"The Best Investment On Earth, Is Earth"!!!! only 2 tiny additions, or 3 actually:
seeds, water and clean air;)))
It is astounding how many seeds you can get after 1,2 years of planting food. Nobody ever should be dying of hunger on this planet.. Thank You, as always;)
Those are intrinsically connected to what I was speaking to in that post linked above.
"It is astounding how many seeds you can get after 1,2 years of planting food. Nobody ever should be dying of hunger on this planet."
Well said, yes, and when you combine that with regenerative soil techniques the food increases along side the soil depth and fertility. Humans have so much untapped potential to serve as agents of Trophic Cascade and become Key Stone Species in our respective bioregions if we would just stop squabbling over trivial nonsense and put our gifts to good use in service of life.
Four brown bears line up at the top of the falls on the Brooks River on Sept. 6, 2021, to fish for salmon. Brooks Falls draws bears from around the region, as well as Katmai National Park and Preserve tourists who travel there to view the bear crowds. (Photo by L. Law/National Park Service)
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s decision to kill almost 200 brown bears in order to boost a struggling caribou herd violated due process and was unconstitutional, an Anchorage Superior Court judge ruled Friday.
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𝐓𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐰𝐥 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐬. $3,000 per owl or $1.35 Billion.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to shoot 470,000 barred owls in West Coast forests over 30 years because the birds are crowding out the region’s native spotted owls.
Today, no egg producer in this country can expand the number of hens in its flock — or even replace the hens it already has when they age out or die — without the cooperation of this duopoly. And, since the value of hens rises with the price of the eggs, when the price of eggs is high these two barons have a clear interest in keeping the supply of pullets to producers on a tight leash — so the high prices stick.
On the other end of the egg supply chain, you have the largest egg producer in the country and the world, Cal-Maine Foods.
Okay, responding to link number 3 pertaining to ostriches now:
The fact they would even consider the mass murder of ostriches out of some ridiculous virus mania fearmongering is absurd.
Bacteria and the packages of genetic information most people call "Viruses" are everywhere, all around us, in the air, water, soil and in our bodies (24/7). The terrain of the individual plays a much more significant role in whether or not someone has negative symptoms when exposed to a virus than the nature of the actual virus.
For more on enriching the terrain of the body to become resilient while acknowledging the ubiquity of the virome (enhancing innate immunity through food and refusing to live in fear through embracing health sovereignty) read:
okay, story number 2, crazy government funded clowns try to play god by killing owls to supposedly help other owls.
That is nonsense. Humans thinking they can be control freaks like that with the supposed intent of helping an endangered animal is absurd.
If I saw people doing that I would disable their vehicles, disarm them and leave them in the woods to think about their hubris among the beings they sought to needlessly kill.
Here in Ontario, similarly misguided idiots spray glyphosate in the forest in our national park here telling people that they are managing "invasive plants". They poison the water, kill the soil life and mess up the entire food web for the native species they are supposedly trying to help. Idiots.
This is one of the reasons I think that All Involuntary Governance structures are inherently degenerative, immoral and are Not Compatible with The Permaculture Ethical Compass. Power tripping hubristic micromanaging know it alls look at one variable in an ecosystem as though it is isolated, and think they can control it with brute force. That is the failure of our reductionist, over-specialized, "trust the science" and "trust the expert" modern industrial society today. It is a system I will work to expose, boycott, (peacefully) sabotage and leave behind.
For more info on why All Involuntary Governance structures are inherently degenerative and immoral (regardless of what clown we put in the office) read:
Well you have shared links and info on a diverse array of subject matter in this comment so sharing my opinion on all those stories will have to be in multiple comments spread over time.
For starters, the bear thing.
Most state funded/incentivised modern culling programs are motivated by a combination of greed, arrogance, laziness and ignorance. There are exceptions to that rule, but they are a tiny minority.
Some of the predator "culling" programs are based in ignorance as to the critically important ecological roles that predators play in enhancing forest ecology (just look at the idiotic wolf "culling" programs in the southern US and what we have learned from that failure).
