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  1. Organics and Different Produce – the Real Deal

    Posted on October 16th, 2011 by admin

     
     

    THE FRESH FACED BEAUTY OF ORGANICSOrganic, preservative free, biodynamic; the patron world is becoming a lot of acquainted with these various names and products that are now readily available. Once only found in pokey health food stores in off road ‘hippy’ areas, organics and its shut family friends are currently lining our supermarket shelves down at the local IGA. However, there are some common stigmas associated with buying alternative produce. For one, that it’s overpriced and thus, for those able to afford the over inflated price tag. On the other facet of the coin, organics and various manufacture are associated with being healthy, with no concern or query regarding their unconventional ingredients.We tend to have all seen the shrivelled up, wrinkled fruit and vegetables for sale in supermarkets. We have a tendency to might have spied it packed into a stuffy corner in our native fruit and veg grocer whilst the outsized polished apples take pride of joy on main stage. For years unless you had the pleasure of a back yard garden, this was the sole method to put your hands on organic food. No wonder it’s gained the reputation of an extravagant purchase for people who have cash to burn.The thing is, in these days’s market with the proper apprehend how you’ll notice fantastic produce at a reasonable price, in a lot of places than you would sometimes consider. As health care becomes more and a lot of fashionable so will the demand for accessible and moderately priced organics. Stoning up around us in local suburbs are organic whole food stores that stock not only fruit and vegetables, however grains, legumes, nuts, seeds and whole grain flours in bulk. This vogue of shopping for cuts out the packaging allowing for a reduced price.Better still are the markets that are doping up on weekends giving organic food directly from the farmer. Cutting out the middle man means that costs are on par, if not typically cheaper than supermarket or inexperienced grocer fruit and vegetables. Most significantly is the standard of produce available. At these markets and wholefood stores you can say goodbye to golf ball sized soggy apples and fruit flies. The outstanding quality of manufacture and therefore the taste sensation besides will have you a passionate visitor for several weekends to come.Thus why place your hard earned greenbacks into organic or biodynamic manufacture? Is it really that higher for us? We have all in all probability heard that organics are chemical free alternatives with the added bonus of additional vitamins and minerals. Fruit and vegetables left to ripen naturally develop a better content of nutrients and phytochemicals. Yet one matter that is continually left on the side line is that the matter of taste. Oh, the style! To bite into an organic tree ripened banana, there is merely no comparison.One must remember however of a comparatively new growing misconception that comes with the name tag of health foods. This stigma surrounds the notion that when shopping for various produce you are automatically buying ‘health food’, and thus the alternative is nice for you (and your waist line). If there was ever a precarious grey area for the buyer of health food products it’d be here. Just as a result of a product reads ‘organic’ or ‘gluten free’ will not automatically place it in the nice for you basket.As a rule of thumb, treat any different packaged product as you would a typical product. Check the labels. Read the ingredients. An organic, gluten free, preservative free sweet biscuit still contains a hell of a heap of sugar, organic or not. The gluten free flours used to bake that biscuit would possibly be free of gluten, nevertheless they are still made from refined and simple carbohydrates like rice flour that are devoid of fibre. The key is to keep a keen eye when you are shopping for pre packaged foods, alternative turn out or not.At the top of the day it comes all the way down to being alert to what you’re putting in place your trolley. With this in mind, together with sourcing your local various manufacture sellers, you’ll be on a luxurious path of delectable, yet cheap produce.Simple tips to keep in mind are:- If you’re buying pre packaged foods continue to check nutritional panels and ingredients whether or not it’s labelled as organic or gluten free.- If another product could be a cake, sweet, or bakery smart in most circumstances it’s visiting still be full of the common sugars and fats that build up that product from a substitute source.- When shopping for organics, biodynamic and different various produce take a look at markets and bulk food stores in your local area for great costs and fantastic manufacture value the extra visit aloof from the supermarket.- Don’t be scared to extra service on organic fruit and vegetables when you visit markets. The turn out will last 3 times the length of its supermarket competitors because of its natural ripening state.Take a look at in Brisbane:- Northly Street Markets in Windsor on Sunday mornings from 6am – 1030am- Mrs Flannery located throughout Brisbane- Wray Organics in Newmarket and Indooroopilly- Your back yard or front porch – it is a nice begin for your own tomatoes and herbs

