care for the earth, EU, government, Ireland, Permaculture, Sustainable Living

A Loaded Gun

Posted on February 7, 2015 by Colette O'Neill

“Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.”
― Terence McKenna

I was shocked when I first read this quote!

However, it is not a statement I can debate, because, from where I am at this moment in time, I have to agree.

It is short and succinct!

It is true.

Returning recently from a shopping trip to Sligo, my head aching from the slow trawl around shops, keeping apace with other shoppers, most of whom seemed in a trance-like state, almost zombified; it struck me that many were there as a source of passive entertainment.

Shopping has become a pastime for many.

What does this say about our society?

Is it merely that we are nothing more than consumers?

Let’s face it, our governments have long since created the global economic model upon that premise, that we are consumers of a vast global shopping mall.

I live in the EU, where the government in Brussels are continually at odds with people, like myself, who demand a more democratic representation of our views.

Many of these disagreements focus around the EU contamination by big business and corporations which run inherently different policies to the representation of the people.

Those I speak with, especially on the Bealtaine Cottage website, are sickened and angry with such things as the TTIP, Monsanto, agricultural policies and suchlike!

For my part, I loathe guns and any analogies to them.

I do not want to be part of a loaded gun pointed at Mother Earth!

Yet, we are governed in a way which is opposite to what we believe to be right!

I was happy to get home from shopping.

My head was sore!

All the over-wrapped, cheaply produced goods made me feel sick.

Plastic and chemicals that I knew my beautiful Mother Earth would have to deal with!

As the car turned into the entrance to Bealtaine, I heaved a sigh of relief.

I imagine that feeling to be an integral part of what the land releases on a daily basis…

I can’t change the system of corruption within government, but I am aware of its inexorable collapse…for this madness is not sustainable.

We all know, like the Titanic, it’s going down.

And, like the Titanic, those on the bridge can neither see the disaster in front of them, nor believe their vessel to be so easily destroyed.

**************

Thanks for supporting Bealtaine Cottage website

Bealtaine Cottage, Bees, biodiversity, Earth, Food, Garden, Gardens, GM Food, Growing Food, Herbs, Inspiration, Monsanto, Organic Garden, Permaculture, Seed-Saving, Seeds, Sustainable Living

Know Your Seeds

Posted on February 19, 2014October 24, 2015 by Colette O'Neill

There are basically four different kinds of seed you can purchase.

Open Pollinated Seed.
This is the most natural seed, simply because it has not been interfered with in any laboratory.
This seed is pollinated by Nature…bees, insects and wind. Occasionally by us too as we brush up against flowers and accidentally get pollen on our clothes, carrying it to another flower and so on. Sometimes we help Mother Nature a little by gently brushing the pollen from one flower to another. It’s all good! These seeds are what are commonly referred to more and more as “Organic” on the packaging. Organic seeds are fast becoming more difficult to obtain in Garden Shops etc. This is because the big seed companies are busy buying up the small seed companies, leaving the consumer with less and less choice!
High Yielding Seed. These look attractive in the packet, with lots of blurb attached to get you to buy, but, these seeds thrive on chemicals and are sort of married to chemicals too! Definitely not organic and in many cases a danger to bees and insects.
Hybrids. These are actually designed not to be saved!
G.E. Seed. Otherwise known as GM, GMO and all about genetic engineering Nature and patenting the result. These seeds are injected with chemicals and then patented by corporations such as Monsanto. Monsanto declares to be above God Almighty, by stating, and being supported by US Law, that it created the seed!

This is merely a guide for you to build on.

Find out all you can about seed, for it is your future and that of your children.

Vandana Shiva: The seed in its essence is all of the past evolution of the Earth, the evolution of human history, and the potential for future evolution. The seed is the embodiment of culture because culture shaped the seed with careful selection—women picked the best, diversified. So from one grass you get 200,000 rices.

That is a convergence of human intelligence and nature’s intelligence. It is the ultimate expression of life, and in our language, it means “that from which life arises on its own, forever and ever and ever.”

*******************

Here at Bealtaine Cottage in the West of Ireland I save seed…grown under Permaculture conditions which seek to protect both the integrity of the seed and the environment!

Open pollinated seed is available from Bealtaine Cottage.

Click on the link below to see the current list of seed.

https://bealtainecottage.com/seeds-for-sale/

Bealtaine Cottage, biodiversity, Current Affairs, E.U., Ecology, GM Food, Monsanto, Organic Garden, Permaculture, Seeds

A Grievous Sin

Posted on February 18, 2014March 24, 2015 by Colette O'Neill

The biggest threat to our food security lurks in the shadowy depths of the Halls of Power…the buildings housing the European Parliament in Brussels.

You may or may not be aware of something called The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

TTIP is a trade agreement presently being negotiated between the European Union and the United States.

In my estimation, this will allow full and unfettered access to our food production, from multi-national corporations, such as Monsanto, that carry the weapon of GMOs.

I call this manifestation of utter madness, GMOs, a weapon, because that is precisely what it is…and a weapon that will cause more devastation to the environment than anything concocted in laboratories ever before!

This is already the case in the US, as small farmers, producing Organic food, are hauled before courts accused of property rights violations by Monsanto.

Monsanto claims ownership of any plant material infected by their GMOs!

Once this insidious and odious polluted seed of mass destruction is unleashed into the environment of Europe, supported in Law by the TTIP, then the takeover will be fast-tracked by our own governments, who are mandated by us to protect us, not US Corporate interests!

The countdown to the ultimate weapon of mass control and destruction is under way.

You need to know what is happening.

Knowledge is power.

For my part, I will not comply with any law that says a corporation controls and profits from the very essence of life itself…seed.

For their part, all they have done is take the seed of the Divine Creator and pollute it.

That, in my eyes, is a grievous sin.

Bealtaine Cottage has built up a Permaculture Seed Bank.

If you want to see a list of available seeds, this link will take you there… https://bealtainecottage.com/seeds-from-bealtaine-cottage/

Seeds from Bealtaine Cottage in Ireland are posted all over the world!

No More Seed Available At Present!

************************

Bealtaine Cottage is also on YouTube…with over 110 videos about Permaculture, planting, growing and living.

There are almost 800 blogs in the archives on this site.

I write, photograph and film, in a small way, to give a voice to Mother Earth.

