Food, Farming and Freedom
Restoring Soils and Souls Regenerates Freedom, Health, Resilience for Sustainable Peace and Prosperity that Heals Divide and Conquer Tactics for Good
Why Restoring Soils and Souls is Important- A Quick Summary to Integrate Food, Farming and Freedom into Our Systems:
The U.S. lost between 7% -12 % of our farms, depending on the State, a trend that is happening all over the world.
We are losing farmland to those with agendas that are not always in our best interest at a rate of 2,000 acres a day.
If we embrace intelligent growth and minimize sprawl—we can save up to 13.5 million acres of the nation’s irreplaceable farmland and ranch land for food production. This is a critical time for agricultural land protection. More than 11 million acres were lost or threatened by development in the first 15 years of the 21st century alone. When we continue to do what has worked for millennia, we don’t have to reinvent the wheel.
YOU Can Help: Your Action Steps!
Participate in No Mow May, founded in Britain in 2019, and is happening all over the US.
Scientists are finally recognizing that insects and all more than humans are sentient beings. Insects are also the foundation for life, yet they are treated with fear and poison. More than humans have a purpose and jobs in our ecosystem, and have emotions, families, needs and are like humans in many ways. Poison and harm more than humans, and poison and harm yourself and everyone else. Your choice. Love or fear?
Know the benefits of weeds, The Old Farmers Almanac. Ralph Waldo Emerson defined a weed as 'a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered'.
Increasing food availability, accessibility and affordability is do-able. Imagine a world that connects with our mother, more than humans, ourselves and...
Healthy soils for healthy plants for healthy humans: How beneficial microbes in the soil, food and gut are interconnected and how agriculture can contribute to human health, National Library of Medicine published abstract.
How to Eradicate Food Deserts, Increase Nutrition, Health and Wellness- The “Recipe” for Prosperity and Peace:
If each person grew at least some of their own food, in containers and/ or in the soil, we would overcome a multitude of problems. Seeds are life that are waiting to be expressed- seeds want to grow and support us! We can heal dis-ease, disconnection, disassociation and division. Self care increases health, well-being, creativity, curiosity, courage and compassion.
What if we had farmers markets and food co-ops in each community? And, what if we had gardens and greenhouses in every school, including specialty and higher education, assisted living facilities, hospitals, apartment complexes, and housing communities?
What if hotels, resorts, motels and restaurants grew their own food in gardens and greenhouses? Talk about fresh, local farm to table!
In 2022, RG Foods, a member of Tulsa Urban Ag Coalition, served 12,779 people through their mobile and micro grocery stores. They provided their customers with $64,000 worth of free fresh fruits and vegetables, thus impacting their health and eating habits.
More info on transforming food deserts to an oasis of healthy food access.
Health is Wealth and Self-Reliance is Sustainable Freedom
Let’s return to a diversity of homes and communities that grows their own food with farms, gardens and utilize greenhouses for our independence, health and prosperity.
No matter what climate, we must adapt. We must stop harm of nature’s ways. When we stop manipulating nature to fit the crop and habitat and allow ecosystems to do their job, we follow the way to health, well-being, peace, prosperity and longevity for ourselves and for the next generation.
A Roman statesman, Cincinnatus, gained fame for his selfless devotion to the republic in times of crisis and, for giving up the reins of power when the crisis was resolved. Cincinnatus “maintained his authority only long enough to bring Rome through the emergency. He then resigned and returned to his farm. Despite his relatively old age, he worked his own small farm until an invasion prompted his fellow citizens to call for his leadership. He came from his plough to assume complete control over the state but, upon achieving a swift victory, relinquished his power, its perquisites and returned to his farm. His success and immediate resignation of his near-absolute authority with the end of this crisis (traditionally dated to 458 BC) has often been cited as an example of outstanding leadership, service to the greater good, civic virtue, humility, and modesty.”
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Women’s History in farming inspires us to return to our Connection with All Beings, All Relations and Nations, Women were trailblazers in American horticulture.
Indigenous women were the original farmers and geneticists.
Farming as a family-owned and independent business has been an important part of the social and economic development of the United States. Black Farmers in America, The Pursuit of Independent Farming and the Role of Cooperatives was written based on research to share “the essential understanding of conditions for black farmers struggles. The end of slavery was followed by about 100 years of racial discrimination in the South that limited, although it did not entirely prevent, opportunities for black farmers to acquire land.”
“A happy and healthy community is not a fairy tale. All you need is a seed.”- Nadia Shabaz
To Increase Self-Sufficiency, Peace, Health, and Prosperity: Respect the Land and what it Provides, Increase Sharing and Responsibility. This will reduce obesity, poverty and dis-ease.
STEAM: Art and Science. What if schools taught a holistic, sustainable lifestyle while mentoring them? Our needs create jobs. Teach gardening and farming in schools.
Habitat Restoration, agroforestry, clean and restore our waterways and hire people to plant native flora and fauna! Cities around the world are opening up their rivers and lakes to swimmers in response to climate change’s increasing frequency, severity, and duration of heat waves. Cities are planting trees. What if cities invested in healthy soil, farms and gardens?
Expand the types of crops that are grown: Grow hemp for food (hemp seeds are high in protein), fiber for paper and clothing, animal bedding, packaging, fuel and natural building materials (and more).
Fruits and vegetables have protein. Nuts, seeds, legumes, beans all are high in protein.
Science is changing their foundation to meet Ahimsa!- animals are sentient, they are not machines. Rene Descartes was not very smart and science was built on a false premise that animals were like machines, non-feeling and could endure torture and cruelty. We are finally evolving out of that insanity and realizing the obvious- observe dogs, cats, birds, horses, cows, pigs, chickens- all more than humans- and the proof is shown!
