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      "body": "A pdf copy of this book should be printed and in your home. For a free pdf copy please send your email address to [email protected], put Steemit book in the subject line. I will send you the pdf file. This will allow you to see all of the illustrations and pictures in the book.\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmczmFF1xXuS4QK4W78A8JmwUUe8JxgXARMSGhd4xV7bEX/image.png)\nYou probably know that effective time management will help you get more done each day. It has important health benefits, too. By managing your time more wisely, you can min-imize stress and improve your quality of life.\nBut how do you get back on track when organizational skills don't come naturally? To that you spend your time and energy on those that are truly important to you.\nSay no to nonessential tasks. Consider your goals and schedule before agreeing to take on additional work.\nDelegate: Take a look at your to-do list and consider what you can pass on to someone else.\nTake the time you need to do a quality job. Doing work right the first time may take more time upfront, but errors usually result in time spent making corrections, which takes more time overall.\nBreak large, time-consuming tasks into smaller tasks. Work on them a few minutes at a time until you get them all done.\nPractice the 10-minute rule. Work on a dreaded task for 10 minutes each day. Once you get started, you may find you can finish it.\nEvaluate how you're spending your time. Keep a diary of everything you do for three days to determine how you're spending your time. Look for time that can be used more wisely. For example, could you take a bus or train to work and use the commute to catch up on reading? If so, you could free up some time to exercise or spend with family or friends.\nLimit distractions. Block out time on your calendar for big projects. During that time, close your door and turn off your phone, pager and e-mail.\nGet plenty of sleep, have a healthy diet and exercise regularly. A healthy lifestyle can im-prove your focus and concentration, which will help improve your efficiency so that you can complete your work in less time.\nTake a time management course. If your employer offers continuing education, take a time management class. If your workplace doesn't have one, find out if a local community college, university or community education program does.\nTake a break when needed. Too much stress can derail your attempts at getting orga-nized. When you need a break, take one. Take a walk. Do some quick stretches at your work-station. Take a day of vacation to rest and re-energize”. End of quote from Mayo Clinic.\nOne way to accomplish more is to use what I call the A + B + C rule. This is a very simple rule. Do one thing at a time.  If you have three projects to complete it will take three times as long to complete them if you work on one and switch over to another. There is no logic as to why things work this way, they just do. If you start project A work on it until it is finished, your day is done, or you run out of materials or information that you must wait for others to supply. There is one other factor that you must consider, If you get burned out and hit a brick wall with the project. Take some time away from that particular project. This does not necessarily mean to start on B, however, that can be an option but probably not the best option for the same is true for C.\nLet us take a moment and look at where we are in all of this. You have a lot of infor-mation about planning and developing plan and goals. Your next question could be this. I don’t have all of those things done and probably won’t accomplish them for some time, so what do I do in the mean time. Believe it or not I have an answer for you. This is a problem that all of us face every week in our lives. Here the key word is week.\nLet’s take a moment and imagine a large glass jar sitting in front of us. This jar represents the time that we have in a week. The question is, how do we use the space in the jar to ac-complish the most in that week. Let’s represent our major tasks for the week as large rocks that will just barely fit through the mouth of the jar. First we put in those major tasks. Is our jar full, well not exactly, as there is still space around the rocks. Those rocks represent the things that must be done in the next week. If there is still some time left in the week as rep-resented by the empty space in the jar what do we do with it? We have developed a weekly plan with our major rocks noted. What can rocks be broken down to, yup you guessed it—pebbles and sand. The pebbles and sand are the less important items. One mistake you must not make. The size of the project does not necessarily determine its priority.\nA high priority item might be to put gas in your car. This probably won’t take a lot of time, just a lot of cash. The consequence of not doing this task is a long walk. These big rocks are based upon importance not amount of time, the cost or the size of the task. This is where you use the prioritization grid. Stay in quadrants I and II.\nYou have prioritized your tasks for a week now you can manage your time on a daily ba-sis. \n \nThe illustration that you see is based upon what Dr. Covey teaches in the 7 Habits book. You can develop your own weekly template with a little effort. I stole the one I use out of a workbook from Dr. Covey.\nAfter you have developed your long and short term time management plan, the plan must be applied in a doable manner. This usage plan must take into account the human as-pect of focus. You have a weekly plan developed. Take this plan and estimate the amount of time each task will take. Break those tasks down into about 30 minute segments for each day if you can. Learning to do this takes practice and is never an exact science. (I still fail misera-bly at this task).