Autumn, Bealtaine Cottage, Bees, Buddha, Cats, Celtic Mythology, Celts, Country Living, Culture, Edible Gardens, Food, Garden, Growing Food, Inspiration, Ireland, Monsanto, Organic Garden, Permaculture, polytunnel gardening, Seed-Saving, Seeds, Uncategorized

Images on the First Morning of Lughnasa

Posted on August 1, 2013August 4, 2013 by Colette O'Neill

The first day of Celtic Autumn has arrived.

It’s cool.

Last night seen the hot water bottle come out of storage and be filled.

Rudbeckia has opened its beautiful deep orange petals…a marker of the time of year. This has been grown from seed, this year.

I started it off in the tunnel in February, from seeds I collected last Autumn.

As I walked the gardens, Sammy-Bear walked in front of me, finally stopping in the tunnel and rolling in the dirt!

For a white cat, he can be a dirty little rascal at the best of times!

On the plus side, he doesn’t seem to mind the rain, so cleans up well!

Seed-saving continues apace and the bees keep up the good work, even on a wet morning like today…

…this is where the tunnel works really well!

These are seeds from the three year old Purple Sprouting Broccoli, still in the pods, drying.

These seeds are big and plump and represent the very strongest, biggest, most productive and oldest of the Purple Broccoli.

Monsanto eat your heart out!

Pom-Pom Dahlias are making a show of themselves.

This is the first year I have grown these.

This Buddleia was grown from Bealtaine Cottage seed and planted in the tyres two years ago.

Many followers of Bealtaine cottage ask me for Lunaria (Honesty) seeds…and here are some drying on the veranda of the Lodge, hung up last evening.

This is a nice airy place to start off the drying process, though I may need to bring them indoors, if the wet weather prevails for much longer.

The Apple harvest continues to delight as the fruit appears so healthy and untarnished for another year.

I NEVER spray my Apple trees, or, for that matter, ANY of the fruit trees, and am rewarded with a bountiful, healthy crop year after year!

Truly Organic!

The rain settles onto the leaves of the Crocosmia Montbretia, a beautiful harbinger of Autumn!

A pot of tea beckons…

Sammy-Bear is sad to see me go indoors…

Bealtaine Cottage is also on YouTube…with over 100 videos about Permaculture, planting, growing and living.

Thank you for supporting this blog

Bees, biodiversity, Cottage, Current Affairs, E.U., Food, GM Food, Growing Food, Monsanto, Organic Garden, Permaculture, Seed-Saving, Uncategorized

Monsanto and Why Your Vigilance is Needed…

Posted on July 29, 2013August 4, 2013 by Colette O'Neill

We have been informed that Monsanto are backing out of Europe.

We have been told that Monsanto do not see a viable market for their GMOs in the EU.

However, it is important to realise that Monsanto have cultivated friends in the highest echelons of government worldwide.

The EU is now officially in bed with the US administration, via the recently verified Trade Agreement.

Monsanto are not going away.

The lure of money and power is too great!

Be vigilant!

Monsanto have been around for some time and used to playing the long game.

Do not let your guard slip on this one.

The stakes are too high!

*****************************

Update on 2nd of August.

As I suspected…

http://rt.com/news/court-overturns-french-monsanto-ban-930/

Bealtaine Cottage is also on YouTube…with over 100 videos about Permaculture, planting, growing and living.

Thank you for supporting this blog

Animals, Buddha, Current Affairs, E.U., Food, GM Food, Growing Food, History, Inspiration, Monsanto, Organic Garden, Permaculture, Smallholding, Thoughts

How is That Agriculture?

Posted on June 28, 2013June 29, 2013 by Colette O'Neill

Food is now grown under mass monoculture systems of what is called Agriculture.

This is the madness of monoculture…

The Earth’s soil is depleting rapidly, at more than 13% the rate it can be replaced.

Massive amounts of chemicals and sprays are need to keep food growing.

How is that agriculture?

Monoculture is now being extended into the very seeds we use to grow food.

We have lost 75% of the world’s crop varieties over the last century!

Monsanto want to reduce that even more!

How is that agriculture?

Over recent years, we’ve had hundreds of millions of tons of herbicides, pesticides, pollutants and chemicals dumped onto crops, polluting our soil and waterways.

How is that agriculture?

More than one million chickens are kept at any one time in intensive warehouse conditions.

Pig farms can house several thousands of pigs at a time.

How is that agriculture?

In many of these pits of despair the animals never see sunlight or touch earth.

Is 20,000 pigs in a warehouse now called Pig-Farming??

How is that agriculture?

The quality of life for those animals in factory farming is so horrid, that many people cannot bear to look.

How is that agriculture?

“Beginning in the fifties and sixties, the flood tide of cheap corn made it profitable to fatten cattle on feed-lots instead of on grass, and to raise chickens in giant factories rather than in farmyards.

Iowa livestock farmers couldn’t compete with the factory- farmed animals their own cheap corn had helped spawn, so the chickens and cattle disappeared from the farm and with them the pastures and hay fields and fences.

In their place the farmers planted more of the one crop they could grow more of than anything else: corn.

And whenever the price of corn slipped they planted a little more of it, to cover expenses and stay even.

By the 1980s the diversified family farm was history in Iowa, and corn was king.”

~Michael Pollan

biodiversity, Current Affairs, Garden, GM Food, Growing Food, Inspiration, Monsanto, Permaculture, polytunnel gardening, Seeds, Sustainable Living, Trees, Uncategorized, Wild Flowers

Thank You, Monsanto!

Posted on June 24, 2013June 24, 2013 by Colette O'Neill

So much for panicking…my computer is fixed!

I was really in a tiz thinking that I was going to be without the means of spreading the energy from Bealtaine Cottage and I’m glad about that, because as the evening progressed and my computer was being fixed, I had time to think about all the people I have met through this blog…and what we all have in common…Passion!

Growing life from seed and sharing the abundance of the ensuing seed and all because of Monsanto!

If Monsanto had not attempted to own and monopolize our seed, I would never have met Elena from Greece, who posted me this Rocket seed…now in the process of making more seed!

Or David from the U.S. who sent me these Oak seeds, now growing in pots in the shelter of one of the sheds.

And Eric who posted me a selection of tree seeds, all scattered in the gardens, for me to find in the autumn, as flowers and fruit and vegetables die back.

For then I will carefully lift and pot them on.

And the package I recently received from Switzerland, filled with Ginkgo seeds, a unique species of tree with no close living relatives.