Increase intelligence with Self-Reliance and opportunities are naturally created when we are healthy souls living integrated with healthy soils. Healthier minds-bodies-spirits create healthier systems. When we evolve ourselves and answer our problems, we give back and evolve together. Soulutions are from a Higher Natural Law. Solutions lead to more problems because they usually are not created from an evolved consciousness.
Increases in healthcare costs, every day living costs and food prices rising up to 24% higher than previous year, we are feeling controlled, cranky and constipated. Arbitrary authority censors and silences so that they may cause division. Divide, conquer and control.
Wildlands mission is Restoring Soils and Souls:
Helping people sense and experience more than humans emotions such as happiness, sorrow, rage, or fear, and inspire humans to take conservation action.
Encourage environmental stewardship and share the positive actions occurring within communities and world to inspire like behavior. Humans are highly influenced by what others are doing see species as sentient beings they want to actively support by taking action to help the planet.
Connect humans with opportunities and motivate to modify behaviors to actively support wildlife, farm animals, and insects (all the more than humans) and conservation initiatives using empathy and inquiry.
Inspire humans to love themselves with self-care: food/ nutrition, and to be generous with positive actions and wisdom/ guidance. Self-reliance is the most sustainable lifestyle! You are the ones the world has been asking for and needing! Symbiosis and generosity are essential and is each of our purpose!
We need our mother to be healthy so she can care for us. Mother provides! Food, shelter, support, beauty, peace, inspiration and purpose…stewardship is connection with Something Greater than Ourselves.
About the Author of Wildlands, Restoring Soils and Souls
Restoring Soils and Souls Partners with Others to Grow Nationally and Naturally
We are rewilding - hundreds of trees, shrubs, native grasses, wildflowers and milkweeds have been planted since 2022, with more trees, regenerative food and herb gardens coming soon.
Wildlands Mission: “Do No Harm, Freedom and Justice For All. Know Thyself and Give Back and Thou Shalt Be Free” themed essays, art and poetry on Wildlands serves how to live in the sublime and How to Restore Soils and Souls. The Author’s attempt to put Higher Laws, Guidance from Something Greater Than Ourselves, Natural Teachings. Inspire humans to share their Inner Bounty and Give Back.
Robin, the Nature Nomad, aka Loud Hawk (“One who gets things done”) restores soils and souls…
My great grandfather was a farmer and friends with a U.S. President. Another ancestor fought in the American Revolution. My partner, a Physicist, a Citizen of the Cherokee Nation, and I now own farmland- land that his family has owned since 1902. Food, farming and freedom are infused in my life and restoration-conservation are a part of my Soul. It is a joy to work with the soil, assisting, partnering, loving and co-restoring all the souls within and upon it.
Wildlands mission is to reduce harm/ increase Self-Love/ Love of Nature and All Relations and Nations, whether they be flora, fauna, or fungi, and deepen our personal service so that each of us know that we belong and have purpose- we are the biota.
“A Poet with a Purpose” as a Wild and Free Nature Nomad, is growing organically- through art, poetry, essays on Wildlands and through Sustainable Tucson Habitat Restoration projects.
Generosity heals, “Restoring Soils and Souls” is my soul’s work to guide others to a natural, beautiful, connected, healthy life. Please support my work to help humans rid self of material cares and burdens of unneeded stress and enjoy an original relation with the Universe to experience "the sublime."
Your financial support goes towards habitat restoration and conservation projects for schools, communities, homes, businesses, regenerative farms, nature, more than humans and children of all ages. We grow intelligence, wisdom and connection when our souls are connected to the soils.
I’m working with national and international organizations and a national publication. Inquire about my guest writer, podcast guest and other availability, or would like to learn about my Health,Wellness and Freedom Guidance, Project Development Services and Restoring Soils and Souls! My job is to inspire and bring opportunities. Robin means new beginnings and bright fame. Visionaries light the way to bliss.
Share this essay with those who may prosper from it, “Food, Farming and Freedom, Restoring Soils and Souls Frees All of Us and Heals Divide and Conquer Tactics”. Wildlands Restoring Soils and Souls honors our ancestors, farmers and my friends, Ronnie Cummins and Patrick Kerrigan, Organic Consumers Association and Regeneration International; as well as Northern Organic Farming Association, Tulsa Urban Ag Coalition and Sustainable Tucson.
Check out a new book from my dear friend, Will Tuttle, PhD, Food for Freedom: Reclaiming Our Health and Rescuing Our World, has just been released!
My work is a rippling out to voices like, Armstrong Williams wrote about soil and soul (and farming))!
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." --George Orwell
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Loving the engagement and feedback! Growing "follower" base of some well known people may assist to share this essay as it has a lot of helpful nutrition, self-care/ self-reliance info- all are important in time of authoritarian "leaders". You and I must be smarter than the dictators and take care of ourselves, as well as the more than humans and nature. Care, compassion and empathy are in our best interest. Otherwise, we will live in a digital prison. Please read and share this with people you care about- they must know this information. Please help Wildlands grow. I am traveling the U.S. at my own expense. Please support me in getting Restoring Soils and Souls known! Please let me know of media contacts, and anyone else who is honest and courageous enough to share the mission of Wildlands, all included in this essay. I will donate 10% to an animal sanctuary that I want to start. Thank you.
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Thank you for sharing this important message, Robin. The loss of farmland is a critical issue, and your call to action is inspiring. I particularly appreciate the specific steps you provide, like contacting representatives and participating in No Mow May. Your emphasis on a holistic approach, including soil health and self-reliance, truly resonates. The stories you share, like the Hopi farmer and the Tulsa Urban Ag Coalition, offer hope and inspiration. Your dedication to "Restoring Soils and Souls" is truly commendable.