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High-Meat Preparation Notes:-

First get hold of a properly sealable container(eg:- vacuum-jar/sealable plastic box/Bell Jar etc.). Fill half of the box with the raw meats you want to age - make sure to leave 50% of the box unfilled, so as to ensure that there is enough air/oxygen for the bacteria - it's a very bad idea not to leave enough (fresh)air for the bacteria to work on. Then place the high-meat container in the fridge. Make sure to take the container out and air the box outside , at least once every 1 to 3 days for a few minutes, depending on your whim - properly airing the meats outside helps to refresh the air within the box, allowing the bacteria to continue their work, and the more frequently you air it, the faster it ripens - don't air it inside the house as that will stink out the place. Oh, and don't forget to cut up the fresh, raw meats into  mouthful-sized pieces before you start using it for "high-meat" - otherwise, it's a rather messy business to cut it all up once it's reached the "high-meat" stage - though, I suppose, one can wait, instead, until it eventually becomes liquid, where one just needs a spoon.

Generally speaking, if the fridge is not at too cold a setting, and if the high-meat container is aired frequently, then it's usually recommended to wait c.1  month before trying it. I find that I get the beneficial effects from the high-meat within c.2-3 weeks after storing it, usually once the outer surface of the aged ,raw meats has become slimy enough, but with the rest of the meat still being quite solid enough to be picked up by a fork - I generally don't like the texture of "high-meat" once it becomes too liquidy. Though, there are some who prefer aging the "high-meat" for several months.

A few people wish to speed up the process by storing the "high-meat" container outside the fridge in the open air, but this is fraught with difficulty as flies are fiendishly clever at laying their almost unnoticeable eggs around the lid, and these can then so easily drop in. It's been suggested by one member of the group that the container in question should be sealed within two separate black bin-bags so as to deter the flies. PLus, when I left high-meat outside, it seemed more likely to go dry, and dried out high-meat is useless re getting the boosts in mood etc.

(I should also mention that I personally only got the fullest benefit from "high-meat" once I started eating c. two (cubic-inch-sized?)chunks of "high-meat" each day, and that the effects, oddly, seemed to only start being noticed after c.12-24 hours. Obviously, though, everyone is different, in this regard).

"High-meat" can be made from pretty much any raw-animal-food-source. The Eskimoes used to age raw fish in this way, the Chinese would age their raw eggs for decades, the French often age their raw cheeses until they become very stinky etc.. I personally found most "high-meats" versions to be a problem for me(especially any "high-meat"-muscle-meats), with the exception of aged kidney, aged tongue, and especially aged ox/beef heart - I use the latter most of the time, for reasons of taste and convenience. I would strongly recommend that people experiment with a wide variety of "high-meats" before they find the one that is least appalling re taste.

 Virtually everyone finds "high-meat" a problem at first, re taste, due to past conditioning. My own solution, at the start, was to cut the meats up into very tiny slivers  so that I could just swallow them very quickly without having to endure the taste for long. I'd then follow up each mouthful with a big gulp of alkaline (spring) mineral-water in order to blot out the after-taste. Naturally, over a certain length of time, I got used to the taste and no longer need to cut up the meat into such tiny slices or chase each piece with water, and, nowadays, I even relish the rather acidic taste of some kinds of "high-meat", viewing it as a useful alternative to smelly raw cheeses(I happen to be allergic to raw dairy).

Naturally, there are always going to be some  who feel they won't ever be able to get used to such fare, so I would strongly recommend that such people buy "EM" products, instead, or, (powerful) probiotic supplements. "EM" stands for effective microorganisms. However, I'm sceptical re the efficacy of the latter two, by comparison to "high-meat", and view them as substitutes only - besides, "EM" products are rather expensive and difficult to prepare, whereas "high-meat" is relatively easy to make.

The benefits of the extra bacteria from "high-meat" include better digestion, and increased concentration, energy-levels and improvement in mood. Here's a standard news-report re a study describing  how  bacteria help improve one's mood:-

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Release Date: 12 June 2009
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser
Director: Robert Kenner
Writer: Robert Kenner
Studio: Magnolia Pictures

Plot:
An unflattering look inside America's corporate controlled food industry.

 C.S.A. Gone Wild.

