One Million Seeds

The European Union has sadly passed laws to prohibit many common herbs like St. John’s Wort. Lot’s of stuff in the health food shops is no longer available. It’s all part of the Union’s insanity—their desire for themselves, expressed as a manic control trip, and, in part, the bans must be to feed the medical industry and protect pharmaceuticals like Prozac.

I was in a pharmacy in Ireland some months ago to get some aspirin, the assistant told me that buying aspirin over the counter is not allowed in Ireland, and that I needed a doctor’s prescription. I was gob-smacked what a lot of piffle.

A prescription in Ireland costs €55 for 30 seconds work, as the doc’ writes out a formal chit that says, “Give this twit some pills.” It is also about an hour of your life. Getting a prescription is very hazardous; as you often have to go into a heavy ghoul-environment of people’s emotions and fears, and they make you sit in a tiny crowded waiting room with lots of people that have contagious diseases. Running the gauntlet for a few aspirin is not worth it.

All this EU Nasty-Nazi stuff in the their Garden of Evil and Evil gets on my nerves, it’s not just—people must be set free to heal themselves naturally.

Many of the banned products are still available as seeds, so I decided to buy one million seeds of one thousand varieties of vegetables, flowers, medicinal herbs, small shrubs-rose hips etc. Some are so interesting, there’s a purple carrot that has been grown in Afghanistan since the 10th Century, and see-through clear tomatoes that are colorless from the 1500s, and many plants that were common in Victorian times, like cardoon, a type of globe artichoke some of these species have become quite rare now. (See below for link to a ‘heritage seeds’ supplier we use).

http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/

I don’t have a house so I’ve started planting gardens in friends’ houses. The concept is to have a high intensity permaculture garden that will feed many people, which also has a comprehensive range of everything one needs for common ailments, like willow for aspirin.

I was taught how to grow potatoes vertically in old car tires, so you can have hundreds of potatoes in two square feet of ground. I’m trying to build gardens of about an acre that will feed 500 people when things go belly up.

Potato Farmer’s with Vertical Potatoes in a Box

In a crisis it will be hard to buy food with money, there will be some food in the black market, but at skyrocket-to-the moon prices—“Have a tomato duckie—twelve bucks each! A pack of coffee, fifty bucks” etc.

People don’t realize how bad it will get; supermarkets with their thousands of products lull you into a false sense of security. Urban kids have never seen a tomato growing, they know little about the food they eat, they might help their mothers push the basket with wheels on it but that’s all the harvesting they know.

The cotton price passed its 150 year all-time high yesterday, rice has jumped 60% in eight months, corn is up 70% since May 2010. The crisis is already happening, and if and when oil supplies are seriously disrupted, which in my view is bound to happen, you are going to see petrol in Jerry cans at $20 a gallon.

We are selling all our petrol cars and vans and converting over to models that run on diesel. Diesel gives you a higher mileage per gallon; it is easier to store than petrol, which is governed by many safety regulations. For petrol one has to buy a specialist tank made of steel for commercial use, so you can issue petrol out to cars, whereas a diesel tank for home storage use is made of plastic. A 2000 liter specialist petrol storage tank in the UK costs £7000, while the same size diesel tank costs about £600.

In the oriental food shops here in Europe, a 20 kilo sack (44.09 pounds) of rice is €20, so one euro per kilo.

A large cup (just over 4 ounces or 130 grams) of uncooked rice will feed four people. One 20 kilo sack of rice is good for about 150 meals for a family of four—6oo individual servings—3.3 cents of a Euro per plate (4.5 US cents). Easy-peasy-pass-the cheesy.

I bought 200 kilos of rice, so that’s 6000 individual servings. People are going to be hungry. I want to make sure I can help them when they get desperate. It’s an act of kindness to provide for people as they have no idea what’s about to happen, they are innocent victims really. I’m sad for them, it hurts me; they trudge blindly on towards catastrophe making no proper arrangements. It’s not their fault; they are set to become victims of markets that have gone insane, driven by speculation and fear.

By the way, I also got five loaves and two fishes in case my other system breaks down—just kiddin’.

Ok by for now. (sw)

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—Cute and impacting video” “Your Life According to the Government”

http://www.wealthwire.com/news/economy/771

At the end of the video a caption comes up that says “Opt out of conventional wisdom.” There is no better advice in my view. I’m going to do an article on what I know so far about how to leave the system for ever and ever, amen!

Basta (enough no more) as the Italians might say.

How do you grow ravioli–??