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    Sandy Lawrence, owner / founder of the yoga studio and restaurant Ubuntu in Napa, California, showed us her biofynamic gardens — supervised by Jeff Dawson and Rosie Robertson. For more, visit www.lornasassatlarge.wordpress.com. Recorded by Michael Steinman.
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  2. From Oil to Soil

    Posted on October 16th, 2011 by admin

     
     

    Connie Mildner is used to challenges. The Canadian was one of the first women living in Europe to work in the oil business. Running a consultancy in Nigeria, she was bet that she couldn’t take on 50 consultants within a year. She won a gold Rolex watch.

    Home for Connie and husband Bren was a beautiful sea-view Cap Falc property: “My parents lived on Mallorca on and off and I spent boarding school holidays here in my teens. It’s always been a sort of home,” she says.

    If Connie’s career was influenced by her father (also in oil), her lifestyle owes much to her mother, a vegetarian and organic food fan. In 1996, with a small son, Connie and Bren unsuccessfully sought just a plot of land to grow organic food. The abandoned Finca Son Barrina in Llub that they purchased also had a house, requiring a lot of work and expenditure. They sold their coastal home . . . and Connie quit her career. It was not a difficult decision: she had experienced Nigeria at its worst.

    Like many, she’d had her car stopped by a corrupt uniformed official, demanding “What have you got for me, madam?” Connie wasn’t intimidated: “I’m a stubborn soul I’d answer happiness’!” Wrongly accused of having false papers, she was arrested and held for three weeks, then under “house arrest” for three months in a hotel in Abuja. She proved her innocence, but the experience was a catalyst. “It was a very stressful job, and I asked my husband whether he’d mind if we were poor. He said giving it up would be good, so we just went for it.”

    Having no farming experience, they initially joined a co-operative-style organisation, bringing them into contact with other Mallorcan farmers. “We made good friends, got lots of help and learnt so much about how things work here.”

    Before long they were growing more than they needed and, having paid “arm and a leg” prices for eco products, decided to open a farm shop offering affordable organic food. “Children should have the opportunity to grow up organically,” Connie says, proud of the good health sons Peter and Dani enjoy.

    Invited as a translator by the Conselleria, she attended Bio Fach eco fair in Germany, where she researched prices and spoke with distributors supplying manufacturers. As a marmalade producer, Connie qualified to buy produce in bulk. Son Barrina invested 5,000 euros in shelf-mounted dispenser units, enabling customers to self-serve desired quantities of advantageously priced dry goods, such as rice, cereals, and pulses.

    After three separate extensions, the original small shop has grown into an organic supermarket, stocked with a broad product range including fresh, frozen and packaged foods; drinks; household, personal, baby and pet sundries.

    Dennree, Demeter, Ecover, Simple Green and Dr Hauschka are popular brands. As a member of the Slow Food movement, Connie’s passionate about localness, promoting Mallorca’s ecological products. And who are her customers?

    “Lots of Germans they’re more used to organic,” she says, “but a high number of Spanish too, because they still cook the most.”

    Around four years’ ago, they introduced biodynamic farming. The farm had been working well, but was plagued by cricket moles: “They’re very common, look like aliens and live underground.” Nearby farmer Maria Luisa gave them weekly lessons in biodynamic farming, which works in harmony with the universe, in return for grazing for her calves.

    “It’s not about dealing with the bugs, but making the soil healthier which makes the plagues disappear,” Connie says. “The aim in biodynamic farming is to leave the soil healthier than you found it, for the next generation.” She researched the subject fully: “I’m a great fan of the Internet!”

    Son Barrina’s had a successful Saturday kids’ gardening club for several years: children and their parents cultivate their own crops on a dedicated area of land. “Children enjoy food more when they know where it’s come from.”

    They’ve also hosted some children’s craft workshops and Connie wants to offer more: “We’re open to all things creative. I’d be interested to hear from anyone who’d like to run a kids’ workshop anything that takes life back to its real values.” She dreams of more workshop space, a spinning wheel for their sheep’s wool, and creating a “family forest”.

