Welcome to the TROPICS.Now start TO LEARN SPANISH-CREOLE-CARIBEAN and HOW TO ADAPT to the TROPICAL HEAT!Are you kidding me?Most people who want to start a garden think about HIRING a MIGRANT FARMER to do the DONKEY DIRT work while they only want to eat the fruits and veggies, no sweat included!

We need to UNDERSTAND and be AWARE of the following BASIC CONCEPTS before we break grounds:

1-Organic Gardening in the TROPICS is not same as Organic Gardening UP-NORTH.The following variables and differentials must be accounted for before we embark on the endeavor:

a-We must accept the fact that there is going to be heat and sweat and dirt on our hands and clothes.Being a partner WITH OTHERS AND THE earth IS GREAT, BEING a spectator or supervisor is not enough!

b-We need to shift awareness gears from  COLD North to Hot South .Meaning , we must get out of the AIR-Condition comfort Zone first and get our body used to theOUTDOORS TROPICAL CLIMATE.

c-CONSIDER:Breathing exercises , ergonomics lessons on how to use the body in performing garden work without injuries.Also  procure ergonomical garden tools too!Reading a gardening book or taking a virtual class via THE INTERNET OR THE PHONE are not enough.One must have HANDS ON LEARNING  EXPERIENCE !Look for local small farmers who offer HANDS ON GARDENING  workshops not just THEORIES VIA CYBERSPACE or TELECONFERENCE!You must be in the GARDEN to learn about GARDENING!

d-In order to learn the way of COMMUNITY ORGANIC GARDENING  you must toss away your EGO.Instead you need to start thinking in the WE-GO way! We come in UNITY in the community concept.If you do take issues with people of color or tan or of those who speak another language which you do not understand,get over it!Learning means you need to have an open mind and a desire to learn even if it takes to listen .Diversity is the common grounds in the community garden!

e-All MEN AND WOMEN are created equal.So ,FORGET ABOUT BEING THE BOSS OR THE FIRST IN COMMAND !LEARN INSTAED TO EMPLOY your hands without working your mouth with profanity or your mind with prejuidice in case you are a chovanist or consider yourself of a better race.Accepting others is very important in the community garden for a simple reason: You are a member of the community garden with other human beings who share with you equally the rights and duties . 

F-HERE IN SOUTH FLORIDA WE HAVE sand NOT soil .sO, START THINKING ABOUT MAKING YOUR OWN COMPOST AND LEARNING THE KNOW HOW OF MAKING YOUR OWN SOIL!THERE ARE OPTIONS OF BUYING OR USING OTHERS PREPARED SOIL .BE EDUCATED ABOUT THE SOIL YOU WANT BECAUSE WHAT 'S IN IT  MIGHT HAVE A NEGATIVE IMPACT ON  YOUR HEALTH !(EX:HEAVY METALS-CHEMICALS-PHARMACEUTICALS -UNSAFE OR UNCERTIFIED  HUMAN SLUDGE  ETC)!

2-Once a plan is drafted to start a community garden, the following must be established :

a-A DOING IT TEAM versus a TALK ABOUT IT TEAM!

b-A BUDGET-A NAME-A CO-ORDINATOR-A PLOT FOR EACH MEMBER.

c-A RULES AND REGULATIONS PROTOCOL with  pertinent CONTRACTS and AGREEMENTS .

3-Classes and workshops to educate the members are essential.An experienced LOCAL ORGANIC FARMER with certification from a local Horticultural institute is commendable to fascilitate the LEARNING PROCESS.

4-COMMUNITY GARDENING is a NEW  working arena and a learning process.It is afterall a collective endeavor that needs to focus on the group and not on the INDIVIDUAL only!Here in the South , we had slaves assigned to the plantations work in earlier  15th-19th centuries ,and now we hire migrant farmers while we ourselves disdain doing this kind of MENIAL work and have NO RESPECT in general for people who do it! This ATTITUDE needs to change if we want to have a successful PRODUCTIVE COMMUNITY GARDEN!

5-There ARE LOTS OF vacant plots THAT CAN BE TRANSFORMED INTO COMMUNITY GARDENS HERE IN SOUTH FLORIDA.THERE ARE LOTS OF ATTEMPTS THAT ENDED UP IN FAILURE BECAUSE THERE WAS A LACK OF UNDERSTANDING AND AWARENES OF COMMUNITY CONCEPT AND OTHER  CULTURAL-FINANCIAL ISSUES ETC!!

