text: This is Not Art Print Email Share Tweet Email to a friend Your email Your name Friend's email Friend's name Verification (type the code in the image) Generate New Image Close Related Articles On the move: latest appointments and resignations (locked) Chamber of Arts and Culture WA board elected. Opera companies face major overhaul One company should be put on notice, another bumped up and $24 million should be injected into opera, recommends the National Opera Review. A Voice for the Silenced Astonishing music brought back to life seventy years after the music and its composers were almost lost forever. Beilman and Tyson Beilman and Tyson have a rare genius for interpretation. Fiona Mackrell THIS IS NOT ART: From its early Newcastle fringey beginnings in the late 90s to its development as a niche national arts festival that happens to be in Newcastle TINA's inspired passion and enthusiasm, internal debate about direction and growth. For some time now, about 13 years actually, emerging and independent arty types have been following something of an inversion of the salmon up a stream instinct to an event called This Is Not Art, or TINA. They've been creating, experimenting and discovering their art all around the country much like the Bunyip of Barkley's Creek and asking themselves 'what am I?' Then perhaps surprisingly, they sense that the answer to the question is in Newcastle. With the magic of synchrony they congregate there over a Labour Day long-weekend in October to share what they can do and what they're experimenting with others of like minds before retreating back to where they've come from. Some even do it the next year too, and the next... The festival brings together five strains of creative community and mixes them together under the umbrella of This Is Not Art. There's the Crack Theatre Festival for the fringe-theatre fringers; Critical Animals, which turns loose post-grads and honours student to talk critical contexts; Sound Summit which is a festival that supports innovative independent music; Electrofringe for experimental electronic arts and culture and the National Young Writers Festival. From its early Newcastle fringey beginnings in the late 90s to its development as a niche national arts festival that happens to be in Newcastle TINA's inspired passion and enthusiasm, internal debate about direction and growth. But why Newcastle? The answer to why is both simple and complex. Simple because that's where it started thanks to an active creative community and the influence of enlightened artrepreneur and cultural commentator Marcus Westbury. And complex, well, for lots of reasons. It's a small coastal town, it's flat, the locals are arty and those who aren't don't seem to mind an influx of creative types each year. Most of the events are free, you've just got to get there. Then Newcastle is close to Sydney, its airport, and the transport is good. It has nice weather. Those are a few of the other reasons. When Sarah Howell, Co-director of National Young Writers Festival first started coming to TINA from Tasmania, Newcastle's relative size was a lot less threatening that coming to either Sydney or Melbourne. 'It's sort of a leveller coming to a small place.' The venues are all close together too, which makes the festival easy to navigate. The destruction of heavy industry and parts of the town's economy thanks to globalisation has left lots of largely empty spaces that can serve as spaces to hold experimental and eclectic art events. They have been the inspiration for Westbury new passion, facilitating artists accessing empty and under-utilised spaces. Yet, another reason it seems to have such a great vibe is that so many people have to travel there – then they stay for five days. 'Everyone converges and everyone travels to it, if they're not already there,' says Daniel Green, co-director of Electrofringe. 'You have a captive audience… but the artists as well, just wandering around.' There's the opportunity for instant feedback and dialogue. Conversations don't finish at the end of the session or when you leave a gallery space or a gig. You'll bump into people all over town, at different events and venues. 'I couldn't even begin to tell you how important I think that component of TINA is,' says Green. People who are inspired by the conversations they have with artists, by what they see, and who appreciate what TINA has given them.' Those are the people he says, who go on to volunteer to take on roles in the organisation of the festival, and try to replicate that experience and passion for others. People who go all seem to talk about the strong sense of community that TINA has. It builds networks, friendships and passion. For Sarah Howell, TINA not only connected her with other artists in Tasmania, and provided a support group of great friends when she moved to Melbourne, she met her husband through the festival. But ultimate it's who participates in This Is Not Art and what they do there that makes it so inspiring for those who go. 'I've always said it's a festival that's got all participants and no spectators. The prerequisite for going to TINA is that you participate and that you make stuff,' says Marcus Westbury. It's not a festival of headliners, Westbury says, there's a few people who's names you'd be familiar with but there's not a lot of celebrities. Instead there are 300 or more events each appealing to 20 to 100 people. 'It's this collection of small scale DIY initiative-based kinds of people coming together over the course of a few days and bouncing off each others energy.' 'It's a great place to come through, try lots of things, get really good at them then go somewhere that pays you,' says Westbury of Newcastle. And a place to fail for a while, he laughs. It's far enough off the map that… if you're capable of learning from your own mistakes you get enough goes at it to get good. It's much harder to feel that you can do that in the middle of a big city. Frankly the first half dozen projects I did in Newcastle if I'd done them in the middle of Fitzroy or Newtown, it would have been a very public series of mistakes that a lot of people would have seen and people would have struggled to take me seriously afterwards.' In other words, it's a place to take risks, to explore and to learn. In Newcastle there's always been the sense that you are entitled and able to make your own fun, whatever that is: from gallery shows to theatre performances to festivals and events, or whatever else and I think that's always been part of the ethos there, says Westbury of his hometown. 