It has been a while since I last updated my blog.
Or even made Waverley Welfare newsletters.
But here are my last two that I have done... and finally uploaded.
Hopefully be back on track extolling the blessings and virtues of being prepared for all things.
Until next time
yours in preparedness
Georgia
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
20th September
Wednesday night’s enrichment night with the Grotaers was a very educational evening for all who attended.
Based around President Kimball’s admonition to grow as much fruit and vegetables for ourselves that we possibly can and to learn the skills of home production, the Grotaers shared with us their vast wealth of knowledge and the importance of using certified organic seeds and plants in our gardens.
Briefly: the reason is that the large seeds companies such as Yates have been bought out by even larger chemical companies who have introduced genetically modified seeds. These seeds contain herbicides and pesticides already built into them, worse yet they are genetically engineered to grow sterile fruit and vegetables, so that each year we must buy new seeds. As collecting the seeds from your crop will produce either little or no results. The most important thing for us to
know is that if we are growing genetically modified sterile fruits and vegetables then we are no longer eating living food and it will impact our health. It also means there can be little doubt the fruit and vegetables we buy are also sterile. We can see the impact of this in the rise in disease and illness in the population.
It may sound like hippie tree hugging propaganda, but it is a sad reality of the times in which we live. The seeds companies you can use with peace of mind are certified organic seeds companies such as Green patch, Green harvest and Eden. The Diggers club, which is an online ordering company, carry all organic seeds, their website is www.diggers.com.au.
Another company that has a select range of organic seeds is the New Gippsland Seeds & Bulbs, 120 Lewis Road, Silvan Victoria, Australia, 3795 P.O. Box 1 Silvan Victoria, Australia, 3795 Enquiries: (03) 9737 9560 Free call for orders: 1800
887 732 Free fax for orders: 1800 088 077 Email: orders@newgipps.com.au
I have used this company before and found them to be very helpful. You can see their full catalogue online.
The Grotaers are passionate about gardening and living the Prophets counsel to grow what we feasibly can, they run an organic growing class on the second Saturday of every month. Their contact details are: Pat and Vic Grotaers, 18A
Britannia Creek Rd, Wesburn, ph:59671134.
Of all that the Grotaers shared with us, the most important comment was: ‘Whether you like gardening or not President Kimball said to do it.” he likened it to years ago before there was a Temple in Australia, if you wanted to go to the Temple you had to go to New Zealand. He talked abut how people had to step out in faith and set a date to go and work towards it,
relying on the Lord to help them achieve their goal of getting to the Temple. He said we can liken it to gardening , make the determination to start, rely on the Lord and do it. Step out in faith and see what happens.
We also learnt that some bugs and creepy crawlies are friendly bugs and well worth keeping in your garden, such as the red centipedes we see, these are carnivorous and eat other bugs, namely the bad ones that like to munch on our tender plants like slatter bugs. Those little gray ones that roll into an armoured ball if you touch them. I think most of us came away from
the night with a renewed determination to grow our own vegetables. Attached is a copy of their monthly newsletter for their organic growers club, well worth a read.
One thing that is plainly clear is that growing your own vegetables used to be common practice in nearly every back yard. Now it is almost considered an old fashioned hobby. We need to embrace learning all we can to be prepared for all things. We need to teach our children, our youth, our young adults to be able to grow a garden, sew their own clothes, to be self
sufficient in as much as they can. We are quickly loosing the skills our grandparents grew up with, we need to get them back.
Based around President Kimball’s admonition to grow as much fruit and vegetables for ourselves that we possibly can and to learn the skills of home production, the Grotaers shared with us their vast wealth of knowledge and the importance of using certified organic seeds and plants in our gardens.
Briefly: the reason is that the large seeds companies such as Yates have been bought out by even larger chemical companies who have introduced genetically modified seeds. These seeds contain herbicides and pesticides already built into them, worse yet they are genetically engineered to grow sterile fruit and vegetables, so that each year we must buy new seeds. As collecting the seeds from your crop will produce either little or no results. The most important thing for us to
know is that if we are growing genetically modified sterile fruits and vegetables then we are no longer eating living food and it will impact our health. It also means there can be little doubt the fruit and vegetables we buy are also sterile. We can see the impact of this in the rise in disease and illness in the population.