\nThe average human attention span is 30 minutes or less.\nAdequate rest periods are essential for your best work.\nLength of work periods need to match the way that the human mind works.\nMulti-tasking is a myth for effective and efficient work.\nIf these things are true, then how can I apply these principles to my time management? These ideas can be easily applied. I use a timer to time my actions. The timer that I use is on my computer it is called the Action Enforcer. This is not a free program. It can be found at this link. http://nanacast.com/vp/96244/234316/\nMy method of work focus time management is an off shoot of the Pomodoro Technique. The book that describes this technique is available from Amazon.com. Here is how I use the technique. The Pomodoro Technique follows an old rule, If you want to eat an elephant take many small bites. To apply this technique your work project must be broken down in to ele-ments or steps that you believe will take two hours or less. If they will take more than this then find the smaller steps necessary to complete the element you are working on. The working time is broken down into 25 minute segments with a 5 minute break every 25 minutes. At the end of 4 of these work segments you take a 30 minute break. This creates six of these rounds in an eight hour day. For reasons that I don’t understand after a day using this method compared to a conventional approach to work I am less tired and usually have gotten more accomplished.\n\nI have a small auto repair business on the side. This technique even works for these types of projects. Sometimes I have to stretch the 25 minutes a little if I am in the middle of something that cannot be stopped. 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      "body": "Here is the next section of the FINAL FAMILY SURVIVAL STRATEGY. Because this book has lot of illustrations that don't show up correctly in the copied text you need a pdf copy of this book. Just send me your email address and I will send you a pdf file of the book. My email address is [email protected].\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmczmFF1xXuS4QK4W78A8JmwUUe8JxgXARMSGhd4xV7bEX/image.png)\n\nTo get started, choose one of these strategies, try it for two to four weeks and see if it helps. If it does, consider adding another one. If not, try a different one.\nPlan each day. Planning your day can help you accomplish more and feel more in control of your life.\n Write a to-do list, putting the most important tasks at the top. Keep a schedule of your daily activities to minimize conflicts and last-minute rushes.\nPrioritize your tasks. Time-consuming but relatively unimportant tasks can consume a lot of your day. Prioritizing tasks will ensure TIME MANAGEMENT CREATES SUCCESS\nINTRODUCTION\nYou now have a reason to take action and time management is where it starts. I have a confession to make. This started out as a chapter in another book on how to be successful in life. As I grew older it appeared that time management might well be the ultimate key to success. The number of hours that we have in each day is the same for each of us. The same can be said for each week, month, and year. The only unknown is how long we will live. That is not important if we make the most of each hour.\nSince I wrote the original chapter on time management several things have come to mind. Most of us with even the best of plans and preparation cannot manage our time on an instant by instant basis.\nMy recent experience has taught me that focus and how you spend your working time is one of the essentials of success. It is great to have a daily, weekly, monthly and even yearly time management plan complete with goal setting. The rubber meets the road when you at-tempt to apply these plans. This book will fill that gap and help you with your long term time management goal.\nYou just asked the question: Why is there a time section in a book about surviving the 21St Century? You never have enough time and unless you utilize what you have you will not be prepared.\nTIME MANAGEMENT\nWhat is time management? To understand time management we must first understand what time is. Time in general is defined as the space between two events such as when the sun comes up and when the sun goes down. Time is a quantity that can't be stored or put away for a rainy day. The unique quality of time is that it is the universal equalizer. Rich or poor, smart or not so smart, we all have the same amount of time each day. Each day is made up of 24 hours. This may be measured by the vibrations of an atomic clock or by ob-serving the solar system. No mater how you measure it your 24 hours and is the same as my twenty four hours. The difference comes from what I do with my 24 hours and what you do with your 24 hours.\nThis goes back to the statement that every action has a consequence. The time spent to achieve a specific consequence is time management. The simplicity of time management is that we get to choose how we will spend our time.\nDeciding how to spend your time is the important and most difficult part. If you have specific goals or things that you want to accomplish then you must provide time to accom-plish them. You must decide what is most important.\nTHE THREE P'S\nYou have seen this section before in the planning area. Read it again here as it is that important. There is one thing that you must do before you can set goals that facilitate man-agement of your time. That thing is to develop a life plan that will enable you to accomplish those things in life that are most important to you. GOALS\nIn order to manage your time you must know what is important and that is where goals enter the picture. To effectively manage your time you must have an end point in mind.