Fort Lauderdale Vegetables

06/05/2022

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“Put a rat in a cage and give it 2 water bottles. One is just water and one is water laced with he**in or co***ne. The rat will almost always prefer the drugged water and almost always kill itself in a couple of weeks. That is our theory of addiction.

Bruce comes along in the ’70s and said, “Well, hang on. We’re putting the rat in an empty cage. It has nothing to do. Let’s try this a bit differently.” So he built Rat Park, and Rat Park is like heaven for rats. Everything a rat could want is in Rat Park. Lovely food. Lots of s*x. Other rats to befriend. Colored balls. Plus both water bottles, one with water and one with drugged water. But here’s what's fascinating: In Rat Park, they don’t like the drugged water. They hardly use it. None of them overdose. None of them use in a way that looks like compulsion or addiction. What Bruce did shows that both the right-wing and left-wing theories of addiction are wrong. The right-wing theory is that it’s a moral failing, you’re a hedonist, you party too hard. The left-wing theory is that it takes you over, your brain is hijacked. Bruce says it’s not your morality, it’s not your brain; it’s your cage. Addiction is largely an adaptation to your environment.

Now, we created a society where significant numbers of us can't bear to be present in our lives without being on something, drink, drugs, s*x, shopping... We’ve created a hyperconsumerist, hyperindividualist, isolated world that is, for many of us, more like the first cage than the bonded, connected cages we need.

The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection. And our whole society, the engine of it, is geared toward making us connect with things not people. You are not a good consumer citizen if you spend your time bonding with the people around you and not stuff. In fact, we are trained from a young age to focus our hopes, dreams, and ambitions on things to buy and consume. Drug addiction is a subset of that."
Credit: Johann Hari

04/09/2022

Lufa grown in Flagler village

Picture of 5 loofa squashes dried and peeled ready to use as natural skin sponge

09/20/2021

One-stop shop Park: regional Concert and hospitality facility or neighborhood park as originally planned. Please join the discussion tomorrow at 1 PM city commission conference agenda. Meeting at City Hall, a floor conference room or online. If you would like to speak, please sign up. You can do so on the city's website

Please Join City Commission Workshop Sept 21 Tuesday 130 pm on regional Concert and food hall where the masterplan calls for a neighborhood public park

08/14/2021

A marketplace and concert hall would rise on land earmarked for a park in Flagler Village. Instead of rent, Fort Lauderdale would get a share of profits. Critics say it’s a terrible deal.

07/19/2021

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03/21/2021

proposal to the board of directors:At this time in our community is divided and required to keep social distancing due to the coronavirus, I have this idea o...

03/19/2021

Good old flagler village

01/19/2021

https://mailchi.mp/flaglervillage/fvca-meeting?e=63c98d2916

A new Board of Directors will be elected this meeting! If you are interested to be on the board, send your nomination here

11/20/2020

FLAGLER VILLAGE SEQUENTIAL FLASH MOB FOOD FOREST PLANTING proposal to the board of directors: At this time in our community is divided and required to keep s...

10/29/2020

Food forest geocaching game.

Each food forest would have a small kiosk. It could be as simple as a umbrella table with a central post. The kiosk would be pined on Google maps, such that it could be located by any smartphone application. The kiosk can have a box for library books and seed sharing. It can also be a place to share neighborhood information and news. It could also have a bulletin board where people could post old-fashioned paper notices. The tabletop could hold seedlings and plants ready to be planted in the food forest. Each plant could be tagged with a QR code that would give directions on how to install it into the food forest, that can be accessed through the smart phone. Harvested food could also be available at the kiosk and listed as the Geo cash available at that location. People playing the game could also leave their mark at each location by bringing a plant a book, a seedling or perhaps even doing some work in the garden.

This would create a network of all of the food forest in the area and make a game for all people (any group or individual) to play and connect with the food forest in their area and beyond.

Just by establishing one of these kiosks locatable by geocaching, a food forest can be established and supported by visitors anytime.

09/29/2020

A simple solution cultivate soil

Narrated and featuring Woody Harrelson, Kiss the Ground is an inspiring and groundbreaking film that reveals the first viable solution to our climate crisis.