A tree that tolerates pollution and indeed even survived the Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima!

Or the Black Tomato seeds from Tara in New York!

The wickedness perpetrated by Monsanto, in trying to arrest, control and kill off the great biodiversity of life, has awakened so many to the very essence of life itself…seed!

We are now aware and able to articulate what it is that makes life so fantastic…and it all stems from seed.

Nine years ago, my main interest in seed was far from protecting it, but simply in growing.

Thanks to Monsanto, I got to know great people like Dr Vandana Shiva, who opened the door into a wonderful world of possibilities and challenges, to save and nurture seed.

Nine years ago I was growing food and flowers…today I am growing an Ark for Mother Nature, one that is more than the sum total of everything I have ever done before!

Monsanto has aroused passions in people that few were ever aware of…certainly I never felt this passionate about Mother Earth!

And that is the difference between Monsanto executives and Seed savers and nurturers…passion.

They just don’t have it!

Eat your heart out, Monsanto!

Bealtaine Cottage is also on YouTube…with over 120 videos about Permaculture, planting, growing and living.

There are over 550 blogs in the archives on this site.

Donations are always welcome.

Thank you!

Thank you for supporting this blog

E.U., Earth, Food, Fracking, Garden, Growing Food, Ireland, Organic Garden, Permaculture, Politics, Trees, Uncategorized

G8 Summit of Charlatans

Posted on June 15, 2013June 24, 2013 by Colette O'Neill

What is happening in our societies is not about austerity.

It is not about the economy either.

It is about the blatant, criminal misuse and misappropriation of our taxes.

Was any government you ever voted for, mandated to give our tax money to banks?

Was that the platform that the trustees we elected, in trust, to hold in trust, our state, voted into office?

The media keeps talking about our “Economy”, as though it were our lack of work or effort that caused any of these problems.

We are told continually that the past is the past, what’s done is done and to move on!

We are told that we need to get the economy moving by spending!

I do not want to buy stuff.

I want an equitable society where all are cared for.

Recently, here in Ireland, our government at the behest of the EU, inflicted a “carbon tax” upon us in the form of 75 cents rise on a bag of coal.

But here’s the catch…it is the poorest people who are reduced to buying coal to keep warm…and usually the oldest and most vulnerable in our society.

Where is this tax going?

Well, Ireland has the lowest tree cover in Europe and it is not being re-invested into the planting of deciduous trees.

Most of this money will be traded for Carbon Tax credits…total madness!

We need trees here in Ireland!

I am currently sitting in a G8 Exclusion Zone.

They will be converging just up the road from me, in the next few days, to start the carve-up of what is left in societies.

The forces that be have recently been out on the roads around the G8 Summit Hotel, removing anti-fracking signs…leaders must not be subjected to any kind of opposition to their distorted world views!

I can tell you what they WILL NOT be talking about…

Planting trees!

How we expand education for all!

Ways of supporting the Carers in society!

Creating a more just and equitable society.

Putting programmes in place to encourage people to grow organic food.

Nationalising water and all major utilities to ensure front-line democracy for all citizens!

Social unrest is being driven by corporate greed and the resulting societal chaos compounded by unemployment, mental trauma, & poverty!

Will the G8 address any of these real issues?

I’m not holding my breath!

There’s some real work to be done here at Bealtaine Cottage…trees to plant, food to grow and Nature to engage with…with the occasional cup of tea brewed up on the rocket stove!

Bealtaine Cottage is also on YouTube…with over 100 videos about Permaculture, planting, growing and living.

Thank you for supporting this blog

Abundance, biodiversity, E.U., Garden, Seeds, Wild Flowers

The Nature of the Beast

Posted on June 8, 2013August 30, 2015 by Colette O'Neill

The patenting of seeds is a violation against Nature.

The patenting of genes is also a violation against Nature.

Nature cannot be owned by any corporation or government, for it is for us all to share.

The privatisation of the planet is under way, supported by the very governments who are under trust to protect us all and represent our best interests in state.

Greed is rewarded with patents in the US courts, as the very essence of life itself is being pimped as a product of the corporation…seed.

Quite simply…Nature is being subjected to Corporate Cannibalism, as corporations like Monsanto feast upon small seed companies, the last hope of a planet in crisis!

The Earth offers her bounty…the Divine harvest of love and promise, first in food and then in seed, a gift for all to share!

However, the nature of the beast that eyes the feast is greed…eye-popping, drooling, slathering greed!

There will never be enough profit for the beast.

Nature must be protected.

My message to those who wish to dominate, control and own Mother Nature?

This law is wrong.

Patenting the seeds of Nature is wrong!

My conscience says “No!”

The patenting of seeds leads to monoculture and loss of diversity.

At a time when the planet is in such crisis, with loss of eco-systems and bio-diversity, governments need to be actively encouraging people to protect, nurture and save seed…not allowing chemical companies to enslave humanity to a corporate controlled seed bank!

The nature of the beast is greed.

That greed will destroy what remains of a planet and its’ people in crisis.

Bealtaine Cottage is free and has over 850 blogs, as well as over 3,500 photographs.

Bealtaine Cottage Good Life is a mere 12 euros per year and allows me a small income, to keep doing what I love doing most…writing about Mother Earth and photographing her.

To subscribe, a small donation of 12 euros per year, will add your name to the subscriber list.

Click on button below to join the website…

Abundance, Bees, Birds, Buddha, Current Affairs, Food, Garden, Inspiration, Ireland, Permaculture, Sligo, Thoughts, Uncategorized

Transition Town Sligo, Monsanto and No 2 GM

Posted on May 27, 2013May 27, 2013 by Colette O'Neill

On Saturday, as part of the “March Against Monsanto,” campaign held worldwide, I attended a public meeting to raise awareness about Monsanto,and the many issues surrounding GM foods.

John Brennan,a long time anti-GM campaigner,and a member of NO 2 GM,an anti GM organisation, http://www.no2gm.com, was the speaker at this event.

As Monsanto, the giant biotech U.S. company is becoming more and more determined to impose it’s GM foods on the populations of the world, people are equally becoming more and more determined to resist this pressure.

Sligo has just entered the Transition Towns Movement and has already established a Community Garden, where great, organic food is grown and people come together to make the transition from a world of peak oil to a more localized environment, where food and fuel do not have to be transported great distances.

It was a great day and an opportunity to power up with information, as well as meet new people involved in improving the world we live in!

