Is Recession Preparing a New Breed of Survivalist? [Survival Today - an On going Thread #2]

May 05th,2008

[nw_arizona_granny]

Yahoo ran an interesting article this morning indicating a rise in the number of survivalist communities cropping up around the country. I have been wondering myself how much of the recent energy crisis is causing people to do things like stockpile food and water, grow their own vegetables, etc. Could it be that there are many people out there stockpiling and their increased buying has caused food prices to increase? It’s an interesting theory, but I believe increased food prices have more to do with rising fuel prices as cost-to-market costs have increased and grocers are simply passing those increases along to the consumer. A recent stroll through the camping section of Wal-Mart did give me pause - what kinds of things are prudent to have on hand in the event of a worldwide shortage of food and/or fuel? Survivalist in Training

I’ve been interested in survival stories since I was a kid, which is funny considering I grew up in a city. Maybe that’s why the idea of living off the land appealed to me. My grandfather and I frequently took camping trips along the Blue Ridge Parkway and around the Smoky Mountains. Looking back, some of the best times we had were when we stayed at campgrounds without electricity hookups, because it forced us to use what we had to get by. My grandfather was well-prepared with a camp stove and lanterns (which ran off propane), and when the sun went to bed we usually did along with it. We played cards for entertainment, and in the absence of televisions, games, etc. we shared many great conversations. Survivalist in the Neighborhood

[nw_arizona_granny]

http://www.inmamaskitchen.com/RECIPES/RECIPES/breakfast/ham_hash.html

Ham Hash with Eggs in Mustard Cream Sauce

“Here is another breakfast recipe for you. Everyone likes this a lot, I never have leftovers.” Diane Nemitz, B&B owner.

* 3 tablespoons butter
* 3 tablespoons oil
* 3 large potatoes, peeled,cooked and cubed
* 1/2 lb. ham, chopped
* 1 tablespoon finely minced onion
* 1 tablespoon butter
* 1 tablespoon flour
* 1 cup milk
* 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
* 4 hard cooked eggs, peeled and sliced

METHOD

In large skillet, heat butter and oil until butter is melted. Add potatoes, ham and onion. Cook over medium heat, stirring and turning mixture over until crispy brown.

While hash is cooking, make mustard cream sauce. In small saucepan, melt 1 tablespoon butter. Stir in flour to make a roux. Add milk and stir over low heat until sauce begins to thicken. Stir in mustard. Continue cooking until sauce is thick. Add sliced eggs to sauce, but do not stir.

When hash is finished cooking, place in serving bowl. Pour eggs with sauce over the middle of the hash. Serve at once. Nice with toast or biscuits.

Serves: 4

recipe from www.inmamaskitchen.com

Contributor: Diane Nemitz

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Babka - Polish Easter Bread

* 1 cup sugar
* 2 packets active dry yeast
* 1/2 cup lukewarm water
* 4 large eggs
* 7 1/2 to 8 cups flour
* 1 1/2 cups raisins
* 1 1/2 cups milk
* 2 teaspoons salt
* 2/3 cup vegetable shortening
* 2 tsp salt
* 4 teaspoons rum extract

Method

Scald milk. Stir in shortening, salt and rum extract. Whisk to combine and set aside to cool to room temperature.

Mix sugar and yeast in a large bowl and water and stir to dissolve. Add cooled milk mixture. Stir in eggs. Add flour a little at a time and blend well. Fold in raisins.

Turn dough onto floured board and knead well by hand until smooth and elastic. Place in greased bowl and turn to coat. Cover with a towel and allow to rise double, about 1 hour.

Punch down and divide into 3 loaves. Place in three 9 x 13 greased bread pans. Allow to rise about an hour or puffy.

Bake in preheated 350F° oven until golden, about 40 minute.

Happy Easter!

Contributor: Andrea Bender

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Italian Easter Pie

Easter Pie has many different names and even more recipes, depending on the section of Italy in question. To learn more, please read Mark’s article “Italian easter pie.”

Crust

* 2 cups all purpose flour
* 3/4 teaspoon salt
* 2 sticks unsalted butter, cut in cubes
* 2 eggs

Filling

*
6 eggs
*
salt and pepper to taste
*
8 ounces farmer cheese, fresh soft cheese or ricotta cheese click for note
*
2 ounces shredded mozzarella cheese
*
3 ounces shredded ham
*
3 ounces shredded salami
*
3 ounces shredded prosciutto

METHOD

Crust: Mix flour and salt and place in bowl of a food processor. Add butter cubes, one at a time to dough. After each cube pulse food processor just enough to work in butter. Do not overwork or dough will toughen. Dough should resemble coarse meal.

Add eggs. Pulse dough until it comes together in a ball. Cut dough in half so that one half is slightly bigger than the other. The smaller half will be the top crust. Wrap each in plastic wrap and rest dough for an hour in fridge. (If you don’t have a food processor, work in butter with a dough cutter or a fork and use your hands to integrate eggs.)

When dough is almost done resting, preheat oven to 350°F. Make filling: Beat eggs with salt and pepper. Blend cheese into eggs. Shred or slice meat, or put in food processor for a finer textured pie and add to egg/cheese mixture.

