organicgreendoctor: garden news-my fall garden

organicgreendoctor: garden news-my fall garden: GARDEN NEWS-MY FALL GARDEN last night the charlie brown pumpkin movie was shown in the pumpkin patch at our community garden it was dark coz...

garden news-my fall garden

GARDEN NEWS-MY FALL GARDEN

last night the charlie brown pumpkin movie was shown in the pumpkin patch at our community garden
it was dark cozy and chilly but all there had a great time


a big ole pumpkin was there that weighed around 350 lbs for all to enjoy

our main garden is being transformed from the summer garden to the fall garden
i am also redoing my garden plot
it is about 400 square foot in diameter

i have 8 3ft x 7ft beds that are framed with wooden 2x4s
i also have 15 30 gallon grow bags 
i also have a 3ft square bed that i grow a walking stick kale/collard or kale/collard tree
it produces big leaves that are like collards
they are tender and cook like regular collards

i also have a 3ft x 8ft bed that has concrete blocks around it 
i grow strawberries in the holes in the blocks

i have a 4ft x 4 ft bed that i grew cherry tomatoes in the summer and this fall i have planted a vine snap pea there

after i removed my summer crops i added  4 inches of compost 
either compost we buy for the garden or compost we make in our big compost bins or compost i make myself in my garden using buried 5 gallon buckets with holes on the sides and bottom

i add compost material from our kitchen in the buckets and worms come through the holes into the bucket to eat the compost materials
i produce about 30 gallons of this compost every 6 months
it is added to the beds when i prep them for the season

after i cover the beds with compost i add a scattering of an organic fertilizer
this is forked in with a garden fork
raked smooth
and
a soaking of a fish emulsion seaweed molasses mixture is added
the bed is then covered with a layer of pine straw
the pine straw holds in moisture
when i plant the bed i remove the pine straw

each of the beds are prepped this way
i never dig or till the beds

i do the same for the grow bags

on the back row is two beds that are 2ft x 7ft
they have a permanent 6 foot fence on t posts
these beds are used for peas in the winter and beans in the summer


in my grow bags this winter i am growing potatoes in 5 of them
lettuce carrots and garlic in the others
our soil here is clay so potatoes dont do well in the ground so i use the grow bags with good success

for the potatoes i get an organic red potato and leave it in our window until it makes sprouts from its eyes usually about 2 weeks
i then plant the whole potato in the bags


in my beds shown here i plant
dino kale and curly kale
cauliflower
cabbage
swiss chard
and
then on the back row i plant tall telephone shelling peas


in these beds shown here i plant 
onions that i get from dixondale farms in texas called  texas 1015 and early white onions
they make a nice bulb onion that you can store for several months
these we will harvest around next april or may
next is a bed for leeks
i get these from dixondale also
they will be harvested in april or may of next year
both the onions and leeks i will chop up and freeze for use in soups beans stews casseroles etc
next is a row of broccoli
next is a bed with celery with room for more veggies
i usually will plant a vegetable that we have extra in our greenhouse or maybe something i dont usually plant like red cabbage

at the back is a bed with a fence that i will plant magnolia snap peas a multicolored pea that tastes yummy off the vines
i eat a lot of my peas while im working in the garden

so
this is my fall winter garden that i will have fully planted soon
it will produce a lot of produce for us to use in our kitchen

the same thing is happening in our main garden
we are now prepping our beds there and will soon have it all planted for the winter also

we have an online fundraiser event that will start on november 15th and run to december 15th
it will be live starting november 15th
it is a garden go fund me like site
based on how much we raise we can also get a partial matching grant
all of the funds raised go to our garden

the link is seedmoney.org 
the link to our garden will be live on november 15th

If you have a community or school garden you might consider posting your site on this seedmoney.org site

our garden has raised over $5000 using this site
part of this was matching grants

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organicgreendoctor: my story revisited #221-la bobera wasnt helped

organicgreendoctor: my story revisited #221-la bobera wasnt helped: MY STORY REVISITED #221-LA BOBERA WASNT HELPED i wrote this blog 10 years ago a few months before i started the aduhelm or aducanumab clinic...

my story revisited #221-la bobera wasnt helped

MY STORY REVISITED #221-LA BOBERA WASNT HELPED

i wrote this blog 10 years ago a few months before i started the aduhelm or aducanumab clinical trial at ut southwewtern
i received 18 months of placebo as it turns out and later took 34 months of the real drug aduhelm

it removed all of the measurable amyloid from my brain as shown on my last amyloid pet scan almost 2 years ago

about the time i started getting my aduhelm infusions researchers started giving similar drugs to these folks below in colombia 

