World Hunger Solutions Inspired by Athletes, First Ladies, UN, and Tribes Suzy Chaffee - Native American Olympic Team Foundation | |
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Three First Ladies, Lady Bird Johnson, Rosalyn Carter and Betty Ford with Rep Bella Abzug and Olympians Donna deVarona and Suzy Chaffee in 1977. (Diana Mara Henry)
Hail to the U.S. National Football League (NFL) for compassionately hosting their "Kick Hunger Challenge" to assist food banks in every NFL city.
What if this energy by athletes, stars and humanitarians, together with that of First Ladies Eleanor Roosevelt, Lady Bird Johnson, and Michelle Obama, helped bring to light simple, holistic solutions to reduce the roots of 50 million U.S. citizens going hungry, including 17 million children, starting this spring? Wouldn't that be a victory for all Americans?
With 400 million children worldwide going hungry, what if Siberia, Italy, Austria, Cuba, US and Canada revealed surprising ways to reduce hunger. And what if the Olympic and other star athletes were also inspired to kick hunger, wouldn't that be a 2012 Victory for our Human Race? The Russians, our next 2014 Winter Olympic Hosts in Sochi, have a gold medal model of food security that millions are enjoying worldwide.
And what if much of the needed resources were sitting next to us and cost virtually nothing? Thanks to the World's Greatest Coach, these simple solutions became crystal clear.
GENISIS ON GOD'S FIRST COMMAND: PLANT FRUIT TREES
Olivia Ellis PhD, my gifted Cherokee guide, who is a Master Gardener and Garden Guide at President Jefferson's Monticello Gardens, told me that in the book of Genesis, God's first command was, "Plant fruit trees." Yet along the way much of humanity forgot.
WHO ARE HUNGRY?
Hunger, the main cause of death, happens mainly in developing countries: Asia, the Pacific, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Developed countries like Europe do not have widespread hunger, except for the United States. But in asking some questions, Olivia revealed the resources that have been available to help win that victory!
FREE TREES AND COACHING
Dr. Ellis said that "Every county in the U.S., as well as province in Southern Canada, has thousands of Master Gardeners like her - 35 in her county in Virginia - happy to give seeds from their gardens, along with the knowhow to help anyone grow nutritious plants in schools and neighborhoods." Master Gardeners also mentor many thousands of Junior Master Gardeners (JMG) wanting to feed everyone.
Equally astounding was that the U.S. State Forestry Departments donate young native trees, including fruit trees, to groups of Jr. Master Gardeners (JMG) and 4-H Clubs to prevent erosion around their homes, schools, churches. They also sell seedlings to adults for a dollar. "Our JMG program received 100 FREE native organic plums and persimmons to plant around our Rock Springs elementary school to also prevent erosion," said Dr. Ellis. More here...
SCHOOLS THAT ROCK!
CommonVision.org's "Fruit Tree Tour" takes a busload of green-thumbed youth with a rock band to help students and teachers create orchards with the FREE trees they bring to California schools. But anyone could quarterback a program like this in the U.S. and anywhere. More here...
Hail to the World Food Programme (WFP), "the UN's lead agency in the fight against global hunger, which provides food to 90 million people each year, including 58 million children!" Given the shortage of food at their homes, WFP's one nutritious meal at schools can double enrollment by taking food pressure off families, giving girls a chance to get educated. Our Title 1X and the "Girl Effect" proved how girls lift families and countries.
FOOD INDEPENDENCE
A successful solution WFP uses is giving food vouchers to the hungry in Africa, which pays local farmers to create food stability through abundance. Vouchers replace food stamps in some places in the U.S. Encourage this kind of National World Food Security!
"Planting fruit trees is key to growing abundant crops in the driest famine-challenged areas, like the Sub-Sahara. Trees bring up the water from the aquifers to create shade and enhance climate moisture to grow other things and preserve and restore fresh water. No-till growing practices enable raising abundant harvests with no irrigation even in severe droughts," said Dr. Leonid Sharashkin, who edited "Growing Vegetables with a Smile" by Nikolay Kurdyumov.
SPIRULINA CAN END MALNUTRITION
The leading way to turn around malnutrition and feeding emergencies is fortifying foods with Spirulina, a plant high in protein and minerals that can be harvested every 24 hours. See YouTube video...
