(May 2014) The Revolution Supper Highway
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Presentation given at first annual Wild Rivers Coast Conscious Living Expo in Crescent City, CA. May 2014.
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- 1. Kristen Reya Steele I.V. Trail of Food Project Presentation for the Wild Rivers Coast Conscious Living Expo May 18, 2014
- 2. PROBLEM 1: FOOD CRISIS
- 3. How can this be?
- 4. What stands between people and food?
- 7. PROBLEM 2: FOREST CRISIS
- 14. The cost of the modern Western diet
- 15. Food production often starts like this
- 16. `And turns it into this
- 17. To feed these…
- 18. Does this system produce health?
- 23. Gaviotos: A Village to Reinvent the World
- 24. Merging food and forests
- 26. Food forests mimic nature
- 30. Man Plants Forest in Tengger Desert: Living amidst a forest of 10,000 trees, Wang Daqing, a native of Mongolia, takes pride in having converted around 3 Hectares of desert area into forest. The area, which received a very meagre rainfall, was irrigated with water from a well in the area.
- 35. Production • Here are some useful specifications: – Total Size of back yard: 150 square metres – Total size of garden (including paths): 85 square meters – Total area of garden beds: 64 square metres (686 sq. feet )Fruit trees: 30+Berries: 16 different types – Medicinal herbs: 70+ different types
- 37. Dr. Emoto’s Water Crystal Photos
- 39. “…a revolution could begin.” - In my opinion, if 100% of the people were farming it would be ideal. If each person were given one quarter-acre, that is 1 1/4 acres to a family of five, that would be more than enough land to support the family for the whole year. If natural farming were practiced, a farmer would also have plenty of time for leisure and social activities within the village community. I think this is the most direct path toward making this country a happy, pleasant land.” Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
- 40. Fifteen-year-old Princeville resident Talia Abrams has a vision not only for Kauai, but the entire state and beyond — edible landscapes in public places
- 42. Yes, in a food forest we can • End world hunger • Heal all sickness and disease • Reforest the world • Cool the planet • Increase rainfall • Restore our connection to Mother Earth • Build community • Restore abundant food sources for all beings • Restore beauty to Earth • Restore harmony on Earth • Free people from wage slavery so they are free to live through love and commit to service their community and Spirit rather than serving false idols of money and government
Editor's Notes
- The US Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service estimates that 23.5 million people live in food deserts. More than half of them (13.5 million) are low-income. Approximately 2.3 million people (2.2 percent of all US households) live in low-income, rural areas that are more than 10 miles from a supermarket (USDA).
- The initial achievement of viable forest growth led to a massive tree-planting effort. During the three-month planting season, an imported American tractor-now fueled by raw palm oil, eliminating the need to import diesel fuel-pulls a Gaviotas-designed double-rowed planter. This machine makes it possible to transplant 30 nursery seedlings per minute, 24 hours every day except Sundays. Since the initial planting in the early 1980s, the forest has grown to 8,000 hectares. Besides generating resin products, the forest yielded a serendipitous bonus: systematically cooler temperatures over the forested land have caused a local increase in rainfall. Moreover, the increasingly rich biomass in the soil provides more effective filtering. Wells under the forest now yield drinking water of the highest purity, which is bottled along with tropical fruit juices in the sterile facilities of the converted hospital. Thus, the forest provides an enhanced supply of safe drinking water as well as additional sale products to support the village. With characteristic creativity, the Gaviotas team has designed plastic bottles for reuse as interlocking toys. Gaviotas is an exemplary ecovillage founded in 1971 by Paolo Lugari located in the llanos of the Colombian department of Vichada. Lugari assembled a group of talented and creative engineers and infected them with his vision of sustainable habitat design in one of the least hospitable political and geographical regions of the world.In addition to providing medical and educational services to a rural population, Gaviotas is noted for the planting over 1.5 million trees, which altered the hydrologic cycle and climate, provided shade that attracted wildlife, built soil, and nursed back into existence tropical rainforest plant species which were once native to the region. Resin harvested from the planted trees, international solar and wind sales and services, and water bottling using recyclable "bricks" for bottles (fill them with sand and they fit together like Legos), has now provided Gaviotas with adequate income to supplant its initial multi-million-dollar UN seed grants and private donations.Gaviotas Tree PlantationPaolo Lugari reports:By natural law, energy is neither created nor destroyed - it simply transforms from one medium into another. No matter where you are, it is always there for the taking. One might even say that it is so close, that most people are unable to see it! One should always use all the locally available energy first - tap all locally available resources first - before even thinking of bringing in energy from somewhere else. In that spirit, here is what Gaviotas has done recently:Gaviotas Power GenerationFor years, Gaviotas has been generating its electricity by means of a steam turbine running on wood culled from its forest. This year, the villagers have developed a novel fuel mix made of turpentine (distilled resin tapped from the pine trees in the forest) and plant oil (extracted from the fruit of the palm trees in the forest or from recycled cooking oil) that now runs all their diesel engines - electric generators, tractors, and soon trucks as well. All that was needed were stainless steel filters (developed in-house) to replace the regular paper oil filters in their engines. This new fuel mix doesn't require any changes to the engines' diesel fuel injection pumps.Gaviotas school in the forestGaviotas features a community dining hall that is very popular with the villagers. Its kitchen makes about 200 meals a day. The massive cooking stoves have now been equipped with internal piping through which water is heated to near boiling and is then circulated without a pump, simply via natural convection (thermosiphon). This new heat exchange system replaces the 30 solar collectors that used to sit on the roof of the dining hall. The old collectors (also thermosiphon with no moving parts) are still in top shape, so they will simply get a new paint job and be sold for $1,000 a piece!Gaviotas resin factoryBiodiversity in the Gaviotas forest continues to increase. The villagers have planted a mix of pine and palm, and now fruit trees, and nature is adding the rest: hundreds of native plant and animal species are emerging that had not been seen on these arid plains in ages.