Here is  another story of FRAUD at the Florida Department of Children and Families as reported today by the Palm Beach Post @ :

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/crime/22-dcf-employees-and-third-woman-charged-with-155647.html?

There are people who  apply for food stamps and are denied help while they are in DIRE NEED   .Why not start an investigation of those officials who DENY FOOD STAMPS to the UNEMPLOYED POOR and NEEDY while some who have money,own property,cars etc..allegedly get food stamps when they apply????Just a question.

The Florida Governer has previously  filed for Corruption investigations of PUBLIC OFFICIALS already ,and his request was denied by the Florida high court.He has since re -filed for same request with more details of evidence.This is TAX PAYERS MONEY being lost employing people who use their office for fraud like in the below story of the POST.

I qoute the Palm Beach Post with NO  COMMENT:

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PALM BEACH — Two women employed by the state to protect a vulnerable elderly woman instead preyed on her, stealing about $20,000 from her bank accounts while she was hospitalized for dementia, police said Wednesday.

Both women were adult protective investigators with the Florida Department of Children and Families. One went so far as to wait in 85-year-old Jane Janssen's Cocoanut Row apartment and pose as Janssen if the banks called to verify transactions, according to arrest affidavits made public Wednesday.

After investigating, Palm Beach Police Detective Nicholas Caristo arrested Mindi Marie Berry, 33, her DCF supervisor, Greta Laverne Lambert, 41, and a third woman, an employee of an escort service who told police she was hired to cash stolen checks.

Police on Wednesday were getting a warrant to arrest a fourth woman in the alleged scheme, which came to light after Janssen's son, Christopher Janssen, complained last month. That woman wasn't affiliated with DCF, police said. Berry and Lambert were fired in November after DCF learned of the police investigation, an agency spokesman said.

Adult protective investigators are responsible for looking out for some of Palm Beach County's most vulnerable residents, grown men and women who, for reasons of illness or developmental disability, couldn't take care of themselves. Investigators typically handle complaints of abuse or neglect but also often probe claims of financial exploitation.

"That's exactly what we would be called out to investigate," DCF spokesman Mark Riordan said of the allegations against Berry and Lambert. "It makes the crimes that they've been accused of particularly heinous."

DCF officials last month began reviewing each case Berry and Lambert worked on, a process that nearly is complete, Riordan said.

Berry had been working for DCF for less than a year when she was assigned to Janssen, Riordan said. Police said Berry noticed checks and bank letters scattered around Janssen's apartment and stole them at Lambert's and others' urging.

Described in police records as the scheme's "mastermind," Lambert worked for DCF for several years and had risen to the rank of supervisor.

Berry was taken into custody in November, soon after Christopher Janssen's complaint. After a month-long investigation, Caristo arrested Lambert and Alexis White, 19.

The women face charges of organizing a scheme to defraud, grand theft from an elderly person, credit card fraud and identity theft. Their attorneys couldn't be reached for comment.

A fourth woman remained on the loose Wednesday, police said.

Staff writer Eliot Kleinberg contributed to this story."  UNQOUTE!

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This NEW YEAR EVE a lot of folks will be binging on the usual: Alcohol!Some say :Do not drink and drive or do not abuse alcohol.The thing to be said instead is do not get intoxicated and do not ABUSE your body -mind- spirit by consuming a toxin.

How about starting NEW YEAR with a DETOX and CLEANSING act.Here is an example:

Native Americans use SWEAT LODGES or INIPI to sweat out the toxins from their system .INIPI or the LODGE OF PURIFICATION is an ancient cerenomy practiced first by the LACOTA nation.

Most people think that it resembles SAUNA and looks like a BONNEFIRE.They actually will be judging with their eyes .Look with your third eye instead and you will find a different way to describe it.Native Americans pray with their HEARTS and their prayers are FOR OTHERS :AHO-METAKWE-YASEEN(ALL OUR RELATIONS)!.We pray with our LIPS and our prayers are for all about ME!

A Bhudist monk once told me this: In order to be able to cleanse your body-mind-spirit , you need first to be EMPTY CLEAN.He gave me an example:take a cup of tea that is full and see what happens when you keep adding tea!