"President Jefferson said that if you want fresh salad every day plant lettuce seeds every Monday. It worked for him. So if you want fruit every day you would plant a fruit tree once a week. If all of us who could, did, we would have enough food for everyone," said Dr. Ellis. Example, plant your peach pit.
PLANT FRUIT TREES ON UN'S INTERNATIONAL MOTHER EARTH DAY
How about a U.N. fund, where people could contribute to planting fruit trees in developing countries? On April 22 - International Mother Earth Day - we could celebrate our progress by planting even more fruit trees with huge-hearted stars of the Music, Hollywood, Sports, and Humanitarian Worlds, helping get these fun tree planting parties started in their backyards and developing countries. The day was initiated by the Indigenous Bolivians two years ago to celebrate Mother Earth as a wise, loving, very compassionate being.
Here's a fun training tool game to prep kids to plant abundant orchards and gardens (safely downloadable).
JMG's INTERNATIONAL OUTREACH
Thanks also to Nobel Prize Winner Norman Borlag, the International Junior Master Gardener program has reached over a million youth in Canada, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, South Korea, Ukraine, Italy, England, South Africa, Iraq and Afghanistan, and planning others. Curriculums are available in many languages, with games and trainers available.
Thanks also to surrounded by Nature, JMG kids are more mellow, intuitive, sharing, and have higher IQ's from eating organic, and score higher in math and science to prepare for the two million jobs needed by U.S. technology companies. More here...
Kirlean (aura) Photography shows how organic fruits and vegetables have bright shafts of "life force" energy emanating from them," while pesticided produce looked like black blobs.
WHY DIDN'T WE KNOW ABOUT THESE SOLUTIONS?
The Master Gardeners in the US and Canada have been so busy nurturing the greatly increasing hungry that they haven't had time to publicize their resources.
Other countries may have little known resources available that Google, a few phone calls, or word of mouth may identify. There are also wise relatives, Indigenous, and mainstream neighbors happy to guide or mentor youth. Plus visitors and foreigners living in their beautiful countries, often want to do something significant to give back.
VOLUNTEERISM
"Volunteer vacations are one of the fastest-growing parts of the travel industry," according to the big-hearted Guru of Travel, Peter Greenberg.
Farmers Markets and Food Co-ops are flourishing worldwide, and some, like 'Organic-Select' in Mexico's Puerto Vallarta, even deliver. Both are critically connecting local organic farmers to customers, which could also supply schools until harvest time.
AUSTRALIA AND SOON ENGLAND
Thanks to English chef Jamie Oliver, who woke up U.K. and U.S schools to tasty nutrition, now partnering with Stephanie Alexander's Kitchen Garden Foundation, which assisted 269 Australian schools with organic Gardens, England will soon have them too.
ENDING DIABETES IN 30 DAYS!
Studies released in December by The Biggest Loser TV Show and world-renowned naturopath, Dr. Gabriel Cousins, found that groups of obese diabetics eating a diet of fresh raw organic fruits and veggies for 30 days ENDED diabetes! More here...
SOLVING FOUR EPIDEMICS WITH ONE BUDGET
Coincidentally, what can end diabetes is the same solution that restores life to the starving and malnourished. MIT and Columbia Universities found the key to ending obesity - fresh local produce, ideally organic and mainly raw. Planting school gardens helps ensure that kids of all income levels eat at least one nutritious meal per day in their developmental years. Rachael Ray is helping First Lady Michelle win our war on obesity by helping create over 100 school gardens in the U.S. Thanks to the Master Gardeners, JMGs, forestry departments, and your help, every U.S. and Canadian school could soon have an organic orchard and garden.
RE-VIVA MEXICO!
With Mexico's children No. 1 worldwide in diabetes, which is the largest cost for many health systems, these new studies inspired Bob Price, the American founder of Puerto Vallarta's (PV) Botanical Gardens, to generously offer to contribute six fruit trees each year for students to plant at PV's 214 schools to kickstart gardening/nutrition programs!
FIRST LADY POWER! - 20 MILLION ORGANIC VICTORY GARDENS IN U.S.
During World Wars I and II, private residences and public parks in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Germany planted fruit, vegetable and herb gardens to reduce the pressure on the public food supply. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's organic Victory Garden at the White House inspired 20 million families to plant organic Victory Gardens (pre Chemical Industry), which empowered Americans to be self sufficient, healthy, sharp, energized and sustainable. That winning strategy also helped us emerge from those dark years.