At Rainbow Ranch Farms we are proud to participate  in building Community Supported Agricultural Programs, local food cooperatives and farms.

This year our farm members are participating in our CSA and co-op program: Many-many people have something wonderful to share, homemade,  handmade,  (unless a certified kitchen is required), homegrown, all natural, from non-toxic ingredients, everything child safe.

It is amazing how many CO-OP, C.S.A. and Farm Members have shown an active interest in participating, we are so very jazzed to sport these great products to everyone we all know and love.

Currently on the list:

Toothpowders (no flouride)- deodorant - lotions - goat milk soap - fudge - sourdough bread - tomatoes - live plants (veggies, herbs etc) -  Raw Honey -  coconut oil - Homemade hemp jewelry - warm cookies - Jams - Jellies - Rootbeer - Bone Broth - Local CO-OP's are also participating!

VOLUNTEERS:

Our volunteer list is growing, we encourage all our members to sign-up at least once. An educational and informative approach to getting behind the scenes of how you want your food grown, handled, shipped, pick-up, prepared and served.

Thank you!

An important bill, brought to our attention by our friend Katherine W.

Washington, DC— Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) today introduced the Equality for Women Farmers Act. She was joined by Congresswoman Anna Eshoo (CA-14), an original co-sponsor of the bill, and by six women farmers who shared their stories of discrimination by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) simply because of their gender.

To read the entire story, from the original source, please click the link.

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TODAY!

Good Morning, Today All Farm Members are encourage to come and participate in our poultry harvest. We will begin at 8:00am.

We will need a volunteer for the BBQ, the BBQ rotisserie will be in full swing just outside the packaging station.

Please wear comfortable clothing, and flat shoes, I will have your harvest protective jump suits here.

SATURDAY!

We had such a wonderful time on Saturday, as usual, Farm Pick-Up went very well.  Thank you for your dedication, membership and participation.

Brenda brought her non-flouride,  toothpowders and next time, she may bring some more of her Alum-Free, non-toxic, products and offer them to our farm members at great prices.

WHAT HAPPENED!

Cheetoe almost went into labor, but "no-go", that was funny! Tom was awsome, getting the gate, wearing his cowboy hat; good thing too, Carol (first timer at farm pick-up), would have passed us right up, had she not seen Tom. June and Mary were busy bottle feeding the newborn baby goat, Tom (Another Tom) drove all the way out from Nevada to pick up his family food supply, Kristin doing the carpool thing was picking up for 4 families in the Alta Dena and pasadena area, I am sure next time she may bring a U-Haul. All-in-all the children had a great time, and there were a lot! Over 50 members showed up at farm pick-up from San Francisco, Malibu, Ventura, San Diego, The High Desert, San Gabriel valley, including Nevada and Arizona. We are still trying to get Jeff to sign the volunteer sheet (did Janet sign him up?), There was brisket, flank steak, spare ribs, ham hocks, Roasts, sides of beef (cut and wrapped), porterhouse steaks, fillet mignon, chickens, eggs, sides of pork (cut and wrapped) and Meaty Soup BONES, Not So Meaty BONES and just plain BONES.... Meat everywhere.

Thank you to you all, for all your help in the "Ranger Station" helping me to keep my head on, and the orders flowing.

If you would like to share your view of how the day went at farm pick-up, I would sure love to share it with our readers.

See you soon!

At 8:00pm Friday Feb. 4th 2011, 3 beautiful baby triplets born, 3 boys.

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5 baby goats born Since Jan. 1st 2011, and waiting for one more to birth, before end of month. Most of the goats are going to put up for adoption, for more information, please contact me.

Certified clean, from on site, clean parent stock!

Today marks another pick-up day at the farm. Open to registered farm members.

Please bring your large coolers, try to carpool and wear flat shoes.

Please, drive up and open and close the gate  behind you, we have livestock running free.

The second gate has a walk through gate next to it. We are happy to use the dolly to transport your boxes to your car.

Extras will be available, eggs are "you pick", Brenda will be here with her goodies and some members will be providing their farm goods to our farm members today!.

We will have a member volunteer sheet at pick-up, if you are interested in volunteering on one of the farms, please sign up.

It is now 5:00am, I will not be available by phone, until after 12 noon!