Some  like to celebrate with a little of wine or beer to bring in the cheer and laughs that otherwise can not be recalled.Some binge and get addicted to consuming alcohol and drugs.

Think about it :Would it make a difference in your life to celebrate consuming toxins( alcohol-INTOXICATED)  and then waking up in JAIL for drinking and driving or in hospital for damaging your liver and body?

Have a TOXIN FREE HEALTHY and HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Years come by and go.Bye Bye 2009..Hello 2010!

New resolutions and new intentions come and go.A new climate change and a new age .As we age we count less  and  forget more.

The world as we  know it is no more the same as we were told.TIME is of the ESSENCE!

Money is no more as available .Jobs are vanishing faster than the light.More restrictive laws are passed to monitor and dictate the way we live ,die.eat,drink,travel feel and think-etc...Our human  common sense is becoming old fashioned in the age of cyberspace and rapid instant infortmation.Our resolutions and intentions now are being fed to us through many media and gadget that orbit our personal space.

Intentions need to change as we step into a new Calender change.How can we make new resolutions as we still struggle with our intentions .

They are the real deal .Intentions come before actions.Our thoughts and feelings, though burried in our inner self of the  subconscious , still visibly steer and stirr our lives.Numbers numb us just like drugs.Food has been converted to a biological weapon that decides who lives and who  does not.We small farmers are being pushed away from the land and we still make beleive and pretend that this is not happening.So we retire into our internet blogs and chit  chat the old stuff and the daily chores  .Separation has become the norm.We accept what is fed into our mouths and minds and carry on business as usual.It is NOT so simple though!

Our intentions have been burried in FEAR.We need to uncover the inner soil and dig down into our soul and speak up loud and clear for the times are CHANGING and the TRUTH should be the norm and not the LIE!!

We run away to places new or old .We cover our bodies with clothes new or old.We eat.We drink.We smoke.We talk and talk with no limits on minutes .We lie to ourselves and to others and expect our lies to be facts and true.Then after the holliday storm is over we wake up to our realities that are still the same.Days and nights come and go and the years we use to count our age as if they are the everlasting currency that counts for real.If you can not convince them : Confuse them.That' s how our state of body-mind and spirit  is now.Change brings new hope.Intentions bring in resolutions.Wars do not tell who is right or wrong.Wars only tell who is LEFT to tell the story that is why it is called:  HIS-STORY!

History repeats itself.Only for those who do not learn their lessons!

We pay  in hard currency of "TUITIONS" to learn from WITHOUT whereas   it is FREE or NO MONEY PAID in "INTUITION" to learn from WITHIN!  INTENTIONS and INTUITIONS make the DIFFERENCE in CHARTING OUR WAY OF LIFE!

"Once upon a TIME there was a FICTITIOUS boy named SILVER SLAVERY and to learn more ....\

Look for  a book titled: ANIMAL FARM by GEORGE ORWELL .Read it again and again so you may REMEMBER   that yesterday is today and  tomorrow is  today : THE REAL PRESENT.Rap your gifts and PRESENT with history lessons for the TIMES are changing!

Have a Happy New Year!

There is a BLIND SIDE for CHRISTMASS.Check it out at the faces of those who are:

1-Unemployed!

2- Homeless!

3-Hungry!

4-NEEDY and Lonely!

5-Lost their home-car-land to the BANKS and MORTGAGE MOGALS(NEW VERSION OF MONEY LENDERS)!

6-Separated from loved ones because they could not afford to buy an airplane ticket this holliday season!

Their is also a BRIGHT SIDE of Christmass.Check it out at:

The hearts and souls of COURAGEOUS AMERICANS who give willingly from their OWN :Shelter ,food,clothes,jobs and comfort -to all of the ABOVE!

It is so DIRE here in South Florda.Next door lives the ULTRA RICH in PALM BEACH ISLAND.On the other side those WHO DO NOT HAVE are multiplying every day!

