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GETTING ORGANIC TASTE
Monday, February 8
When you eat, what is the process that occurs? It starts with your eyes, as the plate is laid before you, the meal is devoured by your eyes, you make many quick, some rational and many irrational decisions about what you are about to put into your body.

For, with organic produce, you have an idea about what might be hidden within the food, or more likely, what you will not find within your lunch. Because though we wash most of our foods prior to cooking and this washes the excess dirt and possible chemical contamination from the surfaces, if the vegetables have been raised in chemical beds, the very substance of the food will contain various amounts of largely untested chemicals, as part of your meal.

And when I say untested chemicals, I mean exactly that, as by eating this food, you are the tester, you are part of a big food experiment, that hopefully will not go wrong, but it might.

The organic food industry has the desire to use methods of cultivation that are not predicated on this experimental methodology, thereby not using you, the consumer as a Guinea pig, for should the food industry experiment go awry, who will help you... No one.

What you taste might not be the food you eat, but a chemical soup of laboratory gunge whose derivation is obscure, frightening and potentially toxic. Would you reach into a bag of chemicals and lick your fingers, however nice it tasted, if you did not know what it was?

Organic food tastes of food, and sure, add pepper, salt, herbs and spices, but what about those enhancers, preservatives and so called 'E' numbers, now there is a bad joke if I ever heard one.

Eat and taste your food, as it is, as it was grown, not as the food chemist determines on the basis of profit and shelf life - are those criteria that suit your taste?

Written and Published by Mark Golding - The Organic Home

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LOOKING FOR ORGANIC REALITY
Thursday, February 4
Searching for truth, in both the organic and the inorganic, but how lies the definition of inorganic. It is assumed to be non-biological and without a process of vitality... And I waver over these both.

For what is static and unchanging? I see that an onion grows, it is biology and has a process and development, and I see that a gold wedding band is static, non-biological and does not change. But at the same time we know that nothing remains. And the metaphysical aspects of organica vs inorganica are no more than the usual semantic philosophical conundrum.

But there is more, if we dig a little deeper into the dark, moist, enriched soil. For the relationship between the inner and outer worlds, sometimes described by the word - ANTHROPOSOPHY - coined by no less a figure than Rudolf Steiner.

And all these pathways, as they intersect at the crossroads of inner/outer space, at the confluence and convergent points are subjected to our own personal editing suites - programmed by karma, often in the guise of learned behaviours, and powered by our inhibited relationship with both extremes.

Within the quantum point(s) that are the non-entity of stillness and being, the deity within and without is her/him that reflects our desires and projects them upon the curtain that is drawn over the surface of our eyes.

So, leave those eyes in the drawer, and open the hidden eye, the third eye, and see.

Written and Published by Mark Golding - The Organic Home

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ORGANIC ASTROLOGY
Tuesday, February 2
Taking biodynamics to the next level, or reaching new heights? I first heard about biodynamic agriculture, with regard to organic production, when I met a very interesting lady who had a vineyard.

She took her understanding of the relationships between the elements of the natural world much farther than I had ever contemplated. She spent long nights in the vineyard watching what happened, to try and gain an understanding through passive observation, and one quite remarkable discovery of hers was that of when the birds chose to eat the grapes.

She saw that the birds would choose to eat the grapes from the vine at a very specific time of the lunar month and also a specific time of the night, and she concluded, that if the birds ate the grapes at this time, they, being attuned and subtly aligned, were determining their eating times to co-incide with the time at which the grapes were at their most nutritious and sweetest.

So, this seemingly retrograde (no pun intended) method of timing harvesting, has become another string in the ever subtler bow of the organic wine maker - watching the cycles of the moon, and the movements of nature around the crops.

Which brings me to a further potential, that of the ancient new science of astrological crop management, looking even further outwards to try and interpret the signals that are indicated in the skies and heavens above, and indeed all around. The seasonal periods, indicated by the ancient solar and lunar clocks, the Stonehenge and the Avebury, that are a manifestation of the relationship between inner earth and outer sky, no longer visible to many modern men and women, as the tension within their own inner and outer spaces prevents a harmonic imaging and relationship process.

Too uptight to relax, and see... To see what nature is, as it is us. All around, and all within.

The stars are not separate from us, and we are not separate from them, and this unison and understanding helps our relationship with our planet Earth, and fosters a stewardship that creates an organic relationship with all we consume and create.


Written and Published by Mark Golding - The Organic Home

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MY ORGANIC VALENTINE
Sunday, January 31
As lovers gather their dreams and yearnings, so many secret and never known, the time for hearts to share is due, for that arrow of the sainted one - Valentine.

Before the time of Chaucer, no mention was of this finest man, and before his days, and even now, it is not known if this is one or many men... A St Valentine or...

And whence the meaning contained within this day? For Valentine has the word, buried within its etymology, valour... courage and fearlessness. Do display one's love without fear of rejection, or is this a form of cowardice, to post a card or leave a bouquet both untitled, for fear of refusal?

For within the arrow of love, released from Eros to the heart, is the thread that joins two or more within love's messenger... And for you and I, we share gifts, and here we have organic flowers from me to thee, and card upon recycled paper, a gift of creativity rather than monetary considerations... Think Green Valentine, for any saint would wish no harm to another, and green is that little less harmful, today and tomorrow.

So on this 14th February, consider, be green and organic, step lightly, and know that love is in the air....

Written and Published by Mark Golding - The Organic Home

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