Roll out larger piece of dough on a floured board until it will fill a 9-inch pie shell. Add filling. Roll out smaller piece of dough until it will cover top. Crimp around edges to seal it.

If you’d like, you can brush the top with an egg wash, (beaten eggs). This will give it a sheen when it bakes. Finally, poke holes or slits in the top crust to allow the steam to vent.

Cook in preheated 350°F oven or 45 minutes.

Yield: 1 pie

Contributor: Mark Vogel

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[DelaWhere]

Famine Visions USA

March 30, 2009
Glynda Lomax

In December of last year (2008) I had a series of visions about a devastating famine that is coming to America. In talking with other ministers in Oklahoma, I discovered a number of them have also seen famine visions. Here is what I was shown:

December 1st:

I was looking down into a big soup pot and could smell beans, but it was mostly water. I could feel famine all around and that people were starving to death along with their children. I saw bare cupboards, nothing in them but one or two spices. I was standing up when this vision came and it was so powerful it almost knocked me to my knees. Most of the visions I have come during worship when I am on my knees.

December 2nd:

I was sitting on my couch when the next visions came. I saw people in the streets cooking over open fires in pots. What they were cooking smelled horrible and yet they were so excited just to have anything at all to eat. Their eyes were wild with hunger. I saw great, open sores on the children. I didn’t see any small children at all, these were all probably 11 years old or older, but they were covered in large, open sores. They all wore old, ragged clothing and the sky was gray. It seemed to be cold outside.

I looked into one woman’s eyes and saw a combination of desperation and madness. She was cooking in one of the pots and somehow I knew she was cooking the entrails of a dog. She was so happy to have something to eat, though the smell coming from that pot would not make you think it was anything you would eat at all.

I saw people dropping in the street and just dying there from starvation. Others just walked past them, they were all kind of scuffling along like they were in shock.

There was terrible desperation in the eyes of those begging people. It was heartbreaking to look at. America, once so plentiful, was reduced to a third world country status. People starving and dying in the streets like in Africa. I felt helpless to save them.

Father, Why am I being shown such terrible things?

“Tell My People, Daughter.

Warn My People this is coming so they can prepare and be ready!

Tell them I said to get ready to help those who are unsaved for the end is very near now.

Tell them to cling not to their own lives, but be willing to lay them down for a higher glory, for MY glory!

Tell them to give all even when they themselves are in need for many will die and go to hell in that time and those left behind will experience a fate even worse than that. The Beast, the False Prophet - all that was foretold in Revelations is about to come true. Fear not their faces, for I will protect you.

Tell them, My Child. Tell them though you know many will not listen. Many hard-hearted ones will perish in that time but others will listen. I will open the hearts of those who have ears to hear and those who are being interceded for.

Tell My People I said to Pray diligently for those you love so they will not be lost in that time for many will want to take the Mark of the Beast and if they do there is no turning back for them.

Tell them!

Not long after, I think it was a few nights later, I had another vision - it was of a nuclear attack.

I was looking at a skyscraper and inside I could see there was a party or celebration of some sort going on. I saw a woman with dark hair pinned up dressed in a long blue sequined dress and a man in a suit talking to her. Many people were around them at the party and they were all talking. I looked up and over the building I saw a nuclear missile headed directly for the building and the city it was in. I don’t know what city it was, I did not recognize the skyline, but it was completely dark in the vision I saw, so it happened at night. It was obvious no one at the party had even the slightest clue the attack was coming.

I know others who claim to be unbelievers who have been having visions of nuclear attack on America for the last seven or eight years. The visions are always the same and they come like nightmares to them. They are both men and neither of them is a fearful person, they are both very scientifically minded and highly intelligent. I believe God is warning even His chosen who do not yet know they are chosen. One of them sees the attack on a specific city and an airplane falling from the sky, the other sees multiple simultaneous attacks and complete devastation in those cities. It is so bad he won’t even describe what he sees to me.

God led me the beginning of this month to move to Texas. I drove around for about a week praying every day while staying in a motel until I found where He wanted me. All I knew was that it was North Texas, I didn’t even know what town I was going to until He showed me in my spirit after that week. He led me to a small rent house, but the interesting thing is, the man I rented it from just completed a series of five books. They comprise a story about the two final witnesses, and he said he hasn’t been able to get the story out of his head for forty years, so he finally wrote it. In the last book, there is a nuclear attack on America. I have only read Book 1 so far, but God has told me the story is indeed from Him.

Many, many people are being shown both the famine and the nuclear attacks in visions and dreams. Most of us don’t even know each other, there’s no way this can be coincidence. My prayer is that God will open the hearts of others to see what is coming and show them how to prepare.

http://standeyo.com/NEWS/09_Prophecy/090401.famine.USA.html

[nw_arizona_granny]

http://www.inmamaskitchen.com/RECIPES/RECIPES/EGGS11/deviled_eggs/spiced_oran.html

Spiced, Orange-Flavored Hard-Boiled Eggs

* 8 hard-cooked eggs
* 1 1/2 cups white vinegar
* 1/4 cup water
* 1 can (6 oz.) frozen orange juice concentrate
* 1 cinnamon stick, broken
* 8 whole cloves, crushed

Arrange eggs in 1-quart jar with tight-fitting lid.

In medium saucepan, stir together all remaining ingredients. Bring to boiling. Reduce heat and gently simmer 5 minutes.

