Another great article! I really like the analogies to the garden and the health of plants. Since you briefly mentioned them, here's another "rabbit hole" for you (not that you don't have enough yet): what exactly is a "vitamin"? Is it based on theoretical assumptions and hypotheses (like the viruses), or has anyone actually proven the existence of a vitamin by observing its behaviour (through microscopy, for example) and by biochemically characterizing its structure? Why has the vitamin supplement industry exploded into such a high profit market in recent decades? Which corporations are really behind the vitamin supplements? When was synthetic vitamin C (ascorbic acid) first produced and how was the population eventually tricked into taking it in such high doses? Why does the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) for Vitamin D3 (also known as Cholecalciferol) clearly state that is it for human consumption, but for laboratory purposes only? Why is this substance registered as rat poison in the European Union, but at the same time the gatekeepers such as Peter McCollough, Ryan Cole and many others are constantly advising people to eat, eat, eat Vitamin D3? Which highly toxic chemicals are utilized during the process of synthesizing all these "vitamin" supplement powders and tablets? What are we really putting into our bodies, and who profits from that? Happy digging (I can provide quite a bit of documents on that). It's time to expose the vitamin fraud :)
A “vitamin” is an element or molecular make up of a substance that your body needs to function at 100% metabolism rate. All at 2000 pound Holstein dairy cow needs of magnesium in their lifetime is a gram. Without it they will die.
That's my experience too. When I have pests on my veggies, spraying with some (organic!) infusion made from garlic + herbs helps for a day or 2, but if I give the plant a good helping of nutrient rich soil mixed with mature humus the pests disappear, and I don't need to spray at all.
Or when the peach trees have curly leaves, I sprinkle epsom salt around the stem to nourish the soil, and new healthy leaves grow.
The solution is always to treat the soil! The soil is the plants' immune system (among everything else)
Thanks for the nod, Betsey. My pleasure. This piece is fantastic. I've been aware for quite a while of the germ theory fraud and the war metaphor on which it thrives, but it's such a revelation how it opens up our understanding of how the world actually works. I remember years ago reading that in Chinese medicine doctors were seen as gardeners. Are they still? Does anyone have any information about that?
The Dykstra video changed my way of understanding plants as well when I saw it a few years ago. The life cycle is creation/growth/Brahma, preservation/balance/Vishnu, and destruction/decay/Shiva, and plants only have a few days to get their seeds propagated for the next cycle. Observe for yourself whether the new leaves are attacked or if older and weaker leaves are. And like humans or other animals, the old or weak are the ones with the imbalance/dis-ease. I've been pretty good at stalling my decline, and I haven't been bedridden since 2015, and I'm 53! But it won't last forever! Here's my video on other cleanup crews at different fractals: https://open.substack.com/pub/coppervortex/p/the-effects-dont-cause-the-causes?r=1nnqot&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true . Thanks!
When we consider the big picture that plants and bugs have coexisted for millennium. That humans doing agriculture is relatively recent. Then it makes sense that the critters aren't overgrazing their environment, but only doing their part as cleanup crew. Planting single species of crops and doing so continuously would of course deplete the nutrients required by that class of plant. The Pharma industry is part of the petro chemical industry so it's to their benefit to give mis information to enable more marketing and profits. They don't care about health, healthy doesn't pay. Illness does as does fear so they use scare tactics to describe weather, and insects.
What you say is a great example of how the war metaphor ignores how nature really works--and teaches us to do the same. When we think in that framework, it's harder for us to see the real patterns of, say, what insects do in ecosystems and how human interventions that are not in tune with nature's patterns create problems that then are blamed on the other species. (A bit narcissistic, isn't it?)
Interesting post. In my orchard in Tanzania, the local who is the caretaker showed me the shrubs he lets grow for the insects to have food. He says that 'if we don't let these grow the bugs eat our trees and plants instead.' And it seems to work that way, cause where I don't have them planted the orchard trees suffer but where the ones they love are planted, the orchard trees are left alone. The insects serve a purpose for all the birds to have food. I also think having other animals around, like cows, goats and dogs, contributes to having a lot of insects. It's an ongoing experiment.