It may sound like hippie tree hugging propaganda, but it is a sad reality of the times in which we live. The seeds companies you can use with peace of mind are certified organic seeds companies such as Green patch, Green harvest and Eden. The Diggers club, which is an online ordering company, carry all organic seeds, their website is www.diggers.com.au.
Another company that has a select range of organic seeds is the New Gippsland Seeds & Bulbs, 120 Lewis Road, Silvan Victoria, Australia, 3795 P.O. Box 1 Silvan Victoria, Australia, 3795 Enquiries: (03) 9737 9560 Free call for orders: 1800
887 732 Free fax for orders: 1800 088 077 Email: orders@newgipps.com.au
I have used this company before and found them to be very helpful. You can see their full catalogue online.
The Grotaers are passionate about gardening and living the Prophets counsel to grow what we feasibly can, they run an organic growing class on the second Saturday of every month. Their contact details are: Pat and Vic Grotaers, 18A
Britannia Creek Rd, Wesburn, ph:59671134.
Of all that the Grotaers shared with us, the most important comment was: ‘Whether you like gardening or not President Kimball said to do it.” he likened it to years ago before there was a Temple in Australia, if you wanted to go to the Temple you had to go to New Zealand. He talked abut how people had to step out in faith and set a date to go and work towards it,
relying on the Lord to help them achieve their goal of getting to the Temple. He said we can liken it to gardening , make the determination to start, rely on the Lord and do it. Step out in faith and see what happens.
We also learnt that some bugs and creepy crawlies are friendly bugs and well worth keeping in your garden, such as the red centipedes we see, these are carnivorous and eat other bugs, namely the bad ones that like to munch on our tender plants like slatter bugs. Those little gray ones that roll into an armoured ball if you touch them. I think most of us came away from
the night with a renewed determination to grow our own vegetables. Attached is a copy of their monthly newsletter for their organic growers club, well worth a read.
One thing that is plainly clear is that growing your own vegetables used to be common practice in nearly every back yard. Now it is almost considered an old fashioned hobby. We need to embrace learning all we can to be prepared for all things. We need to teach our children, our youth, our young adults to be able to grow a garden, sew their own clothes, to be self
sufficient in as much as they can. We are quickly loosing the skills our grandparents grew up with, we need to get them back.
7th September
Yesterday I had the pleasure of going to the Welfare day set up by the Bayswater / Mooroolbark wards. It was an informative day of stalls and information classes including: fire safety, managing finances, Home storage, Time management ( which I missed coz I was running late!) and mental strength. I met some very interesting people and came home with a nice little bundle of new recipes to try out. I also discovered who knows how to make both soft and hard cheese and I intend to add it to the welfare know how classes early next year.
Brothers and Sisters in what way can I help you to help yourselves become more prepared? I am at your service. Please let me know, even if you want to come around for a hot chocolate and a chat to fully cover everything you want to learn, I make a pretty good hot chocolate and I want very much to be of service. Put me to use my brothers and sisters.
On and off over the years we hear others say or even say ourselves that if the time came to rely on our storage we would not share with those who heeded not the counsel to prepare. Vaughn J Featherstone can put this to rest for us and for others when he said during the 1976 April conference ‘... I should like to address a few remarks to those who ask, ‘Do I share with my
neighbors who have not followed the counsel? And what about the nonmembers who do not have a year’s supply? Do we have to share with them?’ - No we don’t have to share -- we get to share! Let us not be concerned about silly thoughts of whether we would share or not. Of course we would share!’
Also from 1976 April conference Marion G Romney quoted Brigham Young ‘... If we are to be saved in an ark, as Noah and his family were, it will be because we built it... My faith does not lead me to think the Lord will provide us with roast pigs, bread already buttered, etc. He will give us the ability to raise the grain, to obtain the fruits of the earth, to make habitations,
to procure few boards to make a box, and when harvest cines, giving us the grain, it is for us to preserve it--to save the wheat until we have one, two, five or seven years provisions on hand, until there is enough of the staff of life saved by the people to bread themselves and those who will come here seeking safety ... (the fulfillment of that prophecy is yet in the future)’
In 1980 October conference Ezra Taft Benson said ‘Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize the the ravagers of war, economic disaster, famine and earth quake cannot happen here. Those who believe this are either not acquainted with the revelations of the Lord, or they do not believe them. Those who smugly think these calamities will not
happen, that they will somehow be set aside because of the righteousness of the Saints, are deceived and will rue the day they harboured such a delusion.’