'It's got a very participatory sense of what its culture is.' And that seems to have flowed through into the participatory nature of the festival itself. Almost all positions are voluntary based on two-year terms. The panels are kept fresh, and topical not just thanks to the rolling turn-over of people at the top but because the program is drawn from the annual call out of submission and what the artist's suggest. Each of the five festivals consult at monthly meetings as they plan their programmes avoiding doubling up, finding opportunities for collaboration and discussing where certain kinds of events are best placed. Sarah Howell explains that the National Young Writers has a strategy of recruiting mostly new artists and of providing a broad spectrum of voices in events. 'Personally, when I first attended the festival, I knew very few people who were part of that scene,' she says. We are quite conscientious in making the programme open to anyone to engage with, they don't have to be part of the insider scene.' They also try to limit artists who have attended before to around 30% of those invited. You also don't have to stick with any one crowd, one stream or one area of interest. In Newcastle, says Sound Summit Co-Director, Andrew Tuttle, you'll see some music things but you'll also just happen to wander into a fantastic theatre performance or lecture. People aren't siloed into one form of art practice and they're encouraged to move our of their own cultural bubbles. That of course, is in part because the program and the venues don't signpost which of the festival streams they're part of, they only go by time. It's can be a bit of lucky dip. 'You'd be astounded the amount of time we spend trying to work out whether or not that's a good idea,' says Daniel Green. 'Every year, the same conversation happens.' But the interaction of festival goes with new and unexpected influences is integral to the This Is Not Art experience. Generally, all these reasons mean Newcastle is compared favourably as a home for a national festival like TINA over bigger cities like Melbourne or Sydney. But after thirteen years it's not surprising that questions of whether the festival should be growing, touring, moving or stretching are raised from time to time. Nor perhaps is it unforeseeable that debate arises about the identity of the festival between Newcastle natives and out-of-town TINAers. It's a natural tension that arises from having a national festival in one relatively small place. Back around 2000, says Tuttle, pretty much everyone who was a director of the various festivals lived in Newcastle. But gradually that's flipped to the point where most of the directors come from outside Newcastle. An increased focus on Newcastle content has been a big plus this year for Sound Summit, thanks largely to the in depth local music scene knowledge of Newcastle based Co-Director Chris Hearne. 'There are really great things coming out of Newcastle that are really under appreciated by the rest of the country,' says Tuttle. But the same may be said for artists and musicians in other regional areas. Although the numbers aren't solid a few thousand people turn up each year to the festival, and as Marcus Westbury says, that just about books out the available accommodation. It puts something of a physical capacity cap on numbers and they haven't grown that significantly for several years. The current organization structure is a limitation too. If it got much bigger it would need more money, more infrastructure, volunteers just wouldn't be able to do it and that would inevitably change the culture. There's always been some discussions of how to grow the festival while staying true to the aims of staying in Newcastle and being an independent festival, says Andrew Tuttle. 'Personally I think the festival could get bigger,..I think the idea of having the festival plateauing is one that is a little dangerous as… there can be a certain complacency.' It's a fringe festival the whole point of such a thing is that it pops up,' says, Daniel Green. 'How big does it need to be?' But more people are likely to want to come despite its niche handle. 'It's a low pressure, low cost, high reward weekend where you can meet a lot of amazing people, really stimulate your mind and dance a lot,' says Andrew Tuttle. Most of the year Newcastle is like a lot of other regional towns but at Festival time, says Sarah Howell, you do see the 'creative' types in the streets. 'And the locals like to yahoo at us from the cars… There is an excitement. 'You're walking around and you're seeing other people and you're going 'they're my people' I don't know them yet but I might over the next five days.' This Is Not Art Festival Independent, Emerging & Experimental Arts Festival Newcastle, Australia 30th September – 4th October 2010-10-07 For more information visit thisisnotart.org First published on Friday 8 October, 2010 About the author Fiona Mackrell is a Melbourne based freelancer. You can follow her at @McFifi or check out www.fionamackrell.com Share Tweet Print Email


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Using Italian and Cheddar cheeses updates this Macaroni and Cheese dish that is sure to please kids as well as impress adults.
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Cook: 4 Hours
1 (8-ounce) package shredded Italian three-cheese blend
1 (8-ounce) package shredded sharp Cheddar cheese
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
1 (12-ounce) can evaporated milk
1 1/2 cups milk
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon dry mustard
1/4 teaspoon ground red pepper
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
8 ounces small shell pasta (about 2 1/4 cups), uncooked
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The Rockford Art Guild (RAG) is a supportive and encouraging group of people who have a strong passion for the arts. Each member has opportunities to improve, explore, and challenge themselves in ways they would not find elsewhere. Guild members work together to increase the appreciation of art in the Rockford area. Our goal is to provide education, growth, and show opportunities for our members, and for other artists in the community. Members work in a variety of media, including mosaic, beading, painting, pottery, sculpting, photography, woodworking, and more.