Pour hot mixture over eggs. Cover tightly. Store in cool place OR cool at room temperature 1 hour. Refrigerate to blend flavors, at least several days or up to several weeks. After opening, refrigerate and use within 1 week.

Contributor: Junior Trimmer

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Sweet Chinese Tea Eggs

The Chinese have ingenious uses for eggs. This recipe requires cracking the eggs, a condition that often occurs naturally to eggs in a child’s Easter basket.

* 3 cups water
* 2 tea bags
* 2 tablespoons sugar
* 6 hard-boiled eggs, cooled

METHOD

Put tea bags and sugar in a medium saucepan with water. Bring to a boil.

Crack eggs all over with the back of a spoon. DO NOT REMOVE SHELLS. Add to saucepan, reduce heat to very low and cook for 45 minutes.

Remove pan from heat and set aside. Do not remove eggs until ready to eat. Peel and serve whole.

Serves: 4 - 6

recipe from www.inmamaskitchen.com

Contributor: John Laing for Karen Laing

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Potato & Hard-boiled Egg Casserole

This is a baked casserole using hard-boiled eggs. It’s a nice accompaniment to leftover meats the day after a holiday.

* 6 medium potatoes, peeled
* 1 cup (1/2 pint) sour cream
* 1 (10 1/2 ounce) can cream chicken soup
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 1/4 teaspoon pepper
* 1/4 teaspoon curry powder
* 4 hard boiled eggs, sliced
* 1/2 cup soft bread crumbs, combined with
* 1/2 cup shredded sharp Cheddar cheese

METHOD

Cook potatoes whole in boiling, salted water until tender. Drain. Slice about 1/4 inch thick.

Preheat oven to 350°F.

Combine sour cream, chicken soup, salt, pepper, and curry powder.

Layer bottom of a 2 quart casserole with 1/3 of potato slices, then 1/3 egg slices, then 1/3 cream mixture. Repeat layering 2 more times.

Sprinkle bread crumb/cheese mixture over top. Bake, uncovered, in preheated 350° F oven about 30 minutes, or until heated through and browned on top.

Serves 6.

recipe from www.inmamaskitchen.com

Contributor: junior Trimmer

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Pickled Eggs and Beets

Beets give color to the eggs, of course. Though pickled, they remind us of decorated Easter eggs. These eggs are delicious with cold meats.

* 12 hard-boiled eggs
* 4 cups cooked beets, sliced
* 1 1/2 cup white vinegar
* 2 teaspoons kosher salt
* 1 onion, sliced
* 1 1/2 cup granulated sugar
* 1 teaspoon whole cloves
* 1 teaspoon mustard seed
* 1 teaspoon black pepper seeds

METHOD

Peel eggs and discard shells. Place with beets in large glass or other non-reactive bowl.

Combine vinegar, salt, onion, sugar, cloves, mustard seed and pepper seed in saucepan and bring to a boil. When boiling, lower heat to simmer and cook, stirring, until sugar dissolves. Remove from heat for 3 minutes.

Pour ingredients over eggs and beets while hot, but not scalding. When cool, pour into airtight containers, and store in refrigerator overnight.

recipe from www.inmamaskitchen.com

Contributor: Elisa Penn

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Dye Easter Eggs - the old-fashioned way

This recipe belongs with our baby applesauce recipe. Both speak of the connection between love and food. Thank you, Francesca.

* as many eggs you plan on dying
* enough cold water to cover eggs
* splash of vinegar (about 1 teaspoon)
* red onion skins

(The more onion skins you have, the darker your eggs will be. We usually save the skins in Ziploc bags as we use red onions during Lent. )

METHOD

Using a sewing needle, poke a small hole in the wide bottom of each egg. This minimizes cracking.

Fill a large pot with cold water, the red onion skins that you’ve collected, and a splash of white vinegar.

Place eggs in pot just as you would if you were making plain hard boiled eggs.

Bring water to a boil and let e eggs boil for about five minutes.

Remove eggs from pot and let cool.

Decorate as you will.

recipe from www.inmamaskitchen.com

Contributor: Francesaca Di Meglio for Regina Margherita Di Meglio

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[nw_arizona_granny]

4:41 A.M.? It certainly was morning - or was that the middle of the night? ;) <<<<

LOL, it took a minute to figure out that this time, it was morning.

[DelaWhere]

Coming Government Takeover of Food

Exclusive: Roger Hedgecock exposes plot to regulate American farms

related: Lose Your Property for Growing Food?
Will Congress Wipe Out Home Gardens, Growers Markets?
Myths and Facts: HR 875 - The Food Safety Modernization Act
Response to "Myths and Facts H.R. 875 – The Food Safety Modernization Act"
Myths and Facts: .R. 875 The Food Safety Modernization Act
Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 – bill status

March 30, 2009
World Net Daily

"Recession gardens" are springing up everywhere. There's always been a home gardening passion among many Americans, and farmer's markets are a familiar part of American life. However, this is something new.

In response to the soaring cost of food, more Americans are turning back to their roots – literally. Mail order seed giant Burpee Seeds reports record demand for garden vegetable seeds. Cable TV shows on home gardening are suddenly popular beyond the core of committed "grow your own" types. The healthy food movement has been lifted beyond its core of Agbiz rejectionists. Websites catering to those thirsting for basic knowledge on home gardening "how to" are flooded with new visitors.

