Our Next Steps!

Aloha from Pennsylvania with the Summer Solstice just around the corner!!!


We recently had a day long meeting with Jerry Brunetti and Dr. Paul Hepperly at the Rodale Institute. These brilliant leaders of ecological agriculture were inspiring to be around, and we are fortunate to have them as two of four presenters for our next Body and Soil Conference.

Our time together was very productive in viewing all of the trials being done there around cover cropping, composting and bio char soil remediation. Setting the tone and content of this next conference, which will be Jan 16 and 17th on Maui.

The theme being, how to beneficially colonize while understanding, the microbial world of our Body and the Soil.

We then will be taking it to the Big Island and Kauai so folks from outer islands can hear these provocative presentations too. Doc Hepperly shared with us that we all need to "have a sense of humus" and create "global worming" in developing our agricultural point of view!!!

We are also hoping to have a "Backside Farm Tour" to Kipahulu, Maui in October. Revisiting that area from last time we did in 2002. We will be calling on our data base of folks to assist in making it so
It was a great time then and will be again with us all going around Ulupalakua side in small buses and visiting these jewels of Biological farms!!! Stay tuned for more news on the details of that event.


We also went to see the premier of the movie "Food, Inc." in downtown Phila. Wow what a powerful flic. This industrial food system we have is crashing down under its own weight of dysfunction. Its up to us to help that along at the cash register, with our choosing to by local grown while finding out how it was grown. Only supporting a system that feeds us nutrient rich diversity of food, while building vitality in the environment.

Were so charged by what is possible in shifting the awareness on Maui to play a much bigger game agriculturally. We have been focused on building our next conference, followed by the agricultural summit into being a guiding light to achieve some attainable goals, employing proper agricultural protocols that feed back into a system that produces vitality into our food supply and environment.

We also envision anonymous financial support for our mission so that we can move forward a ecological food, energy and water system for Maui, that will represent the ability of what can be done. We are now on the threshold of a dream to actualize Maui as the paradise on earth that we all know it can be.

Hold that vision translating into your actions, whether its growing your own food or just appreciating those whose actions are putting "the culture back into agriculture".