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Membership in the Guild has a huge range of advantages. We travel together to the Milwaukee Museum of Art, to art shows in the area, and to local points of interest. This creates a camaraderie and networking amongst artists, with advantages that affect all areas of our lives. We receive information on how to get into shows, how to price our art, and how to present it. Well-known artist Tom Heflin does an annual critique of members' artwork, providing everyone a chance to hear from a master how we can improve our work. Members also receive discounts on shows hosted by the Guild, as well as opportunities to teach. You are welcome to attend a meeting and see what we are all about!
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The Guild sponsors a variety of exhibits and events throughout the year. We hold a members-only juried show at Nicholas Conservatory in February every year, allowing display of our art to a wide range of people from within and outside the Rockford area. And the Guild is organizing a show during the city-wide Art Scene festivities.
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What started out as a fund-raiser, the 8" x 8" canvasses have turned into something much more. Mosaics are a way of sharing and displaying the Guild's talents with everyone, by making them affordable. Now a person can collect several local artist's paintings without demanding too much wall space or breaking the bank. In fact, the first run was so successful that the Mosaics are in their second edition. The variety of pieces is exciting to see. It's a thrill to know someone is taking your small painting home to cherish. And who knows, maybe they'll get hooked and be back for more art.


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and the environment through the macrobiotic diet. Could it show us the way
out of the food, fuel and financial crisis?
UPM was founded in 1980 by autodidact Mario Pianesi, who taught
himself everything there is to know about health and nutrition, guided and
re-interpreted according to the ancient Chinese theories of yin and yang and
the five transformations (see [1] Transparent Label An
Alternative to Organic Certification, SiS 37), having taken his
inspiration from Georges Ohsawa's Zen Macrobiotics [2]. Ohsawa (1893-1966)
was reputed to have cured himself of tuberculosis using what he knew of the
ancient yin-yang theory.
The UPM movement has swept through Italy from its headquarters
in Tolentino of the Marche region in the centre of the Italian peninsular,
simply through word of mouth and some brilliant organisational skills, no
doubt. UPM does not have a website, and never advertises. Pianesi's
macrobiotic teachings are based on the traditional Chinese theories, which
he has extended, elaborated, and some would say, transformed; applying them
not just to food and nutrition but also to agriculture and ecology, and beyond,
to the origin of the universe.
UPM has formally split with the US macrobiotic movement, as among
other things, Pianesi does not support food supplements like his US counterpart,
which makes lots of money selling them. Pianesi believes there is no substitute
for good food, and I am inclined to agree. The "Ma-Pi" diets [3], which
Pianesi has formulated for healing and health-promotion, are firmly based
on "the positive sides of traditional Mediterranean cuisine."
UPM now has 120 centres dotted all over Italy (including Sicily).
The centres are typically a restaurant and shop, or a factory. A few
of them are also distribution centres which receive and package goods from
the regions, and deliver to the shops and restaurants once a week. There are
200 000 members who pay €5.00 a year for the privilege of eating in the very
affordable restaurants, attend lectures and conferences free, and buy from
UPM shops that sell natural foods, detergents, cosmetics, clothing, furniture
and even house paints and artists' paints.
Typical UPM Shop
The Ma-Pi diets have helped hundreds of thousands in Italy recover from serious,
often terminal illnesses, and that has contributed primarily to UPM's success.
The organisation is essentially run by people who have experienced remarkable
cures, and are therefore firmly committed to the movement. Pianesi and his
wife Loredana now spend much of their time leading conferences and workshops
to which scientists from national academies around the world are invited.
Funding for these come entirely from the UPM membership; they believe in spending
as much as possible to promote the movement, losing nothing to taxation. One
big project involves the treatment of diabetes through macrobiotic diet in
different countries, and there have been notable successes so far in Thailand
and especially in Cuba, where thousands have been cured of diabetes and other
diseases. Trials are planned in Tunesia, Mongolia, China, and Pakistan.
The full clinical evaluation of 25 adults with type 2 diabetes
placed on the macrobiotic diet for 6 months in the Finlay Institute of Havana,
Cuba, was described in a scientific paper published in 2007 [4]. The improvements
were remarkable. Blood glucose fell from an average of 11.7 mM to 5.5 mM,
along with a significant reduction in body weight (Body Mass Index shrank
from 28.0 to 24.1), decrease in blood cholesterol and triglycerides, drop
in blood pressure, and so on. Eighty-eight percent of the patients were able
to stop taking insulin and other drug treatments for reducing blood glucose.
