HEAV Convention

After 3 long HARD days of work, the Lansing clan has drug themselves into the house and will have to unpack later.

I do want to take a moment to thank all of those who stopped by our booth #404, talked with us about their gardening experiences, listened to us talk about the Victory Egg Garden and supported us with the purchase of books, plans, soaps, salves, or whatever. We will be rapidly adding more of our book products to the web site, so if you don't immediately see what you found at the show on our site, please come back again, or email us with how we can assist you.

It was real exciting to have Joel Salatin stop by our booth between his talks and say some encouraging words to our ambitions. We bought the MP3 recordings of all the talks so I look forward to listening to Joel's messages since we were working to hard to hear him. If I understood Him correctly He has just changed his talks and is now addresing the need and ability for more families not living on real farms to grow more of their own food. This was the first location/time for him to deliver this new focus. Either great minds think alike, or we have a common Father in Heaven who is calling his people to a greater degree of food security and independance from the current corporate food model now at work.

PLEASE, for those of you living in counties or cities/towns that do not currently permit citizens to have a limited number of hens, contact your representatives and express your desire for more freedom to engage in healthy, productive past times like gardening with chickens. I will continue to work with others in the central VA area to lobby for change. If you live in this area, email and request your email address be added to my growing data base to coordinate events calling on boards for this change.

Anyone out there want to know more about growing your own food and preserving it by canning, dehydrating, or freezing? Call me and we can schedule a talk or workshop for your location. In the meantime, keep working in those gardens, building your skills, and remember to take a friend with you to enjoy the quiet times in the morning of your garden while the dew is still on the roses.

George