For more info 2 pages from “Earthly Bodies: Embracing Animal Nature” by Vanessa Chakour (which pertains to the history of humans and their relationship with wolves):
Some of the culling programs serve to appease anthropocentrically thinking trophy hunters that only care about if their preferred prey is available to be shot at when they feel like it. Others are purely based on irrational fear and laziness.
Logging corporations and state officials in Washington pay for people to mass murder bears because they think bears scratching trees will threaten their cash crop but through their ignorance they actually managed to shrink the size of the next generation of trees through killing most of the bears.
You see bears eating salmon (which have ocean minerals in their bones) deposit them in the woods and create a significant mineral cycle that results in the massive towering 1000 year old Douglas Fir, Sitka Spruce and Cedars of the west coast being possible. Once they remove the bears from an area and clearcut it, the trees that regrow there are crippled and not able to access the same nutrients from the ocean anymore (stunted in size).
So, my opinion on the bears is this, unless you are starving to death and need to hunt a bear for food, stop killing them. Like wolves, bears do critically important jobs in enhancing the resilience of forest ecosystems and their ability to produce, food, medicine, soil and protect the sacred waters for future generations.
I`ll take a look at one of your other links tomorrow.
Verying interesting story on the PawPaw, I'd heard of them, but never learned much about them.
Ancient Heirloom seeds are a must. I stumbled over Rare Seeds https://www.rareseeds.com/2025-rare-seed-catalog, looking for Heirloom seeds which were hard to find at the time. They keep looking for more rare seeds to add, prices are reasonable.
I am glad you found the Pawpaw info to be interesting.
Agreed regarding heirloom seeds.
I used to buy seeds from Baker Creek (in fact one of our Pawpaw trees was grown from seed I got from them in 2018) but I have learned some disturbing things about the company and owners since so I stopped supporting their company.
I began to be suspicious of one of the owners myself when he started aggressively promoting the genetic modification mRNA injections (fraudulently marketed as covid “vaccines”). I found it to be strange that someone who is a proponent of Organic/Regenerative Agriculture (and by extension I assume someone who is aware of the duplicitous activities, grievous harm inflicted and prolific propaganda that has been disseminated by the likes of what was Monsanto --now Bayer-- to be promoting their unsafe and untested products) feels that way about a Big Pharma product that is essentially designed to make humans into "GMOs".
I told him (Jere Gettle) that I am all for creating medicines that support our innate immunity to help us be our best selves and save lives but some of these mRNA "vaccines" are being marketed by companies with long criminal track records of fraud (he blocked me).
I also found out that Baker Creek Rare Seeds has apparently been taking seeds from Indigenous communities, changing the name and claiming the seed variety as their own.
Which, if true, is not cool, but either way the vaccine virtue signalling was enough for me to decide I don't wanna buy seeds from his company anymore.
I provide a long list of trust worthy heirloom, organic and regenerative seed and tree seedling companies/nurseries in this post:
"The Best Investment On Earth, Is Earth"!!!! only 2 tiny additions, or 3 actually:
seeds, water and clean air;)))
It is astounding how many seeds you can get after 1,2 years of planting food. Nobody ever should be dying of hunger on this planet.. Thank You, as always;)
Agreed! :)
Those are intrinsically connected to what I was speaking to in that post linked above.
"It is astounding how many seeds you can get after 1,2 years of planting food. Nobody ever should be dying of hunger on this planet."
Well said, yes, and when you combine that with regenerative soil techniques the food increases along side the soil depth and fertility. Humans have so much untapped potential to serve as agents of Trophic Cascade and become Key Stone Species in our respective bioregions if we would just stop squabbling over trivial nonsense and put our gifts to good use in service of life.
Thanks for the comment.
What is your opinion? CULLING BROWN BEARS
Anchorage judge rules state’s brown-bear killings are unconstitutional
https://www.yahoo.com/news/anchorage-judge-rules-state-brown-130014404.html
Four brown bears line up at the top of the falls on the Brooks River on Sept. 6, 2021, to fish for salmon. Brooks Falls draws bears from around the region, as well as Katmai National Park and Preserve tourists who travel there to view the bear crowds. (Photo by L. Law/National Park Service)
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s decision to kill almost 200 brown bears in order to boost a struggling caribou herd violated due process and was unconstitutional, an Anchorage Superior Court judge ruled Friday.