Other questions. We have lived in a 10 acre wooded paradise for nearly 40 years now. Our first years here, we discovered that buckthorn was an undesirable tree, in fact it was invasive (war terminology, right?) We spent many hours trying to get rid of it and then decided we didn't want to waste so many precious hours of our life on earth, in these bodies, uprooting buckthorn. So we quit, questioning what the meaning of invasive is. Who decides what is invasive or not? Was this actually some sort of woodland secession? Next up - honeysuckles. Buckthorn at least was upright. Honeysuckles have a large spread - making it harder to walk through the woods and there were/are many of them. And now it is Virginia creeper - the last couple of years. The worst of all, in my opinion. It is taking over the forest floor. No spring wildflowers, nor any other plant growth on the floor. Very fast growing; also climbing up trees. I don't think they are taking over other woods in our neighborhood, anyway not yet. Any ideas about what might be going on?
"Invasive" is war terminology! Definitely. It seems apt, but then many of the concepts that we've accepted without question have seemed apt. I do wonder about the Virginia creeper taking over your woods. I don't know much about that, but I do know a little about buckthorn, which has been "invading" the parklands in my city for decades and the park board has been trying, with some but not complete success, to eradicate it. Buckthorn puts out a poison into the soil that kills everything else that tries to grow there, as you undoubtedly know, with the same result a the Virginia creeper: no native wildflowers or other plants can take root there. I don't have any ideas about what to do, or if there's any other way to understand these non-native plants that take over, than "invasive."
I'm a rather lazy new organic gardener and most of my vegetables survive insects just fine. I think not being obsessed with removing weeds all the time, and keeping some of them that I've noticed caterpillars like to eat, helps.
That’s great. My income and my clients nutrition rely on my best effort. The weather is the only thing that shit stop at any crop from being less than perfect.
You’ll thank me in the years in which weather delivers a complete failure to you. Has nothing to do with any judgment or critique. I’m the same with fishing.
It's just a small garden with large veg variety in a mild-to-hot and somewhat rainy place. Hard to have complete failure. Even 3 times of snow a couple of winters ago didn't ruin my winter crops.
That said weather can go always go far worse but at least for now not much to lose anyway.
That sounds so fun. I, for obvious reasons, look at life as seasons. Instead of years. Growing seasons that is. One year, in a place that I would have laughed you out of the room if you said I would ever lived, let alone enjoy, I have the luxury of growing a garden just for the fun of it for me and my girl.
I had just flipped a house and took a year off to rest and recuperate enjoy life a little here had an opportunity for another flip that was a really cool place, a super economic opportunity and surrounded by cool people. There was a caveat, it was in Topeka Kansas of all places. it’s my one and only place where I had a kitchen garden that was directly outside my sink window it was eight steps from the back door. My vegetables were in Lil 30 inch wide 16 foot long beds in the very back of our privacy fence line. We had perfect weather.
A black asphalt driveway and all of those conditions allowed me to do a couple things that were lifetime goals. I harvested green beans on memorial day. I train an indeterminate cherry tomato along the top of the wooden privacy fence harvesting at least 1500 tomatoes before frost.
I can’t wait to stop growing things for an income and do it for pure pleasure. Don’t get me wrong, at least the heck out of a real job and I still have extreme passion for it. I say that simply because the joy I experience that season was off the charts. We flipped that house and left one year and one day later.
I plan to make this at least a part-time job eventually. Already switched to working on related stuff. Very rewarding in many ways.
I'll also move soon and there I'll use a combo of beds and fence in similar ways. The dogs will have to share the same garden, hope they don't find the plants too interesting.
Check out Elliot Coleman’s stuff. His main thing is growing vegetables in the winter time under cover but his bed layout is the most person friendly I’ve ever used. 30 inch growing beds with a 12 inch alley. A 42 inch bed style.
Snow is the best thing for winter crops. Is it a protected from defecating winds and harsh winter sun. You haven’t tasted great spinach until you’ve had overwintered Spinach in a place that is feet and feet of snow. New England, Wisconsin Minnesota. Mind blowing.
Sounds like a fungus heaven. Mold mildew blossom tip rot. One of the reasons the Midwest used to have the best tomatoes on earth is the dry ripening. Where I live I used to average of 1.5 inches of rain in August. Last year we got nine. Global weirding is real! 😂
Not so much cause summer is rather dry here. And yeah weather is getting weird, especially for the past year or so. Though not extreme heat or cold. Just rapid unexpected changes (+/- 10 degrees average temp change in a day, and soon the same again) or too long (no) rain periods mostly in autumn/winter. They don't seem to spray too much compared to what I see elsewhere, but still seems like the best explanation.
Totally. There is no need to obsess about a few bugs. I have gotten many wonderful harvests while having insects on some of my plants. Last year, I had much more insect damage than usual, and that’s why this information about plant health really made a lot of sense. I think my soil has been degraded by aerial spraying, and I need to pay some attention to that.
