining. If you have to explain, explain Fresh and explain Local ... the social technology of getting the food to the people [the CSA concept] becomes more appealing when we WANT the food for the food's sake. Fresh and Local decribes the qualities I want in my food supply... Woody Aurora Farm. the only unsubsidized, family-run seed farm in North America offering garden seeds grown using Rudolf Steiner's methods of spiritual agriculture. http://www.kootenay.com/~aurora -Original Message- From: Allan Balliett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, January 25, 2003 6:19 AM Subject: Re: csa names sounds like your local supermarket ! (I guess this should read convenience store in Yankese.) Actually, Gideon, 'local' is what separates it from 'supermarket.' The phrase is one that has been picked like 'authentic food' as a way of indicating that if you buy Fresh (picked this morning) and Local (within 100 miles), you've pretty much moved to supporting small, value-driven farms. My gut feeling, though, is similar to your, or I would have embraced this one. The blockage here is the difficulty with the word CSA Let's face it, if this were 'really' CSA, there w.b. a core group pulling this together while I keep working on the artichoke and the ginger management plans. But, CSA has its meaning to people who want fresh and locally grown food. Good to hear from you, my man. I wish you'd find time to write more. -Allan
FW: [globalnews] A National Student Strike...
Title: FW: [globalnews] A National Student Strike... From: 180/MDE Clearinghouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://us.f116.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?[EMAIL PROTECTED]amp;YY=88443amp;order=downamp;sort=dateamp;pos=0amp;view=aamp;head=b STUDENT STRIKE FOR BOOKS NOT BOMBS! The Bush administration is intent on plunging America into an illegitimate and pre-emptive war that will only increase danger for Americans and the world. At the same time education, healthcare, the environment, and the economy are being neglected. Its time for youth and students to take a stand for America's future! ONE-DAY NATIONAL STUDENT STRIKE, MARCH 5TH, 2003 Books Not Bombs! Stop The War Against Iraq! The National Youth and Student Peace Coalition (NYSPC) calls upon students on campuses across the United States to join us in a one-day student strike on March 5th, 2003. See www.nyspc.net for details. As students and youth, our futures will be shaped by the actions that the Bush administration takes today. A US attack on Iraq will inevitably: - Endanger the lives of US servicemen and women - Increase the suffering and misery of the Iraqi people while slaughtering thousands of innocent people - Encourage terror attacks against the US around the world and at home, - Be used as an excuse to erode civil liberties - Divert resources from education and social services - Subvert historical precedent and international law As students and youth, the future of this country, we are disturbed by the lack of attention paid to the real needs of Americans, especially education. Financial aid opportunities and family income are rapidly losing ground to the rising cost of higher education. *1 Low- income families are facing decreasing access to education. Student debt is increasing. *2 All while the US military budget steadily increases (12% from 2000 to 2002 *3). We say NO! to this war of terror to increase American power and take control of strategic oil supplies. JOIN US IN A STUDENT STRIKE MARCH 5TH TO DEMAND: US Government: - End the drive for military action and sanctions that target the people of Iraq - Fund education to ensure that everyone in the US has access to higher education - Re-allocate military funds to eliminating poverty and building peace and home and abroad Campus Administrators: - Declare opposition to the war - Disclose and eliminate military research contracts - Freeze or lower tuition and fees The Bush Administration's war on Iraq is a venture for control of the region and its oil supplies, not national security, democracy, or human rights. Our campuses provide implicit support for this through military research, recruiting, and ROTC programs. As students who value freedom, democracy, and our education we say: THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE! The best way to improve our national security is to halt drives for illegal and immoral wars and redirect public funds from the military and arms trade to education and social services at home and humanitarian aid abroad. Take a stand with students across the nation on March 5th to build toward this collective vision. *Sources: 1. College Board (as reported in the Michael A. Fletcher, Washington Post, Dec. 10, 2001, Page A01) 2. Sherschel, Particia M. USA Group Report. June, 2000. See: www.luminafoundation.org/Publications/research.shtml 3. Deen, Thalif. 'U.N. says Nations Reveal Arms Spending - but Spend More.' Inter Press Service. Oct. 7, 2002 *As of Jan. 1st, 2003, this campaign is heating up! We need your help! In addition to organizing on your own campus, the campaign needs your help with outreach, resource development, and fundraising. See www.nyspc.net for details as they become available! *NYSPC is a coalition made up of the following national organizations: 180/Movement for Democracy and Education, Black Radical Congress-Youth Division, Campus Greens, Muslim Students Association of the US and Canada, National Youth Advocacy Coalition, Not With Our Money, Student Environmental Action Coalition, Student Peace Action Network, Students United for a Responsible Global Environment, Students Transforming and Resisting Corporations, United Students Against Sweatshops, United States Student Association, Young Communist League, Young Democratic Socialists, Young People's Socialists League. === From: Andy Burns Why a National Student Strike? National Youth and Student Peace Coalition 1-23-03 This essay attempts to cover some of the strategic reasons why American Students should strike on March 5th for Education funding and in opposition to the War on Iraq. 1. The Power of a National Strike and Strategy For obvious reasons, local actions which address the Bush-war-on-Iraq issue operating individually, while important, do not have the power to access the attention of national media or the federal government. A nationally-coordinated student strike will have much more impact than a strike any one school does on its own. There are plans for several local student strikes.