Most of the churches who operate programs to help the needy have shortages of EVERYTHING.Their phones ring and machines answer!I visited so many and I can tell you that there is so much LACK !Most of all there is IGNORANCE,RACIAL and CULTURAL bias.Threre are plenty of BREAD which is LOADED with yeast that makes you fat and sick .BUT NOT ENOUGH or NOT AT ALL of ORGANIC FRUITS AND VEGETABLES-Here is what one official at a charity told me today when I asked her about the shortage:We have tomatoes to be picked for free , but we here have no time to go and pick the FREE vegies.I offered to do just that .She ignored me.They do not want unconditional help but rather they make their own conditions(ignorance) and RED TAPE to block HELP !

Most of the churches are DOING GREAT JOB and even outscoring some welfare programs ..They have land that could be converted to COMMUNITY gardens that produces organic vegies for the NEEDY but they take no action to activate them!

SOME of their volunteers are locked in RED TAPE and Racial BIAS.For example:Most of the people who DO NOT HAVE and are seeking help are with some TAN color.On the other side Most of the volunteers who are offering helping hands are of the opposite UNTANNED color.They do not UNDERSTAND the struggles and the language sometimes become a barrier.

There is LACK OF COMMUNICATION on the other side of CHRISTMASS.

If you need more illustrations. PLEASE:Check out the movie playing in theatres near you:THE BLIND SIDE !

There are plenty of FAVORITISM and of those who try to scope and skim the good goodies  for themselves and be selective in their charity.The spirit of the HOLIDAYS is lost and needs to be FOUND NOT IN THE MATERIAL CELEBRATION and SHOPPING SPREES.Rather the SPIRIT of the season lies within our HEARTS and SOULS that need to be AWAKENED!

Imagine that the farmers

Their harvests  all ORGANIC

Imagine that the barbers

Grow hair on heads that PANIC

Imagine that the climate

Delicious  as DAAS and HAGEN

Imagine not a STALEMATE

An ACCORD In COPENHAGEN

Imagine that the bankers

Donated all their gold

Built shelters for the homeless

Saved souls from death and cold

Imagine all those who ROBBED US

Our  homes ,our cars and SAVINGS

May all  them  DEVIL EVIL :

Who lived by sword and LIE!

Be dumped from France "TOUR EFIL"

To fall in HELL and DIE!

Imagine TODAY at winter SOLSTICE

ALL FARMERS win their STIMULUS!

Merry Christmass-Happy SOLSTICE -Happy New Year!

Tony

localharvest.org/farms/M20618

Check out your local  chamber chapter  if any official is  ILLEGALLY profiteering from public events .They did just that here at L W city and fired the chief who was a former Mayor and Commissioner.He was  allegedly pocketing cash from special events and received  17 % commission on revenues generated from events .The allegations were called as "Rotten Politics " by the former fired chamber chief.More details at the link below:

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/lake-worth-chamber-fires-executive-director-during-hearing-129103-html?

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/nation/fre-after-35-years-dna-florida-inmate-128555.html

It is time for uncovering the CORRUPT and punishing them with imprisonment and pay back of stolen public money .It is time to set FREE the innocent who were imprisoned while innocent like James Bain who was freed here in Florida after spending 35 years in jail for a crime he did not commit while the REAL CRIMINALS are FREE and LOOSE.Tax payers will have to pay Mr.Bain 1.75 MILLION for his wrong imprisonment as per the recent law passed out recently to bring justice to the IMPRISONNED while INNOCENT!Why not from the begining set a system to purge our courts and chambers of UNQUALLIFIED OFFICIALS WFO COMMIT WRONG DOINGS .That will save us tax payers a lot of money that is so much needed NOW TO pay FOR FOOD STAMPS and UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS.

I want to applaud the LW commissioner who called for the resignation and investigation of the chamber chief.We need more elected officials like LW Commissioner Susan Mulvehill who had the courage to call for such ACTION.Recently the Florida high court turned away allegations and accusations submitted by Florida Governer Charles Crist to investigate corrupted officials here in Florida after THREE  local commisioners were sentenced to jail for corruption chrages.

As small family farmers , we need to raise our political awareness locally and nationally,and perhaps elect representatives who are from our farming ranks to protect and preserve our livelihood .The DEEP-RECESSION added to the DEEP changes in climate and the Passsage of unfavorable laws and Acts -like the attempt now in process at the Senate to pass HR-2749- are erroding our livelihood,existance and freedoms.Make it a NEW YEAR RESOLUTION to ELECT ORGANIC SMALL FAMILY FARMERS TO OFFICE: LOCALLY AND NATIONALLY!