The "recession garden" has arrived in your backyard (or one near you) echoing the "victory garden" of World War II.

Both big government and big business are alarmed – and both are working to control this phenomenon. What's in the works threatens a government definition of what is "food" and proposes regulations amounting to a government takeover of the production, transportation and sale of food in this country for the benefit of Big Ag.

First, Michelle Obama swings a shovel into action, tearing out the White House lawn to plant a vegetable garden. In response, politicians all over rush to show they are backyard farmers too.

Then the leftist think tanks swing into action. Building on the Salmonella outbreak linked to nine deaths from peanut products late last year, a study released last week by the Trust for America's Health (in conjunction with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) called food safety in the U.S. "plagued with problems." The study found that the American economy lost $44 billion in medical care and lost productivity because of unsafe food and called on the Obama administration to create a new Food Safety Administration and double (from $542 million in FY 2009) federal funding to insure food safety.

Not coincidentally, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., introduced HR 875 to establish a new Food Safety Administration to "protect the public health" and "ensure the safety of food." Rep. DeLauro believes that the FDA is not effective enough with the current laws governing food safety, so HR 875 grants broad new powers to the new FSA. DeLauro is a former chief of staff to Sen. Chris Dodd. Her husband, Stan Greenberg, is a leftist consultant whose corporate clients include Monsanto.

Photo: Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn. speaks about salmonella poisoning during a news conference on Capitol Hill February 4, 2009 in Washington, DC. Rep. DeLauro is introducing food safety reform legislation which would modernize food safety laws and restructure food safety efforts by splitting the Food and Drug Administration into two separate agencies. DeLauro is also author of the controversial HR 875 bill that some see as another attempt to wipe out non-hybrid, open-pollinated seeds. (Mark Wilson / Getty Images)

This bill – if passed – would give FSA inspectors the right to enter, anywhere in the world, any premises of any food establishment to inspect and determine whether the product of that food establishment should be sold to American consumers.

And you and I say, "Great! Who wants to eat tainted food products whether from American or foreign sources?" Having established the always popular posture of the federal government protecting you against Big Food, the author of the bill hopes you read no further.

I did read further, and here's what I found.

HR 875 defines "food establishment" (among other things) as any "facility ... that processes food or a facility that hold, stores, or transports food or food ingredients." The bill also defines "food production facility" as "any farm, ranch, orchard, vineyard, aquaculture facility, or confined animal-feeding facility." The bill empowers the new FSA to promulgate regulations further defining what "food" is, and regulating the manner of its growth, processing and delivery to the consumer.

The companion Senate Bill (SB 425) introduced by Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, sheds more light on the true goal of all this. Her bill requires "traceability" in these words:

The traceability system shall require each article of food ... to be identified in a manner that enables the Secretary to retrieve the history, use, and location of the article through a recordkeeping and audit system ...

Taken together, these bills envision federal government definition of what is "food" and the requirement that, if you produce this "food," you will have to provide the paperwork to document that you produced it according to the regulations of the FSA.

Basically, don't sell, or even give, the produce from your "recession garden" to anyone – or you're in a heap of trouble.

HR 875 provides a $1 million fine for each infraction of the "rules" or "orders" of the FSA for each day that such infractions are deemed by the FSA to exist. SB 425 provides a fine of $100,000 for each violation of any order or regulation of the FSA and for each day that such violation occurs.

Small farmers and food processors (jams and jelly folks, for example) would be out of business if these bills are passed into law. Ditto farmers' markets, and, potentially any individual who sells or even shares the bounty of a home garden.

If these bills pass into law, Big Ag Biz would increase its stranglehold on the food business, and big government would expand its swarm of officers bedeviling every private pursuit of happiness.

The M.O. for this government takeover of "food" for the benefit of bigger government and big business is certainly familiar – it is playing out in energy and health care, too.

As Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel famously admitted, there is no "crisis" that is not an opportunity to advance the agenda of bigger government.

So … what of the produce from the White House garden? Without an army of clerks and "traceable" paperwork, could the veggies from the White House even be given to the homeless shelter down the street? And what of the Obama voters in the "healthy food," back-to-the-Earth community? They will be collateral damage as the FSA takes over "food" for Monsanto. Is this the "change" they want us to believe in?

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=93293

http://www.millennium-ark.net/NEWS/09_Food_Water/090401.control.food.html

[nw_arizona_granny]

Probably even detrimental, IMO, since all the classes are about liberal brainwashing.<<<

That is the impression that i have gotten about the schools of today.

I thought that we wanted our kids to know how to think, but that is not what they want at all.

They keep talking about the drug war, most of the music and blinking lights on the tv today, are what the kids are after on a trip, even the announcements are a fine example of brainwashing.

I knew as early as 1958 that the schools were in trouble, a teacher drove me crazy [a note every day] over controlling my daughter, it turned out she was not able to hear and had to ask the other kids, what they learned.

An operation fixed it, and a different teacher, who was not having personal problems.

I grew up in the era, that we thought that teachers should stand next to God, for they knew so much and some of them do know and teach.