I have late onset alzheimers
they have the genetic familial early onset alzheimers caused by the presenilin gene

the drug did not work on them at all and didnt work on others with the same condition in research centers elsewhere in the world

for me and those like me the drugs may slow down the disease some
for those folks it didnt do anything
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11-15-2015
ALZHEIMERS NEWS-LA BOBERA

there is early onset alzheimers disease
it less common
its what alice had in the movie still alice

basically if you inherent the gene for alzheimers
you will get the disease
a cruel way to pass down your genes
a lethal one

dailymail.com.uk
a researcher at uc santa barbara has looked closely at the genetics
of a town in colombia
called
yarumal in the state of antioquia
well known for the wrong reason
for the worlds largest population of folks with alzheimers disease

5,000 carry the mutation for early onset alzheimers
1/2 of them will be diagnosed with alzheimers at 45
the other half will die before they are 65 with
what they call
la bobera
the foolishness

the researcher drew blood on 102 folks from antioquia and found
72 folks with the mutation gene for alzheimers disease
all 72 destined to die from this awful disease

using genetic analysis and historical data
like a super ancestry.com
the conclusion based on the fact the dna was tracked to
western europe
was that there was a common ancestor to all those folks
in antioquia who had the awful alzheimers gene

a spanish conquistador who had the mutation gene in his dna

an infiltration into their society that has harmed generations and
generations of folks

now this area is an hot bed of research on alzheimers disease
many of the new treatments that are being tested
are tested here
a large population of folks all of who are going to die from
alzheimers

one problem with the study
all those tested who were positive were not told they had the disease
since genetic counseling was not available to the population

whether this was ethical is another discussion

one boy asked to be told if his was positive

why
the researcher asked
there is no treatment

the boy took his hand shaped it like a gun
cocked back the thumb

well you get the picture

la bobera


this is alzheimers awareness month
the clinic where i worked did an interview with me
on alzheimers
here is the link to the article they wrote
three facts you should know about alzheimers
_________
the link to the interview is no longer available

later researchers have given the drugs these antiamyloid drugs to these genetic early onset alzheimers patients who have no symptoms yet and followed them for several years and it seems to be slowing down symptoms slightly
when given after symptoms started it did nothing

if you had la bobera what would you do


Join and or donate to your local walk to end alzheimers

our walk to end alzheimers in santa barbara is saturday november 15th
this will be our 15th year to do the alzheimers walk

here is the link to my team organicgreendoctor

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organicgreendoctor: nature appreciation

organicgreendoctor: nature appreciation: NATURE APPRECIATION this is a photo someone sent to me looking across our community gardens you see flowers kale malabar spinach and lots of...

nature appreciation

NATURE APPRECIATION

this is a photo someone sent to me looking across our community gardens
you see flowers kale malabar spinach and lots of flowers 
in the background is our banana grove

this is where i spend up to 2-3 hours almost every day
usually 4 days i have the 3 acres all to myself
just me and the bees and the chickens and the birds and the butterflies and the dragonflies and an occasional squirrel

i read this article linked here about how folks are not out in nature very much
in fact our connectedness to nature has decreased by 60% since the 1800s
many of us dont get much nature exposure

in the month of october our community garden will bring almost 600 kindergarten students into our garden for 4 educational classes and a chance to pick their own sugar baby pumpkin

we do a session on pumpkins and squash in our pumpkin patch
after that session they wonder through the patch and harvest their own pumpkin

they then walk to the next session walking by our chickens
many have not seen chickens live before

next they sit under our big oak tree to listen to our talk on rainbow foods getting to taste fruits or veggies of different colors
their favorites so far are carrots blueberries melon and oranges


from this session they go to my session 
nature appreciation

in this session we walk through the citrus orchard and see the beehives
we talk a lot about bees and how important they are
they are warned not to grab a bee or mess with its hives
otherwise a bee will not harm you
they help you
we show them an enlarged picture of a worker bee and a large piece of honeycomb

we sit under the shade of the big old pepper tree

then i read the a book called the earth is good

in the book a little boy and his dog play outside climb trees walk in a creek go to the beach barefooted
on one picture the boy has his shoes off and his shirt off and is standing with his arms up to the sky with his mouth open

i asked
how many of you have done that and also tasted the rain

not many had ever done that
ahhh they are missing one of the pleasures of childhood

many of these kids havent planted a seed or pulled a carrot from the ground or pulled a leaf off a head of lettuce or eaten a sweet pea off a vine
much less tasted rainwater on their tongue

then they go to the last session
called seeds

they learn about the life of a seed and at the last of the session get to plant a sweet pea in one our garden beds
they are encouraged to come back in a few weeks to harvest a sweet snap pea to munch on

i always tell them after they plant the seed to pat the ground close their eyes lift their heads up to the sky and make a wish for the seed and for themselves

we need more nature appreciation in our world
hopefully exposing these 600 kids to our garden for 2 hours will get them started on a life of nature appreciation

maybe this is what is wrong with the world today

the organicgreen doctor