- Researcher Geoff Lawton of Permaculture Research Institute has made an achievement of sorts. He has converted a span of desert into a green farm growing food trees, plants and mushrooms. Situated 2 Km from Dead Sea, the land was made pliable by effective rain water harvesting and methods of evaporation barriers. http://ecofriend.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/desert_in_lush_green_garden_xqkse.jpg
- Man Plants Forest in Tengger DesertLiving amidst a forest of 10000 trees, Wang Daqing, a native of Mongolia, takes pride in having converted around 3 Hectares of desert area into forest. The area, which received a very meagre rainfall, was irrigated with water from a well in the area. Through his hard work and his yearning to contribute to the mother earth, Daqing’s work is worth emulating.
- Project Sahara Forest has been envisaged by scientists as a very successful one. Taking into consideration the benefit of turning the desert into farming spaces, the main one is feeding the growing population of the world. The project sound very promising. The main source of water is the sea, which is made usable using desalination plants. Studies show that if the Sahara is to be planted with trees, it would reduce the temperature of the desert by 80. It is also estimated that a tree cover on the Sahara can bring in precipitation of about 700-1200 mm/year apart from the benefits of reflecting the sun’s rays back into the clouds by the forest cover. ► Desert Life ► 4 Deserts ► Forests ► Planting Also if planted with trees, the forest in Sahara alone would recycle 8 billion tons of Carbon/year which equals the total Carbon emitted by human habitation. Trees like Eucalyptus, which are identified to be heat tolerant are found to adapt well to the desert soil, if provided with ample irrigation.
- So, my 2 year old fledgling garden that is just getting started is producing the equivalent of 12,773 kg/acre, or in other words, close to 12.77 metric tonnes per acre!That is a respectable figure for a young, water-wise, pest free garden where only 10 of the thirty fruit trees have actually started producing yet.Here are some more statistics:Average produce per month (1st year): 11kgAverage produce per month (2nd year): 16kgFruit harvestTotal 1st year: 54kgTotal 2nd year: 127kgBerry harvestTotal 1st year: 2.6kgTotal 2nd year: 4.0kgVegetable harvestTotal 1st year: 75kgTotal 2nd year: 70kg (photo, a few months after garden built http://permaculturenews.org/2011/04/13/lessons-from-an-urban-back-yard-food-forest-experiment/
- LIHUE — Fifteen-year-old Princeville resident Talia Abrams has a vision not only for Kauai, but the entire state and beyond — edible landscapes in public places.Not in a Willy-Wonka’s-chocolate-factory, made-entirely-of-sweets type of way. Abrams wants them to be nutritious, delicious, sustainable and for everyone.“I just want edible landscape to be spread out all over,” she said. “If you’re hungry and you want healthy food it would just be around everywhere.”The young lady’s vision is being supported by nearly half of the 51 members of the state House of Representatives.As a result of Abrams’ motivation and hard work, a bill — one she wrote at age 14 — aimed at establishing a community food forest program in the state Department of Land and Natural Resources is moving through the House.And Abrams, a lifelong home-school student and vegetarian, said she couldn’t be more excited.House Bill 2177 was introduced last month by Rep. Derek Kawakami, D-Wailua-Haena, and has been co-sponsored by 23 other House representatives, including Kauai Reps. Dee Morikawa, D-Koloa-Niihau, and Jimmy Tokioka, D-Koloa-Wailua.Kawakami said he was approached by Abrams last session about her interest in learning more about the legislative process and how to get started on a bill that would allow DLNR to create a program much like what has been implemented in Kalihiwai.“She worked hard in drafting a bill and we were more than happy to introduce the bill on her behalf,” Kawakami wrote in an email. “In the future, we will be working with more schools in similar efforts. Not only do some of the best ideas come from our keiki but it is a great way to introduce and involve them in civics.”The Kalihiwai Food Forest covers two acres on Kauai’s North Shore and boasts thousands of root, ground, shrub and tree plantings. The one-year-old project is a collaboration between Malama Kauai and Regenerations International Botanical Gardens.If passed, the measure would appropriate funds and require the DLNR to “work collaboratively with local government and community organizations to provide sources of healthy food statewide.”