Back home, in the gardens here at Bealtaine Cottage, the sun shines between heavy rain…ideal growing conditions!

The roses on the veranda have opened their scented blooms, as the bees dart in and out to avoid the heavy rain.

Sweet Peas have been planted in hanging baskets to avoid the slugs and…

The blossom now covers the Kanzan Cherry Tree…a long wait, but worth it!

You can see the blue sky, but don’t be fooled as almost an inch of rain fell last night and continues, intermittently today!

This is a brass dish I found at the second-hand market on Sunday.

It was 25cents!

Doesn’t it make a great bird bath set into the branches of this tree and filled with rainwater?

As the tree grows this summer, the branches will grow into the plate, holding it securely in place!

Everything is making good progress as the weather improves.

The gardens are just drooping with abundance.

Bees and insects are in heaven!

And as you can see from today’s video…

“A Bee Healthy Permaculture Garden”

Abundance, Bees, biodiversity, Food, Garden, Growing Food, Inspiration, Ireland, Permaculture, Seeds, Self-Sufficiency, Spirituality, Summer, Trees, Wild Flowers

Defeating Monsanto…with the help of the Bees!

Posted on May 19, 2013April 2, 2016 by Colette O'Neill

May 2013…This is an update on all that’s growing in the permaculture gardens today.

The season has been slow to get going, as the sunshine has been minimal, with rain and cold prevailing.

Apple blossom and blackcurrants at Bealtaine Cottage

Despite the appalling weather here in the west of Ireland, Apple trees are laden with blossom and bees are buzzing around the gardens busily pollinating all the blossom.

Plenty of bees in the permaculture gardens ensure masses of fruit and vegetables

The bees have been hard at work on the Blackcurrants, thus ensuring a good harvest to come.

Rhubarb in the permaculture gardens...pure abundance! — Rhubarb in the permaculture gardens…pure abundance!

Rhubarb is cropping well, due to the top-dressing of manure from the hen house it received last Autumn.

This was mixed well with compost and straw and was well rotted down.

Broccoli in flower in the tunnel...seed to come and share! — Broccoli in flower in the tunnel…seed to come and share!

Purple Broccoli is now flowering in the tunnel, so seeds will be available from Bealtaine Cottage later on in the season.

lots of seed to be harvested from the Lunaria later in the summer

Valerian is coming into flower and the Lunaria is seeding well.

beautiful Columbine from seed scattered outside the door of Bealtaine Cottage

Aquilegia is about to make a show…lots of this beautiful flower this year, as I have been busily throwing seed all over the gravel.

More photographs of the gardens from today…

Kale in flower, ready for seed setting...always choose the strongest plant to save seed from... — Kale in flower, ready for seed setting…always choose the strongest plant to save seed from…

Thank you Eric from Oregon for sending me these Cedar seeds...and here they are, growing! — Thank you Eric from Oregon for sending me these Cedar seeds…and here they are, growing!

Roses,Willow and Jostaberry combine to make an edible archway in the edible gardens

Bealtaine Cottage has built up a Permaculture Seed Bank.

If you want to see a list of available seeds, this link will take you there… https://bealtainecottage.com/seeds-for-sale/

Seeds from Bealtaine Cottage in Ireland are posted all over the world!

Bealtaine Cottage is also on YouTube…with over 110 videos about Permaculture, planting, growing and living.

There are over 1,000 blogs in the archives on this site.

As an Ark for Nature, birds, bees, trees and wildlife, the smallholding of Bealtaine Cottage receives no funding or support from the EU, Irish Government or any Environment agencies.

Your donation helps remedy that…

Bees, biodiversity, Butterflies, Current Affairs, Fracking, Garden, Inspiration, Permaculture, Smallholding, Sustainable Living, Uncategorized, Wildlife

March Against Monsanto

Posted on May 14, 2013June 20, 2013 by Colette O'Neill

The new sign at Bealtaine Cottage, alongside a more important one…”No Fracking!”

Time to advertise what it is we stand for!

The power of advertising is immense.

Corporations and governments allocate massive amounts of money each year to get their messages of suppression and control across to the public.

However, we have the access to advertising ourselves, if we decide to use our windows, cars, front doors, entrances to propagate our messages…what a load of free advertising space!

On Saturday 25th May, there is a worldwide March Against Monsanto, taking place in all major cities.

If Monsanto is allowed to pimp it’s wares, as it does so successfully to central governments, then pictures such as this, the bee on Lunaria in the permaculture gardens of Bealtaine Cottage, will be rare indeed!

Here in Ireland, marches are taking place in Dublin, Cork, Galway, Clare…with more being added.

WE NEED EVERYONES HELP
WE ARE ASKING ALL ANTI GMO, ANTI MONSANTO, PRO NATURE, PRO HEALTH, PRO ENVIRONMENT, ANTI CHEMICAL POLLUTION, PRO ORGANIC, FACEBOOK PAGES WEBSITES, BLOGS, NEWS CHANNELS, AND NEWSPAPERS TO GET BEHIND THIS MOVEMENT. WE HAVE JUST A FEW WEEKS LEFT. LETS ALL WORK TOGETHER TO MAKE THIS A HISTORY MAKING EVENT. THIS IS OUR MARCH, ALL OF US, THE WORLD UNITED AGAINST SELFISH GREED THAT WOULD DESTROY OUR HEALTH AND THE PLANET IN ITS PATH.
MAY 25th EVERYWHERE
THIS IS EVENT IS FOR ALL OF US
THIS IS OUR EVENT
OUR VOICES HEARD
EDUCATE ALL

All Events in this Link
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0Ah7h2ApbBPnpdGhOMElaSVg1QUQtRlJQWm1FaUZISlE&toomany=true

Butterflies are making a welcome appearance here in the permaculture gardens, with this lovely little Speckled Wood (Pararge aegeria) making an appearance this morning.

It settled for a little sunbathing on the Ribes hedge near the Fairy Wood.

The apple trees continue to make a big show of blossom as it all opens to attract the busy bees.

It’s sunny and bright this morning, but appears to be clouding over as the day progresses.

I will be marching against Monsanto in Sligo on Saturday 25th May.

The march begins with a rally at the corner of O’Connell and Grattan Streets at 1pm.

Bealtaine Cottage is also on YouTube…with over 110 videos about Permaculture, planting, growing and living.