The fate of the
black family farm in the US

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This short film documents how black farmers in America have been systematically discriminated against by the adminstrators of federally funded agricultural loan programs. Produced by The Photography Channel and narrated by photographer John Ficara, "Distant Echoes" reveals the consequences of this long standing policy and practice of denying black farmers access to financing. David Snider is the Creator and Executive Producer of the Photography Channel. ========================== October 1, 2008 J.L. Chestnut Jr., Early Leader in Civil Rights Movement, Is Dead at 77 By BRUCE WEBER J. L. Chestnut Jr., who after attending law school in Washington returned to his hometown, Selma, Ala., and set up shop in 1958 as the city’s first black lawyer, and who went on to fight for voting rights for blacks, laying the groundwork for the march led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from Selma to Montgomery in March 1965, died Tuesday in Birmingham, Ala. He was 77 and lived in Selma. The cause was kidney failure after an illness of several months, his daughter Vivian said. Long a well-known figure among Alabama lawyers, Mr. Chestnut was an underpublicized figure in the civil rights movement, a black man who began his career by taking on the ordinary legal briefs of ordinary black men and women, daring to work within the white establishment to achieve just ends. He was a pioneer for blacks in the legal field in Alabama, founding a law firm, eventually known as Chestnut, Sanders, Sanders & Pettway, that through the 1990s was the largest black firm in the state. Among other successes, his firm represented a coalition of black farmers in Pigford vs. Glickman, in which the claim that the farmers were discriminated against over a period of decades in programs overseen by the Department of Agriculture was adjudicated in 1999 and eventually settled, with nearly $1 billion in reparations paid to black farmers through this June. Known as a clever and mesmerizing speaker with an easy charm in front of a jury and a flair for drama in a closing argument, Mr. Chestnut was at home in the courtroom even when the courtroom was an unfriendly place. “I remember a trial in Jasper, Ala., where a Klansman was being tried for killing a black man,� one of his law partners, Rose Sanders, said in a telephone interview on Tuesday. “He was so effective that the judge stopped the trial, and said, ‘Chestnut, it’s getting dark, and I got to get you on the road out of town.’ � In the early 1960s, as the voting rights movement coalesced around Selma, Mr. Chestnut’s experience in the local community was invaluable to civil rights leaders who visited the area. And when demonstrators arrived and were thrown in jail, it was often as not Mr. Chestnut who got them out. “I don’t know what would have happened to us in Selma if it wasn’t for Chestnut,� said Representative John Lewis, Democrat of Georgia, who was jailed and beaten by the Selma police. “Selma was a vicious place, vicious. I don’t know how he survived there, I really don’t. He used the law to help liberate the black folk of Alabama. He was a lawyer, but he was also a foot soldier. He was a brave and courageous man.� J. L. Chestnut Jr. was born in Selma on Dec. 16, 1930. The initials were his name; according to his autobiography, “Black in Selma,� written with Julia Cass, his father was named after a white banker his father’s mother had admired. J. L. Sr., with his two brothers, owned a grocery; young J. L.’s mother was an elementary school teacher. J. L. Jr. He attended Selma’s segregated schools and graduated from Dillard University in NEW ORLEANS before going to law school at Howard University, at a time when the landmark Brown vs. the Board of Education was being prepared and argued. He moved back to the South with the belief that that was where the next legal battles for civil rights would be fought. In Selma, he told the writer Gay Talese, who met Mr. Chestnut in 1965 and wrote about him in his 2006 memoir, “A Writer’s Life,� that he decided early on not to kowtow to judges who disdained him, recalling one instance where a judge warned him not to be disrespectful to any of the women in his office. “I have never been disrespectful of a lady in my life,� Mr. Chestnut replied, “and unlike you, I also respect black women.� On the other hand, Mr. Chestnut often recalled that before George Wallace became the segregationist governor of Alabama, he was the one judge who treated him with respect and insisted that others do so as well. “Judge George Wallace was the most liberal judge I ever practiced law in front of,� Mr. Chestnut said in an interview for the public television documentary “George Wallace: Settin’ the Woods on Fire.