“Community and urban gardens, concepts which have been adopted statutorily in states like New York, California, Massachusetts, Tennessee, and Maine, may provide a solution to the problem of increasing food costs and the dwindling availability of undeveloped land,” the bill states.“By identifying and utilizing public lands, particularly those near existing community gathering places such as parks and community centers, to create community food forests that adopt edible landscaping concepts, the State may be able to provide additional sources of low- or no-cost food to residents, while also utilizing developed land for community sustainability purposes.”The act would go into effect July 1.On Wednesday, the House Committee on Water and Land voted 9-0 that the measure be passed with minor amendments. The bill now moves on to the House Committee on Finance, its final referral before it could move on to the House floor. The backgroundTalia, the daughter of Ernest and Meryl Abrams of Princeville, said the idea came to her when she was listening to a radio show about a low-income family. With only $12 per day to spend on food, the family was forced to eat cheap meals at fast food restaurants.“I decided I really wanted to do something,” she said.Last year, at age 14, she drafted the bill for an assignment prior to attending the Christian non-profit TeenPact Leadership School in Honolulu. Later, she took the bill directly to Kawakami, who promised her he would introduce it during this year’s legislative session.“He was really interested in it,” she recalled.North Shore resident and teacher Felicia Cowden, who Abrams described as a “mentor,” said the bill is designed to adapt to any community, with the community deciding what’s best for its own needs.“It can be as small or as big as the community grows it to be,” she said. “Every community would have its own influence on the size, the style, the funding.”Cowden said the food forests could also be used for grief counseling, with individuals or families planting and caring for a tree in honor of a lost loved one. Or, portions of an area — for example, the bike path along Kauai’s Eastside — could be adopted and lined with fruit-bearing trees.“A lot of places around, they have trees that are completely useless,” Abrams said. “But if they could just be fruit trees, or native ones or edible, then I think it would help us all out.”Positive momentumAbrams’ reaction Wednesday after hearing that her bill passed through committee was short and sweet.“It’s amazing!” she said.“When I first started, I didn’t think it would go anywhere. I was 14!”A total of 47 pieces of testimony were submitted prior to Wednesday’s hearing. All but one voiced strong support.“When the young people of today are bright enough to understand that THEY are our future, we need to LISTEN,” wrote Ann Evens. “This is a STEP towards helping all communities take the important step forward toward healthy self-reliance.”Sean Lathrop wrote that the state of Hawaii “could become an example for the entire country by adopting and implementing this bill.”And Peter J. Martin, president and CEO of TeenPact, testified that the bill is not only good for the people of Kauai, but also “shows Talia that even through she cannot yet vote, her voice can be heard.”DLNR Chair William Aila testified that while the department supports the bill’s intent, it does not feel it is necessary since the Forest Stewardship Program and the Kaulunani Urban and Community Forestry Program are already in place.“The Department believes that through these two existing programs, the goals for House Bill 2177 could be met without creating a new program,” he wrote.Backup planShould the bill not make it through the legislative process, Abrams is prepared. In fact, she has already sat down to discuss the idea with Kauai Mayor Bernard Carvalho Jr., and has pitched her proposal — signed by 150 community members — to the Kilauea Neighborhood Association.“If the bill doesn’t go through, I will still somehow make it a community thing,” she said with confidence.In her own submitted testimony, Abrams said she was honored to see her bill introduced and that her dream is to help feed the people she sees in the park who she knows are hungry. “Please pass this Bill because I want to help people have healthy food to eat, even if they can’t afford it,” she wrote.
- 12th Annual Eugene Food Not Lawns Seed Swap in Eugene.Saturday, December 14, 2013 – 10:00am until 1:00pm