Good Job Commissioner Susan Mulvehill.Good Job Governor Charlie Crist.Purge the system of the CORRUPT .LET US  BRING IN THE CLEAN and QUALIFIED OFFICIALS to SERVE TAX PAYERS - not to rob them!

Are you already CONSUMED with festive food and INTOXICATED with  boose? Are you gaining more weight and losing more of your "Body-Mind-Spirit " ENERGY?Are you trying to make up your mind on some   New Year RESOLUTION list?Here are some Organic TIPS  from preferred site  references :

http://www.naturalcures.com

http://www.rense.com

http://wwwnutritioncures.com

http://www.drclark.net

http://www.onlinejournal.com/health

Most of us small farmers do not have health insurance.Our health refuge is always what we produce of GREENS.

We are sick because we are clogged and intoxicated .To rid our sysytem of toxins and restore EASE after being disrupted with DIS-EASE : We need to RESTORE  HOMEOSTASIS balance to our Body-Mind-Spirit!

This Holliday Season we celebrate like no other previous occassion.May be we have struggles and challenges that are blocking us mentally ,physically and spiritually!Our intentions and inspirations must be cleared first of any contamination or distraction.Best thing is to seek solitude for some time and try to reconnect with our inner self first.We need an INNER RECONCILIATION first of all prior to our OUTER CELEBRATION!

Have a Happy and HEALTHY HOLLIDAY

Dear Santa :

This is a wish list for Organic Urban/Small Farmers.Please do not bun it while descending from the chimney.Note:Please bring us no more CANDY and sugar coated /Made in China lead and toxic toys! We prefer LOCALLY and ORGANICALLY GROWN STUFF!

1-Bring in Stimulus   help for STRUGGLING SMALL URBAN FARMERS and Community Organic Gardens.

2-HR-2749 ...Let it fall down and melt away like SNOW!Bring us instead  LAWS that protect and PRESERVE our livelihood not meant just for driving us out of business and or CONTAIN and CONTROL us!

3-Bring in NEW  Green Energy Fuel efficient TRACTORS and Trucks  to REPLACE  our old and ailing CLUNKERS of  trucks and tractors

4-Keep away the Pesticides and Chemical fertilizers away from our field.Bring in more Chiken and horse manure instead!

5-Keep away the Genetically engineered SEEDS and COMPANIES :  GREED and CORRUPTION !Bring instead More affordable Organic SEEDS!

6-Let SOME of our reps and officials correct their ACTS!NO MORE  ACTS like the "WATER ACT "that keeps our  tap water system polluted with carcinogens and the polluters loose!Let instead be ACTS PASSED TO CHECK OUT THE "REAL"  SAFETY of the TOXIC DRUGS THAT HAVE SIDE EFFECTS DAMAGES that OUTWEIGHS TREMENDOUSLY their BENEFITS!

7-Do not Bring in more CUT  DEAD Christmass trees .Instead let there be Living and ROOTED ones  in our backyards to support the ENVIRONMENT and reduce GLOBAL WARMING .Also , Bring us more  Living FRUIT  trees to decorate our towns and streets instead of the ORNAMENTALS that wastes our precious water on unproductive the unfruitful!

8-Bring us more  land to be used for growing organic fruits and vegetables for the NEEDY.Let our Community Gardens Multilply and offer opportunities for HEALTHY and ORGANIC  for the UNEMPLOYED who are being unfairly  DENIED FOOD STAMPS !

9-Let there be more audinting of our tax payers maney that are wasted overseas in wars or other ACTS of aggression .Let the Peace on EARTH be a PEACE for the EARTH and ITS inhabitants.

10-Bring in our COMMUNITIES together in TLC.For Happy Hanukak/ Merry Christmass and NEW Year TO ALL!

Suddenly we all are alerted to the CLIMATIC EFFECTS OF GLOBAL WARMING.Check out the draught in Canada and California all the way down to the southern sun belt..This has been going on for years and NOW we are awake.From being the NUMBER ONE IN the GREEN HOUSE GAS up to the 2007, now we are more conscious about the consequences and the number one is China instead! Our farms are at stake!In California the DELTA IS SINKING>Find more @:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1206/p25s01-wogi.html

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/environment

More on the local and international news on the subject as we get a boost from the UN Copenhagen Summit on Climate change.There are slack of public interest though.This a good reason to write more and raise the awareness about the subject.We farmers make a living from the land and our livelihood is now threatened more than ever  due to severe draughts,floodings and other sever climatic changes.

