It’s past time to expose the truth about religion myths, frauds, fantasies and fiction from End-times to Virgin Birth to Sun Worship.
The Book Your Church Doesnt Want You to Read
Urban Farming Toolkit – A Visual Guide to Getting Started
Building Soil for Healthy Crops
We have written this book with farmers, farm advisors, students, and gardeners in mind, although we have also found copies of earlier editions on the bookshelves of many of our colleagues. Building Soils for Better Crops is a practical guide to ecological soil management that provides background information as well as details of soil-improving practices. This book is meant to give the reader a holistic appreciation of the importance of soil health and to suggest ecologically sound practices that help to develop and maintain healthy soils. Building Soils for Better Crops has evolved over time.
The first edition focused exclusively on the management of soil organic matter. If you follow practices that build and maintain good levels of soil organic matter, you will find it easier to grow healthy and high-yielding crops. Plants can withstand droughty conditions better and won’t be as bothered by insects and diseases. By maintaining adequate levels of organic matter in soil, you have less reason to use as much commercial fertilizer, lime, and pesticides as many farmers now purchase. Soil organic matter is that important.
Organic matter management was also the heart of the second edition, but we decided to write a more comprehensive guide that includes other essential aspects of building healthy soils, such as managing soil physical properties and nutrients, as well as a chapter on evaluating soil health (chapter 22). In addition, we updated
farmer case studies and added a new one. The case stud-
ies describe a number of key practices that enhance the
health of the farmers’ soils.
Many chapters were rewritten, expanded, and reorganized for the third edition—some completely. A chapter on physical properties and issues was divided into two (chapters 5 and 6), and chapters were added on the principles of
ecological soil management (chapter 8) and on irrigation
and drainage (chapter 17). The third edition, while still
focusing on farming and soils in the United States, has a
broader geographical scope; the book has evolved into a
more comprehensive treatise of sustainable soil management for a global audience.
What Are You Telling Yourself on Your Road to Success?
As we walk into 2018 and do our year in reviews, debate top 10 emcees and talk about what we are leaving in 2017 – I think it is also important we do a little introspection on our own self talk.
Self talk; for those who arent into it already – is the thing or things you tell yourself about yourself that either motivate or stall us from being great. You want to start that business? Positive self talk sounds like yes I can do this and results in you strategizing then implementing that strategy. Negative self talk does the opposite. It lists all the reasons why it wont work and shuts you down from moving forward.
In this video; we chop it up with Josh Epperson; the co-founder of Feast RVA and all around do gooder in the Richmond area. He talks about internal narratives and our “I Can” story. Worth a watch? I say so.
USDA Urban Ag Toolkit
Fear and Love Can’t Occupy the Same Space and Time
So since they have told you that knowledge and experiences are passed down genetically (epigenetics) and experiences leave a biomolecular imprint on consciousness and since you “melanin on fleek” you access the knowledge and experience of the entire history of humanity not just slavery.
Since the neurological chemical reality of the emotion fear is toxic to the body – one has to only conclude that racism/white supremacy and its related myth that black people are inferior savage uncivilized is actually the defense mechanism for the system to maintain a people from knowing who they truly are (black and brown people) waking up to that knowledge of self and usurping the ruling class who only rule through deception, distraction and manipulation.
The only reason the ruling class get to burn the planet down is because YOU operating out of fear and ignorance. To keep you in fear is to keep you from unlocking who you truly are which has nothing to do with slavery – slavery is a damn bleep on the radar of our historical indigenous experience. That is why black history month, “latino” history month and “Indian” history are all taught from the framework of when we met white people – nothing before that. As if nothing happened prior to us meeting white folks. We are literally being scared to death by the system of racism / white supremacy.
As long as your consciousness is locked down the system can manipulate you and keep you dependent. once you know you can’t unknow – you can only be locked down by fear and right know as I see it a lot of folks who say they conscious are really still scared of the system, scared of racism/white supremacy. However this is in conflict with who you truly are. How can you be directly connected genetically to the first people of the planet – have that biogenetic ally embedded in your genes and be dependent upon somebody who is lying stealing and manipulating you so they can hoard wealth and burn the planet down. Those two realities don’t match and are in conflict with one another.
You may be Afrikan spiritual or whatever you want to call it but you don’t wear your cultural identity 24/7 you tone it down in front of white folks so they don’t get intimidated. Not to say you running up being nasty or mean to folks but you haven’t internalized your cultural identity so that you are unapologetically Afrikan, spiritual or indigenous or whatever you want to call yourself when you at Kwanzaa in your dashiki – 365 days a year. When we stop playing and really embody who we are – get on our path and activate in our purpose – ain’t no fear. Fear and love can’t occupy the same space and time. You either bout that life for one or the other.
How to Organize a Happily Natural Day
Happily Natural Day is grassroots festival dedicated to holistic health, cultural awareness and social change. The festival promotes pride in being of African descent because for over 400 years Africans all over the globe were taught by the western educational system that African people were savages. This guide is submitted for those who may be interested in the history of the festival and as insight on how to do it in your own community.
Major thanks to our ancestor Mama Anita Holloway who helped us in the composition of this guide.
THE BLACK RADICAL TRADITION: Ideas, Speeches and Writings from 1935-1976
The Decline (and Revival?) of Black Farmers and Rural Landowners: A Review of the Research Literature
The African-American farmer is a rare breed in the United States. The loss of landownership and farming operations has contributed to the poverty of many rural communities in the South, where almost all remaining black farmers live. Since about 1970 the research literature on this issue has blossomed. One of the commonalities found in the literature is the sense of hopelessness in
stemming the tide of black land loss. Indeed, an oft-cited prediction in earlier works was that there would be no black farmers in the United States by the year 2000. On the other hand, another commonality in the literature is the view that the black farmer and rural landowner must be sustained, even brought back.
Among the several reasons for the decline in the number of African-American farmers is that young people are not entering the field to replace the increasingly elderly population of existing black farmers. Farming is not exactly glamorous work. It is likely that younger generations are put off by the communal memory of slavery and sharecropping. In addition, Civil Rights and Affirmative Action policies have allowed young black men and women to aspire to professional careers once closed off to them. Why then do some argue for young people to enter farming and for older people to remain or return to farming? They could instead, for example, encourage the improvement of poor rural communities through education, training, and
economic development. The first answer is that both of these remedies are recommended; they are not mutually exclusive. The second answer is that farming is no longer a toiling-behind-a-mule-and-a-plow venture but rather a technical and managerial occupation—one which, despite many odds, some
African-Americans choose. Finally, agriculture and landownership offer more than just economic benefits to rural black communities.
Dismantling Racism in the Food System: Black Agrarianism: Resistance
Ways to Support Black Urban Farmers in Your Area
1. Join a CSA: A CSA (Community Sustained Agriculture) is a share of the farmers harvest for a season (3 months). You enter into an agreement with the farmer in advance of his/her planting and invest 200$ and in return you get 20 lbs of assorted produce for 12 weeks
2. Micro-Farm Your Yard: Everybody wants a garden – but not everybody has time to garden. Our team of growers will be expanding in the spring/summer of 2018. If you have a backyard that you would like to turn into a garden; we will set it up and grow produce for you. In exchange of our team growing the garden for you – you get a lush garden and a 50% of the harvest. The rest of the harvest we sell throughout the Richmond Region to sustain the program.
3. Drop off Your Compost: If you have veggie scraps, find a bucket with a top and fill it with veggie scraps, egg shells, leaves and newspaper products at local gardens and farms to help build soil.