Friday Energy, First Day at the Garden

I've noticed a certain energy, or feeling, or vibe from each day of the week for the longest time. I have always received the best energy from Friday for some reason. Today is Friday. I always feel the most inspired on Fridays as well. This energy today combining with our first day planting seedlings at the garden and meshed with Earth Day . Well, plainly speaking it's just a damn great day. Lots of good things combining at the same time.

We are growing at a very historic farmstead in Moorhead, I feel privileged to be growing at a place with such a rich history. Today we took a break from planting in the greenhouse to checkout the old farmhouse. There are still pictures of the Probstfield family from the early days on the walls in black and white and quite dusty. Also it makes me happy to just be able to go out and start growing with such good people, it makes everything so much more enjoyable. Today we have our onion, many varieties of peppers, carrots, eggplant, salad mix, beets and radish transplants done in the greenhouse. Fitting on Earth day to begin the process of an organic gardening season.

Diet Log: Made another Super Smoothie before the visit to the garden, with the same ingredients as listed in the previous post. Also had a Raw Revolution Spirulina bar with it, as well as a Pure Endurance Guayaki Yerba Mate.

Putting Delicious Things in My Mouth

This blog was originally created years ago to keep a journal of my travels . I've randomly stopped in to ramble about various issues in this world. Today, I will use to to keep a tab on my eating habits. On the Menu today I started off blending a super-smoothie. After the smoothie was made, I prepared 2 slices of sprouted grain bread with org spinach, 2 slices org tomato, org lettuce, org colby cheese, 3 slices org cucumber. After the sandwich was made I lightly cooked up 7 asparagus spears alongside 2 cage-free farm-fresh eggs. I just polished off the meal and now writing this as I sip on my super-smoothie. Listed below is the ingredients of the smoothie and some of the reasons I chose them as ingredients...

Super Smoothie

Ingredients: 500 ML Wild Blueberries, 15 Org Raspberries, 1 Org Banana, 5 Org Strawberries, 15 Org Spinach Leaves, 1 Org Avocado, 20 Servings of Greens. 1/2 Cup Org Whole Milk, 2 Scoops Org Vanilla Ice Cream

Colostrum (2 TblSpoons)- Colostrum is the "immune milk" produced by all mammals for only the first few hours before and after birth. Supercharged with 97 immune factors and 87 growth factors, Colostrum is nature's "first food". It's adaptogenic properties enhance rejuvination and regeneration while strengthening the immune system, allowing your body to thrive under any circumstance. With potent anti-aging benefits, and broad spectrum probiotics in their whole food forms - Colostrum delivers youth, health, and vitality! This Colostrum is from organically raised cows and only harvested after the newborn calves get their share.

Bee Pollen: Pollen contains over 5,000 enzymes and co-enzymes, far more than is naturally present in any other food!

Bee pollen is denser in protein than any source from animals. .

Bee pollen is a concentrated source of the B vitamin complex – this provides energy. This is why bee pollen products are usually marketed as energy supplements or ‘energizers’.

The vitamin B complex, along with vitamins A, C, D, E, selenium, lecithin and powerful phytochemicals (carotenoids and bioflavonoids) make bee pollen a potent source of antioxidants.

The various therapeutic health benefits of bee pollen are believed to largely stem from the antioxidant and disease preventing/curing properties of bioflavonoids and carotenoids.

CaCao Nibs (Palm-Full): This hedonistic bean is one of the world's longest-revered foods (think 'time of the Aztecs' old) and has in recent years been shown to be a veritable powerhouse of cognitive enhancement, mood and bliss-enhancement (thanks in part to the Theobromine in cacao), antioxidants, flavonoids, catechins and many other brain & body-enhancing elements.

Royal jelly (few pinches): is also called "bee's milk" and is produced in the hive by young nurse workers bees; these bees secrete the substance from their hypo-pharyngeal gland that is found on the bee's head. Enhanced energy, healthier hair and skin, a more youthful appearance, a stronger immune system, and reduced stress levels are just some of the many royal jelly benefits. Royal jelly promotes health and energy and is also thought to have antioxidant properties that fight damage from free-radicals. it contains a wealth of “good stuff”, including Vitamins B1, B2, B6, and niacin, biotin, inositol, folic acid, Vitamin C, aspartic acid, and essential amino acids.