For more info.Check it out atthe following links:

http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/greenhousegasemmisionsby_the_united_states

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_saudi_arabia_floods

Today the biggest gathering of world leaders and representatives of 192 countries - to adress the CLIMATIC CHANGE EFFECTS ON EARTH -takes place in COPENHAGEN/DENMARK.

President Obama is expected to join world leaders by the end of the summit where an agreement is expected to be signed to counter GLOBAL WARMING BY TAKING EFFECTIVE ACTION .Read more @:

http://www.time.com/health/article/0,8599,1945939,00.html

As we farmers come to gather here at home ,celebrating the HOLLIDAYS , here are some thoughts to share about the occasion:

1-Christmass trees can be saved just like the Turkey.Why not issue a decree at the White House to do so each year on Christmass as is the habit  to do like wise and save a turkey from being slaughtered on Thanksgiving!

The trees help produce oxygen and counter the warming by absorbing carbon dioxide.Hence saving on cutting Christmass trees might send a GREEN message, like the Organic Garden at the White House to help out the environment.

Read more on the  costs and damage to the environment and others ,by checking out the below Mother Jones link on the subject:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2007/10/o-tannenbomb-merry-dangerous-christmass

2-On the Health Reform we have a new law that is being debated at the floor of the Senate which is going to be monumental when passed with the POPULAR OPTION which will protect and preserve HEALTH of the UN-INSURED .Also ,there is HR-2749 which is ONLY helpful to small farmers with an AMMENDMENT ADDED to PRESERVE and PROTECT their RIGHTS and CURRENT  PRACTICES.The farmers are the KEEPERS OF THE EARTH.THEY are the ones who plant trees and seeds that produce food and OXYGEN for the LIVING EARTH and its INHABITANTS.Organic small farmers are the ones who PRACTICE SUSTAINABILITY and help the ENVIRONMENT by refraining from using CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS and PESTICIDES.Small farmers need stimulus as much as the car dealers with the CAR CLUNKERS program and now the underway stimulus for "used appliances clunker program" to come soon.Where is the stimulus to bail out the keepers of the earth who help out in countering GLOBAL WARMING by there mereacts of farming and  WORKING THE LAND!?

3-Today 56 WORLD NEWSPAPERS are publishing a UNIFORM FRONT PAGE ARTICLE in 20 languages to RAISE the AWARENESS for ACTIONS and AGREEMENTS to SAVE THE EARTH.Climate Change dangers are real.If you did not watch the movie: 2012,now playing at a theatre near you,at least try to read the writings on the wall and this article !

4-We small  farmers act locally to save the environment and reduce global warming by what we do for a living.Is there anyone there in Copenhagen Summit who can appreciate what we do?If yes, then may be there is hope for REAL help to the  LIVING EARTH KEEPERS /small organic farmers(NOT to THE DEAD FARMERS- as previously happened!!)

New year is on the way ! What have you done for your body during this HOLLIDAY SEASON?The usual drill offcourse.More turkey and cakes to eat to make the occassion real sweat eh?

Here are some ORANIC THOUGHTS TO CONSIDER FOR YOUR NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS STARTING WITH CUTTING EXTRA WEIGHT AND EXTRA STORAGE:

1-Losing weight is a process.Always consult with a health care professional before you do anything, even after you read this.Disclaimer:Those narrations below are only personal opinion .They are not meant to be an alternative to your DOCTORS prescriptions or advice.Seek help from your health professional or a clutter specialist before and after reading my narrative of personal opinions.

2-Consider why you want to lose weight.Awareness and knowledge once imprinted in the concious and sub-conscious level help motivate to follow through in the process.

3-Personally I beleive that DIETS do not work.I lost weight when I started reading signs from my own bodyand mind.Indulging in food could be an emotional or an addictive act.Every person has a different approach to follow according to once own traits and genetics .Do you have anyone in the family who is obese?Do you have anyone who likes to collect antiques or just is addicted to clutter?Study oneself more closely before you embark on diets programs .Know why you endulge !

