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Poisons in Organic Farming and Sustainable Agriculture?

The Center for the Future of Farming is a nonprofit research and educational institution/corporation created for the purpose of teaching farmers:

1) how to make more money not growing GMO’s

2) how to make $100,000 net profit, or more, on as little as 25 or 30 acres

3) how to grow crops without any poisons, chemicals or pesticides and make more money doing it. Farming in the U.S. and the world is on the verge of financial, ecological and environmental collapse. Chemical farming and GMO planting are causing havoc with the environment and the health of people and animals.

Organic farming is still in its infancy, with no clear guidance or set of rules. Organic agriculture is without any general leadership or a proven system of crop management that will allow any farmer, anywhere, to grow crops without chemicals, poisons, pesticides or GMO’s and make a profit/income commensurate with the time, effort, expertise and capital that they put into their businesses.

Farming today, especially organic farming, requires the same level of expertise to succeed compared to any other technical field where such a level of expertise, time, effort and capital would guarantee the individual a minimum salary of $100,000 a year. The problem facing farmers today, the reasons why too many farmers do not reach this level of income, is that organic agriculture, as a science and a method, has not yet reached a consistent, high level of expertise, education, inputs, crop mix and management skills that would guarantee that deservedly high level of income.

Today, there exists no simple, predictable, inexpensive, easily learned system of non-chemical, non-poisonous and pesticide free crop management program that guarantees this income, or more, for farmers operating on a small scale of 5, 10, 25 or 50 acres. Larger scale farms, with plantable acreages in the hundreds or thousands, would benefit equally or greater from a predictable organic crop management system. We have developed the knowledge, technology and management systems to make this happen.

According to Monsanto, more than 200 million acres worldwide are planted in their GMO crops. This has brought destruction to the environment through the application of glyphosate (RoundUp®) herbicides and the intermixing of the new genes in plants as they cross pollinate with other similar species. In some cases, wind blown pollen has destroyed certified organic crops and bankrupted organic farmers. There has been no long term testing of GMO food on people or animals, yet many farmers persist in planting them almost everywhere. No one has calculated or measured the damage that they are doing, but it appears to be permanent. GMO seeds are five or six times as expensive as open pollinated seeds, which is a financial burden on farmers. Exposure to toxic, cancer causing pesticides is rampant.

There is a way to completely eliminate both the need to grow GMO crops such as cotton, corn, soybeans, peanuts, wheat and so on. We will teach this new method of farming, saving farmers millions of dollars, increasing their incomes dramatically and stopping the degradation of our environment. The number one difficulty farmers face, after the weather, the banks, the chemical companies, the seed companies, and the loss of soil fertility is the destruction and degradation of their crops and crop quality by plant diseases and noxious insects. Understanding why these diseases and insects do what they do, not killing them, is the key to preventing and eliminating them, improving yields and quality, and lowering the costs of production. In more than 160 years of attempts by universities, colleges, corporations and individuals to cure plant diseases, not one has succeeded.

Yes, they can kill some plant diseases and lots of insects. Some diseases are prevented by hybridizing. But a cure for plant disease? Not one single plant disease has ever been cured. Until now, when Greg Willis, the Director of the Center, did it. Understanding the nature of plant disease and the purpose of plant diseases and insects is the crucial base of knowledge lacking at the university and corporate level. It is not lacking at the Center for the Future of Farming. It is the nature of, and the role of, all plant diseases and insects to cull weaklings from any field to strengthen the entire farm. It is the role of Nature to eliminate weaklings in the plant world to strengthen the environment so that only the strong plants survive, then it becomes self-sustaining, a process known by biologists as homeostasis or a steady state, its natural state of being.

Today, it is popular to talk about “sustainable” agriculture and “biodiversity”. While these goals are laudatory, they do not explain how Nature works. We have evolved beyond these concepts with the more accurate and more advanced principles known as “self-sustainability” and “biocomplexity”. “Sustainable” as a word and a concept is already too overused and will, in time, like all overused words, still hang around, but it will greatly lose its impact. “Self-sustaining”, on the other hand, will be around forever since it is the essential nature of Nature. It is Nature by definition. It is the penultimate goal in all environments. Biocomplexity, the study of the roles that plants and animals play in the environment, explains biodiversity. Without an understanding of biocomplexity, it is impossible to understand biodiversity. These are just two examples of much more advanced principles of agriculture that we teach.