The Chinese principles
of yin and yang translates most concretely to the pH of food, yin is acid
and yang is basic, and they determine the pH of the blood, which could account
for much of what goes wrong. Though a lot more dedicated research is
needed in this important area of how biological water interacts with inorganic
ions [5] (see Water's Effortless Action
at a Distance, and other articles in the series, SiS 32), the electronegative
and electropositive series having obvious resonances with the concepts of
yin and yang.
My main interest is in the UPM organisation and the farming system that Pianesi
has devised for growing macrobiotic food, the 'Pianesian polyculture' (introduced
to countries carrying out the diabetes trials), which have obvious applications
in the integrated food and energy carbon sequestering Dream Farms that ISIS
is currently promoting around the world (see final chapters in [6] (Food Futures Now: *Organic *Sustainable
*Fossil Fuel Free , ISIS publication).
So, I was very grateful when UPM agreed to organise a visit for
me in July 2008, even though it meant traversing the whole length of the Italian
peninsular (Milan at the top of the boot to Calabria the toe) in a week, followed
by a week workshop in Calabria with Mario and Loredana, and whichever scientists
from national academies happen to be dropping in (in the course of that week,
I met scientists from Tunesia, Algeria and Pakistan, all very keen on Dream
Farm 2).
I was transported in a 17 year old 2000 cc Audi by the head of
the UPM secretariat, Giovanni Bargnesi, a wonderful companion who drives like
a typical Italian man: fast and furious, and with sudden change of lanes,
a bit hair-raising at times. But amazingly, there was not a single accident
on the road during the entire trip, despite frequent road works and congestion.
Bargnesi did not seem to need water either (this, like everything else that
is good, he attributes to the miraculous macrobiotic diet), and would happily
drive for hours at a stretch without stopping. The car is not air-conditioned,
and it was sunshine and clear skies everyday, with temperatures in
the high 30s pushing 40 during the day.
I made a major discovery
while on the road. The car could run on either natural gas (methane) or petrol,
and has a gas cylinder in the boot for methane and the petrol tank in the usual
place. By simply pushing a button next to the steering wheel, Bargnesi demonstrated
how he could switch from one to the other smoothly and imperceptibly
while on the road. It is a small modification that cost him €700. What's more,
filling stations for methane are every 25 km, except on the motorways where
they don't seem to be available. Even the old monster of a car did about
30 km per cubic metre of methane. A cubic metre of methane contains 40
MJ of energy, about 20 percent more than a litre of petrol, but methane runs
the engine more efficiently. Methane was selling at about €0.95 per cubic
metre, and petrol at €1.50 or more a litre. The cylinder capacity was 11
cubic metres, so the range just over 300 km; and it cost only
35 percent as much on methane as on petrol. No wonder people were all filling
up on methane rather than diesel or petrol. Italy is predisposed to take advantage
of biogas methane, much more so than the UK, though anaerobic
digestion is still uncommon in Italy.
In the course of the week, I was treated to macrobiotic gourmet food, mainly
Ma-Pi diets 4 and 5 which are not vegetarian, as opposed to Ma-Pi 1
and 2, which are, while Ma-Pi 3 includes fish. And every meal was in a different
restaurant if not a different town or city. Not surprisingly, the macrobiotic
cuisine grew on me, as it continued into the second week. UPM take their culinary
art very seriously. Every initiate starts as an apprentice in the kitchen.
I was generously feted everywhere as 'friend of Mario' on fish of all kinds
(including those freshly caught in the sea in Calabria), scallops, fresh
water shrimps and lobsters, squid, cuttlefish. I had goose, pigeon, and even
rabbit, though I declined the rabbit leg offered. Beer or wine was served
with almost every meal, though dilute green tea is the healthy option. The
beer was excellent. Surprisingly, I did not miss coffee, tomato, aubergine,
mushrooms, milk, cheese, or eggs, all hallmark Italian foods on
the macrobiotic forbidden list. Miso (fermented soybean and barley or rice)
substitutes well for cheese; toasted sesame with sea salt, or soy sauce, is
a sure winner; the cold pressed macrobiotic virgin olive oil is the best I
have ever tasted; and the rice ice-creams made with various fresh fruits are
mouth-wateringly delicious. I even acquired a taste for toasted barley water
(coffee substitute), and just cannot get enough of almond milk on the rare
occasions it was served in the morning.
A lunch plate
A feast to end all feasts
The main emphasis is on whole cereals, so polished rice
and potatoes are out. Brown rice is considered the most healing food, though
white milled (not polished) rice is frequently served. Millet and barley
are favourites too. The only cereal excluded is maize. The cereals are traditional
varieties rather than the commercial ones. Sugars, if used, are complex sugars
such as malt (from rice and barley) and unrefined cane.
I was quite sceptical of macrobiotic food before I went on the
trip, but came back much more receptive and appreciative, if not entirely
convinced. I made a mental note that if I became ill, I would definitely go
macrobiotic rather than take drugs or go into hospital.