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𝐓𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐰𝐥 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐬. $3,000 per owl or $1.35 Billion.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to shoot 470,000 barred owls in West Coast forests over 30 years because the birds are crowding out the region’s native spotted owls.
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/kill-barred-owls-to-save-endangered-spotted-owls-proposal-rcna129926
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RAIN FOREST TREES CUT DOWN SO CLIMATE NUTS CAN GO TO A 'CLIMATE' CONFERENCE'
Stretch of Amazon rainforest destroyed to build four-lane highway for upcoming COP30 climate summit: ‘This is a loss’
https://nypost.com/2025/03/12/world-news/amazon-rainforest-destroyed-to-build-road-for-climate-summit/
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B.C. ostrich flock ordered killed due to avian flu receives stay of execution
https://vancouversun.com/news/federal-government-offers-millions-bc-farmer-ordered-cull-ostrich-flock
Federal court granted an injunction to stop the cull of 400 ostriches at Universal Ostrich Farm in Edgewood.
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Fowl Play: How Chicken Genetics Barons Created the Egg Crisis
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/fowl-play-how-chicken-genetics-barons
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Hatching a Conspiracy: A BIG Investigation into Egg Prices
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/hatching-a-conspiracy-a-big-investigation
Today, no egg producer in this country can expand the number of hens in its flock — or even replace the hens it already has when they age out or die — without the cooperation of this duopoly. And, since the value of hens rises with the price of the eggs, when the price of eggs is high these two barons have a clear interest in keeping the supply of pullets to producers on a tight leash — so the high prices stick.
On the other end of the egg supply chain, you have the largest egg producer in the country and the world, Cal-Maine Foods.
RE:
"Fowl Play: How Chicken Genetics Barons Created the Egg Crisis
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/fowl-play-how-chicken-genetics-barons"
I`ll let JC answer this one as he did a good job on this topic:
https://corbettreport.com/how-to-get-eggs-for-free/
Okay, responding to link number 3 pertaining to ostriches now:
The fact they would even consider the mass murder of ostriches out of some ridiculous virus mania fearmongering is absurd.
Bacteria and the packages of genetic information most people call "Viruses" are everywhere, all around us, in the air, water, soil and in our bodies (24/7). The terrain of the individual plays a much more significant role in whether or not someone has negative symptoms when exposed to a virus than the nature of the actual virus.
For more on enriching the terrain of the body to become resilient while acknowledging the ubiquity of the virome (enhancing innate immunity through food and refusing to live in fear through embracing health sovereignty) read:
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/natural-pathways-for-optimizing-the
okay, story number 2, crazy government funded clowns try to play god by killing owls to supposedly help other owls.
That is nonsense. Humans thinking they can be control freaks like that with the supposed intent of helping an endangered animal is absurd.
If I saw people doing that I would disable their vehicles, disarm them and leave them in the woods to think about their hubris among the beings they sought to needlessly kill.
Here in Ontario, similarly misguided idiots spray glyphosate in the forest in our national park here telling people that they are managing "invasive plants". They poison the water, kill the soil life and mess up the entire food web for the native species they are supposedly trying to help. Idiots.
This is one of the reasons I think that All Involuntary Governance structures are inherently degenerative, immoral and are Not Compatible with The Permaculture Ethical Compass. Power tripping hubristic micromanaging know it alls look at one variable in an ecosystem as though it is isolated, and think they can control it with brute force. That is the failure of our reductionist, over-specialized, "trust the science" and "trust the expert" modern industrial society today. It is a system I will work to expose, boycott, (peacefully) sabotage and leave behind.
For more info on why All Involuntary Governance structures are inherently degenerative and immoral (regardless of what clown we put in the office) read:
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/why-involuntary-governance-structures
Greetings Abigail.
Well you have shared links and info on a diverse array of subject matter in this comment so sharing my opinion on all those stories will have to be in multiple comments spread over time.
For starters, the bear thing.
Most state funded/incentivised modern culling programs are motivated by a combination of greed, arrogance, laziness and ignorance. There are exceptions to that rule, but they are a tiny minority.
Some of the predator "culling" programs are based in ignorance as to the critically important ecological roles that predators play in enhancing forest ecology (just look at the idiotic wolf "culling" programs in the southern US and what we have learned from that failure).