[DelaWhere]

HR 875 - The Death of Farmers Markets, CSAs and Local Food

related: Coming Government Takeover of Food
Lose Your Property for Growing Food?
Will Congress Wipe Out Home Gardens, Growers Markets?
Myths and Facts: HR 875 - The Food Safety Modernization Act
Response to "Myths and Facts H.R. 875 – The Food Safety Modernization Act"
Myths and Facts: .R. 875 The Food Safety Modernization Act
Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 – bill status

March 30, 2009
The Nourished Kitchen

HR 875, also known as the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009, was introduced by Rosa Delauro - a democratic party member of the United States House of Representatives from Connecticut - in February of 2009. The title of HR 875, The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009, sounds innocuous enough - even comforting, but its implications yield a much, much different story.

HR 875 as it is written today, could very well mean the end of the vibrant and growing local foods movement. Yes - if it passes - it could herald the death of farmers markets, most CSAs, farmstands and even small family-run farms altogether.

Ostensibly, HR 875 or the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 would bring greater accountability to our imperiled food system. Indeed, with salmonella-infected peanuts and spinach laced with e-coli, who isn’t crying out for improvements in food safety?

However, HR 875 fails miserably in promoting food safety. Rather, than promoting true accountability and proper farming techniques that minimize the risk of introducing pathogens into the food supply, it simply will create greater barriers for our already struggling small farms and farmers markets.

HR 875 mandates that anyone who produces food of any kind - meat, milk, fruit, vegetables et cetera - and transports that food for sale be subject to warrantless government inspections of their farms and food production records. These random inspections can be conducted at the whim of federal agents without regard to farmers rights or property rights. Further, the law would allow federal agents to confiscate records, product as they see fit as part of the inspection process.

Agents could also implement draconian restrictions regarding how farm animals can be fed, how fields can be managed and the end result of these restrictions could mean the end of organic, biodynamic and sustainable agriculture practices if these practices are deemed “unsafe.” Farmers refusing to comply would be subject to penalties.

The penalty for denying federal agents unlimited, random access to a farm’s fields, properties, products and records is $1,000,000. The penalty for not registering is $1,000,000.

Remember, this law would affect every farmer or food producer who must transport his goods to sell them - in effect, every single farmer. That means that an orchard that sells fresh fruit at a roadside stand would be affected; a farmer who delivers CSA boxes would be affected, even a home gardener who brings excess harvest to a farmers market’s community booth would have to register or be subject to $1,000,000 fines and that garden plot would be subject to inspection by federal agents. Ridiculous, isn’t it? But it’s true.

HR 875 is such a massive bill, with such massive requirements and restrictions that, in effect, only huge agribusinesses would be able to effectively meet all its requirements. The small family farm would be history and, along with it, farmstands, farmers markets, most food cooperatives and CSAs.

Now, let’s get back to Rosa Delauro who introduced HR 875 in February. Ms. Delaura is married to Stanley Greenberg. Stanley Greenberg is a political consultant whose clients include Monsanto – Monsanto, the same corporation, who blessed us with RBGH and genetically engineered seeds. Should we really trust Ms. Delauro or her husband to make these kinds of decisions for the American people?

My husband and I run a farmers market - a vibrant and growing farmers market in the heart of ski country. Now, it’s taken our blood, sweat and tears (and I do mean real blood, real sweat and real tears) to make our market succeed. Were this bill to pass, it would mean the end of our market as our farmers - some of whom grow on as little as a single acre - would be forced to close their gates. It would also mean the end of our local CSAs - all of which are delivered from the farm after a winding trip through the mountains.

The bill has not passed yet, so you still have time to act. Remember, eating is now a political act so exercise your rights.

Act now:

• Read the full bill here: HR 875 - Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009.
  
• Contact your representative and inform them you oppose HR 875.
  
• Tweet this post and spread the word about HR 875.
  
• Stumble this post and spread the word about HR 875.
  
• Blog about your opposition to HR 875.
  
• Contact your representative AGAIN and make sure the message gets through.
  

http://nourishedkitchen.com/fight-hr-875-food-safety-modernization-act-of-2009/


http://www.millennium-ark.net/NEWS/09_Food_Water/090401.HR875.html

[nw_arizona_granny]

Famine Visions USA

March 30, 2009
Glynda Lomax

In December of last year (2008) I had a series of visions about a devastating famine that is coming to America. In talking with other ministers in Oklahoma, I discovered a number of them have also seen famine visions. Here is what I was shown:<<<

It does not surprise me.

Cherokee folks, have a stronger ESP than some others do.

My mother was a full blood Cherokee, and when she said
“I dreamed _____”, you might as well listen, for she was always correct and you would soon know she was.

I rarely dream, but I do sometimes feel God not always gently tapping me on the shoulder and saying, “Pay attention, for you know the answer, think about it”, amazing what I know and have no way to prove it, until it happens.

I think that the increase in dreams, is brought on by our fears of what is coming, our minds put the thoughts in the air and some people can pick them up, just as a radio picks up sound.

It is the same as when we are all praying for someone, we put the healing thoughts in the air.

The same principal works for picking up an intended strike by a terrorist, as when you have a bunch of them all excited and planning, then the thoughts are in the air and someone will pick them up.

The problem, is in getting people to understand that you know what you are talking about.