\nThis brings up the question: What are goals? A goal is the very essence of life. Without a goal for your life and the sub goals that go with it you are like a cork in a pond. You are pushed this way and that way maybe you will end up on the other side of the pond or you might get washed over the spillway. \nAs I sit in my chair thinking about goal setting I realize that it is an area that I have not defined clearly for myself or written a way for others to achieve great goal setting. This is not an easy task. Goal setting starts with looking deep into your soul to discover what it is that makes you go. The preliminary to goal setting is development of a life plan. This is when things get tough.\nMy personal opinion is to look into ourselves and see what we really want out of life. Most people seem to want the same things in the core of their being. For most it is some-thing like this; Family and companionship, financial security, meaningful work or service, and leisure activities that are meaningful to the individual.\nI will share my core values with you. My great passions in life are:\n•\tFamily\n•\tService\n•\tFixing things\n•\tGardening\n•\tLearning and writing.\nMy goals from these are fairly simple but not so easy to obtain. My passion for my family breaks down into many areas. Some are:\n•\tFinancial\n•\tFriendship and relationships\n•\tLegacy\n•\tTradition\nThe other areas can be broken down into many smaller pieces also. One similar point in all of these personal passions is a financial piece. Everything that we do must be funded in some manner and that leads us to financial planning and managing our money. In order to do this we must have our goals in order.;\nMany people would call the statement of our life a mission statement. Yes, I have one that took me three years to write. That was many years ago and it has changed little since. My mission statement is in reality a statement of my core values and how I will apply them in my life. I am not going to attempt to tell you how to write a mission statement in this document. There are volumes written on how to write a mission statement.\nI spent three years writing a mission statement. This is my guiding document. It provides the ground rules that I use to develop my goals and to determine what constitutes success for me. A couple of good books to start with about writing a mission statement are 7 HABITS OF HIGH EFFECTIVE PEOPLE and PUT FIRST THINGS FIRST by Steven Covey. Not only will these two books get you on the correct path to create a mission statement but will also provide great insight into living a better and happier live. After all isn't that what success is all about? \nYou have decided what is important in your life—good. Now it is time to write goals for each area and to break the major goals down into sub goals. In order to accomplish this task we must define the parts of a goal. A goal contains these parts.\nA definite and defined statement of the goal: Success depends upon how well the goal is defined. This must be a written statement.\n•\tThe goal must include a brief but complete description.\n•\tThe goal must explain how the goal will be obtained.\n•\tThe goal must include a definite due date.\nThere is another side to the goal thing. Many people think that achievement of a goal is success. This may not be the truth.\nThere are almost as many definitions of success as there are people writing them. The most common definition is that of a journey. Some have stated it like this \"Success is the continual realization of worthwhile goals.\" This is a good behavioral based definition but it raises the question, \"What are worthwhile goals?\" A worthwhile goal to me may not be worthwhile to you. Eradication of all Piranhas in the Amazon: would not be a worthwhile goal to me. The point is that each of us must decide what is important in our lives.\nThere are strings attached to what we want to achieve. It must not be harmful to human-ity and it must provide a service to others. Many of the great figures of history have accom-plished goals that were not for the good of mankind. The checks and balances of God and the universe tend to level out these low spots. For continuous happiness we must not vio-late the rights of others. You have to look deep into your soul to determine what is right and wrong in any situation. There are no hard rules for all cases.\nThe concept of happiness and success seem to be linked in some way. All of the achievement (goal accomplishment) in the world is not of any value if you are not happy in getting to the goal. When a goal is achieved it does not automatically mean that we are happy and successful. For a lot of us achieving a goal leaves a feeling of emptiness. The ac-complishment of a goal always raises the question. \"Where do I go from Here?