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Urban Land Institute San Diego's Mary Lydon helped me
Urban Land Institute Urban Executive Director Mary Lydon
inspired this little editorial piece that I hope will demonstrate
to my friends at the San Diego Fire Department that is is worth
finding out how to get explore getting rid of Arundo Donex organically.
Today was the first day for a new Friends of the Arosa Street
Canyon.
I want to thank the San Diego Fire Department and
The City of San Diego Fire Prevention Bureau of inspiring
this landmark decision that I hope will bring a bright future
to our land, our canyon, and San Diego.
Leslie Goldman
Your Enchanted Gardener
Date: 8/23/2011 10:49:08 PM ( 13 y ) ... viewed 2338 times
8:12 pm
August 22, 2011
I just had the most delightful conversation
with Mary Lydon,
Executive director of the Urban Land Institute
Local office.
This is an organization after my own heart.
Mary, who celebrates her birthday August 31
is an incredible asset to San Diego.
Her forward looking ideas seemed to coalese with mine
point for point.
Her life purpose is to
"Find the people with the money
and connect them to the projects good for all!"
--Mary Lydon
She has been instrumental in the important work
to make a community building project out of the 32nd Street
canyon.
In recent activity with the San Diego FIre Department,
who I honor and respect for their well meaning work
to prevent Fires, Mary watched another 32nd street Canyon
advocate Tershia D' Elgin guide the fire department in the
direction of not only prevent a fire,
but move the canyon in a good direction.
The 32nd Street friends of 32nd Street Canyon worked side by side
with the local fire deparment who came in to help remove the dead
brush, but was very respectful of the living plant life.
Today, August 22 was the birth day--the first birth day for
my very own project--the Friends of the Arosa Street Canyon
near San Diego State University.
The stimulus for my own Friends group is a delightful employee
of the City of San DIego-Sylvia Sowadski--who is very interested in
helping me and my neighbors make sure we do not have a fire
in our canyon.
We have some very special needs and future here that I am sure
my allies on the San Diego Planning Commission--including Mary Lydon
will take into account.
For more than 30 years I have lived on a 1/3 acre parcel here
that borders the canyon. This land is dedicated to organic growing
of food, as is another parcel in the canyon that is a dedicated organic
farm. One of the first issues that is coming up for me is that
in the need to remove the Arundo Donex, we need to seek an organic
approach. Where all the research indicated that Round Up Ready is
necessary to kill the roots of Arundo Donex, it is necessary that we
pursue a line of research that shows the world that there can be
a method for removal that does not use Round Up Ready Herbicide.
MORE ON THE ADUNDO DONEX
We live in our own private world thanks to a stand of Arundo Donex,
that many consider an invasive species with great fire hazard potential.
When someone was negligent about 12 years ago and started a fire on our property through burning a candle outside, It was the arundo donex that burned, but another stand of plants, lumber bamboo, served as a firewall. The flames never touched our home.
Our house, when Sylvia comes to visit, has the seven species of Israel growing. We have our own fire protection system in place due to the
highly conscious practices that we do that connect us to the beat of nature.
We rely heavily on composting our arundo donex that builds the most
luscious soil. Arundo Donex is being considered as a biofuel. It also
helps sustain healthy soil as a carbon fixer.
The future of the Friends of the Arosa Street Canyon will be to promote
this land as a resource where local students from SDSU can taste of organic
fruits growing on our trees, and delight in unmet parts of their education
that hungers for the return to a sound economy based on coming again
in sync with natural law.
The future for our home, our canyon, and the land here is to be a park left for future generations, that is intended to teach organic living.
RESEARCH PROJECT POTENTIAL
Years from now, I want our stand of Arundo Donex to be studied
as how through community right action we taught that world that
Round Up Ready Herbicides were not needed to solve the dilemma
of this plant that can be invasive, but also has its values.
One of the values here, as we rid our land and manage our Arundo
Donex is that we show the world that it can be managed without
Round UP Ready Herbicide. I do not have the answer yet; but the
question needs to be explored through bringing in other experts.
NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF ROUND UP READY PRODUCTS
We will never get home through Round Up Ready
and Glysophate products. They increasingly are noted for creating Superweeds when applied to agriculture. Round Up Ready, a common
treatment to rid gardens of Arundo Donex, is also harmful to the wildlife
that comes in contact with it, as well as to the human digestive tract
through the latest research of Don Huber and others.