It is in the air, as it must be, so that folks will learn and wake up...........

God gives us all the knowledge we need, if we are smart enough to use it.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Exclusive: Roger Hedgecock exposes plot to regulate American farms<<<

Yes, for if we are hungry, we will do as the gov tells us to do.

It is as simple as that.

[nw_arizona_granny]

HR 875 - The Death of Farmers Markets, CSAs and Local Food<<<

It is going to get interesting, for some of the Farmers Markets and CSA Farms, are State sponsored, or at least the Extension Service does so, for years they have had a small farmers market at the Extension office parking lot.

This is all so sad and if all the congress critters plant gardens and then get in trouble for sharing/bragging about their garden foods, we will get the law changed.

This is all a nightmare, we will wake up and find it was a joke.

I wish.

[DelaWhere]

Thought y’all would like to see what I sent our lone RINO Congress Critter... Congressman Michael Castle R,DE

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Mike,

There comes a point in people’s lives when they have to say NO MORE!

At that point, as our forefathers did, we dig in our heels and declare that Government has exceeded it’s power - that the line in the sand has been crossed - that living under the tyranny of an oppressive Government violates our God given rights. The Constitution that you and I have both sworn to uphold and defend is being trampled, derided, ignored and desecrated.

HR 875, also known as the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009, Introduced by Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn and the companion Senate Bill SB 425 introduced by Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio are just two such lines in the sand which call for the citizens to DEMAND that they not be enacted!

In the past, you have taken a moderate ‘middle-of-the-road’ position on legislation. Now the extremists are stomping all over your position. It is time for you to not only come out of your shell by voting against this legislation, but to take to the House floor and DEMAND on behalf of the citizens you represent that this legislation be soundly defeated.

I have read these pieces of legislation, I have digested the intent, objectives and ramifications. They are absolutely unconstitutional, and would spawn an upheaval that I am sure that you and your colleagues would like to avoid.

Mike, with the flood of like minded legislation we are seeing, now is the time to stand up, espouse our freedoms like never before and be counted when it counts.

Cal

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Anyone else feel motivated to write yours?
Link is above - in article...

[CottonBall]

There comes a point in people’s lives when they have to say NO MORE! At that point, as our forefathers did, we dig in our heels and declare that Government has exceeded it’s power - that the line in the sand has been crossed - that living under the tyranny of an oppressive Government violates our God given rights. The Constitution that you and I have both sworn to uphold and defend is being trampled, derided, ignored and desecrated.

Excellent.

I was just thinking today about the differences of when a liberal wins the WH vs a conservative. If a conservative wins, even a RINO like Bush, the libs all threaten to move to Canada or elsewhere. And of course, don't have the courage to follow through. However, when a socialist wins, the conservatives buy guns, stockpile food, and figure out how to help their familes, neighbors, and nation survive.

That difference says it all!

[nw_arizona_granny]

Mayor unleashes goat program

Vision Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson unveiled yesterday a controversial new program
aimed at conserving energy and reducing carbon dioxide emissions at city hall.

The GoatingGreen program, which originated in the Netherlands, is the first of its
kind in North America.

At a backyard press conference at city hall, Robertson, who made environmentalism
a key component of his successful 2008 civic election campaign, introduced Tony,
a striking four-year-old African pygmy goat and program centerpiece.

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Pigs Raised in Skyscrapers

Can we combine organic farming with a further concentration of the production-activites
so that there will be enough space for other activities? Is it possible to compact
all the pig production within concentrated farms, therefore avoiding unnecessary
transportation and distribution, and thereby reducing the spread of diseases? Can
we through concentrated farming, create economical mass and a central food core,
so as to solve the various problems found in the pig-industry?

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BBC recording - Cuba and Urban Gardening

Recordings: 26 minutes
Dusty Gedge, London TV (BBC).
Roberto Perez, Antonio Nunez Jimenez Foundation de la Naturaleza Y el Hombre in
Cuba.

Vilda Figeroa, for 30 years a nutritionist at the Cuban Government Research Institute.

Justo Torres Lazo, urban farmer in Havana.

Madelaine Vasquez, food researcher, writer and presenter of the weekly TV programme
“Con Sabor”
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All stories here.
City Farmer News [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102534284309&s=1304&e=001qFPbU5kem695iSgrSpKBB5Q4SxUhb54pryTFMv14iUdBDyKwBEoA6LgzOWNyl0aVTInkUBCw-1MNup-USyXvDy500gSgWvXBSnFj0JUN0tRDpBgDQZVd4A==]

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Michael Levenston
City Farmer - Canada’s Office of Urban Agriculture

[nw_arizona_granny]

At that point, as our forefathers did, we dig in our heels and declare that Government has exceeded it’s power - that the line in the sand has been crossed - that living under the tyranny of an oppressive Government violates our God given rights. The Constitution that you and I have both sworn to uphold and defend is being trampled, derided, ignored and desecrated.<<<<

An excellent letter, now to figure out how to get them to read it....

How is it that no one we have elected, knows how to read?

[nw_arizona_granny]

I was just thinking today about the differences of when a liberal wins the WH vs a conservative. If a conservative wins, even a RINO like Bush, the libs all threaten to move to Canada or elsewhere. And of course, don’t have the courage to follow through. However, when a socialist wins, the conservatives buy guns, stockpile food, and figure out how to help their familes, neighbors, and nation survive.