Lady Bird's "Keep America Beautiful" Campaign also planted millions of trees in underserved areas, and pioneered the STOP LITTERING campaign, key to protecting our ocean food and oxygen supply. She also created a Children's Garden at the White House.
Given Michelle's powerful example of the first "Children's Organic Garden" at the White House, we hope this information inspires our Fittest First Lady of body, mind and spirit, to springboarded this message to warm the hearts and tummies 17 million hungry youth. She could quarterback our Team USA to also win our war on hunger, diabetes, and obesity, for the same zero budget.
ITALY, CUBA, CANADA, AND AUSTRIA
Italy is the European Union's leader in investing in their children developmental health by consuming 70-80% organic produce daily also for the great taste. Northern Italian schools are now all organic. Both Popes, John Paul II and Dominic, have also urged farmers to use only heirloom seeds that naturally reproduce themselves for generations. Because GMOs poison our bodies and water and alter our DNA, and companies are not required to list GMOs in the U.S., the only way to ensure foods are GMO and pesticide-free is by eating organic.
Ironically, our less affluent neighbor, Cuba, shifted to organic agriculture and can afford an excellent free healthcare system. And so can we.
Canada's Model Forest Program of partnering Indigenous and mainstream peoples, was chosen at RIO 1992 to be the model for five continents. Together they are brilliantly keeping our planet's vast forests, including its orchards and other food and spiritual resources, more sustainable. Since the tribes know how to think like fire and the forest, they are heroic fire fighters. See IMFN.net video here.
"We can further curb hunger by taking full advantage of wild-growing foods that Native Americans and other Indigenous Peoples have thrived on. The U.S. has already lost MILLIONS of acres of pine-nut producing pinyon pine forests in Nevada and the Great Basin. More are scheduled to be logged out for bio-fuel, unless people speak up! One acre of this gourmet spiritually uplifting superfood can produce 300 lbs of pine nuts per year (retailed at $3500!). So America is destroying a source of thousands of tons of food (plus jobs) that just needs harvesting," said Dr. Sharashkin. More here...
CLEAR WATER
Clear water is the other key ingredient to growing nutritious food and healthy communities. Austrian Ski areas, such as Kitzbuhl, can drink out of the streams again thanks to naturalist Johann Grander. His many applications used worldwide are reducing chemicals and restoring abused waters to their phenomenal original healing potency. See YouTube: Water: The Great Mystery, and http://usa.grander.biz/en/literature-films
A SCHOOL RAINDANCE
The tribes have also led snow and raindances for eons, critical for food and fire prevention. But a pure heart full of gratitude can also work wonders. "After planting their spring garden the faucets didn't work, so the students did a raindance by thanking the seeds and seedlings, Mother Earth and Father Sun, along with jubilant dancing and thanking Creator for every gift! In the middle of the night it started to rain," Dr. Ellis happily reported.
RUSSIA'S ORGANIC DACHNIKS
Russia is also leading the way into the new era through organic farming and their scientific studies on communicating with plants. Thirty-five million families, or 70% of the population, now grow their own food mostly organically.
We know about Anastasia, the Siberian phenomenon thanks to Vladimir Megre's Ringing Cedars books. She has inspired 30 million Russians to plant gardens, and 100 million around the world who have read the books are co-creating her dream of food security for man and animal.
Anastasia said that in their 1993 shift toward democracy, people got back family plots of land too tiny to cultivate with mechanized equipment. So these Russian farms, called 'Dachniks,' reconnected them with the Earth through joyous enthusiasm that rekindled their intuition and self worth.
WISDOM FROM NATURE
This Siberian mystic explained that Mother Earth is also very sensitive. She feels each pair of hands on Her body, just as a tiny mosquito can affect a human. As millions of pairs of hands began lovingly touching Earth, She found new strength to carry on. Negative energy, which is absorbed by the land was diffused and some catastrophes were prevented.
Like Findhorn's magical gardens in Scotland, Anastasia helped inspire the eco-village movement of reconnecting with the wisdom and powers of Nature to bloom in Russia and worldwide.
ANASTASIA
Born in 1969, Anastasia's parents died when she was two, and she was lovingly raised by her grandfather and great grandfather, but mainly protected and fed by wild animals and plants in the pristine Taiga forest. She communicated telepathically with them, like many children and Indigenous Elders, and received her powers and wisdom of the universe through the trees, especially the Siberian and Lebanese cedars. Wise King Solomon built his temple to God out of the Cedars of Lebanon to open folks up to "the great intelligence of God."
