Bucket or Box Gardening at Martin County Extension –Florida Do We? — Use Pure or Use What You Have? These are questions that came up recently pertaining to the environment both external and internal.
The quote I follow is, “Take what you can and leave the rest.” Someone I admire once said, “I choose to value any experience I have and learn something from it.”
I had an engaging free lesson at the Martin County Extension which taught me how to use plastic products that you can buy at any hardware store to make a simple yet new system for growing vegetables. I felt this was a gift from the universe, since I have been focusing on making my gardening easier.
“What did you think of their system?” Asked the owner of a nursery I visited that very afternoon to buy coconut palms.
Squeezing my eyes to access her better, I asked, “Do you want my truth?”
“Yes,” she said with intense interest.
Most people are interested in sharing me because I have questions that I ask so that I learn from them. They have their focus and they stick to it. I notice body language that says they are interested only in a particular idea or method that they have learned. Ideas that I mention in the conversation, are to fish for possible interest. Many times I get silence or a change of the subject. I let that go. The fact is I want to honor everyone’s opinions. My position is to love and accept everything I am given as experiences in this life, and that includes everyone I meet. To me all experiences are precious gifts. After the gift is received, I may ask myself what I can apply to my life, and I let go of the rest.
So I said, “My concern is the plastics that are used can leach, and we all need to be aware of the plastic containers that we drink water from or cook with. Glass, clay pots, ceramics are safe. Coming up with an alternative to the plastic buckets is something I will do soon.”
According to the internet “The leaching of BPA from the polycarbonate plastics and the polycarbonate plastic lining of containers is particularly alarming in light of the serious health risks associated with BPA ingestion. More than 200 lab animal tests to date strongly suggest that BPA exposure, even at very low doses, creates risks of dangerous developmental, neural and reproductive health effects in infants and children. Exposure to BPA, even at low and short-term doses, is linked to a staggering number of health problems.”
The nursery owner passionately agreed, since she is a health purist in the organic sense. The controversy of using organic vs. commercial fertilizer and plastics, can be a lively topic for her, is what I sensed.
Over the past three decade, I have observed that those that are passionate about their beliefs can change the world. In my younger years, I didn’t realize that huge changes in consciousness take years to come to fruition. The lesson may be patience.
If you would like to explore this food controversy, read Time magazine’s August 30, 2010, under Health, entitled Who Needs Organic Food? In that article Manny Howard, author of My Empire of Dirt, about his experiences with backyard gardening, says, “If we all had to concentrate on raising our own food, we wouldn’t have time to do anything else.”
In my backyard, I raise fruit trees, plus organic vegetables that keep me eating raw and fresh daily. It takes me an hour per morning to lavish in my hobby of growing my own pure foods. That’s all the time it takes for me to start each day with joy.
Next reviewing Emoto’s research on the effects of words on the shapes of water crystals, I found saying blessings and loving my garden is essential to the beauty of the water crystals within every living thing. If 80% of humans are water, then what is the per cent of water in plants? Read his book and find out how water can be transformed within and without our inner and outer physical environments.
Another piece of the living puzzle is Vibrational Medicine or Energy Medicine. ‘It is based on the scientific principles that all matter vibrates to a precise frequency and that by using resonant vibration, balance of matter can be restored.’
We are what we eat, think, and do.
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This post was written by assistant on August 29, 2010