FW: [globalnews] Invasive Algae Smothering Florida Coral Reefs
Title: FW: [globalnews] Invasive Algae Smothering Florida Coral Reefs Invasive Algae Smothering Florida Coral Reefs Environmental News Service By Cat Lazaroff PALM BEACH, Florida, January 24, 2003 (ENS) - An invasive, coral smothering seaweed has spread like a green tide across the reefs along the south Florida coast. Recent reports from divers and fishers show that the seaweed has become so thick on reefs in Florida's Palm Beach County, about an hour north of Miami, that it is forcing lobsters and fish away. The species, a type of macroalgae, has also now been spotted as far north as Ft. Pierce, Florida, about 60 miles away. Caulerpa brachypus is a nonnative macroalgae that has invaded Florida's coral reefs. (All photos courtesy Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, Inc. ) It can smother just about everything down there, said Dr. Brian Lapointe, a marine ecologist at the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution. Lapointe said the threat posed by the seaweed, called Caulerpa brachypus , is even more alarming than that of other troublesome species he has studied in the area because it is an invasive normally found in the Pacific, but, until a year ago, nowhere in Florida. The species may have been released from a saltwater aquarium or from a ship's ballast water. Because it is not native to Florida waters, Caulerpa brachypus has no natural predators, a problem compounded by the fact that the species is very hardy, and can spread rapidly if the nutrients it needs are available. It can really undergo explosive growth, Lapointe said. Based on past research, Lapointe believes that the spread of this and other macroalgae species, in Florida and at many troubled reefs around the globe, is driven by nutrients from land based pollution. In South Florida, one of several key sources of such pollution is hundreds of millions of gallons of nutrient rich treated sewage pumped offshore each day. Caulerpa brachypus's explosive growth devastates coral reefs. Besides smothering and killing the coral itself, it blankets the food on which many fish rely, forcing them and their predators away from a reef. The weed can also fill in the ledges and crannies that attract lobster. Despite this destructive capacity and the potential for serious economic impact, there is no scientific information available about how fast the species is spreading or even how much area it already covers in Florida. A research diver examines an infestation of Caulerpa brachypus . When Lapointe and his colleagues discovered Caulerpa brachypus Florida waters about a year ago, it had already covered acres of reef. Florida's 2002 budget, as approved by the state legislature, had included about half a million dollars for Lapointe's team to study the macroalgae problem, but this funding was later eliminated by a line item veto. So Caulerpa brachypus's spread has not yet been studied in any detail. But Lapointe has now received a grant through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's national Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms (ECOHAB) initiative that will allow his studies to move forward. Over the next two years, Lapointe and his colleagues plan to complete a comprehensive study of the factors controlling the spread of Caulerpa brachypus and two other problematic seaweed, or macroalgae, species. The work will help predict the amount of damage Florida should expect from macroalgae in coming years, and may provide information about how best to control or prevent its spread. Lapointe predicts that the spread of macroalgae on Florida reefs, sometimes referred to as a green tide, will have devastating ecological and economic impacts unless controlled. His team will conduct quarterly surveys of the sites known to be colonized by the seaweed, along with laboratory experiments aimed at determining how seasonal changes in light, temperature, and nutrient availability control the growth and spread of harmful macroalgae. The researchers will study whether algae growth is seasonal or year round, a key factor in determining how fast it spreads. To test his hypothesis that nutrients from pollution are fueling macroalgae blooms in the area, Lapointe and his colleagues also compare how well each species grows when nitrogen from sewage is available, versus how it responds to nitrogen as it occurs naturally in seawater. They will also analyze the chemical signature of macroalgae samples for evidence of which type of nitrogen is driving growth. The team will measure the way the macroalgae species reflect light to establish a method for measuring the extent of macroalgae spread in Florida and around the globe using remote sensing from satellites or airplanes. The seaweed is so pervasive in some areas that it has been called a green tide. Lapointe believes that harmful macroalgae blooms are going to continue to spread north and south from Palm Beach County, devastating South Florida reefs, unless the flow of hundreds
Let's Pump the Morphogenic* Fields for Fresh and Local CSA!!
