Praying for Rain

This morning I am reminded of Katrina as Gustav hits the Gulf Coast. Indians pray for rain to help their crops. I pray for rain when we as a community have not seen rain in 6 weeks. I can assume that some folks in California pray for good snows to replenish their reservoirs. But to pray for rain to make me feel uncomfortable? That is like asking for another explosion to continue the war in Iraq.
The Democratic Party wants to unit the nation and the Republican Party wants to "Conquer and Divide" our country.
The State motto of Kentucky is, "United We Stand, Divided We Fall".

100 Ways to Save The Environment
David Suzuki
Earth Cycle Report - A place to start
Eco-Farm: California dreaming Grist
Food Gristmill

I Heart Farms
Journey to Forever
Loon Commons: Dedicated to Protecting and Restoring Minnesota’s Environment - Food and Sustainable Agriculture
Midwest Organic & Sustainable
Organic Gardening
Organic Gardening News
Organic_Clothing
Sustainable Table Blog

The Organic Consumers Association
The Wonderful Mind of Man
Tolstoy Farm Organic Since 1963

Bee die-offs lead to a different kind of buzz

The story at the link above sounds good but I am sorry about the plight of the bees.
I found the story at, "Honey Bee Quiet"; which is a nice place to visit.

A continued earth rumble

The earth rumbled the entire night to celebrate Earth Day.
Yes it started the rumble about 11:20 last night and continued for five minutes. Then paused for a few minutes and then never gave up the entire night. The earth she speaks.
At first I thought it was just my imagination but no it was real, something like vibrating chair at it's lowest setting. The earth she grumbled the entire night in Western Kentucky.
It felt like flour in a hand shaking sieve.

James Lovelock

Gaia
Gaia Hypothesis
The Gaia hypothesis was first scientifically formulated in the 1960s by the independent research scientist Dr. James Lovelock, as a consequence of his work for NASA on methods of detecting life on Mars. He initially published the Gaia Hypothesis in journal articles in the early 1970s followed by a popularizing 1979 book Gaia: A new look at life on Earth.

Why the Earth Is Fighting Back - and How We Can still Save Humanity
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THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU
by Leo Tolstoy
I read this when I was at Tolstoy Farm in Washington and it enforced my beliefs in the road to peace and living a sustainable lifestyle.

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What clothing do our leaders wear? What clothing do we wear and what clothing do I wear? When I was dropped out I wore none in the warm climate of California or wore recycled clothing from our clothing bin. Gandhi wore clothes he made. Where on the scale of vanity do we place our being. Is it important as to what we wear in this day and age? We as a society wear clothing that is made quickly and cheaply by women and children.
The idea of children working in sweat shops has been banned in the United States. Children working at home is fine.
I do not don jewelry but I do wear a watch because I am not outdoors all the time. When I was outside in my younger days I viewed the sun and by seeing where it was I could tell you the time of day.
Where as a society do we stand? Where as a society do bees and ants stand?

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Raising crops to create fuels to burn in cars and/or burning garbage for electricity are as good an idea as the burning the Amazon. When you take good topsoil and raise crops, eat the seeds and turn what remains back into the soil that is productive land management. Replacing mulch, organic matter and organic garbage in the soil is good land management; it create a soil that the creatures below the surface can consume which produce good soil for plants. Green crops and trees that are burned go up in smoke and offer little to the earth as mulch and organic matter.

Organic Beekeepers Not Affected By Colony Collapse Disorder

To me this is good news but in our area it would be hard to find bees not affected by chemicals.

Spend the money you earn toward and for organic living and gardening. Go toward the people that have been organic living and gardening. --->Here are a few links that point you toward organic living and organic gardening.
Think organic and start early in life.
Buy organic, advertise organic, be organic and visit with organic people. It is a simple life style. In our community the Amish are organic and that makes it easier on everyone in town. The land they bought in this community had not been farmed since the early 1950's.
I was organic when I arrived in 1968 to this community and the land I tilled was fertilized with chemicals. But I refused to continue using chemical fertilizers and used home made compost and mulches. Now my small gardens are chemically free since 1968.
I have changed my garden spot so I have basically started a new garden and it has been difficult.
Since I moved my garden the deer in the area sleep in the garden at night and eat the vegetables I grow there. I am not prom to eat the deer at this time so I'll have to share the spot or discourage them from eating organically. Maybe some kind of scarecrow or some mountain lion scent may move them to greener pastures.