USDA APPROVES THE USE OF ROUND UP READY
GRASS SEED
Right now, the USDA is taking a hands off approach toward
Round Up Ready. This is already spreading across the internet.
They have gone so far as to say that there can
be genetically engineered grass that would then be Round Up Ready.
This would be catastrophic. It would destroy all organic grass.
This is definitely the time to increase a national awareness about
the negative effects of Round Up Ready and find other solutions,
including the elmination of Arundo Donex without its use.
The future is organic.
THe San Diego Fire Department is to be lauded
for wanting to save us from Fire damage and also for its
notable history working side by side with community groups
that are listening intently to the land.
It is the land after all that is hear to save us from harm
and damage from fire, if we are listening.
Leslie Goldman
Your Enchanted Gardener
HERE IS THAT LINK ABOUT THE USDA
ACTION
In an innocuous-sounding press release titled "USDA Responds to Regulation Requests Regarding Kentucky Bluegrass," agency officials announced their decision not to regulate a "Roundup Ready" strain of Kentucky bluegrass—that is, a strain genetically engineered to withstand glyphosate, Monsanto's widely used herbicide, which we know as Roundup. The maker of the novel grass seed, Scotts Miracle Gro, is now free to sell it far and wide. So you'll no doubt be seeing Roundup Ready bluegrass blanketing lawns and golf courses near you—and watching anal neighbors and groundskeepers literally dousing the grass in weed killer without fear of harming a single precious blade.
Which is worrisome enough. But even more worrisome is the way this particular product was approved. According to Doug Gurian-Sherman, senior scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists' Food and Environment Program, the documents released by the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) along with the announcement portend a major change in how the feds will deal with genetically modified crops.
http://motherjones.com/environment/2011/07/usda-deregulate-roundup-gmo-tom-ph...
DANGERS OF ROUND UP READY IN THE CREATION OF
SUPERWEEDS
http://www.honestlabelfoods.com/siliconapp-blog/monsanto/summer-of-superweeds...
SUPERWEEDS AND ROUND UP READY
Here is an article about the 2011,
the Summer of Superweeds.
The City of San DIego is already coming
to the table about Community Gardens.
I see the need to better manage the Arosa Street Canyon
as an opprtunity for community to come together
and engage in some important Dialogue on Science,
Ethics, and Food.
We cannot continue to go the Round Up Ready route,
nor can we avoid the fact that Natural preserves that honor
labor intensive methods of community coming together
may be just the opportunity here.
DANGERS OF ROUND UP READY FOR
IN OUR FOODS
Don Huber spent 35 years as a plant pathologist at Purdue University and knows a lot about what causes green plants to turn yellow and die prematurely. He asked the seed dealer why the SDS was so severe in the one area of the field and not the other. “Did you plant something there last year that wasn’t planted in the rest of the field?” he asked. Sure enough, precisely where the severe SDS was, the dealer had grown alfalfa, which he later killed off at the end of the season by spraying a glyphosate-based herbicide (such as Roundup). The healthy part of the field, on the other hand, had been planted to sweet corn and hadn’t received glyphosate.
This was yet another confirmation that Roundup was triggering SDS. In many fields, the evidence is even more obvious. The disease was most severe at the ends of rows where the herbicide applicator looped back to make another pass (see photo). That’s where extra Roundup was applied.
Don’s a scientist; it takes more than a few photos for him to draw conclusions. But Don’s got more—lots more. For over 20 years, Don studied Roundup’s active ingredient glyphosate. He’s one of the world’s experts. And he can rattle off study after study that eliminate any doubt that glyphosate is contributing not only to the huge increase in SDS, but to the outbreak of numerous other diseases. (See selected reading list.)
http://www.responsibletechnology.org/gmo-dangers/65-health-risks/1notes
GLYSOPHATE USE IS BECOMING INCREASINGLY CONTROVERSIAL
This article is pro-glosophate use, but admits to
potential problems.
http://www.btny.purdue.edu/weedscience/2011/glyphosatesimpact11.pdf
WHERE TO BORROW A SHREADER FROM THE CITY???
or another agency.
to clear the dead stuff in our canyon.
volunteers will be needed.
MARY SUGGESTED CONTACTING
FOR INVITE TO VISIT WHITE HOUSE GARDEN AS WELL
conservation core---
Bob Filner--
Carolyn Chase
State congressman...
Bilbrey
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