Chia Seeds (1 TblSpoon): Chia seed benefits include balancing of blood sugar, The seeds are an excellent source of essential fatty acids. The EFAs in Chia Seeds are known to make cell membranes more flexible and efficient making nutrients more readily available and nerve transmission more efficient. This helps to improve brain function (including memory and concentration).Chia seeds contain about 20% protein, a higher percentage than found in many other grains such as wheat and rice. Chia seeds contain strontium which helps to assimilate protein and produce high energy.The word “Chia” comes from the Mayan language and means strength. Chia seeds are a balanced blend of protein, carbohydrates, fats and fiber. It is said that 1 tablespoon of Chia can sustain a person for 24 hours. Athletes have reported that Chia seeds help them perform at optimal levels for much longer periods of time.

Celtic Sea Salt: Celtic Sea Salts are a prime condiment that stimulates salivation, helps to balance and replenishes all of the body's electrolytes.It provides renewed energy.It gives you a high resistance to infections and bacterial diseases.It supplies all 82 vital trace minerals to promote optimum biological funct ion and cellular maintenance. It balances alkaline/acid levels. It restores good digestion .The natural iodine in these salts protects against radiation, atomic fallout and many other pollutants. It can aid in relieving allergies and skin diseases, And overall greatly reduces toxins and to help prevent ill-health.

June 27th. Sunday evening. 2:32. Feeling as always, like I stayed up too late. But counter to that, I feel over the last 5-6 years, a great deal of my thinking has been done while listening to music and researching various interests and ideas on the internets. But, still, 2:30 is pretty freakin' late to most people.

I just had a weekend that I was supposed to be locked up at PRACS for 42 hours, but it ended up only being 24 hours. I stayed in Friday night preparing for the lock-up. So my entire weekend was spent without much socialization of friends. I took some time to relax alone at the lake last weekend, which felt nice to simplify my life and enjoy the offerings of the lake cabin. But now I am longing for an outing with many good friends, so It's time to make that happen this coming weekend.

The juicer is really coming in handy. Made myself some fresh squeezed organic raspberry lemonade today, a bit tart, but refreshing as heck. Not to mention the 2 gallons of Komboucha I bottled today that was ready to go after 2 weeks of fermentation. No more paying $4.00/Bottle...

Recomendations for all: Over the course of the last 6 months to one year, Noam Chomsky, Derrick Jensen, and documentaries such as "Orwell Rolls in his Grave" have really solidified my belief that the masses world-wide are massively and intentionally mislead. Topics such as Public Relations/Advertising and their roots in America. The Military Industrial Complex, The consolidation of Media, should all be things every citizen should know.
Nader has done so much for society, and the most horrible and painful thing about it all, is that mass media has convinced society to hate him, because he is trumpeting to end all of their horrible atrocities. He has been touring the country for decades, explaining how apathy is the true killer in society, we need to be engaged, it is the only way a functioning democracy will actually function. But then, Chomsky introduced me into the tactics at how the powerful, the elites, the to-doers with the tools of wealth and power intentionally are always misleading the public to NOT care about these things that effect the human lives most.


Humans of Fargo, North Dakota, USA, North America, World. Our society has an incredible amount of potential. I know we've been desensitized day-in day-out by the atrocities we see every single day across mass media's headlines. Humans are starving. Bombs are blasting. Rivers parched. Ecosystems degrading . Yes, it is all too real. And I thought ending slavery was a big deal in America, yet we continue to perpetuate slavery in other nations by supporting brands who pay children pennies to produce goods for Americans and our endless gluttony of wants. We have a staggering number of voters who don't even feel the need to show up on election day. The numbers are usually lurking around 50% turnout. That is an embarrassment. But of what? Who influences these people. The ever consolidating media? Yes. To be Continued.................