Over 550 blogs from Bealtaine Cottage in the archives here.

Thank you for supporting this blog

Bees, biodiversity, E.U., Food, Garden, Growing Food, Herbs, Inspiration, Life, Organic Garden, Permaculture, Seeds, Smallholding, Uncategorized

The Seed, the Whole Seed, and Nothing but the Seed!

Posted on May 11, 2013July 23, 2013 by Colette O'Neill

I used to think there was little hope for the lovely Earth we live on…that people did not care and governments would take us all to Hell…on Earth!

That was in the past.

For several years, since the beginning of this blog, I have had the opportunity to meet thousands of people on-line.

Hundreds have made their way here to Bealtaine Cottage to meet in person, share some food and drink and, converse.

If these walls could talk, there would be an endless stream of uplifting words and energy, that would be capable of drowning out the drivel of political leaders, all of whom have let us down and worked furiously to steer our home, Earth, towards damnation!

The movement to save and protect our environment is growing with such intensity, that many governments are rushing to instigate laws to try to stop us.

The EU Seed Law, as I shall call it, is just one example…and oh, how the people have risen against it, and, the ecocidal maniacs behind it!

This is the year to save seed, share seed, nurture seed, plant seed, scatter seed, put seed inside Christmas and Birthday cards…for it is the great gift of the Divine and cannot be taken from us through unjust laws, or greedy corporations!

The EU will continue on their Agenda 21 to control Nature.

Monsanto continues to hang around the back door, pimping it’s obscene ware to those who use the back door in Brussels.

The back door is the place for them, for they know the might of the people and now they also know our resolute determination to ensure they shall not pass!

Not on our watch!

http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/We_Will_Not_Comply/?cCgoWbb

Today’s video…

Monsanto and EU Pimps…

Important! Message from Terri:

On Saturday 25th May, there will be a March against Monsanto in Dublin starting at 2.30p.m in the Garden of Remembrance in Parnell Square.

Come along and add your support.

I will be attending a March Against Monsanto in Sligo, with speeches starting at 1pm.

People will gather on the corner of O’Connell and Grattan Street.

Bealtaine Cottage is also on YouTube…with over 102 videos about Permaculture, planting, growing and living.

Over 535 blogs from Bealtaine Cottage in the archives here.

Thank you for supporting this blog

Bealtaine Cottage, Current Affairs, E.U., Earth, Eco-Living, Ecology, Fracking, Gaia, Garden, Inspiration, News, Permaculture, Sustainable Living, Uncategorized

In Violation!

Posted on May 4, 2013May 4, 2013 by Colette O'Neill

Over the past few thousand years, humankind has regarded Nature as property.

This concept is rooted in biblical text and has spawned generations who have regarded themselves as having dominion over the Earth.

The feudal system was based on dominion and continues today as a land-grab mentality, based on the principles of ownership and extraction.

Where we are at this point in time is the evolution of that concept, that biblical teaching, where we are now forced to try to manage degradation of the environment rather than prevent it.

We blow the tops off mountains to extract minerals.

Hundreds of chemicals are injected into the Earth to extract gas.

The filth of Tar Sands is hailed as our energy saviour!

Seed is wrenched from us to be “owned” by corporations like Monsanto.

Presidents enact laws to protect these creatures of destruction from the very courts that are there to protect you!

Nine days ago I started a petition.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/We_Will_Not_Comply/?cCgoWbb

Nine days ago I drew my line in the sand, deciding to refuse to comply with laws that violate Mother Earth and the abundance she so generously bestows upon us.

My own line in the sand has been confirmed this morning as the decision to refuse to comply with all laws that violate Mother Earth has been made.

The days of fence sitting are over.

The gloves are off

Bealtaine Cottage is also on YouTube…with over 102 videos about Permaculture, planting, growing and living.

Over 535 blogs from Bealtaine Cottage in the archives here.

Donations are always welcome.

Thank you!

Thank you for supporting this blog

biodiversity, Current Affairs, E.U., Ecology, Food, Garden, Growing Food, Life, Permaculture, Seeds, Self-Sufficiency

Me, You and the EU!

Posted on April 25, 2013August 14, 2013 by Colette O'Neill

The EU are trying to ban Heritage Seeds!

There is a new regulation in the making as I type that will ban, yes, BAN, all old and rare varieties of seeds.

Not only ban these seeds of biodiversity and extreme importance to the health of the land and Nature, but will, in effect, threaten the exchange of seeds as I have been doing over recent months.

This ban will also prevent seeds of diversity from being sold!

So, the EU wants us all to bow down before Monsanto?

Well, I for one, will not!

The EU should be banning this monster called Monsanto and all the seeds of death it produces, not our seed heritage, nurtured and passed onto us by our grandparents!

“Monsanto’s GMO seed is neither ecological nor economic or socially sustainable. It is eco–cide and genocide.” ~ Dr Vandana Shiva

“The courage to say no to unjust law…the law that says a farmer cannot save seed!” ~ Dr Vandana Shiva

There was another great Indian leader called Gandhi and what he had to say resonates very much with me today…and I shall heed his advice!

As Gandhi taught us, the most important assets we have are self governance, self sustaining agriculture and ability to speak truth to power!

I will not comply!

Will you?

I have also uploaded a video about this…

Bealtaine Cottage is also on YouTube…with over 85 videos about Permaculture, planting, growing and living.

Over 500 blogs from Bealtaine Cottage in the archives here.

Donations are always welcome.

Thank you!

Thank you for supporting this blog

biodiversity, Current Affairs, Earth, Food, Growing Food, Life, Permaculture, Uncategorized

Under Occupation…Mother Earth needs a Lawyer!

Posted on August 27, 2012October 2, 2016 by Colette O'Neill

The Earth is in desperate need of protection.

Mother Earth is in desperate need of people with integrity to look after her interests…for her interests are our interests.

So, what constitutes integrity?

Do any of our leaders possess this quality?

How often do we say, “there goes a person of integrity…”?

Integrity is the “quality or state of being complete”, of being in an “unbroken condition” or state of “wholeness”… entireness, wholeness; the unimpaired state of anything: uprightness: honesty: purity.

The problem with many politicians, who make decisions on our behalf, is that they seem not to possess any of the last three qualities.

I am very concerned about our seed security.

Seed gives us our food…all of our food.

I have spoken about this before and the little I have to say about it resonates deeply with many of you.