Besides compost and the occasional goat manure, I'm also mixing in real forest soil. Maybe could help if available. I also tend to leave much of the cut weeds decompose on the spot, I think it helps maintain the rather poor local soil to some degree.
Bugs seem to love (some of) my broccoli, which are from store-bought plans and not old seeds. Still they don't ruin them, and the same ones also frequent a common local plant that I mostly leave alone for that reason.
Sounds like you are doing regenerative practices. From what I have read and it just feels right, there isn’t any better way to garden for maintaining healthy soil and working in “nature’s way.”
Aerial spraying had a statistically insignificant part in your soil degradation. That is lack of soil stewardship. All soil, a matter where you live needs calcium and organic matter. You can’t go wrong with those two things. Carbon in the shape of a straw is the absolute best organic matter.
I can think of three cases where I have to take any measures whatsoever. If I were to grow 200 acres of vegetables instead of six, I would have a 6 foot bed matching PTO powered vacuum. Free fish or chicken food and zero toxin, no crops lost.
If you’re really good at your chosen actions between sun rise and sunset, there is a zero waste product and only available input to another project until it is a closed circle biodynamic system.
Not attacking healthy plants is a decent generalization but certainly not a blanket statement to be correct. Invasive species alone prove that theory incorrect. Try to go egg plant where there are populations of Japanese beetles. Potato beetles feed on all potatoes.
We have been so bamboozled by the western medical model, and the war metaphor for how life works, that there is a great deal we are having to relearn. A friend who used to run a CSA told me the same thing about potato beetles – they eat the leaves on all the potato plants.
They are quite amazing. They are ubiquitous. They are actually quite brilliant in picking the potato as their only source of food. Through the botany of desire, we have transporter them around the globe. Thank you Michael Pollan….
The war metaphor is so apt: "a framework of reality that shapes how we understand fundamental aspects of that reality." Insects role in the garden, as you describe Betsy, makes so much sense to me - except as Hudson says, for the puzzle of potato beetles (and Japanese beetle also) Perhaps the first year I grew potatoes, the plants grew undisturbed. Every year since, to one degree or another, we have had several "crops" of potato beetles. We rotate plants every year. Do potatoes require certain soil, moisture etc conditions that all our other plants do not? And what about squash bugs? I think this is the one we used to have trouble with (Anasa tristis) Never saw one in my earlier gardening years. Then one year (as air conditions became warmer - earlier springs, etc) they appeared. My guess was they were moving up from the south as temperatures got warmer. But were all my squash plants unhealthy? And then just as suddenly they disappeared. I haven't seen one for years. As you say, Betsy, there are so many things we don't know about yet.
I enjoyed this article! Studying macrobiotics (food and philosophy) gave me the perspective many years ago that the idea of "battling" cancer or any other disease actually decreasesnyour healing ability, because the truth is, that you are "battling" against yourself! Then a couple years ago I became aware that viruses don't exist, and my beliefs solidified even more. I actually work on a small organic farm, where I know the soil is lovingly cared for, remineralized based on the needs of the plants we are growing, and given plenty of organic compost. But still, we sometimes have "pest" issues that affect our yield. I totally agree with the concepts you are putting out, but given the state of the world and the factors we cannot control around us, I guess all we can do is our best!
Total agreement on the language of “fighting” cancer. That always makes me wince. Western medicine has it all wrong about cancer– and pretty much everything else.
Humans are a form of nature, too. Only we've forgotten and been mesmerized to lose that awareness. I believe it's starting to come back, though. I have hope that enough humans will wake up.
Great article Betsy, work with nature, not against it.
We're communicating via the World Wide Web which uses computers INTER-coNEcTed to each other. The Wood Wide Web is something plants & trees use to communicate via an INTER-conNEcTed root system.