The top 0.01 percent of earners in the US are now taking home six percent of all the income,
the top 10 percent of earners in America now receive nearly 50 percent of all the income earned in the United States

These data suggest that wealth is concentrated in the hands of a small number of families. The wealthiest 1 percent of families owns roughly 34.3% of the nation's net worth, the top 10% of families owns over 71%, and the bottom 40% of the population owns way less than 1%.

Suppose I will dust off this lil guy. I read a friend's blog update, and she was writing casually about her life, and it urged me to just write more. I should write more. We all should write more. We all heavily underestimate our brain's ability to forget information of the past. Writing is good to store past moments, but don't rely on it too heavily said Socrates, because instead of using your brain to remember things, you will just always rely on written word.

In heavy contemplation here tonight. Friday night, hangin' out at the crib, deciding if I should do a Pracs study for $400 that starts tomorrow morning. Would def. help with funding a trip this summer, along with a certified kitchen for ancient roots biz, and for harvest fest. Thinkin I will donate my bod to science for a couple days.

Life has been busier lately then it has in the last year or two. With two delivery jobs, plus the gardening gig ranging around 15 hours a week. I love what we are doing, it is a challenge at times starting a food company from nothing. So many things to take into account, we just want to grow nutritious food that will benefit the community, but there are so many challenges, which is good.

Even in the counter-culture groups in which I sometimes dwell, I used to admire this sector for their ability to not transform to trends, to do things practically, not sheepishly. But over the years, I've noticed we are all basically just sheep. That at festivals, the same unpractical trends form, followers. Just the same as people following the latest trends in Vogue, and that is where the ego builds from there.

with all the various divisive labels our culture throws around, its pretty easy to create cynical judgments towards eachother that separate us.Nerd, Preppy, Goth, Hipster, Guido,Hippie,Frat Boy (are some culture has created that come to mind)These titles are thrown around as if we completely know and understand the individual based off one tiny blanket assumption society has created. Remember, we are all humans, we all have to eat,shit, and sleep. And we are all just trying to figure out the best way to do so.What's funny is these labels are all manifestations of us trying to be our own creative and individual selves, by expressing certain traits and appearing a certain way . But in reality there is no way we can deeply understand somebody based off a catch-phrase blanket label of somebody else. Be curious, not cynically judgmental.

Eating out of the Palm of Your Neighbor's Hand

Today, I feel the need to express my concerns towards buying local food, supporting farmers' markets, CSA's, or take a stroll to the country-side and create a relationship with one of your local farmers, and buy it straight off the farm. Support your local economy.
When in Financial Strife, Keep it Local
The first point tangles with the struggling economy, if you don't know our country is facing dire straights economically, you must be Osama Bin Laden and hiding in the barren hills of Pakistan. It really isn't quantum physics here, supporting your local economy is a perfect way to support yourself, because your local economy is apart of yourself. Keep those dead presidents circulating in your neighborhoods and back alley-ways, not in China, or some small island.
According to a study by the New Economics Foundation in London, a dollar spent locally generates twice as much income for the local economy. When businesses are not owned locally, money leaves the community at every transaction.
Do it for the Planet Man!
ecologically, does it really make sense to have New Zealand send apples across the world? In my opinion every major city should have its own food network, so we don't have to send truckloads upon truckloads of food across the nation constantly, not only does the food miles contribute to the destruction of our ecosystem, it erodes nutrition from our food.
"The food miles for items you buy in the grocery store tend to be 27 times higher than the food miles for goods bought from local sources.ⁱ In the U.S., the average grocery store’s produce travels nearly 1,500 miles between the farm where it was grown and your refrigerator.ⁱⁱ About 40% of our fruit is produced overseas and, even though broccoli is likely grown within 20 miles of the average American’s house, the broccoli we buy at the supermarket travels an average 1,800 miles to get there. Notably, 9% of our red meat comes from foreign countries, including locations as far away as Australia and New Zealand." Source.
Bask in the Freshness
Instead of munching on produce that has been frozen in trucks for the last week or two, why not enjoy a succulent peach, that was just picked within 24 hours, dripping its juices of freshness, and be able to have a face to face conversation with the grower, and talk about the methods used, the care put into the food. Not only are local foods fresher, but contain more nutrional value as well. Something that speaks for itself, ever tried a fresh tomato, or home-made ice cream straight from the farm? End of discsussion, enough said!

