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Garden Dreams: Let us live like Kings, not Pawns with control over our domain, health and nutrition. I’m looking forward to the future where the cost of living will dramatically decrease due to continued scientific innovation, automation and hopefully lots of an-caps but the clash between collectivist centralization and decentralized Independence continues to unfold and I would like to share the research and resources I have collected by seeking out other gardeners both online and in my city as well as detoxification techniques to increase the quality and length of your life/health. Your body does not need junk food, it needs nutrients. You don’t have to run away to the wilderness or own vast acres to be able to have a high quality high nutrient dense food. You do however have to seek and to be informed to know your options and take control of your own food and nutrition. There are easy options that are self watering, use no electricity as well as inexpensive options that give you amazing results. I’ve started a small garden indoors and outdoors as well as potted fruit trees and volunteering at an urban garden and nursery. 1. When you decide to grow, you will soon have an abundance of high quality food. By Growing your Greens or Herbs you don’t need that much space and you are starting with the highest quality food for your body which is also the most expensive at the grocery store anyway. Growing your greens such as sprouts which takes a few days or leafy greens in a raised garden bed indoors or outdoors. Edible flowers and Herbs which add high value to your food are also the easiest to grow. Think arugula, cilantro (detox heavy metals) chives(super easy even half rock soil), basil, oregano (anti-cancer), kale, swiss chard, dill, garlic, marigold flowers, spinach, regrow your celery roots, regrow your onion roots, grow garlic etc. Its actually very easy to even grow potted fruit trees indoors in pots such as olives, meyers lemon, limes, apples, cherries and more. 2. Use High Quality WATER! Filter your water because shocker, the chlorine and fluoride from the municipality (tap/city) water has fluoride and chlorine that kills beneficial microbial life in your garden. If you are starting feel free to water your plants by hand, a cup of water per plant, water the roots/dirt not the leaves. Here is an example of an inline filter from Boogie Brew that attaches to a garden hose http://www.boogiebrew.net/water-filter/ 3. High quality food needs high quality minerals and growing mediums. The Square Foot Gardening Method by Mel Bartholomew is the favorite book of John Kohler from Growing your Greens. To this method he advocates adding in “rock dust” and other options that increase the nutrients available to the plants. Raised Garden Beds Square Foot Gardening “OMRI Listed” are your options for organic non-toxic growing medium options 1/3 Compost (fungal dominated and vermicompost (worms)) no animal manure 1/3 Pearlite or Vermiculite 1/3 Coco Coir or Peat Moss +Added minerals such as Azomite Rock dust, lowest prices from www.Rootnaturally.com 4. Make your own compost!! If you enjoy this post, you will eventually be tempted to get a “compost tumbler” and I highly recommend starting off small and productive with a worm bin you can build yourself. Here is a link to the lovely Cali Kim. If you are a juicer or avid organics eater then composting is definitely for you! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjHxt7kfPWM EASY OPTIONS TO GET STARTED 1. No watering or weeding, set up indoors, easy set-up there are a few options. The Kratsky method has been around and it does not need electricity, just water and nutrients. The health ranger from Naturalnews.com has come out a system that runs about $100 and/or use your 3d printer to make the parts. http://www.naturalnews.com/048727_Food_Rising_grow_box_Health_Ranger_revolution.html http://www.supplysource.com/Starter-Kit_c_66.html 2. Raised Gardening Options a. Using cement blocks, low cost, easy to move around or change in the future b. Build your own raised garden bed, ideally from untreated Cedar wood c. Use these connectors to easily make a raised garden bed without the need for any tools http://www.gardeners.com/buy/in-line-connectors-for-raised-beds/33-247VS.html#q=garden+bed&start=13 d. Cold Weather- there are cold weather crops such as carrots but also build a garden bed with a hoop house and/or a greenhouse or indoors e. “Smart-pot” just unfold and fill with dirt. Easy to set up and uses air pruning of roots but will not last as long as wood or cinderblocks. f. Use nursery pots as the border of your garden 3. Aerogarden- this is initially how I started gardening, very easy grows quickly. If interested sign up on their websites as they will send you discount offers 4. Patio Picker/City Picker – good option to start, gives you “raised garden bed” advantages and also has a feature to “self-water” so