4-Food is a natural need for sustaing the body and providing fuel energy for the human body.It is not a fantasy or a pleasure thing!

5-I found it helppful to lose weight when I started first detoxyfying and purging my digestive system of wastes and toxins.Colonics and enemas helped.Massages and accupincture in addition to switching to juicing and eating ORGANICALLY and LOCALLY GROWN fruits and vegetables.We gardeners nd farmwers can grow our own and save on the grocery bill, an advantage to consider at a time where people are losing their jobs and money is becoming tight!

6-Among my favorite purging foods are the following:GREENS-Dandelion -collard-cabbage-spinach.Herbs:Chamomile-mint-cuban oregno-parsely.Fruits:Papaya-Citrus-Apples-Avocado-Ananas

7-Drinking fresh spring water helped me a lot to lose weight.The human body is a complex of cells that bathe in interstitial fluid.Water constitutes almost 80% of the human body .Water is a solvent and a carrier of nutrients and waste through the blood and lymphatic system in addition to the interstitial fluid.

8-Exercise helped me a lot to sweat the exstra weight through my skin,kidneys,lungs.Perspiring is not an awful thing.It is a healthy sign that wastes are being carried away from within our cells outbound!People who want to lose weight will experience more smelly stuff in their system.

9-eating lots of garlic and more of yogurt ,less of bread and sweats and none of diet sodas and junk food and drinks helped me a lot too!

10-Last but not least.Breathing exercises and GARDENING ...are a must to keep you on the right path connected and grounded to the universal pulsing and vibrations that eminate through out the earth and the cosmos.

Have a Healthy and Happy Hollidays

When jobs ,homes,cars and savings are lost, what else remains to hold on other than MORAL VALUES.In times as tough as never been witnessed before in our living memory ,we need to hold people accountable for their wrong doings that affect our lives and livelihood.We as farmers work the land to produce food for the living.Imagine that your tax money is being plundered by officials who get , for example  : A PAY FOR PLAY!

I read an article today in the Palm Beach Post about Governer Crist who cited" a rash of crimes commited by local and state public officials while acting in their official capacity".

Gues what happened?His request was rejected by the Fla. high court .Nevertheless . The governer filed for another second petition incorporating 11 crimes commited by officials including bribery,child pornography and drug offences..Three Palm Beach County commissioners have gone to federal prison since 2006.More details at the link below:

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/state/florida-supreme-court-says-no-to-corruption

In the new year 2010 we need to look carefully at our ballots and votes .We elect officials that represent us and they do quite the opposite of what we expect from  them .For example:Look at what happened to HR 2749 at the House of Repesentative.As small farmers do we have anyone who can speak for our interests?If not, then it is time to vote for small farmers representatives.May be some of us  need to consider running for elections on local or national levels !Why not?

We need courageous representatives and elected officials like Governor Charles Crist to stand up against corruption.Make sure you elect officials whose MORAL VALUES ACCOUNT is the one which counts .

 "THREE WEALTHY ATLANTA SUBURBAN COUNTIES HAVE DOUBLED THEIR USE of FOOD STAMPS..." reported the New York Times in its FRONT PAGE REPORT ON FOOD STAMPS..MORE DETAILS AT THE BELOW LINK:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/us/29foodstamps.html

The news that do not find its way to us like the story of a man who worked for eight years at a company that closed down manufacturing andf moved overseas under the NAFTA regulations.

This man is a real true story.Call him the DENIED STAMPS man for a nick name.He is not yet on the news but soon a lot of people like him will blow the whistle.

His last job was back in 2001.He lived with friends.He worked the land to grow his food.He depleted his 401 K and pension and when he applied for food stamps, he was BLUNTLY DENIED.IT happened recently !How many people are denied for reasons of red tape or no reasons at all?We need someone to investigate all the DENIED CASES..There are people who have applied and they are eligible but were denied.Just like those African American  voters who were wrongly stripped of their voting rights back in the 2001 elections and now they were reinstalled back into the system.There are corrupted officials- fixtures that are manipulating the system who need to lose their jobs so that the eligible can get food stamps.Fla. Governer has called for investigations of  corrupted officials lately.

In case we do not want to go that way.

Let us create another way to help those who can help themselves and grow their own food.