Another great article! I really like the analogies to the garden and the health of plants. Since you briefly mentioned them, here's another "rabbit hole" for you (not that you don't have enough yet): what exactly is a "vitamin"? Is it based on theoretical assumptions and hypotheses (like the viruses), or has anyone actually proven the existence of a vitamin by observing its behaviour (through microscopy, for example) and by biochemically characterizing its structure? Why has the vitamin supplement industry exploded into such a high profit market in recent decades? Which corporations are really behind the vitamin supplements? When was synthetic vitamin C (ascorbic acid) first produced and how was the population eventually tricked into taking it in such high doses? Why does the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) for Vitamin D3 (also known as Cholecalciferol) clearly state that is it for human consumption, but for laboratory purposes only? Why is this substance registered as rat poison in the European Union, but at the same time the gatekeepers such as Peter McCollough, Ryan Cole and many others are constantly advising people to eat, eat, eat Vitamin D3? Which highly toxic chemicals are utilized during the process of synthesizing all these "vitamin" supplement powders and tablets? What are we really putting into our bodies, and who profits from that? Happy digging (I can provide quite a bit of documents on that). It's time to expose the vitamin fraud :)
To address your concern, there’s bullshit products in every market niche. It’s up to the consumer to be informed and educated. Get a grip.
A “vitamin” is an element or molecular make up of a substance that your body needs to function at 100% metabolism rate. All at 2000 pound Holstein dairy cow needs of magnesium in their lifetime is a gram. Without it they will die.
That's my experience too. When I have pests on my veggies, spraying with some (organic!) infusion made from garlic + herbs helps for a day or 2, but if I give the plant a good helping of nutrient rich soil mixed with mature humus the pests disappear, and I don't need to spray at all.
Or when the peach trees have curly leaves, I sprinkle epsom salt around the stem to nourish the soil, and new healthy leaves grow.
The solution is always to treat the soil! The soil is the plants' immune system (among everything else)
Thanks for the nod, Betsey. My pleasure. This piece is fantastic. I've been aware for quite a while of the germ theory fraud and the war metaphor on which it thrives, but it's such a revelation how it opens up our understanding of how the world actually works. I remember years ago reading that in Chinese medicine doctors were seen as gardeners. Are they still? Does anyone have any information about that?
The Dykstra video changed my way of understanding plants as well when I saw it a few years ago. The life cycle is creation/growth/Brahma, preservation/balance/Vishnu, and destruction/decay/Shiva, and plants only have a few days to get their seeds propagated for the next cycle. Observe for yourself whether the new leaves are attacked or if older and weaker leaves are. And like humans or other animals, the old or weak are the ones with the imbalance/dis-ease. I've been pretty good at stalling my decline, and I haven't been bedridden since 2015, and I'm 53! But it won't last forever! Here's my video on other cleanup crews at different fractals: https://open.substack.com/pub/coppervortex/p/the-effects-dont-cause-the-causes?r=1nnqot&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true . Thanks!
When we consider the big picture that plants and bugs have coexisted for millennium. That humans doing agriculture is relatively recent. Then it makes sense that the critters aren't overgrazing their environment, but only doing their part as cleanup crew. Planting single species of crops and doing so continuously would of course deplete the nutrients required by that class of plant. The Pharma industry is part of the petro chemical industry so it's to their benefit to give mis information to enable more marketing and profits. They don't care about health, healthy doesn't pay. Illness does as does fear so they use scare tactics to describe weather, and insects.
What you say is a great example of how the war metaphor ignores how nature really works--and teaches us to do the same. When we think in that framework, it's harder for us to see the real patterns of, say, what insects do in ecosystems and how human interventions that are not in tune with nature's patterns create problems that then are blamed on the other species. (A bit narcissistic, isn't it?)
Interesting post. In my orchard in Tanzania, the local who is the caretaker showed me the shrubs he lets grow for the insects to have food. He says that 'if we don't let these grow the bugs eat our trees and plants instead.' And it seems to work that way, cause where I don't have them planted the orchard trees suffer but where the ones they love are planted, the orchard trees are left alone. The insects serve a purpose for all the birds to have food. I also think having other animals around, like cows, goats and dogs, contributes to having a lot of insects. It's an ongoing experiment.
Other questions. We have lived in a 10 acre wooded paradise for nearly 40 years now. Our first years here, we discovered that buckthorn was an undesirable tree, in fact it was invasive (war terminology, right?) We spent many hours trying to get rid of it and then decided we didn't want to waste so many precious hours of our life on earth, in these bodies, uprooting buckthorn. So we quit, questioning what the meaning of invasive is. Who decides what is invasive or not? Was this actually some sort of woodland secession? Next up - honeysuckles. Buckthorn at least was upright. Honeysuckles have a large spread - making it harder to walk through the woods and there were/are many of them. And now it is Virginia creeper - the last couple of years. The worst of all, in my opinion. It is taking over the forest floor. No spring wildflowers, nor any other plant growth on the floor. Very fast growing; also climbing up trees. I don't think they are taking over other woods in our neighborhood, anyway not yet. Any ideas about what might be going on?
