permaculture

[Udan Farm <udanfarm@yahoo.com>]

Thank you everyone for such wonderful info and dialog!
Thank you to Robyn too. What you described with the deep verandas is exactly 
what I call a "Cracker House".  Robyn I found your videos on Youtube, what a 
great place!!  I'm jealous you have 16 years on the land!!!
Ours is only 3 years old, but we have videos if you want to take a peek. They 
were made originally for a friend's 5 year old who lived in the city, and she 
encouraged me to put them on the web.  Here's the link 
http://www.youtube.com/user/GAPermaculture
Thanks everyone too for the great links, too. It may take me some time to 
digest all of this, because we are packing up for a PDC in S. Georgia leaving 
on Saturday.
This is a great education for me as a budding permaculture teacher, and as 
someone who lives in the Southeastern USA.
Tripp, Oh, yah, we will have to get together. Have you visited much, or are 
you originally from the South?
If you are a permie, you will be about the only one in Macon-really. We have 
to talk though. My partner is a pretty good tree person, and he said "just 
leave your trees right where they are"...it's a different climate back 
here... I guess it would depend on what you're growing, but apples and pears 
and plums don't do so well. Peaches are better but persnickety, blueberries 
and persimmons do very well, and, unlike Robyn's it's too cold for citrus 
here. (it got down to 14* F the other night, but can be 106*  in the summer. 
We are doing a PDC (if you happen to need one) in Atlanta, one weekend a 
month over 7 months...Georgia is indeed ripe with cheap property, but it's 
hot, and cold, and wet, and can be dry...and, outside of Atlanta it is a 
DEEPLY conservative (and Macon is deeper still) place, uniquely southern, and 
it takes getting used to if you're not from here. I came from Calif. 21 years 
ago, and still wonder how I got here and why I didn't get out!  :)
$7600 is amazing, but I'm imagining there's a ton of work to do on that 
place...
I'll write you off list with more info.
Thanks again everyone for the very beneficial input!! It, and "all y'all" are 
much appreciated!
Peace,Isabel





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"Bad news from USA regarding GM alfalfa"

This has just arrived this morning from Fresh, the movie people.

* IF YOU HAVE ANY CONCERN FOR KEEPING GM OUT OF YOUR PADDOCKS AND YOUR FOOD
AND MAINTAINING YOUR RIGHT TO CHOICE PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINKS BELOW AND
FILL IN THE PETITION. * IT IS EASY TO DO AND WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE BY
ADDING YOUR VOICE!

Hi Supporter,

Genetic food giant Monsanto is at it again. Its next target: a new product
that could eliminate all organic alfalfa, a key food for raising organic-fed
cows and pigs without any genetic engineering.

The USDA is well on its way to approving Monsanto's genetically modified
alfalfa. In its own report, the USDA says that not enough consumers care
enough about organic foods for the USDA to block Monsanto's modified alfalfa
seeds. [1]  * This is absurd since one of the main reasons people buy organic
food is to avoid genetically engineered crops. *

The USDA is only accepting public comments for the next two weeks. * We need
you to write to the USDA right now and tell them they must not approve
Monsanto's mutant alfalfa. *
<http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key1112761&url_num=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Faction.freshthemovie.com%2Fp%2Fdia%2Faction%2Fpublic%2F%3Faction_KEY%3D1753>We'll
deliver your comments before the deadline. [2]

* Click here: * *
http://action.freshthemovie.com/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY53 *
<http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key1112761&url_num=3&url=http%3A%2F%2Faction.freshthemovie.com%2Fp%2Fdia%2Faction%2Fpublic%2F%3Faction_KEY%3D1753>

Alfafa is one of the major food sources for certified organic animals, not
only because of its quality as forage, but because Monsanto's patented genes
are already found in 95% of soybeans and 80% of corn. If the USDA lets
Monsanto sell its new alfalfa, it will inevitably overtake organic alfalfa
crops through the natural pollination process. [3] As a result organic
farmers may be feeding their cows genetically modified food.

Just like its corn and soy, Monsanto's alfalfa is designed to tolerate its
leading herbicide: Roundup. We can't allow Monsanto's greed to take-over one
more crop. The consequences to our choice as consumer, to biological
diversity, to the survival of our small and organic farmers depends are too
dire.

Monsanto's domination of our food must stop. For the USDA to shrug it off
like nobody cares is to add insult to injury. We only have two weeks to
submit our comments.The fight for FRESH food will continue, and with your
help we'll make it clear that people care about the food they eat.
 *
Let's show the USDA and Monsanto that people want food free from Monsanto's
modifications. Write your comments to the USDA now and say no to genetically
modified alfalfa. *
<http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key1112761&url_num=4&url=http%3A%2F%2Faction.freshthemovie.com%2Fp%2Fdia%2Faction%2Fpublic%2F%3Faction_KEY%3D1753>

The fight for FRESH food will continue, and with your help we'll make it
clear that people care about the food they eat.

Thanks for all you do.

ana Sofia joanes
FRESH the Movie

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SOURCES:

1. United States Department of Agriculture. Glyphosate-Tolerant Alfalfa
Events J101 and J163: Request for Nonregulated Status. Draft Environmental
Impact Statement-November 2009. P.T-2.
2. Docket: APHIS-2007-0044: USDA Seeks Public Comment on Genetically
Engineered Alfalfa
3. United States Department of Agriculture. Glyphosate-Tolerant Alfalfa
Events J101 and J163: Request for Nonregulated Status. Draft Environmental
Impact Statement-November 2009. P.95.

PS The head of USDA is exMonsanto so this could be expected. When you put
the fox among the chickens you cannot expect for the chickens to last long.
This is the only way that Monsanto can operate - by stealth as there is no
rationale to support their invasion of the farming world and our future
except corporate greed.

PPS Alfafa is lucerne in Australia.