That difference says it all! <<<

That it does.

I have found it interesting, that now so many liberals are rushing to learn how to survive, why? They elected obama and now must get prepared to survive.

It never ceases to amaze me, the number of seminar callers who are calling the talk shows and supporting obama.

I did hear one admit that he was a socialist, when he was pinned down on how he thought.

Scary times we are in.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Netanyahu to Obama: Stop Iran-Or I Will

by http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/by/jeffrey_goldberg_
Jeffrey Goldberg

In an interview conducted shortly before he was sworn in today as prime
minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu laid down a challenge for Barack
Obama. The American president, he said, must stop Iran from acquiring
nuclear weapons-and quickly-or an imperiled Israel may be forced to attack
Iran’s nuclear facilities itself.

“The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and
preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons,” Netanyahu told me. He said
the Iranian nuclear challenge represents a “hinge of history” and added that
“Western civilization” will have failed if Iran is allowed to develop
nuclear weapons.

In unusually blunt language, Netanyahu said of the Iranian leadership, “You
don’t want a messianic apocalyptic cult controlling atomic bombs. When the
wide-eyed believer gets hold of the reins of power and the weapons of mass
death, then the entire world should start worrying, and that is what is
happening in Iran.”

continued

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News & Resources

Minnesota Farm To School Toolkit Available
http://www.misa.umn.edu/Sustainable_Agriculture_Newsletter.html
The Willmar School District in western Minnesota has gradually incorporated locally purchased food into its cafeteria menu over the last four years. In response to requests to share their information, Annette Hendrickx Derouin (Willmar’s Director of Food and Nutrition Services) and Lynn Mader (U of M Extension, Family Development) have been working with the Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture and an advisory team to develop an online toolkit (http://www.mn-farmtoschool.umn.edu/) for Minnesota school nutrition programs. The toolkit contains information and materials to assist in planning a farm to school program; sourcing, preparing, and serving local foods; and promoting the food to students, parents, teachers, and administrators. Ready-to-use items include cafeteria menus and recipes complete with nutritional information, sample newsletter and announcement pieces, posters, and tested methods for getting students to sample the food.
Related ATTRA Publication: Bringing Local Food to Local Institutions
http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/farmtoschool.html

Blog For Pasture and Range Production Launched
http://www.extension.org/pages/New_Pasture_and_Range_Blog_Set_up_for_S.D._Producers
A new Extension blog focused on pasture and range livestock production is up and running on the Internet. The South Dakota State University ‘South Dakota Pasture and Range Livestock Production’ (http://sdpastureandrangelivestockproduction.blogspot.com/) blog is now available. Extension Livestock Educator Rebecca Schafer is the author of the blog. ‘While it is very new, we hope it will help serve pasture and range livestock producers, giving them a chance to ask questions and get answers,’ said Schafer.
Related ATTRA Publication: Pasture, Rangeland, and Grazing Management
http://attra.org/attra-pub/past_range_graze.html

Journalist Follows Steer From Field to Plate
http://www.minnpost.com/stories/2009/03/18/7448/from_prairie_farm_to_st_paul_plate_the_tale_of_lowline_angus_713
Journalist Mark Neuzil, with MinnPost.com, recently documented the process of acquiring local, organic beef. His article, along with photos (http://www.minnpost.com/galleries/organicsteer/), follows a steer from the field to slaughter and processing. He outlines the steer’s production, along with challenges to purchasing local meat.

Minority Farmers Graduate From USDA Institute
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usdahome?contentidonly=true&contentid=2009/03/0073.xml
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today presided over the Washington, D.C., graduation ceremony of 26 minority farmers from the Small Farmer Agricultural Leadership Training Institute, a 2-year course of study that gives small, socially disadvantaged, limited resource and/or minority farmers the knowledge to become successful agricultural entrepreneurs. The program is unique in that it is the only one in the country specifically targeting minority, socially disadvantaged and/or limited resource agricultural producers.

Land For Good Offers Land Leasing Tutorial
http://www.extension.org/pages/Online_Tutorial_on_Farm_Leasing_Now_Available
Access to farmland is one of the biggest challenges for new farmers. For many, leasing may be an effective strategy. Leases can provide affordable, flexible and secure access to farms, land, and buildings. Land For Good, a nonprofit offering education and assistance to owners and managers of working lands, entering farmers, and other-land use decision-makers, is offering an online land leasing tutorial (http://www.landforgood.org/leasing/online.php). The tutorial offers four short, easy and informative modules that give basic information, lease examples and lots of linked resources.

Kentucky Offers On-Farm Energy Efficiency Assistance
http://migration.kentucky.gov/Newsroom/kyagpolicy/090320_kadb_release.htm
The Kentucky Agricultural Development Board (KADB) recently adopted policy and program revisions intended to broaden access to diversification funds and enhance accountability. In addition to the current investment areas, the County Agricultural Investment Program will include a new investment area called ‘On-farm Energy Efficiency & Production’. This investment area will be a tool to help farmers increase energy efficiency in their current production practices, while ultimately increasing net farm income through realized cost savings.
Related ATTRA Publication: Farm Energy Calculators: Tools for Saving Money on the Farm
http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/farmenergycalc.html

More Breaking News (http://attra.ncat.org/news/)

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Funding Opportunities

Northeast SARE Agroecosystems Research Grant
http://nesare.org/get/agroecosystems/
The Agroecosystems Research Grant program funds long-term research that explores the ecological interactions that are the basis of sustainable agriculture. The emphasis is on projects that improve understanding of these interactions and promote new models of farming that future farmers can adopt. Preproposals are due May 31, 2009.
Preproposals are due May 31, 2009.