The way it works is that all the businesses, restaurants, shops, factories,
etc. are under franchise to UPM, but not owned by UPM. Everyone seems so contented
and enthusiastic it seemed unreal, especially at first. I only saw one single
person who was overweight in all of the UPM places I visited. They are typically
absurdly slim (as well as mostly young), even though they eat huge portions
of whole cereals and vegetables. Apparently, they have no fat, it is all muscle.
As proof of their prowess, they won their yearly vegetarians versus
carnivore football match in Calabria with a decisive score of 14 to 11.
Apart from the farms (described below), I was taken to visit
bakeries where they make their own bread and cookies (flour from traditional
wheat varieties) with wood-burning ovens, and 'food factories' where simple
food processing and packing are done (with small machinery also suited to
on-farm use, and some indeed used on-farm. The machine making puffed brown
rice cakes was particularly interesting as it is very small and easy to operate,
and takes about a second to make one rice-cake starting from a tiny handful
of uncooked brown rice dropped automatically into the cake mould.
The rice cake machine
In a furniture showroom and workshop, I saw natural wood stains
and preservatives, for example, linseed with orange peel is excellent as wood
preservative, and natural rubber used for foam mattresses and soles of shoes
(impregnated into woven natural straw), organic cotton and other natural fibres
such as hemp for clothing, bags, as well as filling for mattresses. Natural
non-chemical treated leather is made into shoes and bags.
Particularly interesting was the factory of natural paints, all
made without chemicals from vegetable dyes, minerals, expired milk, eggs,
etc. Roberto Mosco, the young man who runs and owns the factory, has taken
over after his father died of cancer making chemical paints, and at Pianesi's
suggestion, began making natural paints. They are innovating all the time,
making new composites out of eggs and gypsum that can replace bathroom tiles,
for example. He gave me some natural pastels for artists, a range that
they are just creating, and some water colours, which were sadly confiscated
at the Rome airport checkpoint on my way back to London, and tossed into a
Natural paints factory and workshop
The UPM farms are typically ordinary farms on contract to grow food
the way Pianesi prescribes. It is a no-till or minimum-till 'polyculture'
of diverse crops either in rotation or mixed together, based on recovering
traditional varieties, and letting beneficial weeds grow with the crops
as far as possible. Many of the weeds are edible, and can form a harvest along
with, or after the main crop.
Pianesi suggests first looking at the weeds in the field for
clues as to which crops will grow best there, and planting trees in the fields
5 m apart (presumably to allow small tractors and harvesters that many of
the farmers use) to help provide shade and conserve water. After harvesting,
the residues are left in the field, which are not ploughed, and the seeds
for the next crop, saved from the previous, are sowed by hand or with machines,
but with minimum disturbance to the soil This makes for minimum effort;
so much so that farmers now have plenty of free time for other pleasurable
things. The crops are either rain fed, or with minimum irrigation, and of
course, no chemicals are used.
All the farmers I met were keenly interested and engaged in their
trade, and some are enthusiastic experimenters, encouraged by Pianesi. And
of course, like Pianesi, they are all dead set against GM crops.
The farms I visited were as follows.
Farm of Conte Radice Fossati 10-11 July
After I arrived at Milan airport, Bargnesi drove me by car to a farmhouse
near Mezzana Bigli, about one and a half hours away, owned by Conte Radice
Fossati, who also owns
1 200 ha around Milan, the major rice growing region in Italy.
My room was beautifully furnished with period pieces and remained
remarkably cool even though it was stifling hot outside, apparently due to
its double-wall construction within which water is trapped to cool the building
by evaporation. It seems we have much to learn from the ancient builders.
Fossati is the biggest industrial rice-grower in Europe. His
accountant, Guiseppe Mirabelli had been ill with hepatitis B since 1971, and
25 years of conventional drugs had failed to cure him, only made him worse.
Fortunately, he met Pianesi in 1996, and became better within months of starting
his macrobiotic diet.
At around the same time, Fossati's farmers were having less and
less success with chemical farming and some of them switched to Pianesi's
method, which brought the yields back up within a couple of years. So Fossati
finally decided to devote 20 ha to macrobiotic farming in 2007 of a traditional
rice variety; the result was so good that in 2008, he switched another 30
ha of wheat to macrobiotic cultivation, again, of a traditional variety.
Fossati was not yet ready to give up chemical farming wholesale,
but if he does, then it would really seal the fate of industrial agriculture,
and with it, GMOs in Italy, and possibly the rest of Europe.
Other factors are coming into play, chief among which, Italy
is turning into desert under the severe drought of recent years. The mighty
Po River, which has fed this rice-growing region for centuries, has now dried
to a trickle, while unsustainable practices continue.
Rivers running dry in Italy
On our way to visit the second farm the next day, I saw a tractor-like
vehicle parked near a maize field with no one in it but a noisy engine running.
It turned out to be operating a pump and delivering copious ground water into
the maize field. More than two hours later, when we returned from the farm,
the pump was still going with no one in the tractor, and the maize field was
about a foot deep in water.