To anyone who wants a pdf copy of our flyer this year, contact me off-line at [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Did I spell it wrong? Sheldrake's hypothesis is that 'the more people who know about something, the easier it is for other's to learn about it.' This is not a local thing, it's a global thing. So, in a way, it's fine to throw your advertising EVERYWHERE. And it's good to have people thinking, even if just for a moment, about and idea, ANYWHERE. Thanks -Allan
Scan of January 2003 from Maria Thuns Working with the Stars
I've got a 4part jpg of january's planting into I can email to anyone who is interested in seeing how WORKING WITH THE STARS is setup. You can pick up a real copy of this indispensable book from Hugh Courtney at JPI. -Allan
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Woody - I don't think I've been clear on my 'nobody understands CSA' laments. Last year when our article ran in the post, we sold 160 shares in two days. I talked to a lot of people who called. They were DESPERATE to FIND A CSA! CSA **IS** the word that drew them in. Unfortunately, to most, CSA means 'a box of fresh groceries each week for the growing season.' So, what it means is that CSA is a good marketing term if you want to sell your crop, even in advance. What I'm lamenting is that CSA today is NOT the inspired associative economics that brought you and I into this realm. I'm Fresh and Local CSA this season. That url was available, Fresh and Local itself is not, nor is Freshnlocal. One thing I've run into a lot this past two years is people who are interested in lowering standards to appeal to more and more people. I guess that's what we call 'marketing,' pulling enough of the grit out of a topic to make it appealing to the masses. That's our job as BD growers: holding the standard, although it is difficult. On the social movement known as 'csa,' I have to say that I continue to feel that the BDA failed to give the support to this movement that it needed in the beginning and it waifed over into the conventional organics realm, stripped of most of its community building. I can't save CSA by myself. I can grow very healthy vegetables by myself, so, that's what I'm going to do: fill the demand known as CSA and try to stop feeling so sad for the opportunities that have been lost for both consumer and grower. Hence, no need to explain 'CSA' to my customers. They already 'know.' -Allan
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Allan, I disagree about that post article (of course I don't have it in front of me to quote) but I think the author defined CSA for his readers and he defined it as getting fresh vegetables straight from the farmer without going to a farmers' market. I agree, those people that called me from the article didn't mean what you mean by CSA. And without the article to 'define' the term for them they wouldn't have had a clue wether CSA meant Confederate Soldiers of America or Confectionairy Students Association. I use the term subscription vegetables because, while I think it is a bad term, I always assumed it was more intuitive. My wife, however says that I'm wrong. She says that only slightly more people understand subscription vegetables than understand CSA. She says we still need to find a better term or spend several hundred million on an ad campaign educating people about our definitions.
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Leigh - My point is that the people I talked to all said that they had been looking for a CSA and were afraid they wouldn't find one for this season (last year) They didn't say they were lookign for vegetables and saw an article about CSA and decided to buy vegetables. all the ones I talked to had already internalized some definition of 'CSA' and had either been in one or wanted to join one. That's my point. I didn't have the article in frong of me, either. Here's the first paragraph from your webpage: BULL RUN MOUNTAIN VEGETABLE FARM A Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm, providing fresh, subscription vegetables and flowers grown on our farm without chemical pesticides, herbicides or fertilizers. Our vegetables and flowers are chemical and gmo free. I think you sort of cover all the bases there, www.bullrunfarm.com -Allan I disagree about that post article (of course I don't have it in front of me to quote) but I think the author defined CSA for his readers and he defined it as getting fresh vegetables straight from the farmer without going to a farmers' market.
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My concern about CSA is the Community part. We all agree that community (whatever that means) is a major part of what we are striving for. It is just my practical, hands-on experience, that a lot of the community that is talked about in the csa literature is pie in the sky. It doesn't work, at least around here, on the ground. We need to be thinking of different ways of creating community besides a core group and work shares. (I'm sorry, having a justice department lawyer on a core group trying to do my planning for me is insulting and a waste of my time. I don't advise him with his briefs and anyway, he wouldn't take my advise).