The Pacific Northwest Tribes also honor their red cedar trees. And Steve Lawson of the First Nations Environmental Network of Canada, told the Ottawa-based translator, John Woodsworth, "The ideas expressed in your Ringing Cedars series are very close to the First Nations' approach to Nature and man's interaction with Nature."
LET'S JOIN WORLD DACHNIK (GARDENERS) DAY!
Many countries, including our Licking, Missouri, have been celebrating "Dachnik Day," honoring world gardeners and our connectedness to Earth on July 23rd. Starting barefoot (for extra healing) at the first kiss of the sun at dawn, gardeners dotting the world lovingly greet their sprouts and seedlings. After tending the gardens with lively guitar music and dancing, they have family feasts where they express gratitude to each other and Mother Earth. They then return to their cities with baskets of flowers and joyfully share their bounty with everyone. Let's join this blissful bandwagon in solidarity with our Russian hosts of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. It should also include some of these fun "tree planting parties with a purpose" - until we kick hunger!
JOHNNY APPLESEED
Johnny Appleseed, starting in 1774, was beloved by both cultures for planting acres of apple trees along the rivers and streams from the East to the Wild West.
WHERE CAN PEOPLE BUY NUTRITIONS SEEDS?
Dr. Ellis said, "there are seed exchanges in the U.S. and worldwide of natural heirloom seeds that last forever, via internet.
The Giggling Garden Site is a kid-friendly collection of fascinating organic heirlooms recommended by Mary Duty, gifted Grandmother of the Appalachian Cherokees.
Each September, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation teams with Southern Exposure Seed Exchange and Master Gardeners to offer taste tests and sell the outstanding heirloom seed collections, including for school gardens. Monticello.org
DOMED YEAR ROUND GARDENS
A good portion of U.S. and world children go to school without healthy breakfasts, so healthy lunches are critical for learning. There are dome-shaped hydroponic seed kits with herb, bean, pea, pepper, lettuce and flower cultivators, proven fast-growing by NASA - for $30. Teachers or (organizations) could negotiate a group discount and insist all the elements are organic.
Kacper Postawski developed a 40 foot (magical) domed greenhouse that students could heroicly construct for $500 in raw materials as their school project. More here...
CHILDREN SEEING THE FOREST FOR THE TREES
"I could not agree more with your keys to the problem of world hunger in this Olympic article," said Dr. Sharashkin, also U.S. editor of Anastasia's books. "My 5-year-old daughter, Lada, who grows her own organic carrots, asked at a food drive: 'Papa, what will happen after these hungry people finish eating all the canned food you donate? They'll still go hungry! Don't they know that you can plant a seed into the ground and it will grow food for you? Otherwise, next time you'll have to donate medicines to cure them of the diseases that they will get from eating canned food.'" More Dr. Sharashkin insights on: Thirty Million Agroforesters: Russia's Family Gardens.
VICTORY GARDENS FOR HUMANITY!
In supporting these emergency food banks and the identified missing links to US and World Food Security, you give vital energy, trees, and guidance to a billion hungry adults and children so they may join this immensely gratifying, Olympic-like team effort to streamline on-going abundant harvests and dreams. Our WWII Victory Gardens, like the Russians Dachniks today, out-produced commercial agriculture.
You will be joining other great hunger humanitarians - charities and stars - including Jeff Bridges, Oprah, Bono, Rachael, Drew Barrymore, Selma Hayak, Nascar Champ Jeff Gordon & AARP's "Drive for Hunger," Brad and Angelina, Ellen and Justin Bieber helping WeTopia, Shakira's Latin American "Barefoot Foundation," and so many more.
For more info, or sharing about your sport, band, or organization joining our Team, or giving us a hand to keep spreading this awareness campaign, including at RIO+20, contact: NAOTF.org
This is a chance for a priceless karmic touchdown for all those who step up to the plate to relieve the hunger of our teammates in this 2012 "Souper Bowl of Mother Earth."
By also shifting from nuclear to safe green energy to protect the food supply of generations, and giving appreciation to our Earth Mother for all these gifts, we are planting the seeds for a lean, clean, sparkling-eyed generation of Earth Caretakers. Together we are creating little Victory Gardens that add up to restoring Eden.
By following God's first command, more and more children can again start thriving within the next planting cycles, which is bringing in the breathtaking dawn of a new era!
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