"Invasive" is war terminology! Definitely. It seems apt, but then many of the concepts that we've accepted without question have seemed apt. I do wonder about the Virginia creeper taking over your woods. I don't know much about that, but I do know a little about buckthorn, which has been "invading" the parklands in my city for decades and the park board has been trying, with some but not complete success, to eradicate it. Buckthorn puts out a poison into the soil that kills everything else that tries to grow there, as you undoubtedly know, with the same result a the Virginia creeper: no native wildflowers or other plants can take root there. I don't have any ideas about what to do, or if there's any other way to understand these non-native plants that take over, than "invasive."
I'm a rather lazy new organic gardener and most of my vegetables survive insects just fine. I think not being obsessed with removing weeds all the time, and keeping some of them that I've noticed caterpillars like to eat, helps.
That’s great. My income and my clients nutrition rely on my best effort. The weather is the only thing that shit stop at any crop from being less than perfect.
You’ll thank me in the years in which weather delivers a complete failure to you. Has nothing to do with any judgment or critique. I’m the same with fishing.
It's just a small garden with large veg variety in a mild-to-hot and somewhat rainy place. Hard to have complete failure. Even 3 times of snow a couple of winters ago didn't ruin my winter crops.
That said weather can go always go far worse but at least for now not much to lose anyway.
That sounds so fun. I, for obvious reasons, look at life as seasons. Instead of years. Growing seasons that is. One year, in a place that I would have laughed you out of the room if you said I would ever lived, let alone enjoy, I have the luxury of growing a garden just for the fun of it for me and my girl.
I had just flipped a house and took a year off to rest and recuperate enjoy life a little here had an opportunity for another flip that was a really cool place, a super economic opportunity and surrounded by cool people. There was a caveat, it was in Topeka Kansas of all places. it’s my one and only place where I had a kitchen garden that was directly outside my sink window it was eight steps from the back door. My vegetables were in Lil 30 inch wide 16 foot long beds in the very back of our privacy fence line. We had perfect weather.
A black asphalt driveway and all of those conditions allowed me to do a couple things that were lifetime goals. I harvested green beans on memorial day. I train an indeterminate cherry tomato along the top of the wooden privacy fence harvesting at least 1500 tomatoes before frost.
I can’t wait to stop growing things for an income and do it for pure pleasure. Don’t get me wrong, at least the heck out of a real job and I still have extreme passion for it. I say that simply because the joy I experience that season was off the charts. We flipped that house and left one year and one day later.
No rest for the wicked 😉
I plan to make this at least a part-time job eventually. Already switched to working on related stuff. Very rewarding in many ways.
I'll also move soon and there I'll use a combo of beds and fence in similar ways. The dogs will have to share the same garden, hope they don't find the plants too interesting.
Check out Elliot Coleman’s stuff. His main thing is growing vegetables in the winter time under cover but his bed layout is the most person friendly I’ve ever used. 30 inch growing beds with a 12 inch alley. A 42 inch bed style.
Snow is the best thing for winter crops. Is it a protected from defecating winds and harsh winter sun. You haven’t tasted great spinach until you’ve had overwintered Spinach in a place that is feet and feet of snow. New England, Wisconsin Minnesota. Mind blowing.
Sounds like a fungus heaven. Mold mildew blossom tip rot. One of the reasons the Midwest used to have the best tomatoes on earth is the dry ripening. Where I live I used to average of 1.5 inches of rain in August. Last year we got nine. Global weirding is real! 😂
Not so much cause summer is rather dry here. And yeah weather is getting weird, especially for the past year or so. Though not extreme heat or cold. Just rapid unexpected changes (+/- 10 degrees average temp change in a day, and soon the same again) or too long (no) rain periods mostly in autumn/winter. They don't seem to spray too much compared to what I see elsewhere, but still seems like the best explanation.
I’m sorry I’m easily confused. May I ask for clarity on “the best explanation”? For what?
Weather modification.
Totally. There is no need to obsess about a few bugs. I have gotten many wonderful harvests while having insects on some of my plants. Last year, I had much more insect damage than usual, and that’s why this information about plant health really made a lot of sense. I think my soil has been degraded by aerial spraying, and I need to pay some attention to that.
Besides compost and the occasional goat manure, I'm also mixing in real forest soil. Maybe could help if available. I also tend to leave much of the cut weeds decompose on the spot, I think it helps maintain the rather poor local soil to some degree.