\"\nI wrote the paragraphs above over ten years ago. I still have not created a good defini-tion for success. I can now tell you what it is not. It is not the size of your bank account, the number of cars that you own or the value of your house. All of these things contribute to your material well being. They do not in themselves make you happy or create great joy in your life. Great personal power is not success. Many people believe that personal power and the accumulated things of life create a successful person. I disagree with the idea that things and power define success. I have never met a man on his death bed that wished he had spent more time making money. Most people preparing to meet their maker talk about fami-ly and how they treated their wife. They talk about family and what a mess they made of certain situation. These comments all lead me to believe that true success and joy come from the relationship of our soul and the rest of God’s Children. \nThe man that raised several children to be successful adults (they don’t have to be per-fect) and has remained good friends with his children is more successful than the man that has millions in the bank and his children are waiting for him to die so that they can fight over his money. Wealth in itself is not wrong but it takes a great man to handle great wealth in an honest and upstanding manner.\nEach of us must define success in our own terms. If you feel that success should make you happy then you must also define what “happy” means to you. This seems like an endless loop but it is not. Happy is only one component of success.\n\nPRIORITIZING YOUR ACTIONS.\nYour actions should be prioritized to lead to the goal that you wish to achieve. Everyone needs to have life time goals. This should be discussed in your mission statements and your mission statement should include you ultimate goals. My recommended method of prioriti-zation is to do it on a weekly basis. Daily is too short and monthly is too long to keep track of. \nPrioritization must reflect the importance of each item on your task list. I use the A,B,C method. \nA = Important and urgent=\nB = Important not urgent\nC = not important and not urgent.\nD= A total waste of time\n \nWhere do these categories come from? My first observation of this method was in Ste-phen Covey's book, 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE . I don't think that they originat-ed with Covey as I have seen similar grids in other places. 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      "body": "Here is the next section of the book. I suggest that you send me your email address so that I can send a pdf copy of the book. The pdf will have all of the pictures and illustrations. Send me and email to [email protected]. You micglt like to check out some of my other books on Amazon.\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmczmFF1xXuS4QK4W78A8JmwUUe8JxgXARMSGhd4xV7bEX/image.png)\n\nTHE FOUR SEASONS OF THE ECONOMY\nTHE SPRING SEASON\nThe spring season of the economy is a time of renewal. People have just passed through a long period of tough times. Most of the people are broke because of the manipulation and greed of the ruling classes. Many times the spring season economy happens at the same time as a revolution happens in the seasons of a country. This revolution does not have to be a bloody revolution. It can be peaceful and thoughtfully carried out. Any revolution is a time of great turmoil. 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Now there’s nothing wrong with hard work and working for what you gain. However, if what you gain is achieved by the tremendous sacrifice of others and underpaid workers the economy begins to grow to a class-based system. Greed causes this.\n\nA lot of the people see the while those guys are get lots of money for doing nothing why can’t we. This leads to the beginning of the Dole and welfare. The feeling of many people becomes, why should we work? Let someone else support us. This is when the wealthy harvest the work of the poor.\n\nPlease do not misinterpret me. Wealth is not bad if properly applied. If the wealth is used for the good of the people, the good of the family, and the good of the community is a great asset society. This does not mean that the wealthy need to give to those that don’t want to work and don’t want to become self-reliant. 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      "body": "I am sorry that it has been so long since the last post. I have been busy building an engine for my son's car to drive 60 miles to worki each day. If you would like a copy of this book just email me at [email protected] and put some thing like send me the steemit book and I will send you the pdf file to your email.\n\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmczmFF1xXuS4QK4W78A8JmwUUe8JxgXARMSGhd4xV7bEX/image.png)\n\nFOUR SEASONS OF A COUNTRY\n\nIt is a well-known fact, maybe not so well-known, that the life of a country follows four seasons. These are:\n•\tThe spring, this is the time of the beginning. It is the birth of a new country, or a new government.\n•\tThe summer, the summer is the time of growth. It is when the country becomes more involved in the world and less involved right to the individual service.\n•\tThe fall, in the fall the country sees its greatest productivity, the rights of the indi-vidual and the need for larger government have achieved a sort of a balance.\n•\tThe winter, the winter season starts see development of class, general the classes are separated into the rich and the pool.\nSPRING OR BIRTH OF THE COUNTRY\nEverything in this world had a beginning. All things seem to follow four season cycles. Spring is the country’s birth. This period of time is characterized by the pain and the throes of giving birth to new ideas and a new government. This might even be the time of revolu-tion. Some have compared this time to giving birth to a child. It just does not happen with-out pain and change.\nThe government has to be made correctly. The United States government started out wonderfully.. At the time the United States was formulated it was a totally new idea. No-where in history had a Republic been formed that was based upon the vote of the people and the integrity of the elected. It was so devised that it would not be a hodgepodge mess like a true democracy and yet it would avoid the probability of becoming a tyrannical gov-ernment as long as the people paid attention to who they were voting for and how they let the government be organized.