Quaker Oats Community Hunger Grant
http://quakeroats.promotions.com/gogrants/splash.do
Quaker Oats is offering grants for projects that will help combat hunger in your community. The Quaker Go Grant program will select twenty winners each month from April through August 2009. Winners will each receive a $500 cash grant to fund their projects.
Application deadlines for the monthly awards are March 31, 2009, April 30, 2009, May 31, 2009, June 30, 2009 and July 31, 2009.

Rural Energy Audits and Renewable Energy Development Grant
http://www.ezec.gov/rbs/busp/REAPEA.htm
The Rural Energy for America Program (REAP)/Energy Audit (EA)/Renewable Energy Development Assistance (REDA) Grant Program will provide grants for energy audits and renewable energy development assistance. State, tribal or local government, land-grant colleges, universities, or other institutions of higher education (including 1994 Land Grant (Tribal Colleges) and 1890 Land Grant Colleges and Historically Black Universities), rural electric cooperatives, and public power entities are eligible for funds to provide energy audits and renewable energy development assistance for agricultural producers and rural small businesses.
Proposals are due June 9, 2009.

More Funding Opportunities (http://attra.ncat.org/funding/)

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Coming Events

Southwest Marketing Network
http://www.swmarketingnetwork.org/
April 6-8, 2009
Durango, Colorado
This seventh annual conference offers a full schedule of workshops, networking meetings, and free time for informal networking, with a focus on good food networks. ‘Building a Good Food System in the Southwest’ features presentations by Marty Gerencer of the National Good Food Network and a diverse panel of food system stakeholders who are building good food systems in their communities. Interactive workshops in four tracks are geared at helping participants identify and expand their roles in developing the local food system. Tracks are Scaling up to New Markets; Growing your Organization’s Capacity to Grow the Food System; Making your Farm/Ranch Business Work for YOU; Mooving More Livestock.

Virginia Agriculture and Food Entrepreneurship Program
http://www.vafep.org/index.php
April 6, 2009
Charlottesville, Virginia
This workshop will provide information and training on how to start and operate a food-based business in Virginia. The program aims to increase the quality and quantity of regionally produced food and value-added food products as a means to incorporate sustainable agriculture into our local economy.

Sustainable Blackberry Production Workshop
https://orangehub.okstate.edu/ustores/web/store_cat.jsp?STOREID=3&CATID=118
April 8, 2009
Perkins, Oklahoma
Cimarron Valley Research Station will host this workshop. Good management starts with a well-grounded knowledge in the basics of blackberry culture. Control of common insects and diseases will be addressed in the workshop.

More Events (http://attra.ncat.org/calendar/)

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New & Updated Publications

Agriculture, Climate Change and Carbon Sequestration
http://attra.ncat.org/calendar/new_pubs.php/2009/01/27/agriculture_climate_change_and_carbon_se

Equipo para Producción Aviar Alternativa
http://attra.ncat.org/calendar/new_pubs.php/2009/01/09/equipo_para_produccion_aviar_alternativa

Organic Poultry Production in the United States
http://attra.ncat.org/calendar/new_pubs.php/2008/12/31/organic_poultry_production_in_the_united

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Question of the Week

What information can you give me on post harvest handling of organic vegetables?
http://attra.ncat.org/calendar/question.php/2009/03/30/what_information_can_you_give_me_on_post

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Farm to School
http://attra.ncat.org/wow/

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[nw_arizona_granny]

Many of us buy products for storage, and we will have some of these products in our pantry, the list is too long to post.
granny.........

Enforcement Report for April 01, 2009
Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:36:00 -0500

Weekly report by the Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services. It contains information on actions taken in connection with agency Regulatory activities.

http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/ENFORCE/2009/ENF01101.html

[nw_arizona_granny]

http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/unioninternational03_09.html

Union International Food Co. is Recalling Lian How Brand Spices and Uncle Chen’s Brand White Pepper and Black Pepper in 5oz. Retail Containers Because of a Possible Health Risk (March 30)
Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:59:00 -0500

Union International Food Co. of Union City, CA is recalling 15-pound and smaller size packages of the Lian How brand spices and Uncle Chen brand white pepper and black pepper (whole and ground) in 5oz. retail containers, because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella

[Now recalling the retail size.......this is growing...granny]

[nw_arizona_granny]

http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/local/040109_Scabies_spreads_at_Logan

* Video
* Photo

ScabiesApril1

Scabies spreads at Logan

Last Edited: Wednesday, 01 Apr 2009, 5:54 AM EDT
Created On: Wednesday, 01 Apr 2009, 5:54 AM EDT

BOSTON - The scabies outbreak at Logan Airport is spreading.

Massport officials say three more TSA workers have the skin rash.

In March, three other employees were infected with scabies.

continues.