08/23/2020

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07/17/2020

Please forward this to friends who have an interest in the new park in Flagler Park....
As you all know, in March we all worked so hard to ask the Federal Courthouse to move somewhere else and make way for the Flagler Park. Unfortunately, success is short lived. At the last city commission meeting, the commission scheduled a behind closed doors meeting with the owner of Revolution Live. The word is they will vote on putting the park out for other PPP proposals on August 18 to give “others” a chance to propose against the bid proposed by the Nightclub. That is a decoy. The other bids will be smoke to eliminate the public and the neighborhood from scrutinizing the details of the Revolution Live project and to give the commission cover that it was a fair process. The commission is hanging their hat on the idea that this is a necessary public/private partnership for the development of a park, but an open space on top of a garage is NOT a public park. How does this pass the smell test?
Why would the city partner with a nightclub through a PPP (public private partnership) on publicly owned land?? Especially, when the citizens passed a $200 million parks bond?
Since the last time they presented to FVCA, has their plan changed? Is it still a large music venue with a multi-level garage covering the entire parcel? They’re calling the garage a park, but that ain’t no park.
And don’t be fooled by the label “music venue”. It’s a Nightclub. The Parker playhouse does music shows, and when the shows are over, people leave. When the live shows at Revolution Live are over, the party has just started, and the nightclub goes on until 4AM.
I thought this civic association voted against it? Why do all other development projects require neighborhood support, except when it is a nightclub being moved to public owned land that was slated to be park?
How much is this land worth? 30 million? Is Revolution Live paying for the land? How much are they paying to compensate the public for one of the best green spaces in Downtown?
Why are we silent on the idea of offering park land to developers anyway? It’s a ludicrous concept. I thought this commission supported the recent ULI study that said we need more public green space. Well we have one now and were about to give it way to a Nightclub.
This neighborhood pushed hard to move the Federal Courthouse to another site, for what, to make way for a nightclub??
This is completely insane!!
Don’t get caught up that there might be other PPP bids encouraged to come forward. The city commission wants to clean up HImmarshee district and moving Revolution Live is a lynchpin to that. Revolution Live will get the votes, and Flagler Village will inherit Himmarshee’s problems.
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Doug McCraw, Founder

05/29/2020

Mother earth

Despite the headlines, Victory Gardens aren’t back. Not yet.

05/16/2020

Growing food in real soil helps, you are constantly in contact with the soil the bacteria and the microbes. Growing without soil We miss all of this

05/10/2020

Check this out

If it’s spring where you live, the time is now to start planning for your future fruits and vegetables.

05/04/2020

Fort Lauderdale Vegetables is here to help you start your food garden of any size from an apartment balcony to a regional Park. We can help you create a sustainable, resilient source of food in a socially and environmentally just manner. Feel free to reach out to us can ask any question 954-854-8788. Thank you, Michael

05/04/2020

04/10/2020

Not my words:

"If you believe this virus is spread human to human, the antidote is building the immune system with eating plants & natural medicines and sitting in nature alone or with your immediate family, soaking up vitamin d & sunshine

If you believe that this virus is symptoms of 5G exposure, then the antidote is sitting in nature, connecting to Mother Earth, building your immunity with eating plants and natural medicines - submerge yourself in water & dirt

If you believe that this is all a hoax and you just need to sit back while Q saves us all, then the answer is sitting in nature, build a garden for the new earth, commune with God, eat plants & natural medicines that strengthen your connection and open your channel to the new earth frequency ~ ascend with her

If you believe the economy is collapsing, and authoritarian dictatorship is imminent, the most radical thing you can do in protest is build a garden, releasing dependency on the system

If you believe that Mother Earth is mad at us and purging the human race, the answer is go outside and listen, build a garden, align with her

The answer is always nature. Always.

We do not have to argue about the why. The antidote is obvious. Alignment with the mother, with our source of nurturance. Remembering everything we use and need comes from her. Give thanks. Humble. Slow down. Observe. Listen."

Written by - Katie LaMonte ❤️

03/27/2020

Moringa grows here all your round

There rate of confirmed cases of Novel Coronavirus nCoV also known as COVID 19 disease across the world from the USA to Australia has been increasing on daily basis Wearing face masks maintaining proper cleanliness boosting your immune system are ...

03/10/2020

Placemaking

04/22/2018

In celebration of Earth Day I am giving Mother Earth a rest and practicing The Way of doing not doing

It is the fundamental of Tao. If you have to learn only one thing from the reading of Tao Te Ching, this is what you should go for.  The concept permeates the entire book.