Bugs seem to love (some of) my broccoli, which are from store-bought plans and not old seeds. Still they don't ruin them, and the same ones also frequent a common local plant that I mostly leave alone for that reason.
Sounds like you are doing regenerative practices. From what I have read and it just feels right, there isn’t any better way to garden for maintaining healthy soil and working in “nature’s way.”
Makes sense. I've read some on it, not enough to memorize much though. Still trial and error works quite well at this small scale so far.
Aerial spraying had a statistically insignificant part in your soil degradation. That is lack of soil stewardship. All soil, a matter where you live needs calcium and organic matter. You can’t go wrong with those two things. Carbon in the shape of a straw is the absolute best organic matter.
I can think of three cases where I have to take any measures whatsoever. If I were to grow 200 acres of vegetables instead of six, I would have a 6 foot bed matching PTO powered vacuum. Free fish or chicken food and zero toxin, no crops lost.
If you’re really good at your chosen actions between sun rise and sunset, there is a zero waste product and only available input to another project until it is a closed circle biodynamic system.
Not attacking healthy plants is a decent generalization but certainly not a blanket statement to be correct. Invasive species alone prove that theory incorrect. Try to go egg plant where there are populations of Japanese beetles. Potato beetles feed on all potatoes.
We have been so bamboozled by the western medical model, and the war metaphor for how life works, that there is a great deal we are having to relearn. A friend who used to run a CSA told me the same thing about potato beetles – they eat the leaves on all the potato plants.
They are quite amazing. They are ubiquitous. They are actually quite brilliant in picking the potato as their only source of food. Through the botany of desire, we have transporter them around the globe. Thank you Michael Pollan….
The war metaphor is so apt: "a framework of reality that shapes how we understand fundamental aspects of that reality." Insects role in the garden, as you describe Betsy, makes so much sense to me - except as Hudson says, for the puzzle of potato beetles (and Japanese beetle also) Perhaps the first year I grew potatoes, the plants grew undisturbed. Every year since, to one degree or another, we have had several "crops" of potato beetles. We rotate plants every year. Do potatoes require certain soil, moisture etc conditions that all our other plants do not? And what about squash bugs? I think this is the one we used to have trouble with (Anasa tristis) Never saw one in my earlier gardening years. Then one year (as air conditions became warmer - earlier springs, etc) they appeared. My guess was they were moving up from the south as temperatures got warmer. But were all my squash plants unhealthy? And then just as suddenly they disappeared. I haven't seen one for years. As you say, Betsy, there are so many things we don't know about yet.
If you find any method that decreases squash bug pressure, let me know and I’ll make you a billionaire!
Obviously I’m not interested in toxic methods but the bastards have made me consider nuclear options in the past .
I enjoyed this article! Studying macrobiotics (food and philosophy) gave me the perspective many years ago that the idea of "battling" cancer or any other disease actually decreasesnyour healing ability, because the truth is, that you are "battling" against yourself! Then a couple years ago I became aware that viruses don't exist, and my beliefs solidified even more. I actually work on a small organic farm, where I know the soil is lovingly cared for, remineralized based on the needs of the plants we are growing, and given plenty of organic compost. But still, we sometimes have "pest" issues that affect our yield. I totally agree with the concepts you are putting out, but given the state of the world and the factors we cannot control around us, I guess all we can do is our best!
Keep spreading the good word!
Total agreement on the language of “fighting” cancer. That always makes me wince. Western medicine has it all wrong about cancer– and pretty much everything else.
“Viruses don’t exist”? That’s a dumb as fuck and shit I’ve heard since I was in preschool.
There’s a thing called an electron microscope where we can see them, isolate them, and study their genetic code.
You fell from the very top of the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down.
Most humans are bugwits. Nature in all its various forms rules the planet.
Humans are a form of nature, too. Only we've forgotten and been mesmerized to lose that awareness. I believe it's starting to come back, though. I have hope that enough humans will wake up.
Hardly. We rule the planet we are a parasite on the skin of earth.
Fantastic!
Great article Betsy, work with nature, not against it.
We're communicating via the World Wide Web which uses computers INTER-coNEcTed to each other. The Wood Wide Web is something plants & trees use to communicate via an INTER-conNEcTed root system.
https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/mycorrhizal-networks-wood-wide-web/
Can trees "talk to each other? The hidden life of trees, amazing!
https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/09/26/the-hidden-life-of-trees-peter-wohlleben/
Can legumes exchange secret signals?
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26034691-200-mystery-of-the-quantum-lentils-are-legumes-exchanging-secret-signals/