that it is more forgiving if you do not water every day. 5. Garden Tower Project. Fits over 50-60 plants in 4 square feet. Will run you about $300 but this is a fabulous option if you have limited space. http://www.gardentowerproject.com/ 6. Potted Fruit Trees, go with potting mix of (quality compost + pearlite + cococoir) or Al's Gritty Mix 5-1-1-1-1 Fruit trees such as meyers lemons and citrus do not like having "wet feet" a good draining mix is essential and Al's Gritty Mix is 5 parts pine bark (aprox $3 at home depot for huge bag, larger pieces better) 1 part vermiculite/Pearlite 1 part cococoir 1 part gypsen 1 part lime Also an easy "gritty mix" is 3-1-1 which is pine bark and cocoir and vermiculite. This gritty mix is also good helping over-watered plants in the ground that are not well draining, add this on top of the dirt at the base of the plant so that the soil can incorporate the draining properties of the mix. 7. Living Forever – looking to link a recent article about life extension technologies including nutrient therapy. It also mentioned membership clubs in London offering these services to their clients. 8. Other resources Fruiting, rare and tropical plants https://www.logees.com/ Employee owned garden company https://www.monstergardens.com/ John Kohler Growing your Greens website for dehydrators and juicers www.discountjuicer.com 9. ASMR sounds of the organic vegetable garden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn9XO6u4suU Please add in any tips, tricks, advice, comments, criticisms. Please feel free to Reuse any and all information you have learned from this article.

Hey, guys! Let me start with acknowledging the fact that I'm not a technical person and I don't have enough brain power to fully understand the complications of technological advancements such as Ethereum. I just have a gut feeling it's going to change the world. I would really appreciate if you took a look at it and shared some of your thoughts on the matter. Here's a great article http://www.itworldcanada.com/article/ethereum-offers-platform-for-decentralized-enterprise-applications/376337 Thank you!

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/20/rise-of-data-death-of-politics-evgeny-morozov-algorithmic-regulation?commentpage=2 http://www.guardianbookshop.co.uk/BerteShopWeb/viewProduct.do?ISBN=9780241957707 The rise of data and the death of politicsTech pioneers in the US are advocating a new data-based approach to governance – 'algorithmic regulation'. But if technology provides the answers to society's problems, what happens to governments? "To his credit, MacBride understood all of this in 1967. "Given the resources of modern technology and planning techniques," he warned, "it is really no great trick to transform even a country like ours into a smoothly running corporation where every detail of life is a mechanical function to be taken care of." MacBride's fear is O'Reilly's master plan: the government, he writes, ought to be modelled on the "lean startup" approach of Silicon Valley, which is "using data to constantly revise and tune its approach to the market". It's this very approach that Facebook has recently deployed to maximise user engagement on the site: if showing users more happy stories does the trick, so be it. Algorithmic regulation, whatever its immediate benefits, will give us a political regime where technology corporations and government bureaucrats call all the shots. The Polish science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem, in a pointed critique of cybernetics published, as it happens, roughly at the same time as The Automated State, put it best: "Society cannot give up the burden of having to decide about its own fate by sacrificing this freedom for the sake of the cybernetic regulator." spike91nz20 July 2014 7:08am Recommend6 The algorithms imagined are developed within a set of assumptions regarding relevant aspects of the system counting for significance and value. It is the assumptions within which the algorithms are constructed that are (or need to be) open for public and political debate. The algorithm is not a neutral and objective construction, but rather one tailored to the assumptions defining the purpose and design applied to the indifferent system. If the world is seen only in terms of economic values, those aspects of human existence resistant to such reductionism, and those impossible to be determined values for future generations, will be excluded by those obsessed with immediate personal profits. If we wish to establish a steady-state socio-political machine in a rentalist's economy, without opportunity for freedom or progress, then the cybernetic algorithms will serve that purpose. They will however demand ever finer constraints upon the individual variables, until the specific calories and allowable waste are calculated for each inhabitant of a maximally populated dystopian reality. Is this really the best future that we can imagine?