Pretty straight forward and to the point for the Saints then and for us now. All of these trials are happening around us now. Some of it in this very country and we had better sit up and take notice. I am not without guilt here, I give thanks for the life I have and often times feel sure in my meager preparations. But no more, my brothers and sisters we need to be actively doing
what we can to prepare ourselves and our families and then get out there and help others to prepare. Not just food storage but every aspect of the gospel and its doctrine needs to be in place in our lives so that we may stand firm and sure in the days to come.
We can be as the the people the Lord called Zion ( Moses 7:17-18) of one heart and one mind. We can dwell in righteousness and have no poor among us. No poor of purse, of understanding, of heart, of want. The elect of the Lord are saved for the last days, if it is not us, it is our children to follow, we must help them so that they may indeed be the strongest and most faithful
and be able to endure all things to come. Make a start come to HFPE this Wednesday and learn from the Grotaers, by all accounts they are an incredible wealth of information. Men I know HFPE is for the women so if you want to know what they have to share ... send you women folk along to take notes for you.
Brothers and Sisters in what way can I help you to help yourselves become more prepared? I am at your service. Please let me know, even if you want to come around for a hot chocolate and a chat to fully cover everything you want to learn, I make a pretty good hot chocolate and I want very much to be of service. Put me to use my brothers and sisters.
On and off over the years we hear others say or even say ourselves that if the time came to rely on our storage we would not share with those who heeded not the counsel to prepare. Vaughn J Featherstone can put this to rest for us and for others when he said during the 1976 April conference ‘... I should like to address a few remarks to those who ask, ‘Do I share with my
neighbors who have not followed the counsel? And what about the nonmembers who do not have a year’s supply? Do we have to share with them?’ - No we don’t have to share -- we get to share! Let us not be concerned about silly thoughts of whether we would share or not. Of course we would share!’
Also from 1976 April conference Marion G Romney quoted Brigham Young ‘... If we are to be saved in an ark, as Noah and his family were, it will be because we built it... My faith does not lead me to think the Lord will provide us with roast pigs, bread already buttered, etc. He will give us the ability to raise the grain, to obtain the fruits of the earth, to make habitations,
to procure few boards to make a box, and when harvest cines, giving us the grain, it is for us to preserve it--to save the wheat until we have one, two, five or seven years provisions on hand, until there is enough of the staff of life saved by the people to bread themselves and those who will come here seeking safety ... (the fulfillment of that prophecy is yet in the future)’
In 1980 October conference Ezra Taft Benson said ‘Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize the the ravagers of war, economic disaster, famine and earth quake cannot happen here. Those who believe this are either not acquainted with the revelations of the Lord, or they do not believe them. Those who smugly think these calamities will not
happen, that they will somehow be set aside because of the righteousness of the Saints, are deceived and will rue the day they harboured such a delusion.’
Pretty straight forward and to the point for the Saints then and for us now. All of these trials are happening around us now. Some of it in this very country and we had better sit up and take notice. I am not without guilt here, I give thanks for the life I have and often times feel sure in my meager preparations. But no more, my brothers and sisters we need to be actively doing
what we can to prepare ourselves and our families and then get out there and help others to prepare. Not just food storage but every aspect of the gospel and its doctrine needs to be in place in our lives so that we may stand firm and sure in the days to come.
We can be as the the people the Lord called Zion ( Moses 7:17-18) of one heart and one mind. We can dwell in righteousness and have no poor among us. No poor of purse, of understanding, of heart, of want. The elect of the Lord are saved for the last days, if it is not us, it is our children to follow, we must help them so that they may indeed be the strongest and most faithful
and be able to endure all things to come. Make a start come to HFPE this Wednesday and learn from the Grotaers, by all accounts they are an incredible wealth of information. Men I know HFPE is for the women so if you want to know what they have to share ... send you women folk along to take notes for you.
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