Tractor pumping water to flood a maize field
Throughout the region, automatic sprinklers can be seen spraying
pumped water in fields early in the morning and late in the evening. Pianesi
later showed me many photographs of dust clouds over the fields taken in March
The rivers and tributaries are drying up also in the Marche region
where the same unsustainable wastage of water is perpetrated by industrial
monoculture farms. Climate experts are forecasting droughts for the whole
of Southern Europe as global warming continues, turning the entire area into
semi-desert [7].
Farm of Guiseppe Oglio 11 July
Guiseppe Oglio, a handsome 39 year-old bachelor, has taken over his parents'
26 ha farm to run organically since 1990, and began working with the UPM in
2001. One major change since working with the UPM is that he is "very difficult"
to find. Despite carrying out many experiments in his fields - which he was
happy to show us at length - Oglio now has plenty of free time to visit his
girlfriend in the city.
Biodiverse fields where weeds and crops co-exist for mutual benefit
Among the many experiments Oglio showed us were the following
Rice fields planted with traditional varieties without weeding,
where the worst weeds were kept under control, while other beneficial/harmless
weeds also grew up, which is very good for wild life.
Millet field sown by hand and not irrigated was doing much better
than one that was irrigated and sown at the same time
Barley can be grown with a wild green that is eaten as vegetable,
without losing yield. Oglio seemed genuinely delighted that such marginal,
sandy soils could yield 2 tonnes per ha, and attributes that to the Pianesian
Field covered by crop residues, which has not been cultivated
or watered for several years, nevertheless sprouted self-seeding leaf lettuce.
The seeds from these plants, according to Pianesi, are best suited for growing
on the same plot of land.
Oglio has his own rice-threshing and milling machine, and apart
from selling his produce to UPM, also sells direct to other customers.
Oglio does almost all the work on the farm, with some help from
his aged uncle.
There were some farm animals kept in less than hygienic conditions,
not for UPM, but mainly to indulge his uncle, probably not up to UK animal
welfare standards. It is clear that the farm could benefit with a small biogas
digester to improve animal hygiene at the very least.
Farm of Ivano Mazziere 14 July
This is a small 12 ha farm in Appignano on a hill in the Marche region, which
has only started to work with UPM a year ago. Ivano uses drip feeding for
his crops. His pride and joy appears to be mixed vegetables fields on four
of the five ha (one ha left for green manure), yielding 50 tonnes of harvest
each year. He delivers fresh vegetables to nearby UPM restaurants and shops
four times a week.
Ivano and his wife run the farm and he uses light machinery,
some he has built himself, such as a lightweight seed planter and a weeder,
which altogether consumes about 1 000 litres of diesel a year. He also saves
and catalogues seeds.
Polyculture drip-fed vegetable plot
Farm of Michele Carpineti 14 July
This is a 15 ha plus 6 ha farm in Sambucheto of the Marche region. The farmer
started to work with UPM 8 years ago when his parents failed to keep the farm
going due to illnesses from pesticides. Now the farm is obviously thriving,
producing a diversity of grains and vegetables.
There are also many animals on the farm, mostly kept as pets,
especially a free range pig that seems to like the company of the horses.
But two bulls were being "fattened" and kept mostly shut up in crammed housing
in less than desirable conditions. Animal manure piled up in the corner of
a field. This farm too, could benefit from a biogas digester.
Unlike Mazziere's farm, this farm is on completely flat land.
And Carpineti has started planting trees as recommended by Pianesi, first
in hedgerows around the fields and then within the fields. He also drip-feeds
his crops and pumps water sparingly from underground. The underground housing
for the pump doubles up as a convenient storage place for his vegetables.
Other signs of Pianesian polyculture are evident, such as a diversity
of weeds growing among the crops. I have never seen such an interesting collection
of weeds anywhere else apart from those I saw on UPM farms.
Carpineti is helped by his father and two young daughters, and
uses 3 000 litres of diesel a year for machinery and the water pump. There
is a bakery on the farm to take advantage of freshly ground flour.
Carpineti too, delivers fresh vegetables to nearby UPM centres,
as well as a hospital that has started serving macrobiotic food to patients.
Family harvest
Farm of Ivan Bruno 15 July
This is an unusual farm in the Campana region in the south of Italy, which
consists mainly of natural forests (some 60 ha) in the hills that the family
has acquired. After initial unsustainable harvesting of forest trees, the
youngest son in the family was inspired by Pianesi to do sustainable agriculture,
leaving most of the natural forests untouched. .
The 23 year old is exceptionally articulate, not only about what
he learned from Pianesi, but has views on globalisation and EU's policy against
small farmers. He is very happy to be working with UPM, as he receives 6 to
7 times the amount he would get from usual buyers, and when he had a bad harvest,
they bailed him out by paying him more. Especially impressive is the fact
that he has never been a farmer; but by following Pianesi's advice he was
able to do very well.