For more info 2 pages from “Earthly Bodies: Embracing Animal Nature” by Vanessa Chakour (which pertains to the history of humans and their relationship with wolves):
- https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb592e0ee-ead2-4de0-bff2-5d10c1e603a9_3264x2074.jpeg
- https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd7a9b97c-4fd7-4f25-9918-3161ee2803f5_3255x2257.jpeg
Some of the culling programs serve to appease anthropocentrically thinking trophy hunters that only care about if their preferred prey is available to be shot at when they feel like it. Others are purely based on irrational fear and laziness.
Logging corporations and state officials in Washington pay for people to mass murder bears because they think bears scratching trees will threaten their cash crop but through their ignorance they actually managed to shrink the size of the next generation of trees through killing most of the bears.
You see bears eating salmon (which have ocean minerals in their bones) deposit them in the woods and create a significant mineral cycle that results in the massive towering 1000 year old Douglas Fir, Sitka Spruce and Cedars of the west coast being possible. Once they remove the bears from an area and clearcut it, the trees that regrow there are crippled and not able to access the same nutrients from the ocean anymore (stunted in size).
For more info:
- https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=wildlifenews.view_article&articles_id=407
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-fish-and-the-forest/
- https://www.raincoast.org/2019/08/salmon-bears-and-people/
- https://open.substack.com/pub/gavinmounsey/p/regenerative-ocean-gardening-kelp?r=q2yay&selection=fab6816e-b2fd-4d7c-9a7d-390062ab8b60&utm_campaign=post-share-selection&utm_medium=web
So, my opinion on the bears is this, unless you are starving to death and need to hunt a bear for food, stop killing them. Like wolves, bears do critically important jobs in enhancing the resilience of forest ecosystems and their ability to produce, food, medicine, soil and protect the sacred waters for future generations.
I`ll take a look at one of your other links tomorrow.
There is a new article up on 'The Largest Wild Horse Roundup'.
https://www.earth.com/news/biggest-wild-horse-roundup-in-us-history-is-raising-concerns/
Verying interesting story on the PawPaw, I'd heard of them, but never learned much about them.
Ancient Heirloom seeds are a must. I stumbled over Rare Seeds https://www.rareseeds.com/2025-rare-seed-catalog, looking for Heirloom seeds which were hard to find at the time. They keep looking for more rare seeds to add, prices are reasonable.
I am glad you found the Pawpaw info to be interesting.
Agreed regarding heirloom seeds.
I used to buy seeds from Baker Creek (in fact one of our Pawpaw trees was grown from seed I got from them in 2018) but I have learned some disturbing things about the company and owners since so I stopped supporting their company.
I began to be suspicious of one of the owners myself when he started aggressively promoting the genetic modification mRNA injections (fraudulently marketed as covid “vaccines”). I found it to be strange that someone who is a proponent of Organic/Regenerative Agriculture (and by extension I assume someone who is aware of the duplicitous activities, grievous harm inflicted and prolific propaganda that has been disseminated by the likes of what was Monsanto --now Bayer-- to be promoting their unsafe and untested products) feels that way about a Big Pharma product that is essentially designed to make humans into "GMOs".
For more info: https://www.igor-chudov.com/p/worst-fears-realized-pfizer-mrna
I told him (Jere Gettle) that I am all for creating medicines that support our innate immunity to help us be our best selves and save lives but some of these mRNA "vaccines" are being marketed by companies with long criminal track records of fraud (he blocked me).
Here I documented what he said for the record: https://archive.org/details/jere-gettlevirtuesignallinggenetic-injections
I also found out that Baker Creek Rare Seeds has apparently been taking seeds from Indigenous communities, changing the name and claiming the seed variety as their own.
Which, if true, is not cool, but either way the vaccine virtue signalling was enough for me to decide I don't wanna buy seeds from his company anymore.
I provide a long list of trust worthy heirloom, organic and regenerative seed and tree seedling companies/nurseries in this post:
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/regenerative-gardening-seedseedlingtree
Thanks for the comments and I am glad you are excited to get planting and tending some heirloom seeds in the garden.
Wishing you excellent germination rates and bountiful harvests.