Now, the reason that I mention politicians is that all decisions relating to our environment and food security are taken at governmental level and it is at governmental level that the big corporations employ many of their people…to lobby!

There is no integrity in lobbying politicians on behalf of a corporation…that is all about money and back-scratching.

So, back to Mother Earth and who lobbies for her…successfully?

Well, one of my all-time heroes, Tim DeChristopher is in prison for taking direct action to help her.

That is a story worth googling!

There are many organizations like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth who represent us on the front-line.

There are also many people who genuinely care and are concerned and I count myself as one.

The problem is that politicians are very adept at being sly.

Take for example the issue of GMO’s.

Recently, the government here in Ireland allowed this abomination into our country via, “GM Potato Trials!”

Now, who, I ask, would have lobbied for that?

Then there’s the case of Order 81 in Iraq.

Who was behind that?

Do people even know anything about Order 81, imposed by the US government in 2004.

Yes, imposed!

What a break for U.S. corporations, such as Monsanto!

The U.S. imposed 100 Orders on Iraq.

Order 81 was designed to have a major impact on the way farming is done in Iraq.

This order prohibits Iraqi farmers from using saving seeds from one year to the next.

Order 81 prohibits the farmers from using their own seeds, on their own farms, to grow their own crops.

So who supplies the seeds…?

Well, join the dots and look at what’s going on.

Prior to the U.S. invasion, agriculture in Iraq was flourishing.

The Fertile Crescent in Iraq, the cradle of civilization and where farming actually began, had developed a system of farming that was the envy of the world.

There was immense biodiversity and within that was food security.

GMO’s depletes biodiversity, leaving us all tied to the corporations supplying the seeds.

Alarm bells ringing?

Under Occupation, centuries of progress have been destroyed, almost overnight, due to the bombing of the Iraq Seed Bank…how convenient for Monsanto to get a foothold.

How much of this did you know?

As I suspected, the Earth needs a damn good lawyer and fast!

Bealtaine Cottage can also be found on YouTube.

The archives here at Bealtaine Cottage on WordPress contain over 500 blogs

You can also visit Bealtaine Cottage on YouTube, with over 80 videos uploaded for you to enjoy.

Thank you for supporting this blog

Bees, biodiversity, Butterflies, Current Affairs, Ecology, Food, Gaia, Garden, Health, Life, Music, Permaculture, Politics, Thoughts

Monsanto, Bono, Africa and Suicide

Posted on July 17, 2012March 23, 2015 by Colette O'Neill

He was once a hero of mine.

A singer who sang about the issues I cared about.

But, “Sunday, Bloody Sunday,” has become “Endgame, Bloody Endgame,” as the one time singer who articulated the ideals of a generation, turns advocate and spokesperson for the awful, dreadful, death impregnated, GM seed and food corporations of the globe.

The G8 Summit, where the great and the greedy met to plan their attack on an unsuspecting continent, will go down in history as the final chapter in a globalized attack on the poor and downtrodden of our world.

For we all know about India and the almost quarter of a million dirt poor farmers who have taken their lives in all manner of disturbing ways.

That was about seed.

GM seed.

Seed with great advertising and promises behind it, pushing it upon the most vulnerable upon our sacred Earth.

And, if I know…I, a woman living in the remote west of Ireland without television or daily paper, then I am certain that Bono knows all this and more!

After all, did he not spend time with President Obama at the G8 Summit?

So, why, Bono…why?

Today’s video…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqkpQyo5CjM

I write about, film and photograph, Mother Earth, from Bealtaine Cottage, encouraging others to open little portals of healing energy all over the world.

Blessings and thanks for your support.

Thank you for supporting this blog

Abundance, Bees, biodiversity, Birds, Country Living, Earth, Ecology, Food, Garden, Growing Food, Inspiration, Life, Lifestyle, Permaculture, Self-Sufficiency, Uncategorized, Woodland

Abundance in the Edible Gardens Today.

Posted on June 14, 2012June 14, 2012 by Colette O'Neill

Cloud and rain, interspersed with brilliant sunshine as the gardens move into their total abundance period as we approach midsummer.

A cold wind is blowing from the East, but the edible gardens are well sheltered with the warm micro-climate protected by the abundance of growth in the trees, hedging and shrubs.

These are the plants near my desk inside the cottage, on a north-facing window ledge.

I’m heading outside to embrace the morning, armed with tea and camera, followed by two cats…Jack and Flo have already been out for their walk!

Looking back at the cottage before I move through the Laurel Arch and into the Edible Gardens.

I love the colours on the Purple Beech as the leaves collide with the Rosa Rugosa, Sedge and vibrant, lime-green Crocosmia Montbretia!

Willow archways continue to strengthen as the new growth develops.

There are masses of Blackcurrants and Jostaberries growing all around the Willow…appearing to enjoy the company.

Both tolerate shade and damp, in fact, thriving on it!

And then the sun explodes onto the gardens, making everything appear in glorious technicolour!

Lush and abundant, Nature puts forth her expression of sheer joy.

Birds sing and Bees buzz.

No Monsanto here, or Dow or any other enemies of Nature…they are banished!

Apples and soft fruits are plentiful, as they were before the invention of odious chemicals.

No sprays or any other form of ecocide.

Nature is well able to look after herself, for at Bealtaine Cottage, she is officially off the critical list and life support machine that is corporate greed!

Bees find their way from flower to flower in the permaculture gardens of Bealtaine Cottage.

Archways of roses that have cost nothing more than encouragement of a slip from a rose.

And paths of wild flowers and herbs that lead one towards the deepest and most intimate recesses of Nature…

Bealtaine Cottage, Bees, Bloom, Cottage, Country Living, Garden, Gardening, Leitrim, Permaculture, Uncategorized, Wild Flowers, Wildlife

Free From The Bank…Permaculture Plants, The Growing Investment!

Posted on May 20, 2012 by Colette O'Neill

It’s rare to get anything from a bank these days.

Investments and savings are accepted, while little is offered to customers!

However, my local bank, in Carrick-on-Shannon, provided me with one of the best growing investments I have ever had…and one that continues to grow and spread rampantly…Valerian.

To be honest, I stole them!

Now that’s a confession I should not be making, but in this case, as the seeds did not belong to Monsanto, I felt it was my duty to snap them off and spread them as generously as I could, all around Bealtaine Cottage.

Anyway, six or so years later, the seeds continue to spread, of their own volition and infest the gravel with delight, for me and the Bees!

