GenesisProject 214

05/19/2024

Nature always connects and grounds...

Feeling down? Turns out, diverse natural environments are better for your mental health! Get your daily dose of biodiversity & boost your mood...

03/17/2022

12 Urban Gardens Changing the World for the Better

In honor of the holidays — a season dedicated to charity and gratitude — here are 12 inspiring examples of gardeners giving back to their communities and making a real, measurable impact with plants.

02/15/2022

CBD, therapeutic for pain relief.

We’ve put together a list of tips for newcomers to empower you with the necessary knowledge to make an informed decision when buying CBD.

01/24/2022

04/28/2021

We all know our waters are polluted — but did you know that synthetic agricultural fertilizers are one of the main culprits of our polluted streams, rivers, lakes and oceans?

Why is Miracle Gro bad? Should I use Miracle Gro on my plants? Here is a rudimentary explanation why synthetic fertilizers are so bad for our gardens, by Heirloom Soul Florals, Flower Farmer - Florist in Buffalo, NY WNY. Fertilizers for your garden are sometimes not the best options, learn why.

03/11/2021

02/13/2021

Stories, initiatives, new ideas and solutions to drive sustainable agriculture in partnership with OCP.

02/12/2021

If you are in the Albuquerque area, Winter ❄️ Market is continuing through April!

02/07/2021

Crazy for coconuts!!🥥🥥🥥🥥
Rich in fiber and MCTs, it may offer a number of benefits, including improved heart health, weight loss, and digestion.

02/05/2021

Check out the NM Farmers Market Harvest Calendar! Download a color or black and white version (from our website) to hang on your refrigerator so you’ll always know what delicious, fresh food is in season at your local New Mexico farmers’ market! Download the Harvest Calendar by visiting the following link: http://bit.ly/349zGsI

© 2021 The New Mexico Farmers' Marketing Association, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, supports New Mexico farmers, families and communities by providing public education, food access programs, technical assistance, and advocacy.

02/05/2021

We know how to solve all of the world's problems! So let's!

Top 10 reasons to take inspired action...

1. It is EASY! Over the past 100 years, we’ve been conditioned to believe that lawns are more beautiful than foodscapes. Perennials take less maintenance than lawns, provide an incredible yield, and in my opinion are much more beautiful.

2. ROI… The average return on investment from annuals and perennials blows away any other market sector!

3. The food supply chains are failing. Most of our food comes from 1500 miles away, is handled by 6 to 7 people, and requires 4 to 5 vehicles.

4. Food picked ripe from your yard means much better taste and more nutrition

5. Anxiety and stress are more prevalent now than ever. Gardening is found to be as effective as prayer/meditation for helping with these ailments

6. When it becomes the norm (again) to grow FOOD at home we will REVERSE DEFORESTATION

7. REVERSE MASS EXTINCTION. As we transition our lawns into foodscapes, the industrial monocrops farms will go back to nature

8. SOIL - We are currently destroying our topsoil at a rate of 10 to 40 x the rate of replenishment and according to the UN, "we only have 2 generations of soil left." If this were the only stat, would it not be enough?

9. Disease and disease plague our society. This is large because of the poisons we consume.

10. FREEDOM… All paths to lasting freedom must include decentralized local food production.
If you'd like a Food Forest installed at your home in place of some of your lawn, please let us know. We can help...

02/03/2021

Color marketing - fast food chains..

01/21/2021

01/11/2021

12/05/2020

Trinidad peppers, cayenne peppers, jabenero peppers, and thai peppers. Grown without pesticides, non-gmo, and ready for 2021 planting. These are just a few of the 2020 harvest that were grown in order to harvest the seeds. These seeds took a lot of love and care to grow. The seeds were planted in March of 2020, and did not get transplanted until July of 2020. It took a lot of nurturing, hand picking of bugs, weeding, and mulching. In the end, we were pleased with the results!
Everything had to be literally hand cultivated. We had no tractors or large equipment to help manage the land, which was surrounded by open fields of weeds and predators.
Look for our fundraising campaign to purchase a tractor with the attachments, as well as building a hoop house for our indoor urban hydroponic urban farm.

06/28/2020

Owen & Raphael Farms...

06/25/2020

&Raphael Farm.

05/04/2020

Grand Community Farm

04/01/2020

Stay healthy by following guidelines...

04/01/2020

Where we will farm in 2020...

A non-profit farm that educates about organic farming, offers a community garden, maintains wildlife habitat, and hosts the annual Maize Maze fundraiser.