    Connie has recently partnered with Maggie Sharpe Bermudez of Glayz Dayz, to offer Son Barrina visitors the fun of ceramic painting. Maggie shows me some recently-fired mugs, decorated with small hand prints; soon, thrilled grandparents will be drinking from these unique gifts. “It takes the commercialism out of present-giving, and people put something of themselves into it,” Connie says. It’s not just for children and I look forward to releasing my inner Picasso soon, having spotted suitable ceramic gift items for Valentine’s, Mother’s Day and Easter.

    Maggie describes Connie as “a power house”, but the Canadian has a disease that can leave sufferers bedridden. Three years’ ago, she was feeling unusually tired and unwell. She’d previously had a bad reaction to a tick bite. Eventually, Connie was diagnosed with Lyme Disease carried by some ticks. The treatment is gruelling and, for Connie, comprises alternative medicine, special diet, and her Rife machine, which generates frequencies to kill the blood bacteria. But she looks and is, otherwise, healthy no doubt due to the family’s ecological diet and lifestyle. “It’s a very interesting topic,” says Connie, taking a detached view. “If I cure myself, I’ll probably publish details on the Web.”

    Connie has no regrets: “The closest was hearing recently that our old home had just been sold for three million euros when we’d been trying to scrape together cash to replace our broken water pump! Sometimes it’s a struggle, but things happen for a reason and I’m a positive person.”

    Being positive helps Connie tackle life’s challenges. Her Rolex-wearing days are over, but this warm, dynamic woman has clearly found something worth far more to her than gold.

    Dr. Helen Cummins is the Editor of abcMallorca Magazine a high quality guide to mallorca printed in three languages including informative Articles about Mallorca, up to date Events Guide and a Business Directory.

    You can visit the abcMallorca website to read the original article about From oil to soil or related articles about living in Mallorca.

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  3. Gardening and Farming the Biodynamic Way

    Posted on October 10th, 2011 by admin

     
     

    When presented with the notion that biodynamic gardening and farming is an exceptional forum with advanced methods, one scientist scoffed, saying Youre not espousing a system that plants by the phases of the moon, and such, are you?!

    This scientist fails in his profession the moment he makes such a comment. I was tempted to respond with, Where were you when the calendar went beyond the 1950s?! A true scientist does his research before making statements. Had this individual looked for it, he would have found irrefutable evidence from scientific research that has found, indeed, that the phases of the moon have a significant impact on many gardening operations, including ideal times to sow seed, or to transplant, and for most gardening operations. The world of nature holds a treasure trove of secrets, to be harvested for those who can stay the distance, who can penetrate into the deeper resources.

    Other noteworthy aspects of Biodynamic methods:

    The Biodynamic system was inaugurated in 1924 by Austrian spiritual scientist Rudolf Steiner, as a system that not only embraces the living ecology of the soil, but goes further, into the interaction of elements of the cosmos on the plant community.

    You could say that to the degree organic food rises above mainstream food, so does biodynamic rise above organic – meaning its produce is even more vital and nutritious. Soil and plants are not only physically enriched, but are enhanced on the etheric level – in effect, aided to evolve to a higher state.

    Homeopathic preparations are one of the devices used to accomplish this enhancement. Sometimes they are implanted in the soil, other times applied as a spray.

    A quote from the Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association:

    Rudolf Steiner presents a notion of science that says we can know things that go beyond what we can weigh, measure, and calculate. Science is the practice of observing phenomena and relating them in a way that correctly represents the phenomena’s reality. Agricultural judgments about health, what to do where, and when to do what, best succeed when we begin to rely on a certain wisdom gained through observation and experience and when we perceive consciously and concretely the phenomena that induce life itself.

    Biodynamic farming and gardening combines common-sense agriculture, an understanding of ecology, and the specific environment of a given place with a new spiritual scientific approach to the concepts, principles, and practices of agriculture.

    For further resources, visit the insight21 website.

    J Graf is the coordinator of Insight21 and Earth Vision – doorways for the 21st Century.

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  4. Backyard Veggies 1 « the Veggie Lady – Online Workshops

    Posted on March 12th, 2011 by admin

     
     

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  5. Organic Gardening Magic

    Posted on March 2nd, 2011 by admin

     
     

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