Here they are…Click on the link to see the best investment anyone can make…investing in Nature and the environment…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeJ92Su4Ssg

biodiversity, Birds, Cottage, Garden, Inspiration, Ireland, Permaculture, Uncategorized

Birdsong Walk around the Permaculture Gardens.

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Colette O'Neill

Monsanto Free-Zone Birdsong at Bealtaine Cottage Permaculture Gardens…this morning! 10/04/2012 11:55:21:http://youtu.be/9iWEvnxdCjs via @youtube

Country Living, Ecology, Food, Inspiration, Organic Garden, Permaculture, Uncategorized

Home and Garden Today

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Colette O'Neill

Sunset yesterday, purple and lilac filled the colour palette that was the evening sky in the west of Ireland. Such incredible beauty on a February day!

Wayne from the Organic Gardens at Knockvicar, near Ballyfermoyle, left me this poster yesterday…as you can see it’s advertising a Seed Swap Day! This is a time for people to come together and swap seeds collected last year! It’s a great way of acquiring all those seeds one would normally have to buy…and we do not want to support Monsanto now, do we?

Broken in the line of duty: one spade and one garden fork! I know what I want for my birthday!

This is the tunnel today after hours of work yesterday…the post winter tidy up…just have to wash the plastic, inside and out…still, the weather’s great!

“Regardless of geographical region or culture gardening is perhaps the most common and shared experience of Nature.”
― S. Kelley Harrell

“Our most important job as vegetable gardeners is to feed and sustain soil life, often called the soil food web, beginning with the microbes. If we do this, our plants will thrive, we’ll grow nutritious, healthy food, and our soil conditions will get better each year. This is what is meant by the adage, “Feed the soil not the plants.”
― Jane Shellenberger

Abundance, Bealtaine Cottage, Culture, Current Affairs, Ecology, Food, Growing Food, Ireland, Organic Garden, Permaculture, Smallholding, Sustainable Living, Thoughts, Uncategorized, Vegan

Permaculture Cottage…the Acres of the PermaGoddess

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Colette O'Neill

Three acres of Permaculture and seven years of growing from scratch…monoculture emptiness.

A journey via Permaculture that has led me to give up smoking, become a Vegetarian and evolve into a Vegan.

Happy to be an Economic Terrorist…I rarely shop, so that makes me an enemy of the Corporate State…and anyone who wants to rant about me being a Conspiracy Theorist…well, I live in the real world and watched as Ireland was handed over to the Corporations, mostly banks, bankers and greed-mongers…if this resonates with you then be prepared to be dismissed as a C.T.!

You can’t buy anything on this site…everything I advocate comes for free and I’m happy to welcome visitors to this Permaculture Smallholding and show them around, even send them off with free plants and advice on how to do permaculture.

A willow arbour. Free. No Garden centre involved here! No money, just the abundance and love and goodness that is Nature…beyond money and the Merchants of Greed!

And places to sit made from upcycled castaway wood and concrete blocks…free!

Hens at Bealtaine today…Battery eggs are degraded food…the corporations will degrade you because you are little more to them than battery hens!

The Permaculture Polytunnel this morning. Spilling over with food and seeds…Seeds are the bankable currency of the VERY near future! Why do think the US government shares the control of GM seeds with that Monster Monsanto?

Nature is perfect…so why does all the corps., want to control and degrade her?

Abundance, Bealtaine Cottage, Country Living, Current Affairs, Earth, Eco-Living, Ecology, Fairies, Gaia, Garden, Growing Food, Inspiration, Ireland, Leitrim, News, Organic Garden, Permaculture, photography, Roscommon, Sligo, Smallholding, Wildlife, Woodland

Permaculture Health, Wealth and Abundance…May the Force be With You!

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Colette O'Neill

Apple blossom this morning at Bealtaine.

As I write this I am listening to Irish Radio…talking endlessly about money, economics, making people spend money, kick-starting the economy! They just don’t get it! The wealth of a country must be measured in the health and wellbeing of its people…

Rhubarb waiting for me to turn it into jam…bumper harvests have begun again!

Apple blossom open today. the bees have feasted on the Ribes and are ready to continue the party on the fruit blossoms.

Irusan in the Fairy Dell this morning. He loves to walk the land with me each morning when he is staying at Bealtaine. Irusan is a Bombay Black Cat, whose mother was feral, living almost wild in London. he is extremely perceptive and interactive with people he chooses to like.

Growth over recent days has begun to impact on the paths that connect the permaculture zones at Bealtaine Cottage. Where monoculture fields around this smallholding are waiting for chemical fertilizer to green them, the grass and herbal pathways do the greening for themselves, for underneath lies a healthy soil that now pushes forth abundance!

Violets have emerged in the Fairy Dell…woodland abundance!

Bealtaine Cottage Calendar 2020 NOW REDUCED!

This calendar celebrates the magic of Bealtaine and the evolution to a Sanctuary for Life. The Hare was viewed by the ancient Celts as being the link between this world and the Otherworld-a supernatural world which is directly linked to nature. The Hare is known for being able to run between our world and the 'Otherworld'. Shapeshifters are widely known in Ireland to take on the form of the Hare. This is told in the famous story of the Celtic warrior Oisín. The Hare guards both the entrance to and exit from, the Fairy Wood at Bealtaine. The Calendar, which features over 50 photographs and all the Celtic festivals, includes Postage and packing WORLDWIDE and can be posted on your behalf as a gift, from Bealtaine Cottage, Ireland. (Pre-orders now accepted) WAS: 16.50€ INCL P&P NOW: 13.50€ INCL P&P

€13.50

Bealtaine Cottage Guide to the Deep Midwinter

A little Yuletide book filled with colour photographs, recipes, reflections, lore, poetry and mirth to guide you through the wonderful days ahead. Fifty pages of sheer delight from Bealtaine Cottage to you. The book is fully bound and can be posted direct as a gift. Price includes P&P worldwide. Bealtaine Books and Maps are printed in Ireland and posted from Ireland to support the people of Ireland.

€15.00

In Search of The Goddess Rising

This is the second book in the Goddess Permaculture series from Colette O’Neill at Bealtaine Cottage, Ireland. In this book I explore the ancient landscape, mythology, literature and life around Bealtaine Cottage… in search of the Great Goddess. The price of the book includes all postage and packing to wherever you live in the world! Bealtaine Books and Maps are printed in Ireland and posted from Ireland to support the people of Ireland.