06/05/2019

FDA: Substantial amounts of ‘forever chemicals’ in food
Levels in meat, fish were double the advisory level
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler responds to a question from the audience at the National Press Club in Washington. (Andrew Harnik/AP ) Ted Ryfiak shows a clump of resin found in his backyard in Belmont, Michigan, where the water is polluted with PFAS compounds. (Nic Antaya/The Grand Rapids Press-MLive.com )
By Ellen Knickmeyer, John Flesher and Michael Casey Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration found substantial levels of a worrisome class of nonstick, stain-resistant industrial compounds in some grocery store meats and seafood and in off-the-shelf chocolate cake, according to FDA researchers.
The FDA’s food-test results are likely to heighten complaints by states and public health groups that President Donald Trump’s administration is not acting fast enough or firmly enough to start regulating the man-made compounds.
A federal toxicology report last year cited links between high levels of the compounds in people’s blood and health problems, but said it was not certain the nonstick compounds were the cause.
The levels in nearly half of the meat and fish tested were two or more times over the only currently existing federal advisory level for any kind of the widely used man-made compounds, which are called per- and polyfluoroalykyl substances, or PFAS.
The level in the chocolate cake was higher: more than 250 times the only federal guidelines, which are for some PFAS in drinking water.
Food and Drug Administration spokeswoman Tara Rabin said Monday that the agency thought the contamination was “not likely to be a human health concern,” even though the tests exceeded the sole existing federal PFAS recommendations for drinking water.
As a handful of PFAS contaminations of food emerge around the country, authorities have deemed some a health concern but not others. The agency considers each discovery of the compound in food case by case, including the kind of food, levels of contamination, frequency of consumption and latest scientific information, Rabin said.
There are nearly 5,000 varieties of PFAS, which DuPont created in 1938 and first put into use for nonstick cookware. Industries use them in countless consumer items — food packaging, carpets and couches, dental floss and outdoor gear — to repeal grease, water and stains.
The chemicals also are found in firefighting foam, which the Defense Department calls irreplaceable in suppressing jet-fuel fires. Especially around military bases and PFAS facilities, decades of use have built up levels in water, soil and some treated sewage sludge used to fertilize nonorganic food crops and feed for livestock.
They’ve been a topic of congressional hearings, state legislation and intense federal and state scrutiny over the past two years.
Last year’s federal toxicology review concluded the compounds are more dangerous than previously thought, saying consistent studies of exposed people “suggest associations” with some kinds of cancers, liver problems, low birth weight and other issues.
The compounds have been dubbed “forever chemicals” because they take thousands of years to degrade, and because some accumulate in people’s bodies.
The Environmental Protection Agency earlier established a nonbinding health threshold of 70 parts per trillion for two-phased out forms of the contaminant in drinking water.
The EPA has said it would consider setting mandatory limits instead after the toxicology report and after federally mandated PFAS testing of water systems found contamination. The administration has called dealing with PFAS a “potential public relations nightmare” and a “national priority.”
“I know there are people who would like us to move faster” on PFAS, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said Monday at the National Press Club. “We are addressing this much faster than the agency has ever done for a chemical like this.”
Impatient for federal action, several states have moved to regulate the chemicals on their own, including setting standards for groundwater or drinking water.
The FDA study sampled marketbasket items bought in three, undisclosed mid-Atlantic cities in 2017, testing for PFAS.
PFOS — already phased out of production in the U.S. as a health concern — turned up at levels ranging from 134 parts per trillion to 865 parts per trillion in tilapia, chicken, turkey, beef, cod, salmon, shrimp, lamb, catfish and hot dogs. Chocolate cake tested at 17,640 parts per trillion of a kind of PFAS called PFPeA.
The FDA presentation also disclosed PFAS findings — one spiking over 1,000 parts per trillion — in leafy green vegetables grown within 10 miles of an unspecified eastern U.S. PFAS plant and sold at a farmers market.
And it previewed test levels for a previously reported instance of PFAS contamination of the food supply in the feed and milk at a dairy near an Air Force base in New Mexico. The FDA called the milk contamination a health concern.
FDA researchers discussed the results at a conference by the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry last week in Finland. The Environmental Defense Fund and the Environmental Working Group obtained the FDA presentation and provided it to The Associated Press.
“What this calls for is additional research to determine how widespread this contamination is and how high the levels are,” said Linda Birnbaum, director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, in an interview. “We have to look at total human exposure — not just what’s in the water or what’s in the food or not just dust. We need to look at the sum totals of what the exposures are.”
“Drinking one glass of contaminated water is unlikely to be associated with health risks, as is eating one slice of contaminated chocolate cake,” said Jamie DeWitt, a toxicologist at East Carolina University who studies PFAS. “Individually, each item is unlikely to be a huge problem, but collectively and over a lifetime, that may be a different story.”

05/26/2019

This article is shared with permission from our friends at The Food Revolution Network. Could fresh, healthy, affordable food be the future of urban neighborhood development? In Detroit, Michigan, “the first sustainable urban agrihood” in the U.S. centers around an edible garden, with easily acc...

04/22/2019

Earth Day on the Agfield

03/24/2019

There is hope...

France has set the high bar in the effort to save the bees. [read more]

02/26/2019

Shoppers increasingly want their food fresh, organic, and natural.
Seventy percent of shoppers will be buying some portion of their groceries online within five to seven years, according to Nielsen. That equates to $100 billion in total sales .

Kroger is looking to an outside advertising agency to help oversee its its marketing efforts. The move comes as competition heats up from Walmart, Amazon and others.