My idea is this:

Create FREE COMMUNITY PLOTS VOUCHERS for those who are able to work and PRODUCE their own FOOD .Let those plots be part of the IDLE LANDS to be transformed into COMMUNITY GARDENS.We created a garden in the White House .Therefore we can create similar gardens for those who have lost their homes in foreclosures or for those who have the ability to PRODUCE their own food .

This idea has worked in the past during EARLIER DEPRESSIONS and we call it : THE VICTORY GARDENS.History is repeating itself .So, let it be a full repetition for those who HAVE and those WHO HAVE NOT!

You save tax payers money.You stimulate local economy.Your reduce unemployment.You SAVE LIVES and MONEY!

Once upon a time , I was a chain smoker .It was back in the EIGHTIES.I did not smoke after quiting and recently I  met a friend smoker who challenged me that I can not quit smoking NOW in the 21 century due to the high ADDICTIVE ADDITIVES in the cigarretes.I accepted the challenge and STARTED smoking .I did that for the first  three weeks in November and told my friend I am ready to STOP and QUIT SMOKING.He did not beleive I could do it.Here is what I did to quit smoking.Note: I did not smoke for the last one week of November and forward HOLDING GOING STRONG SMOKE FREE.Here is HOW I did it:

IMPORTANT NOTE AND DISCLAIMER:Below is a narration that represents a personal OPINION and NOT A PRESCRIPTION or an ALTERNATIVE TO SEEK MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL HELP. TO QUIT SMOKING YOU HAVE TO CHECK OUT WITH A HEALTH PROFESSIONAKL .NOT A GARDENER OFFCOURSE! I DO NOT ENCOURAGE OR DISCOURAGE ANYONE TO SMOKE.IT IS YOUR FREE DECISION TO MAKE .THIS ARTICLE IS WRITEN BY AN ADULT AND ONLY FOR ADULTS EYES.IF YOU ARE A TEENAGER UNDERAGE PLEASE QUIT READING THIS ARTICLE NOW as you were supposed to be NOT SMOKING AFTER ALL!!

1-I first started by alternating my ciggerettes from different brands.I choose the forgien full flavor ones like the "made in XYZ FOREIGN COUNTRY"

They contain less additives and addictive chemicals , by the way..I did not choose the MINT ones because some one told me they have fiber glass added to mimmick the COOL feel of mint!

2-I played a "BREATHING"  trick on my LUNGS.I found out that the lungs of people who choose to smoke usually are not FULLY expanded- due to their short breaths habits.In general , people who are stressed out take less breaths and or hold their breath more or take short ones.So smoking makes one take a DEEP BREATH ,with CO fumes offcourse!We stop fuming and become less agressive and less stressed for a moment.So we have a good time for a second followed by all the eczyma and lung cancers for LATER.NOW , I take DEEP BREATH WITH FRESH AIR FULL FLAVOR INSTEAD!EHEM!EHEM!

3-I am using my bike instead of my car to commute in town.I am going more to the movies and taking more trips using the bus instead of my car.(Smoking is not allowed there!).I am switching alliances to friends and family members who are non-smokers to hang around!

4-I am eating more green grapes to FEED MY CRAVINGS for a ciggerrete in my mouth!

5-I am drinking more spring water to quench the burning for a fire smoke in my head.

6-I am spending  more hours outdoors, and smelling more roses and flowers to replace the addiction of smelling cigerretes carbon monoxide fumes!

7-I am sweating the smell stuff out of my lungs and skin by working out more HOURS  at the GARDEN.

8-I am EATING  more salads and ORGANIC LOCALLY GROWN GREENS(Rich in LIQUID soluble and NATURAL Vitamins and minerals) .That will help the body to absorb and assimilate- especially when PH balanced!

9-I am DRINKING more green VEGETABLES.Mainly WITH :Dandelion,Collards,Parsley,Carrots included and FRUITS:Mainly included  WITH CITRUS  and APPLES JUICES (Rich in Vitamin C).

10-I am SAVING my HARD EARNED MONEY to be spent HEALTH-WISELY,not on my FUTURE MEDICAL and HOSPITAL BILLS (I have no Health Insurance)TO TREAT THE VOLUNTARY  SELF INFLICTED DISEASES from SMOKING CO- a by product of cigerrettes and known to cause health HAZARDS! 

HAPPY HEALTHY NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS!