Patrick Timpone

Judith Schwartz

Cows Save the Planet: And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth

Could it be that the answers to some of our most challenging global problems involve neither advanced technologies nor the lion’s share of our national treasuries, but the humble layer of soil beneath our feet?

In Cows Save the Planet, Schwartz responds with an informed and enthusiastic “yes.” The problem, however, is that we’re losing topsoil somewhere between ten—in the United States—and forty—in China and India—times faster than we’re regenerating it. Schwartz illustrates how focusing on soil restoration will allow us to chip away at the seemingly insurmountable problems we currently face.

As for the title, Judy maintains that cows get a bad rap: “[T]he common assumption today is that cattle are ecological bad news due to overgrazing and the methane they emit as a result of their digestive process. Cattle (and other grass-eating animals) do have an effect on the environment–but how they’re managed determines whether the impact is destructive or beneficial.” She explains in this interview

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Howard Vlieger

President and Co-founder of Verity Farms

Topics: Mr. Vlieger has new information on RNA and DNA damage from the Australian study, formaldehyde in roundup ready corn and the deadly Monsanto Rider which has passed as part of the 2013 Continuing Resolution, which funds the government through September.

Show Highlights:

-It’s not normal to have sick children. And why are the children of today so sick anyway? The science is showing that it’s the food

-RNA tinkering in the crops and the effect on human health

-The change in the quality of our food can be made by the mothers across America

 http://www.momsacrossamerica.com/

Verity Farms currently has the privilege of working with family farmers in 7 states, family farmers raising crops and livestock. Verity Farms has a successful biological crop production program, working with biological farmers, organic farmers & conventional farmers, who are all looking for answers to problems they are experiencing. Verity also has a grain division to market non-GMO biologically produced grain, a feed division focusing on natural livestock production and a natural meat division marketing premium quality natural meats.

Howard began studying GMO crops in 1994 and is fortunate to work with some of the lead scientists in the world on research projects involving GMO crops. The real life experience that he has from being a farmer and working with farmers all across the US gives him a unique perspective on GMOs. Howard has been giving presentations to educate people about GMOs for more than 6 years in 13 states.

Howard serves on the board of directors for the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance (FARFA) and the Food Freedom Foundation.

howard vliger and the dangers of gmo crops for mammals, march 26, 2013

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Kathy Bero

Founder of NuGenesis Farm and Stage 4 Inflammatory Breast Cancer  Survivor

“While battling stage 4 inflammatory breast cancer, infiltrating ductal carcinoma and a high-grade tumor in my head and neck, a dear friend introduced me to the term “anti-angiogenesis,” says Kathy Bero.

After reading scores of research pages and talking at length with scientists and doctors, she began to understand the true role food could play in directly impacting her ability to prevent cancer from re-entering her life. As she began discussing what she had learned with her healthcare providers, she realized this research was not widely understood. This became the impetus for the creation of NuGenesis Farm.

Bero, founder of NuGenesis Farm, Inc., in Pewaukee, says she needs no science-based evidence to know that angiogenesis-based medicine and angiogenic-inhibiting foods were major factors in the remission of the three aggressive forms of cancer – stage 4 inflammatory breast cancer, infiltrating ductal carcinoma, and a high-grade tumor in her head and neck—that threatened her life six years ago.

What Is Angiogenesis?

Angiogenesis is the body’s natural process of growing new blood vessels from pre-existing vessels. It’s a system that is vital for growth, development and healing, and the body controls it by producing a precise balance of growth and inhibitory factors in healthy tissues. An imbalance of angiogenesis—insufficient or excessive growth of blood vessels—is recognized by the medical community as a common denominator underlying health challenges including cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, arthritis, some skin diseases, age-related blindness, diabetic ulcers and stroke, among others. The list of diseases that may have angiogenesis as an underlying mechanism grows longer every year.(Read Entire Article)

NuGenesis Farm creates a model of education, sustainable organic agriculture and research that can be replicated worldwide, teaching you how to choose and prepare foods and why those choices help you live your best life. NuGenesis also offers information on foods that impact disease prevention and promote healing.

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Denise Dixon

Owner of Morningland Dairy

Destroying the Family Farm

 Denise Dixon joined us this morning to share this tragic story of injustice. An assault against, in our opinion, the hardest working people in America, creating the purest and most wholesome food. Please listen to the podcast, look over the story below and consider either taking time to write to the people and addresses below or make small contribution to this family who has lost so much.

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Howell County Sheriff’s Office

1106 Missouri Ave.

West Plains, MO 65775

(417) 256-2544

http://www.howellcountysheriff.org//Contact%20us.htm

Missouri Milk Board

P.O. Box 630

1616 Missouri Blvd.

Jefferson City, MO 65102

(573) 751-3830

http://mda.mo.gov/animals/milk/staff.php

To make a donation:

By Mail: Morningland Dairy, 6248 County Road 2980, Mountain View, MO 65548

By Paypal: Go to http://uncheeseparty.wordpress.com/

By Doreen Hannes

January 26, 2013
NewsWithViews.com

On August 26th, 2010 the destruction of Morningland Dairy began. Having lost a two and half year battle with cancer of the State, the interment will take place on January 25th, 2013.

The Door to Morningland Dairy Cheese House

People involved in all aspects of food production, be it growing, processing or distributing, should read through all the documentation and understand that Morningland’s saga is the model for all independent food production under the FDA’s new Food Safety Modernization Act. Critical to this destruction are “science-based standards” as opposed to scientifically accurate controls and concerns. The Global Food Safety Initiative combined with “Good Agricultural Practices” and the “Guide to Good Farming” will ensure that an inability to feed the population will occur. Morningland Dairy is an early casualty of these “science based standards.”

Visions and Hopes-The Birth

Joseph and Denise Dixon took over Morningland Dairy after Denise completed a two year internship with the founders of Morningland, Jim and Margie Reiner. The Dixons finalized the purchase and began improvements on the Missouri Milk Board inspected and approved raw milk cheese plant in October of 2008. The entire family was tremendously pleased because this would allow Joseph to be home with the family instead of on the road working as an electrician in the eastern half of the United States. The Dixons wanted to expand the varieties of cheese made by the company and ventured into a broader array of production.

Their desire was to help other families in the historically poverty stricken Missouri Ozarks to make an actual living on the farm and allow families to stay together. They consulted with the Missouri Milk Board and arranged for two families to begin providing goat milk to Morningland and launched a popular goat milk cheese line shortly after taking over the company.

Goat Cheese Ready for Labeling

Morningland had six employees and other farming families dependent upon the continuance of the cheese plant. On August 26th, 2010, it came to a screeching halt.

While Joseph and Denise were at a cheese making conference in Washington State, the plant manager received a call from the Missouri Milk Board stating that there was an issue of potential contamination found by the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) in Morningland cheese.

The cooler of $250,000 worth of cheese was immediately put under embargo, more accurately understood as house arrest, by the Missouri Milk Board. Don Falls, an inspector for the Milk Board, told the plant manager, “You should be back up and running by early next week.” Obviously, that wasn’t true. As a matter of fact, the very next morning, presumably after he spoke with the FDA, Falls’ entire attitude changed.

Over the weekend, the FDA leaked a nation wide recall on all of Morningland’s cheese produced in 2010. Not just the two batches that California indicated might be “suspect” for contamination, but their entire year’s production. Most of the cheese implicated as “suspect” by California had already been consumed. No complaints or ill effects were reported by any of the consumers of any of Morningland’s cheese. Nonetheless, the FDA required all of their products to be recalled.

Cheese in Morningland’s Cooler In Happier Days

Death by Bureaucracy

Very few people realize the FDA has an armed and very military aspect. They showed up at Morningland in camouflage and made a lovely impression on those able to be at the unveiling of the future of food safety “FDA style”.

The FDA and Milk Board worked hand in hand to ensure that this little cheese plant in the midst of the Missouri Ozarks, that hadn’t made anyone sick in 30 years, would never make another batch of cheese for their loyal customers. Yet the FDA, who admit to killing 100,000 people a year, are allowed to gain ever more control over everything we take into our bodies. So the tally on deaths over the 30 year history of Morningland Dairy versus the FDA is: Morningland “Zero”, FDA “3 Million”…or somewhere near that.

Despite significant effort, the FDA found no contamination in any cracks or drains in the cheese plant or even on the legs of the milk talk in the dairy barn. This evidence was not allowed to be introduced as part of Morningland’s defense because the Missouri Attorney General’s office contended that the FDA “was a separate issue.”

When pointedly asked what the specific process for getting the cheese plant back into production was, the Milk Board representative said it would involve a panel and consultation with the FDA to determine if that were a possibility. The members of the panel, other than the Milk Board and the FDA, and the specific requirements and processes were never delineated and no effort to achieve anything other than the destruction of the plant was ever evidenced by any official arm of the State of Missouri.

Neither the State of Missouri or the FDA ever conducted any tests on Morningland’s cheese. As a matter of fact, when Morningland tried to contract with a State approved lab to do proper tests on batches of their cheese, they were told that the lab simply did not want to get involved in the controversy. Morningland was denied the ability to legitimately test their product and defend their livelihood.

Adding insult to injury, Milk Board employee Don Falls testified in court and under oath that, improperly collected cheese samples, taken with no supervision and no instruction by an employee of Morningland for the plant’s manager, were in fact the State’s own tests. This remains a very sore point for Joseph Dixon. He says, “When one commits perjury and no one in authority will hold them accountable for it, that individual and the system they support are nothing more than liars and thieves. In this case, the theft is of our ability to provide for our family and is based on bearing false witness to harm people who have harmed no one.”

Real Life Costs

While bureaucrats masquerading as “protectors of public health” continue to be paid every month for the tortures they put people through, those being raped and pillaged by the very system that is supposed to “protect” them have to somehow come to terms with the fact that their very own tax dollars are being used to continue the offense.

When it became clear to the Dixons that the Missouri Milk Board was unwilling to work with them toward any resolution that would allow the cheese plant to resume operation or allow for the least bit of recompense for the $250,000 of cheese in the cooler, not even deeming the cheese safe for ultra high pasteurization to be put into dog food, Joseph contacted his previous employer and went back to work as an electrician….away from his home and family.

The Dixons, parents to 12 children, steeled themselves to do what they admonished their children to do. To stand for what was right no matter what the odds against them were. After their appeal for trial by jury was denied, they knew that they would need to face a State Agency, represented by the State Attorney, in front of judges appointed by the State. While they hoped that truth would prevail and that reality would actually be addressed, they didn’t go into this battle wearing rose colored glasses.

Initially, after over five weeks of dumping milk, some of their adult children milked the cows and Morningland sold into the commercial pasteurized chain, trying to make the farm pay for itself. When milk prices plummeted and the cost of feed soared, the decision to close the milk barn down was made. But the Dixons still needed to make the payment on the property they couldn’t use to make a living with any longer. They also had to pay to keep the cheese cooler running as the cheese was still under house arrest and effectively a ward of the State.

With Joseph again away from home during the week, and all the expense of keeping things in tact on the farm, things were difficult. Then Denise’s father became bed-ridden and her mother broke her ankle, so Denise and the younger children went to Ohio to care for her parents.

While the State employees continued to collect their wages, Denise Dixon nursed her mother back to wellness and cared for her father until he passed away. During this time, she had to make a couple of trips back to Missouri to face charges of contempt and allegations of attempting to sell illegal product.

None of the human issues in the disruption of lives and the stress of such assaults by the State seem to be taken into account when figuring the costs of these kinds of actions.

Should one believe the deductions set forth by Missouri’s Courts in this case, and take as fact the aspersions and allegations cast against Morningland in the court transcripts, the conclusion could be drawn that the State was the “Knight in Shining Armor” protecting the unwitting public against immoral people trying to poison their customers with products they created to be harmful.

But the truth is, the truth of the matter doesn’t matter. At least not to agents of the State of Missouri, but the People of Missouri generally hold a different opinion.

“Admittedly,” says Denise, “some of the tactics employed and the characterization of us running a “filthy” facility with “diseased animals” stunned us, but our Father is still in charge, and our hope is not in justice being served in man’s system.”

The End is Near

After exhausting all appeals, the cheese, still being kept cool in the refrigerator at Morningland Dairy, is set to be fully destroyed by the agents of the State, the Missouri Milk Board, on January 25th, 2013.

Two and a half years later, one could reasonably argue that the untended cheese has already been destroyed, and to some extent, that would be accurate. Just imagine that you close your refrigerator door and don’t get permission to look into it for 2 ½ years. How would that look to you? While pickles or olives might still be alright, it is highly likely that your dairy products would be a little bit off after such neglect, right?

Denise Dixon said, “After 6 months, the Colby was already gone, and that was about one fourth of the total cheese inventory. After not tending to it, no turning, no repackaging, no monitoring, at least half the cheddar has been ruined. The destruction has already taken place. Our family business, our livelihood, and our ability to provide people with living, positive food has been destroyed.”

Morningland’s Cooler Now

The Missouri Milk Board has ordered two dumpsters to be delivered to Morningland Dairy. So the cheese, which is “not fit for dog food”, will be put into dumpsters and delivered to a landfill to be consumed by wildlife which evidently are immune to the pathogens feared to be present.
Morningland Dairy will never be in business again.

No offer has been made by the Milk Board to prescribe the conditions that would need to be met by the operators to allow them to resume business. The Judge presiding over the case originally did write a regulatory prescription from the bench that was completely implausible for anyone to meet. It included a requirement to insure that no milking animal had bacteria indicative of potential mastitis at all prior to milking the animal.

To put that one judicial regulation into perspective, allow me to draw a parallel for those unfamiliar with milking animals. You milk twice a day, every day. The milk is “commingled” into one tank. So, imagine this….before sending your child to school, you must take a nasal swab and have it cultured to ensure that your child is not harboring a potential bacterial infection before boarding the bus. You would have to pay for this lab technician to be present every morning and for the tests. When your child came home in the afternoon, the same process would be repeated. You would have the immense pleasure of paying for this and keeping the records to validate the bacterial level present at each measuring.

While the scenario imagined above may not be literally impossible, it is certainly improbable, and it would be impossible to have any profit above the cost of production in such a scenario. But that wasn’t all that this judge set forth as regulation for Morningland from behind the bench, with no comprehension of dairy production or cheesemaking. The other prescriptions the judge made would have cost more than $100,000 in hard costs, with additional continuing costs for excessive testing during the cheesemaking process. He also still required the destruction of all cheese in the cooler, not allowing any batches to be cleared through testing. Additionally, the Missouri Milk Board never indicated that they would accept Morningland returning to production even if they did comply with the Judge Dunlap’s outlandish prescriptions.

The Missouri Milk Board nor the FDA have offered any process by which Morningland might be allowed to resume business and the courts have seemingly upheld Judge Dunlap’s regulating from the bench.

The Battle Is Over

Joseph and Denise Dixon of Morningland Dairy have given everything to this fight. Battling the State wasn’t really about them at all, but about our nation, our freedom, and our ability to choose food for ourselves and for our families that is truly nourishing and real. They held nothing back, but finally, the repeated systemic attacks have run their full course, and the dreams, hopes and labors of love poured into Morningland have succumbed.

As Joseph Dixon has summarized, “The state of Missouri has 6 million people from whom they draw tribute (taxes), from which they could fight us. To fight them, we had 65 cows. And the truth never seemed even to be a consideration, let alone a goal.”

Jerry Brunetti

Food As Medicine

In 1979, Jerry Brunetti founded Agri-Dynamics with a vision of providing a line of holistic animal remedies for farm livestock, equine and pets. After witnessing first-hand the devastating results of conventional, chemically dependent, grain-based rationed farming practices, Jerry embarked on a crusade to educate and consult for farmers who made the wise choice to transition to ecologically responsible and sustainable farming. Jerry works towards improving soil and crop quality, livestock performance and health on certified organic farms.

In 1999, Jerry was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and given as little as six months to live without aggressive chemotherapy. He instead chose a holistic path of nutrition, detoxification and immune modulation and applied his vast experience with farming and animal nutrition to his own health. The links between healthy soil, truly nutritious food and profitable, sustainable farming are clearly evident in his personal and professional experiences and his skill for communicating this to people has won him extensive praise from holistic health professionals, sustainable farming organizations and many farmers and consumers.

Show Highlights:

-Jerry Brunetti makes a fascinating argument for why when you fly over this country, what we mostly see is brown. What we humans have created with this land is a major source of Carbon Dioxide.

-The ratio of Omega 6′s and 3′s are in balance with pastured foods

 -The cancer/blood glucose correlation

-Chronic Inflmmation: Where is it coming from?

 -The importance of cover crops

 -Jerry explains how he cured himself of non Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1996 with the help of his cow

 -90% of our body is made up of bacteria

 -The story of genetics and epigenetics

 -How to get the right amount of calcium in your garden’s soil

 -What Jerry Brunetti says is the best anti cancer diet

 -The miracles of coconut oil

 -Fermented foods should be an everyday food for us all. This is critical says Mr.Brunetti

 and so much more!

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Deb Tolman, Ph.D

Keyhole Gardening

Small space for a garden?   This is for you

Debbie Tolman holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences/Resources and Geography from Portland State University. With over thirty years experience in academic research and landscape design, she also has extensive training in plant nutrition, economics, and environmental education. She is currently owner of Avant Gardens, a multi-purpose business with the mission of developing sustainable approaches to landscaping, education, and building practices. Based in Clifton, Texas, Debbie balances her time between research, education, writing, and sustainable community outreach. In her spare time, you can find her in her own garden!

In this interview, Deb Tolman explains how to build your super duper food producing keyhole garden.

Show Highlights:

-The role of worms and why they are so important. How to invite more worms into your garden space

-Making soil from cardboard, newspapers, phone books, saw dust and other throw away, yet compostable materials

-How to layer your brown and green materials

-Watering a keyhole garden and why these gardens are especially nice for areas with less rainfall

-Food yields

and so much more. Fascinating information!

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deb tolman, keyhole gardening, january 15, 2013

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Paul Wheaton

The Duke of Permaculture

Paul Wheaton is is the tyrannical ruler of two on-line communities. One is about permaculture and one is about software engineering. There is even one for Missoula. Paul has written several permacutlure articles starting with one on lawn care that he presented at the MUD Project 17 years ago, including articles on raising chickens, cast iron and diatomaceous earth. Paul also regularly uploads permaculture videos and permaculture podcasts. In his spare time, Paul has plans for world domination and is currently shopping for a hollowed out volcano in the Missoula area, with good submarine access.

We were introduced to this delightfully funny and passionate man who is “bonkers for permaculture” as he says, through our recent guest, Anthony Anderson. And WOW! are we glad to know him. Fasten your seat belts folks for a wild ride with this guy. We never knew sustainability could be so fun. There’s a boatload of information here. And remember to bookmark his websites after you hear the podcasts as you may want to visit as often as we do!!

http://www.permies.com/

http://www.richsoil.com/

http://www.makeitmissoula.com/blogs/paul-wheaton/

http://www.youtube.com/user/paulwheaton12

paul wheaton, permaculutre, january 8, 2012

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Anthony Anderson

Male Model and Director of GROW PARADISE

Grow Paradise is literally about growing paradise on Planet Earth. The focus is to establish “food forests” throughout local communities and the entire planet via permaculture techniques, spreading ideas about health and self-reliance, and offering high-integrity products from individuals that are growing organic foods and medicines.

Anthony Anderson started Grow Paradise in 2011 after planting his first organic food forest in 2008. He created a garden of Eden near his parent’s home in Minnesota to ensure that “a living grocery store” would be available to them during their retirement years. He realized that growing our own food and planting food forests around the globe will completely solve many of the troubling issues currently facing humanity and the planet.

Anthony joined us this morning LIVE from France gracing us with his passionate and positive ideas about permaculture and creating our own sustainable paradise on earth.

Anthony Anderson is a male model by trade but his heart and soul is deeply-rooted with permaculture and organic living. Because of his modeling career, he delved deep into green living and healthy eating, which eventually brought him to permaculture and the idea that we can literally create a paradise planet instead of using our energy to be mad at “bad guys”.

With a focus on consciously designing our habitat to be more paradise-like, he spends much of his time spreading the ideas of permaculture online as well as being outside to harvest wild foods, collect springwater, and take photographs of nature.

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 Contact him at growparadise@gmail.com and visit him on facebook at www.facebook.com/GrowParadise and www.facebook.com/Anthony.A.Anderson.

anthony anderson and growing paradise, november 08, 2012

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Dan Kittredge

Executive Director of the Bionutrient Food Association and Real Food Campaign

Dan is the son of prominent leaders in the organic movement, and has been an organic farmer since childhood. His experience managing organic farms and developing sustainable agriculture techniques has connected him to farmers in Central America, Russia, India and the United States. Dan is passionate about raising the quality of nutrition in our food supply through collaboration with committed individuals, businesses, and organizations that support the value of people growing and eating really good food.

We do a lot of shows on sustainable living and organic gardening, but no matter how much we think we know about it, there’s always more. Dan Kittredge shares some excellent information in this interview, much of which was very new to us. Dan farms on an acre of land in Massachusetts all the way through the winters. He offers ideas from choosing the right seeds to soil preparation and watering. There’s much to learn here. Enjoy this show!

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don kittredge on nutrient dense gardening, november 8, 2012

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Jim Riddle

Why Eat Organic…

And what does organic mean anyway?

We went to the top and found Jim Riddle to answer our questions about Certified Organic Food. Questions like:

-Can we be assured seeing the organic label insures no GMO’s?

-How do farmers become organically certified?

-How can organic foods be contaminated?

-Why is the U.S. behind the times with the labeling of GMO’s?

-What exactly does “organic” mean?

 For more than 30 years, Jim Riddle has been an organic farmer, gardener, inspector, educator, policy analyst, author and avid organic eater. Riddle was founding chair of the Winona Farmers Market Association and the International Organic Inspectors Association, (IOIA), and co-author of the IFOAM/IOIA International Organic Inspection Manual. He served on the Minnesota Department of Agriculture’s Organic Advisory Task Force from 1991 to 2009, and was instrumental in the passage of Minnesota’s landmark organic-certification cost-share program. Riddle currently works as organic outreach coordinator for the University of Minnesota Southwest Research and Outreach Center and is the elected chair of the Winona County Soil and Water Conservation District Board. He serves on the Leadership Team for eOrganic, the national Extension Community of Practice for organic agriculture, is former chair of the USDA National Organic Standards Board, and is a leading voice for organic agriculture.

Check out Jims’ articles or visit www.extension.org to ask Jim a question

Jim Riddle, organics and more, november 1,2012

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