� “He was the first judge to call me ‘mister’ in an Alabama courtroom.� Mr. Chestnut pried dozens if not hundreds of voting rights demonstrators out of Selma’s jails, and he was present at the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965, a day that became known as Bloody Sunday when the police beat demonstrators to prevent them from beginning a march to Montgomery. It was two weeks later that the march, led by Dr. King, was actually completed. In subsequent years, Mr. Chestnut filed civil rights cases to have blacks allowed on juries in Dallas County, which includes Selma; to desegregate the Selma public schools; and to ensure blacks the opportunity to be coaches and principals in the desegregated schools. In addition to his daughter Vivian, he is survived by his wife of 56 years, also named Vivian; two other daughters, Shandra and Gearld; three sons, J. L. 3rd, Terrance and Gregory; a sister, Johnnie Mae; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. “He was a legend down here,� said Michael Jackson, the district attorney for Dallas County, who is currently the only black district attorney in Alabama. “As a young attorney, he was the best trial attorney I’d ever seen. I certainly wouldn’t be in office if it wasn’t for people like him.� * * * http://www.selmatimesjournal.com/news/2008/oct/01/remembering-jl-chestnut/ Remembering J.L. Chestnut Published Wednesday, October 1, 2008 “I see my own life as helping to realize the dream in my world in Alabama. Though I never imagined I’d spend my whole life in little Selma, I don’t know of any better place I could have taken a stand. Selma is my home. I love Selma. It’s my life.� J.L. Chestnut closed his book, co-authored with Julia Cass, with these words. On Tuesday morning, Chestnut, known to many of his friends as “Chess,� died in a hospital in Birmingham. Family members said he had suffered from various illnesses for a long time. Many will miss his presence on his radio program — something friends said he dearly loved to do several times each week. He’d stir the pot with a special guest or two, then use the time to teach a bit of history of this city he loved so much. It is through his voice that so many knew Chestnut. He gave voice to that history of Selma he knew so well, from the Great Depression and that time of segregation when black people sat in the “buzzard roof� of the theater, couldn’t try on clothes in department stores or went to S.H. Kress because it had the only “colored� bathroom in a department store. (Brasscheck note: Why do I hear the strains of "Deutchland, Deutland uber alles" ringing in my head as I read this ? Was their any significant difference between how blacks were treated in the US and Jews were treated under Hitler?) He gave voice to those during the Jim Crow era that were voiceless by going to law school at Howard University in Washington, D.C. and returning home two years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down school segregation with the Brown v. Board of Education ruling. For years, Chestnut was Selma’s first and only black attorney. He was present by the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday in 1965. The event, he said, became his turning point as it did for many black Americans after the passage of the Voting Rights Act. Chestnut was a student of power and how it affected blacks and whites in the South. He analyzed it and worked to give voice to blacks and whites that had none in that power struggle. He was not always appreciated or liked by some — the downside of living life as an advocate. Chestnut did not mince words. He did not suffer fools lightly. He believed Selma progressed from confrontation, and Chestnut was not afraid to be confrontational when he felt it was needed. His life, even to the end, was a struggle. He spoke of himself as much as he did of Martin Luther King Jr. when he observed the struggle for equal rights more than a generation after the Voting Rights Act passed. “We are far from the world envisioned by King in his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech,� Chestnut wrote. “We are closer to it, but getting there will continue to be a struggle. People forgot that King said near the end of that speech, ‘I [now] go back to the South’ — meaning to implement the dream of freedom and justice for all by marches, boycotts, and other means the establishment detested. I see King, at the expense of his life, striving to realize the dream, not just pleasantly dreaming.�

There has been an incredible union of support: I had the priviledge of talking with many farmers, C.S.A's and co-op leaders yesterday.

I have already passed on all the information from yesterday and the tour- team will be in contact with the co-op's, C.S.A's and farms as they get the information.

If you would like to participate in supporting this project, please contact me, so that I may pass the info along. 1-760-868-6206

Currently heading toward Malibu:

They are so grateful and simply overjoyed to have this opportunity to visit all of these wonderful places, and to experience first hand and close-up, small family farms, food co-op's, Community Supported Agriculture, and sustainable farming across America.

We are just happy to be to helpful and supportive during their journey.

I will be posting updates, photos, videos and info on our Private-Blog, facebook, twitter, websites, public blogs and our member forum. Please be sure to tune-in to see who they are visiting, and learn of their incredible journey

Thank you!

A group of young university students are riding their bicycles across the country, stopping and staying at co-op's, farms, and C.S.A's as part of their sustainable, agricultural research program.

There are 7 total, in their early 20's, currently at U.C. Santa Barbara.

They will be arriving here, via bicycle next week, and staying for a few days. How they will get through these dirt roads, I will never know LOL.

We are excited and fortunate to host this glorious event. If you are interested in hosting them, please let me know, so that I may pass your info along to them.

They have tents (in backpacks-wow). One of them is a vegetarian, so be prepared for that!

I spoke to one of their aunties (a long time, dear friend), yesterday and we are pleased to support their mission. I spoke to one of the ladies on the tour and they are out and about learning about sustainable farming and agriculture, co-op's and C.S.A.'s to further their research and development.

This is a wonderful project and they are determined to do this all on bicycles, with limited resouces (computers, technology etc), they deserve our support!

1-760-868-6206 Please call for more info.

Happy Brthday Fattie Pattie, One of our sows is 2 years old today, she is so beautiful. Today She celebrates her 2nd birthday, and this birthday is special, because it will be her first celebrated here with us.

It's going to be a big CELEBRATION!

 Vitamins minerals & herbs to be illegal

Help to protect our food supply! Buy Local, Buy Fresh, Buy Direct From The Small Family Farm.

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How Anger Can Indirectly Cause Health Problems

By Sandy Potts

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Of all the emotions that humans face, anger is one of the most toxic and problematic. Affecting tens of millions, toxic anger can literally poison people each and everyday of their lives. Anger is not something that can or should be cured but anger management is a necessity to avoid terrible conflicts whether it is at work, in relationships or at home and so forth. One of the reasons for the need of anger management is due to the toxic side effects that anger may indirectly cause to your health.

A high risk of a heart attack is one of the main health issues caused by anger. Unhealthy habits such as smoking cigarettes, overeating or drinking alcohol (or some combination of these) may contribute to heart disease. High blood pressure and high cholesterol usually go hand in hand with overexcessive lifestyles of overeating and cigarette smoking and so forth. Chest pain, a heart attack and a stroke are associated with a history of heart disease and anger is a contributing factor to all these risk factors.

It is estimated that there is a 65% higher chance of being a cigarette smoker if you normally experience intense anger such as rage than if you usually experience mild anger, that is irritation. This is due to the fact that smoking cigarettes may somehow help alleviate the stress and anger that one may feel. Unfortunately, smoking is linked to heart disease (and cancer) and that is one reason why anger indirectly affects your health.

Drinking alcohol is a negative coping mechanism, it numbs a person's emotions and people drink to forget their problems but also what they are feeling at the moment, such as sadness, anxiety, stress, guilt, shame and anger. Alcohol is a contribuiting factor for heart disease and it is noted that the more intense anger the person feels, the higher the alcohol consumption. Of the people who get occasionally mildy angry, 22 percent have more two or more alcoholic drinks whereas 44 percent of the intensely angry people drink that amount.

Overeating is one way that people deal with emotions, whether it be positive or negative. Stress, happiness, anger and so forth are a common way to be dealt with by reaching for food. Food, like alcohol, can be a numbing agent and when people are upset at the world, food makes a good distraction. Unfortunately, the side effect can be obesity which can cause all sorts of health problems.

High blood pressure is a significant factor in contributing to heart disease. Fifteen percent of people who get mildly angry have high blood pressure whereas 44 percent of people who display intense anger have high blood pressure. If you keep in the anger, your odds of having hypertension are 21 percent, and if you let it out, your odds are only 11 percent. When it comes to high cholesterol though, it is not caused by anger. However, it does aggravate the problem. High levels of anger among Type A personalities tend to have elevated levels of total cholesterol and LDL ("bad") cholesterol.

As it has been emphasized several times, it's very important to practice anger management if you tend to display fits of rage. Not only does anger affect other people at work or at home, the relationships that you try to cultivate, but it can also indirectly cause some serious health problems. Displaying intense anger can indirectly contribute to a higher chance of overeating, overindulgeing in alcohol, smoking and so forth. Practicing anger management is one of the first steps to getting your health back on track.

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