The first field he showed us was one that belongs to a friend,
which has been previously farmed chemically and left uncultivated for a year
or two. His friend agreed to let him farm it in return for part of the harvest,
and he has sowed a variety of wheat that was traditional in the region. The
wheat grew extremely well, and crowded out most of the weeds that were growing
in the field.
Bumper harvest of traditional wheat
On his wonderfully scenic hill farm, which could only be reached
by a rather treacherous unpaved steep and winding path, he showed us how by
following Pianesi's advice he was able to plant carrots or onions in particular
fields, simply by observing the wild plants that grew there. The key is to
plant crops that are similar to the weeds. He also showed us photographs
taken of frost destroying commercial varieties of cabbage on his farm while
the traditional varieties remained unscathed. And during a previous drought,
it was the part of the crops next to trees that survived.
We were treated us to a sumptuous lunch in the family home where
he lived with his parents, a sister and one of two brothers; a delicious stewed
leg of goat was included in the menu.
As we were leaving for our long drive to Calabria, he and his
father showered us with gifts of seeds, essential oils, herbs, and their very
own mountain spring water.
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about UPM is that it is run on George Bernard
Shaw's socialist principles, as expounded in The Intelligent Woman's Guide
to Socialism and Capitalism [8]. UPM buy directly from farmers and producers
and sell to customers through their shops, bypassing all 'middlemen', as Shaw
had prescribed. As a result, farmers could be paid 6 to 7 times what they
could get from the conventional buyers and are happy and independent.
None of them takes any government or EU subsidies. The same goes for producers
of other goods and the artisans. One thing missing from the cooperative,
perhaps, is its own bank and/or LETS (a trading network supported by its own
internal currency [9]).
What particularly impressed me was the attitude of all the people
working in UPM. I did not ask how much they were paid because it was probably
less than what they earned outside, but as workers get their food and
lodging free, or at reasonable prices, everyone is happy, and they even
seem to run on "to each according to need" principle. They are all united
in loving/adoring Mario Pianesi. Everyone has a story to tell of how Mario
gave them back their life by curing them of some terrible disease: terminal
cancers, hepatitis, diabetes, autism, heart disease, asthma, allergies, etc.
That was why I got a special treat everywhere. All are united in promoting
the macrobiotic way of life to the world, of course, which is why they give
generously, not only in money, but in hard work, to Pianesi to run his workshops
and conferences, which typically require a retinue of cooks to prepare the
There are now UPM food served in the Italian air force canteen
in Marche, and UPM dinners have been taken to the EU Parliament in Strasbourg
in October 2008.
Question is: would something like UPM work without someone like
Pianesi, the universal saviour of them all? Would it work in US or UK where
family ties are not so strong, and local communities don't really exist anymore?
Perhaps the food, fuel, and financial crisis will make people think again
of what real wealth is, as opposed to paper money [10] (see Financing Poverty, SiS
40) and why happiness and contentment depends on ridding the world of Darwinian
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Posted on 07/02/2013 11:41:27 AM PDT by drewh
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan told a crowd at the Aspen Ideas Festival that fellow Justice Antonin Scalia took her "big-game hunting," boasting that she had bagged a deer on the trip. "I shoot birds with him two or three times a year now," Kagan said. "At the end of last year we had been bird shooting 4 or 5 times ... he said to me, 'It's time for big-game hunting.' We actually went out to Wyoming this past fall to shoot deer and antelope, and we did ... I shot myself a deer."
Kagan said she began hunting with Scalia to fulfill a promise she made during her confirmation process, during which she fielded questions about her views on the Second Amendment.
"Quite a lot of [lawmakers], both Republicans and Democrats, ask about your view on the Second Amendment. ... They'll say, 'Have you ever held a gun?' " Kagan said. "I grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and this was not something we really did." Kagan said she promised one lawmaker that if she was "lucky enough to be confirmed," she would ask Scalia to take her hunting. "He thought it was hilarious, he thought it was a total crackup," Kagan said of Scalia's response when she attempted to fulfill the promise.
The Supreme Court justice, who just wrapped up one of the more contentious terms, with high-profile cases on the Voting Rights Act and same-sex marriage, admitted that following a grueling session, justices "might need a vacation from one another." But she said her hunting trips with Scalia were indicative of how the justices respected one another despite ideological differences.
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This how we truly win the issue. By genially educating our ignorant adversaries.
I didn't think she was that big.
This won't please her leftist fans. Let's see how she votes on the Second Amendment when it comes up again.
Even a Kagan might vote right once in a decade or two.
Too bad it wasn't a former VP.
They must have been hunting wild boar. You need something to scare the hogs out of the brush. Most use dogs. But I suppose Kagan would do.
Once again the lib wants to throw out hunting, the 2nd has nothing to do with hunting.
Or a carpet cleaning...
The leisure set.
While I don't have a problem with hunting, Kagan claims to be an Orthodox Jew . . .. which generally forbids sport hunting by Jews and makes it all but impossible for Jews to eat hunted meat (except in unusual/extreme circumstances).