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When I started the Westchester County drop off site for Roxbury Farms two seasons ago, only ONE member in 25 knew what a csa was and was relieved to know about us. She is the one who has now taken over the drop off site for the farm, instead of our garage. Thanks, Jane. Yours is the other way that demand is spread, word of mouth, teaching face-to-face. The article brought in people who probably read about CSA in PARADE a year back, and several people who missed their old CSA from Ann Arbor or Amherst, but our CSA deliveries this season brought in many neighbors of last year's shareholders. It's the way it happens. I have a woman in Arlington right now who is promising me THIRTY new names this season. Her husband and she are going DOOR TO DOOR this weekend, trying to get their neighbors excited! This is, of course, a core group, but it has arisen on its own.
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Dear group I'm going to have to put a title on this at the end, if at all. Perhaps I should limit it to just one theme - which will be, for now, where is BD in the UK at? Are there any British BDers who are experimenting with Steiner's preps, be it with homoeopathy, radionics or whatever? It would be really good to have someone close enough to compare notes with and actually go and see successful BD in practice. I've dipped my toes in to the extent of spraying the preps once a couple of months ago and I intend using them quite frequently. How often is enough? What are the signs that I should be looking for that they are having an effect? I got my preps from Paul van Midden in Scotland. He sells, as well as 500 to 508, something called the Mausdorfer Compost Starter/Birch Pit Concentrate. 'This (I quote from the brochure) is developed by Dr Christian von Wistinghausen from the international biodynamic preparation centre in Mausdorf, Germany. It is based on the concept of the birch pit concentrate, has added to it basalt meal, egg shells and herbs and comes in dried form to conserve its effectiveness. The Mausdorfer compost starter is a means of applying the compost preparations in sheet composting (ie incorporating fresh organic material in the top soil like ploughing in a grass ley or green manure) or continuous composting situations where fresh material is constantly added (ie in cattle sheds or domestic compost heaps). This starter can be used in addition to the regular use of the compost preparations and is useful in situations where it is difficult to use the compost preparations in the normal manner.' Has anyone heard of this or used it? It sounds like a useful addition. Teresa _ MSN Messenger - fast, easy and FREE! http://messenger.msn.co.uk
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Leigh, Where is yoiur farm located? I live in Takoma Park. Jane Parker
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Leigh, Where is yoiur farm located? I live in Takoma Park. Jane Parker Jane - Check out his webpage www.bullrunfarm.com Otherwise, he's in THE PLAINS, VA. I'm also in THE PLAINS this season. Leigh's, what? The highest farm in the county(?) and Im down in the rolling 'horse country' below. (Seems like there must be some sort of season shifting symbiosis in that (and I bet there is) Leigh is a really good man. Not just a successful farmer bringing lots of toxin free food to lots of families for a very long time, but also a man with a strong social conscience and a history of effective activism...why just the other day...Oh, hell, I'll leave the stories to Leigh. He's also a famous story teller.
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Go Mausdorfer. - Original Message - From: Teresa Seed [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 9:11 AM Subject: ??? Dear group I'm going to have to put a title on this at the end, if at all. Perhaps I should limit it to just one theme - which will be, for now, where is BD in the UK at? Are there any British BDers who are experimenting with Steiner's preps, be it with homoeopathy, radionics or whatever? It would be really good to have someone close enough to compare notes with and actually go and see successful BD in practice. I've dipped my toes in to the extent of spraying the preps once a couple of months ago and I intend using them quite frequently. How often is enough? What are the signs that I should be looking for that they are having an effect? I got my preps from Paul van Midden in Scotland. He sells, as well as 500 to 508, something called the Mausdorfer Compost Starter/Birch Pit Concentrate. 'This (I quote from the brochure) is developed by Dr Christian von Wistinghausen from the international biodynamic preparation centre in Mausdorf, Germany. It is based on the concept of the birch pit concentrate, has added to it basalt meal, egg shells and herbs and comes in dried form to conserve its effectiveness. The Mausdorfer compost starter is a means of applying the compost preparations in sheet composting (ie incorporating fresh organic material in the top soil like ploughing in a grass ley or green manure) or continuous composting situations where fresh material is constantly added (ie in cattle sheds or domestic compost heaps). This starter can be used in addition to the regular use of the compost preparations and is useful in situations where it is difficult to use the compost preparations in the normal manner.' Has anyone heard of this or used it? It sounds like a useful addition. Teresa _ MSN Messenger - fast, easy and FREE! http://messenger.msn.co.uk
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.I have to add one more suggestion: You could feature Hugh's testimonial and call it AgriViagra. Lurkin' Lance
