13/08/2024
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We grow without synthetic fertilizers and don't use pesticides or herbicides. No Roundup Ever!
13/08/2024
You really think the EPA is actually looking out for you?
Dacthal, an herbicide developed to kill weeds in grass in 1958 was eventually used on vegetables. Mostly those on the brassica family (cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, etc) the EPA has issued an emergency ban on the product. Yep.
This stuff has been around since 1958. And you just found out it is dangerous? Really? EPA has to recertify herbicides every 15 years. EVERY 15 YEARS!! and you just found out it pollutes groundwater and can harm an unborn baby?
Now while the EPA has stopped manufacture of Dacthal it will still be used until all stocks are depleted. Way to go! Rah Rah Team EPA!!
OK so they are banning manufacture of this. What about all the other chemicals known to harm humans and animals? Like oh, I don't know, ROundup? Yep. Monsanto/Bayer has the money to pay them off. Guess the makers of dacthal decided not to pay anymore.
you still trust 3 letter agencies? I have a really nice plot of waterfront land in Arizona for sale.
“It’s EPA’s job to protect people from exposure to dangerous chemicals. In this case, pregnant women who may never even know they were exposed could give birth to babies that experience irreversible lifelong health problems. That’s why for the first time in almost 40 years, EPA is using its emergency suspension authority to stop the use of a pesticide.”
Also of concern are risks to unborn babies of pregnant individuals entering or working in areas where DCPA has already been applied (especially post-application workers involved in tasks such as transplanting, weeding and harvesting). Current product labels specify that entry into treated fields must be restricted for 12 hours after application. However, the evidence indicates that for many crops and tasks, levels of DCPA in a treated field remain at unsafe levels for 25 days or more. Spray drift (the movement of pesticide through the air at the time of application or soon after, to any site other than the area intended) from pesticide application could also put at risk the unborn babies of pregnant individuals living near areas where DCPA is used.
12/03/2024
So let's talk about GHG and farming and the carbon report that I mentioned before.
One of the largest flaws of that type of thinking is that it only takes into one part of pollution. Carbon dioxide. CO2 has been as high as 7000 ppm. We are currently at about 428 ppm. How low do they want it to go? At 200 ppm plants suffer. At 150 they start to die off.
If GHG is so darn great why are they cutting down forests to plant solar farms? All the biomass that nature took years to create and stored carbon is gone. For what? You will never get back that and mitigate the pollution created to make the panels, cut the trees etc.
Of course we here are all about the environment and not polluting our planet. We live here too. And we also want clean air. Clean water. Healthy soil. That is why we will not use synthetic fertilizers and herbicides and pesticides. EVER!
We also will not get USDA Organic certification. They truly screwed up organic farming. The "rules" were meant to curb the large factory farms and they tried to downscale it to small organic farms. They failed. One of the ideas was to stop using antibiotics as a prophylactic. Instead they made it impossible to use it as a treatment for an actual problem on an organic farm. If I use medicines as a treatment to an actual sickness that animal can't be sold as organic. That's a problem.
So anyhow. Back to the matter at hand. We here are doing our dead level best to work with our land. To watch what is happening. To work with the land and adjust to that instead of trying to adjust the land to what we want. And that means we can grow a healthier food. We use as much regenerative practices as we can. We never put anything organic into the garbage to head to the landfill. When possible we feed it to the chickens. We feed them the weeds we pull. We feed them the spent plants. We feed them the meat scraps. They eat it all. What they don't eat they scratch through and help it decay and turn into great soil.
Factory farms on the other hand tend to destroy the land. While we only till when we have to they will till or plow with every crop. That causes soil erosion enough so that the USDA says it is unsustainable. The factory farms are spraying the plants with herbicides that are suspected carcinogens. That's never good. And all that synthetic fertilizer tends to run off and pollute waterways. Look at what happened with the spill form Mosaic in Florida. Look at the red tide with run off from sugar cane farms and others.
Sure. Synthetic fertilizers do feed the plant and microbes below. But that is like feeding you sugar every day with nothing else. Sure, you may live but for how long? A natural farm feeds the soil and the biota. We improve the soil with composts. And best off we aren't destroying the only place we have to live.
So why aren't these activists so gung ho on all the other pollution and focus solely on GHGs? yeah. You know . That 3 letter word. M. O. N. E. Y.
12/03/2024
So a report came out about the carbon footprint of Urban Agriculture vs conventional farming. 72 UA farms in 5 countries. France (Paris and Nantes) Germany (Ruhr-Rhine Metro area) Poland (Gorzow Wlkp) UK (London) USA (NYC)
Well I could have told you they would have higher emissions without spending tons of money. If it wasn't obvious they would emit more GHG then maybe you might want to get your money back on the degree. We are talking about growing veg in places like NYC. You NEED infrastructure to do it and most will be rooftop gardens. And then you compare it to a conventional farm. The stupid level is off the damn chart with this "study".
It was also a study where data was self reported. Hmm. A Harvard study I cited on a vegan page about the carnivore diet was said to be debunked because it relied on self reporting.
All of the UA was in colder wet climates.
Now what if they went and looked at Jim Kovaleski's urban farm in New Port Richey FL? He uses compost generated by the city collected from yard waste that would be otherwise tossed in a landfill. He uses NO machinery and all the crops are grown in the ground. He uses no additional fertilizers other than that in his soil block mix and the compost he spreads at least 2" thick 2-3 times per year.
Biggest problem with this report is no one will actually read it and will use it as a talking point to shut down urban farms.
Actually that leads to an even larger problem given the political money laundering with the dems. They will use it to shut down UA and small farms like Jim's and Southern Blessings Suburban Farms so they have COMPLETE control of the food supply. Monsanto (Bayer) has already shown it's ugly head by going after farmers that save seed and that seed through no fault of their own is contaminated by the Monsanto poisons.
Now we have Norfolk Plant Sciences with the GMO purple tomato. Will they do the same thing to small farmers? Given what I have seen these last few years I think they will.
12/03/2024
Why are you so scared of GMO products?
Do you eat papaya? Well you may take it in without realizing it. It's also a meat tenderizer.
Papaya is a tropical plant and in the US is only grown in Florida and Hawaii.
And in the late 1990s the trees were hit with a virus. Upwards of 80% of all papaya grown are GMO.
I've said it here and on my youtube channel, GMO is probably OK and I really don't take a stand on it. Genetic modification can actually take place naturally in some instances. Bananas, peanuts, Surinam cherries, hops, cranberries and tea, contain the Agrobacterium microbe — the very same bacterium that scientists typically use to create GM crops so they can occur in nature.
Problem I have is WHY certain crops are modified. Like the ability to use herbicides while not killing the food crop. Now you really believe that that herbicide isn't taken up by the plant and in the fruit? That is what I have a problem with. Well that and some of the ways they modify. Like using carcinogens to modify the gene and then dosing it with x-rays. Yeah. Not a fan of that method at all.
06/03/2024
I've said it many times that I really don't know if GMO food is good or bad. Truthfully I don't have an opinion on it and yes, I still use mayo and other products with GMO stuff in it.
In all honesty I am not afraid of the GMO. What I am afraid of is the reason they are GMO in the first place. GMO Roundup ready crops I try to stay away from. See it's not the GMO that concerns me. It's the poison like Roundup that stays in the plant and you eat it.
You like papaya?
You do?
Never really cared for it.
Yuup. Been GMO since 1998. 90% of the papaya crop is in fact GMO. But in this case the modification saved the fruit.
12/02/2024
So now I can no longer say we, as home gardeners and market farmers, can't buy GMO seed. Norfolk Plant Sciences has spliced the gene from a snapdragon into a tomato to increase anthocyanin levels. Why? We have other fruits and berries that have high levels.
Will I grow them? Not on your life. The whole reason I am farming this way is to NOT use GMO products.
And if you are growing your own veg why would you grow a frankenseed?
If I (editorial "I" here) should grow the GMO and it cross pollinates with other tomatoes I am growing and I save the seed will Norfolk come after me like Monsanto goes after farmers that grow non GMO and save seed but due to cross pollination dna is found in that seed they get sued?
Is it all about control of small farms and gardeners?
05/01/2024
Growing greens can be as simple as cutting slits in a bag of top soil from the big box store, putting that side down and planting into the top side of the bag.
No need to start and grow a huge garden but you do need to start something. Anything. Lettuce. Spinach.
Don't know when to plant? In Florida look at the UF/IFAS website. Some great info there.
In other states look to your Extension Office for planting guides and what grows best in your area. And once you get some experience experiment with other things you like to eat.
05/01/2024
You CAN grow your own veggies. And it's not that hard. Apartment? Renting? Not much property? Get a Greenstalk or an Earth Box.
04/01/2024
Buy Local grown foods whenever possible. Eat what is in season in your area as much as possible and buy from your small local farmer.
04/01/2024
Did you know all the seed packages that say GMO free is really just a marketing tool? GMO seed is expensive and is not available to home gardeners at all.
04/01/2024
Southern Blessings Suburban Farms is open for business. On a small scale at least.
04/01/2024
Kale, lettuce, salad turnips, and more are ready for harvest!
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