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Best garden, great trip, and a short update.

It has been a great summer!  Super busy, but super Rich.  The kids are growing like weeds.  (The good kind of weeds  😉 Work is good, about to be great (new announcement coming soon!).  And Wendy is learning and applying so much about homesteading.  I’ve been lax in posting because that paper I mentioned in April, well, I was convinced by my co-authors to do a complete re-framing, which led to a complete revision.  Many late nights and weekend hours over the summer, and now, it is much, much better, and is now off my desk again.  Phew!  It is no longer consuming all my spare time at the computer.  It will be back soon, for me to make small changes, and send out again.

More pics coming soon, but for now, here are a few from facebook that double as also giving more of an update.

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One of the summer highlights was attending a conference in my field of work:

conferenceGreat part of the trip was being able to see extended family!  This is such an important circle of the neo-community venn diagram I wrote about before.

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The above is some of Wendy’s fam, on her Mom’s side, and below are some of the Docs (Dougherty’s), my Mom’s side.

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There is so much more to write about, both in the theme of life, and also regarding homesteading etc.  For instance, Wendy bucked the odds and successfully cured our best goat of an “uncurable” Staph. infection in her udder, using mostly herbal remedies and a few udder infusions.  More on both of these soon.  If you are curious about one now contact us or comment below.

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Resilience Reviles Roundup

This may be the most important video we can watch for our health!!!

Having an everything but blood sister diagnosed with hormone dependent Breast cancer just last month this is clearly a topic that needs to be addressed at the individual as well as federal level- We need to grow our own food!!!

A super quick summary below- but don’t think you already know what they are going to say.  This MIT professor is awesome…

Glyphosate was “supposed” to be harmless to humans and animals—the perfect weed killer. Now a groundbreaking article just published in the journal Entropy points to Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, and more specifically its active ingredient glyphosate, as devastating—possibly “the most important factor in the development of multiple chronic diseases and conditions that have become prevalent in Westernized societies.”

That’s right. The herbicide sprayed on most of the world’s genetically engineered crops—and which gets soaked into the food portion—is now linked to “autism … gastrointestinal issues such as inflammatory bowel disease, chronic diarrhea, colitis and Crohn’s disease, obesitycardiovascular disease, depression, cancer, cachexia, Alzheimer’s diseaseParkinson’s diseasemultiple sclerosis, and ALS, among others.”

For all of this, and more, including an action item, you can go to: http://www.farmtoconsumer.org/news_wp/?p=10766


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