Among the reasons stated with the bold title, there are many more reasons to stop by your local food store, or market. To gain a connection with your food, and the grower, a genuine sense of community and its cohesion. And simply, it's FUN! Really,really, fun...when you get yourself immersed in your local community it only perpetuates and branches off, you meet more local foodies who have similar passions, connect, and then you soon realize how much activity there really is out there in your own backyard.

Here was a report done on eating local foods:
http://www.foodshare.net/resource/files/foodmilesreport.pdf

Get crackin' on that backyard garden this spring!
Peas,Kc

I've decided to hop back onto the old blog here, I've got way too many random, pressing (in my opinion) issues that bounce around my head as I deliver subs to struggling bankers, and well tipping insurance company owners (thanks tom dawson), that I feel it necessary to somehow thwart it out into the open, regardless of who reads this thing, if anybody. Atleast it is down in ink. Technologic Ink.

Today, as everday, I struggled to get out of bed after staying up too late, to head down to the sub shop for my lunch delivery shift. And, as everyday, I see many people coming in ordering a Diet Coke with their wheat sub, and thinking they are doing themselves this huge favor, I can almost smell the odor of their satisfaction across the counter. Well, props on the wheat bread, but that Diet Coke is going to kill you. For any of your soda pop drinkers out there (and I know for a fact there are a lot of you), Take a good look at this...

"As for the Aspartame,

The advice from the nutritionists is Run! Diet drinks are a hoax. The Aspartame therein actually provokes a craving for carbohydrates which then cause one to gain weight not lose it. 50% of Aspartame is made up of Phenylalanine. In addition to the carbohydrate craving, it produces mood swings, insomnia, aberrant behavior, depression and PMS. "

"The other half is made up of Aspartic Acid (40%), which caused genetic damage and holes in the brains of laboratory animals, and Methanol (10%). This latter poison is methyl (wood) alcohol and causes leg cramps, back pain, severe headaches, abdominal pain, impaired speech, fainting, visual loss, shortness of breath and mental confusion.

The FDA approved this drug by calling it a "food additive," thereby making it exempt from safety monitoring. The medical establishment has become a major threat to health in the United States and the world."

http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/recent.html
http://www.aspartamekills.com/

When I'm in the mood to jot something down, that I feel isn't mentioned enough in the mainstream circuit, I will just get it out of me here, and the list is already basically limitless, endless, a botomless pit.
So, think twice when deciding what drink to compliment your lunch...breakfast, or dinner.

Ha,are you serious? Life is just too beautiful to not take advantage of. Since I last spouted on here I had just arrived home from a 9 week trek. I am back and adjusted to the "Fargo" life, although I have been in and out of homebase since we got back. Most of July was spent saving up and reconnecting with friends around town, getting back to my roots which was surely needed. Then the weekend of July 23 was 10,000 lakes festival which I spent 3 days at, campfires,beautiful melodies and people. The following Tuesday I took off with the Superior family for 6 days on the North Shore of Superior, spending a relaxing, tranquil and pristine week with a crew who has been at it for 12 years running, hot damn it was so fun. So I got back from Grand Marais yesterday and tomorrow I will be voyaging west with our eyes set on Glacier National Park in NW'ern Montana. I have been scattered about the northwoods of Minnesota for 12 years and not once have I come across Mr.Bear. Glacier sounds like it is almost guaranteed you will run into a bear or moose on your hike. We will spend the first 4 days at Glacier hiking, each night stopping along the trail to camp beside a lake, and we will have plenty of time to get off the trails and snoop around. The last 2 days we will be out in the backcountry where one of Spooner's friends will meet us, he works on the upkeep of the trails out there so he knows some hot spots we can check out. So I will be arriving back to the homeland August 11th or 12th, which should wrap up my summer's travels. NZ--10k--NorthShore--Glacier. Not bad?

I can only hope everybody else is enjoying their summer as much as I..but...there is always next summer....