Here are some of the subjects in our curriculum:
• The true nature of plant disease
• The roles of viruses, bacteria, fungi and insects
• The way to cure plant disease
• Biocomplexity explains biodiversity
• Sustainable vs. Self-Sustainability
• Steiner, Burbank and Carver understood
• The spiritual evolution of plants and people
• Restoration agriculture
• Toxic vs. Non-Toxic agriculture
• Freeing yourself from poisons, chemicals and pesticides
• The 4 B’s - Birds, Bats, Bees & Butterflies
• How to eliminate GMO’s on your farm - and your neighbor’s farm
• Designing farms, gardens, greenhouses and equipment using the Golden Mean Proportions
• Creating a computer modeled complex crop system with a minimum of 15 crops annually
• Square food farming: growing multiple crops at once on the same piece of land
• Understanding the Forces of Nature, Growth, Life, Death and Renewal
• Patterns of energy and how to use them to make more profit
• Companion planting and complex cover cropping
• Making the right kind of compost
• How to take advantage of the monthly Lunar and annual Earth and Solar cycles
• Properly sizing equipment
• Processing your harvest
• Starting and utilizing a group equipment maintenance contract
• How to get the best deal: The art of renegotiating loans and finance agreements

These are just some of the classes, courses and topics we will make available to the farming community, backyard gardeners, vintners, viticulturists, orchardists, florists, nurseries, landscapers, beekeepers and everyone interested in growing and eating better food, sustaining the environment and supporting farms and farmers do a better job and earn an income commensurate with what they do. You will not find this information in any university or with any extension service. Only at the Center for the Future of Farming. All of these ideas have been developed and proven over the past 25 years to the point that they are predictable, teachable and profitable. The Center for the Future of Farming will become the world leader in organic agriculture. Conventional farmers and others in the field of agriculture will see the success of their neighbors and eventually gravitate to this new, more profitable, safe and advanced “ultra high” technology.

Greg Willis, A.A., B.S., M.A., the Director of the Center for the Future of Farming, has created crop management systems that increase yields from 30% to 300%, increase quality to amazing levels, completely eliminate and prevent diseases, eliminate noxious insects, decrease operating costs by 75% or more, and double or triple profits.

Here is how Mr. Willis expresses his philosophy on farming.

“A well known agricultural consultant is fond of saying that farming is unnatural. He is a very cleaver fellow, but not wise. Nothing could be further from the truth. Growing food is as natural an endeavor as there is on Earth. No different than eating, engaging in procreation or working for a living. But as with all these “natural” embodiments of mankind, it is how you do it that makes the difference.

"How we grow our food differentiates us from everything else and everyone else on the planet. If we grow our food in harmony and balance with Nature, self-sustaining in nature, we will grow food that is in perfect harmony and balance with both our spiritual natures and our spiritual development. This is, in turn, is reflected in our physical evolutionary nature. Spirit dictates the physical manifestation. So, it is the responsibility of all who grow food to do it in such a way as to bring out the true spiritual nature of the food they are growing. That then, will be reflected in the true physical nature of the fruits of your labors.

“If you want that chili pepper to be the best it can be, then it is incumbent on the grower or farmer to do everything right so that the land is its true spiritual self.

“Yes, land can be its true spiritual self. Land that is punished and degraded by poisons and chemicals, is degraded both physically and spiritually by the death that the chemicals bring. This, in turn, gets into the food we eat, and into us.

“Only by understanding the roles that various diseases and insects play in the protection of humanity and the planet can the farmer, grower and gardener find the way to prevent plant disease in the first place. Only then, can plants reach their proper level of spirituality and physicality, and be in tune with the physical and spiritual evolution of mankind.

“The Earth is a place provided for souls to grow spiritually and become better people.

“The wise and spiritual farmer will grow food that brings along and encourages the spiritual development of all those who eat their fruit. It is far better for a person to eat food that is, spiritually speaking, beyond their spiritual development, than for someone of high spiritual development to eat food of a low spiritual quality. That kind of food holds back their spiritual development, thus the spiritual development of all humanity as well as the Animal, Plant and Mineral Kingdoms.

“If we look more closely at “organic” agriculture, then we should ask, what organic should be? “Before we do, let’s concentrate on what “organic” agriculture, or viticulture, is not. It is not conventional. It is not organized. It is not predictable, nor cheap, nor very good, although some farmers are skillful at growing tasty, spiritually enriched food. They are rare.

“What should it be? It should be cheaper, not more expensive than conventionally grown food. It should be nontoxic, fresh tasting, have a long shelf life and be fully nutritious both physically and spiritually. No chemicals or poisons, pesticides or noxious bugs should be in these crops at anytime. They should be perfect in taste, smell and appearance, imbued with life. But they are not.

“Why? What is happening that would make them this way? It starts with the farm, and garden.

“One must understand that it is imperative for all plants to show perfection, but not through genetic manipulation, or the dousing of poisons and pesticides. They must do this naturally.

“Once the farm itself is fixed, all crops growing on that farm will grow perfectly. Fix the farm first, then grow the plants. Always in that order. If you try to fix the crops before fixing the farm, all you will get is conventional chemical agriculture. Nothing more. You want something more. Not less.

“So. Where does “organic” agriculture find itself today, and where will it go? The answer is, without the leadership such as we can provide, it will continue to be sail-less, rudderless and steering wheel-less. All of agriculture needs this kind of guidance.”

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