€22.50

Magical Mythical Map of Bealtaine Cottage and Gardens

Beautiful map created by the artist David Gascoigne, especially for Bealtaine Cottage. The picture shows one side of the map…it is printed on both sides, see the photos on this page. The price includes all Postage and Packing to wherever you live in the world! Bealtaine Books and Maps are printed in Ireland and posted from Ireland to support the people of Ireland.

€12.00

RT @Jim03220219: @PermaGoddess @YouTube Truly wise counsel from a wise friend! You are not alone. Thousands regard you as a friend as you d… 5 hours ago
Good Counsel youtu.be/u86eKIqdPnw via @YouTube 7 hours ago
Thank you Elizabeth XXX twitter.com/PIANORAMA/stat… 7 hours ago
Dealing with the vagaries of social media, especially YouTube and learning to take a philosophical approach. To kee… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 7 hours ago
RT @PIANORAMA: You are appreciated, @PermaGoddess Watch "Time For A Break!" on YouTube youtu.be/L9t0z-jOvrs 23 hours ago

SPECIAL OFFER! Reduced to clear… Bealtaine Cottage Calendar for 2019

Price includes postage and packing worldwide! The calendar hosts a page of colour photographs from Bealtaine Cottage for each month of the year. The months of the year are written in Celtic script…ie: May is Bealtaine, August is Lughnasadh and so on…many of you are already familiar with the Celtic Calendar. The pictures on each month also feature some added wisdom from Bealtaine Cottage and information on the ancient festivals of Celtic Ireland.

€9.95

	Maureen Smith on An Alien World
	humoringthegoddess on An Alien World
	Melanie Paylor on An Alien World
	lotzacatz on An Alien World
	alistair skarsgård on An Alien World

“Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.” ― Terence McKenna

I was shocked when I first read this quote!

However, it is not a statement I can debate, because, from where I am at this moment in time, I have to agree.

It is short and succinct!

It is true.

Returning recently from a shopping trip to Sligo, my head aching from the slow trawl around shops, keeping apace with other shoppers, most of whom seemed in a trance-like state, almost zombified; it struck me that many were there as a source of passive entertainment.

Shopping has become a pastime for many.

What does this say about our society?

Is it merely that we are nothing more than consumers?

Let’s face it, our governments have long since created the global economic model upon that premise, that we are consumers of a vast global shopping mall.

I live in the EU, where the government in Brussels are continually at odds with people, like myself, who demand a more democratic representation of our views.

Many of these disagreements focus around the EU contamination by big business and corporations which run inherently different policies to the representation of the people.

Those I speak with, especially on the Bealtaine Cottage website, are sickened and angry with such things as the TTIP, Monsanto, agricultural policies and suchlike!

For my part, I loathe guns and any analogies to them.

I do not want to be part of a loaded gun pointed at Mother Earth!

Yet, we are governed in a way which is opposite to what we believe to be right!

I was happy to get home from shopping.

My head was sore!

All the over-wrapped, cheaply produced goods made me feel sick.

Plastic and chemicals that I knew my beautiful Mother Earth would have to deal with!

As the car turned into the entrance to Bealtaine, I heaved a sigh of relief.

I imagine that feeling to be an integral part of what the land releases on a daily basis…

I can’t change the system of corruption within government, but I am aware of its inexorable collapse…for this madness is not sustainable.

We all know, like the Titanic, it’s going down.

And, like the Titanic, those on the bridge can neither see the disaster in front of them, nor believe their vessel to be so easily destroyed.

**************

Thanks for supporting Bealtaine Cottage website

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

No More Seed Available At Present!

Share this:

Like this:

The first day of Celtic Autumn has arrived.

It’s cool.

Last night seen the hot water bottle come out of storage and be filled.

Rudbeckia has opened its beautiful deep orange petals…a marker of the time of year. This has been grown from seed, this year.

I started it off in the tunnel in February, from seeds I collected last Autumn.

As I walked the gardens, Sammy-Bear walked in front of me, finally stopping in the tunnel and rolling in the dirt!

For a white cat, he can be a dirty little rascal at the best of times!

On the plus side, he doesn’t seem to mind the rain, so cleans up well!

Seed-saving continues apace and the bees keep up the good work, even on a wet morning like today…

…this is where the tunnel works really well!

These are seeds from the three year old Purple Sprouting Broccoli, still in the pods, drying.

These seeds are big and plump and represent the very strongest, biggest, most productive and oldest of the Purple Broccoli.

Monsanto eat your heart out!

Pom-Pom Dahlias are making a show of themselves.

This is the first year I have grown these.

This Buddleia was grown from Bealtaine Cottage seed and planted in the tyres two years ago.

Many followers of Bealtaine cottage ask me for Lunaria (Honesty) seeds…and here are some drying on the veranda of the Lodge, hung up last evening.

This is a nice airy place to start off the drying process, though I may need to bring them indoors, if the wet weather prevails for much longer.

The Apple harvest continues to delight as the fruit appears so healthy and untarnished for another year.

I NEVER spray my Apple trees, or, for that matter, ANY of the fruit trees, and am rewarded with a bountiful, healthy crop year after year!

Truly Organic!

The rain settles onto the leaves of the Crocosmia Montbretia, a beautiful harbinger of Autumn!

A pot of tea beckons…

Sammy-Bear is sad to see me go indoors…

Share this:

Like this:

We have been informed that Monsanto are backing out of Europe.

We have been told that Monsanto do not see a viable market for their GMOs in the EU.

However, it is important to realise that Monsanto have cultivated friends in the highest echelons of government worldwide.

The EU is now officially in bed with the US administration, via the recently verified Trade Agreement.

Monsanto are not going away.

The lure of money and power is too great!

Be vigilant!

Monsanto have been around for some time and used to playing the long game.

Do not let your guard slip on this one.

The stakes are too high!

Share this:

Like this:

Food is now grown under mass monoculture systems of what is called Agriculture.

This is the madness of monoculture…

The Earth’s soil is depleting rapidly, at more than 13% the rate it can be replaced.

Massive amounts of chemicals and sprays are need to keep food growing.

How is that agriculture?

Monoculture is now being extended into the very seeds we use to grow food.

We have lost 75% of the world’s crop varieties over the last century!

Monsanto want to reduce that even more!

“Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.”
― Terence McKenna