Anyway, not particularly relevant, but it just shows that she is a fraud on many levels.
I'd of bagged me a water buffalo on that trip.
"They must have been hunting wild boar. You need something to scare the hogs out of the brush. Most use dogs. But I suppose Kagan would do."
Yes, but how could you tell the difference between Kagan and the hogs? Accident waiting to happen.
Watch your back, Antonin.
As what? a decoy?...........
And in-turn, Kagan helped Scalia change the tie-rods on his car and showed him how to adjust the fuel injectors.
Well, I wouldn't quite say that.
True, liberals often imply that the Second Amendment is ONLY about hunting, which is not true.
But I think the founders were thinking about the right of citizens to have weapons in the wilderness to defend themselves and their families against dangerous beasts, and to feed their families.
Also, to defend themselves against criminals and outlaws, in the country or the city.
And finally and most specifically, to defend themselves against the government if and when it abuses its proper powers. I wouldn't rule out any of those legitimate reasons why people should have guns if they choose.
Or purely for sport, whether hunting or target shooting.
...I shot myself a deer.
Any chance she will learn herself some grammar?
This one is too easy. I think I'll hand it off, but I'm sure there is a Chaz Bono joke in here somewhere.
That's nice, but to really go hunting she needs to go with Dick Cheney.
After I got me one of them thar huntin' licenses
What a man!
All the hogs will be running from Kagan ... therefore, only shoot the lead animal ...
"can I get muh self a huntin license here?"- John F'n Kerry
leftards have to pretend they can relate to the unwashed masses .
I've taken several lib friends to the range.
A few dozen or hundred rounds down range, combined with calm, rational saftey training (and getting to see and meet the other people there) can do more than all the screaming and NRA stickers in the country.
The only real problem is that our local ranges usually have very lousy restrooms facilities, which my female friends find distasteful.
Having a friend, and her daughter, experience what firing a pistol, shotgun and rifle is really like was quite cool; they are NEVER going to believe the folks who try to tell them how a easily available handgun can shoot 100 people or such BS.
One of them did pop himself in the head with the scope of my 300 win mag "oh. I've shot a rifle before..."... but seeing a seriously smokingly hot female co worker working a 6" stainless 357 King Cobra on a target she imagined to be her ex (and I think she sent him the sillhouette hahahah)was something I'll never forget.
I must've missed that one in the dietary laws.
Then again, Jesus did have something to say about loading people down with rules… as well as
Maybe Scalia can introduce her to Dick Cheney...
Someone needs to spend some time with Scalia at the range.
She's Conservative, not Orthodox. And hunting for food is not forbidden.
" I shot myself a deer.""
She grew up in an Orthodox environment but I believe the now calls herself Conservative (ironically). Doesn't she actually attend a Reconstructionist synagogue?
If I had three wishes, none of them would be for world peace but instead,
#1.....a day of fishing with President Bush
#2.....bird hunting with VP Dick Cheney
#3.....dinner with Rush
Liberal elitist Black Robe Champion of Obamacare now enamored with firearms. Not impressed. "Guns for me, but none for thee." She would rule against and invalidate the 2nd amendment in a heart beat.
...I shot myself a deer.
Any chance she will learn herself some grammar?
Hunting for food is not forbidden, correct. Sport hunting is considered cruel for Jews (not Gentiles).
And birds are less of a problem than mammals.
But mammals that are shot (or whatever) are not ritually slaughterd in a manner to ensure they do not suffer, so eating them (unless one really needs to eat) is difficult, in that the meat is not kosher.
There is a growing school of thought, however, that there IS a proper method for Jews to hunt animals, but this knowledge was lost during the Diaspora where the Jews were considered foreign, could not own land, and thus had no ability to hunt.
Growing up in rural Israel, I fall into this category, in that I believe there is a proper method to make hunted animals kosher, but the knowledge escapes us at this time and shall be re-discoverd.
In your zeal to push your religion, you missed the point -— Kagan is a fraud.
Who knows. I vaguely recall she was going to a shul that was the equivalent of a Joel Osteen Orthodox group.
All flash, no substance.
I give Kagan credit.
Riskin at Lincoln Square.
too bad she didn't go hunting with Dick Cheney!
How was I pushing my religion?
About the former I have no knowledge. However, hunting is generally forbidden. Why? Because for an animal to be kosher it must not only be of the right type (e.g. not a pig), but it must be slaughterd in a kosher manner and you must also be certain that it isn't diseased. Obviously, if one's life is at stake one can hunt (even pigs) and eat whatever you shoot...but that's not what we're talking about here.
Concur with your post.
#37 for a bit more color
Please forgive my ignorance. What did Jewish people do for meat before there weren't butchers in every village?
Who knew the Second Amendment was about hunting?
Apparently Kagen thinks so.
Well said, I'm sure Kagan had no idea what a pleasure it was!
Her biggest fraud is pretending to be a female....
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