\n\nThat was a new concept, a government of the people by the people and for the people, and that was the way it was set up in the original Constitution. It would work well forever, as long as the people were vigilant and watched over their government. These are some of the factors that make this a wonderful government. The representatives of the government were not paid officials. They were expected to serve their time in Congress or whatever the office was and then go home the rest of the year and make their own living. It was a government of the people not a government of the government.\n\nThis kind of government allowed for great innovations and great growth. It allowed for the expansion of the United States from the original 13 colonies across the entire continent. If the people had continued to apply the principals upon which the government was based this country probably would have included Mexico and Canada as well.\nIn the end of the countries spring, greed began to replace the idea of the free enterprise.\n\nTyranny starts when the people lose sight of what their government is. Another point of change is when they decide that the government ought to be telling their neighbor what to do rather than the neighbors getting together and deciding what they’ll be doing together The agreement of neighbors, as a way of deciding, what the right things to do in the neigh-borhood are lost. The Constitution of these United States was designed to protect the indi-vidual rights of the citizens. One of the requirements of the Constitution that was not in-cluded in the original Constitution was the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights ensures the rights of the individual under the government.\n\nThis type of government ensures that wealth is protected and that it’s available to any-one who is willing to work. In other words you own your own land in those times. If you want to drill a well you drilled the well. If your neighbor wanted to build house, she build a house. If your log cabin didn’t stand up to the wind, that wasn’t your neighbors fault or the government’s fault. That was your fault, it was your responsibility to do it right the first time.\n\nThis season of spring in government breeds individualism and personal rights. It creates entrepreneurs and those willing to take a risk to succeed. It’s up perfect environment for new inventions to develop a new ideas and new thoughts. It’s a perfect time for writers of the creative instinct to produce their new works. The spring season of our country is really that season sets the stage is for the creation of the wealth of the people that country.\n\nTHE SUMMER SEASON OF THE COUNTRY\nThe summer season of the government is the time of expansion. This is the time when the government starts to get involved in other things. The government becomes involved with other countries. And in this season it begins to grow and take up more responsibility from individual citizens. The summer season, in the development of a country, is the time when the citizens need to be extremely alert so that they will not lose her individual free-doms. The summer season is when tyranny starts. It’s the time that those who have attained great wealth conceived the idea that they are better than those that don’t have as much.\n\nThis is the season of government that it starts to become a government of the govern-ment and not a government of the people. During this season the people must exercise ex-treme vigilance to protect their freedom and for the freedom of generations to come.\nDuring the summer season the businesses that were started in the spring grow and the weaker are weeded out. This is both good and bad. As the businesses become larger they begin to exercise influence over the government for their advantage. This usually takes the form of more money for the business and an unfair pay for the producer. The idea that the rich get richer and the poor stay poor is born.\nDuring the summer season we begin to see one country trying to dominate another country. As a country grows in strength and size it begins to think it’s invincible. The only country that had a chance to avoid this cycle was United States of America if this country would have continued to follow the Constitution as it was created it would have remained aloof from as many wars as possible and things of that nature.\n\nWhen the United States of America entered into foreign wars rather than to defend itself it became corrupted since military expansion is not phase that is part of the true growth of the country. The westward expansion of the United States was pretty much an evolutionary cycle probably not easily avoided. When the United States became involved in European problems it made itself vulnerable to being exploited by those countries and for the secret societies to begin to take over the control the government. This is typical of the summer cy-cle of a country. Its growth cycle and the things that go on in large government, wars, world involvement, and individual rights begin to decline drastically. These actions led to the Great Depression of the United States the 1930s and 1940s. What some would say was the winter cycle. It really was just part of the summer cycle, the up and downs that could be compared to the natural cycles of the human body.\nTHE FALL SEASON\nThe fall season of a country is when we see the greatest changes within the country. We see the nearly complete loss of individual freedoms. We see the country being structured so that the rich definitely get richer and the poor get poorer and stay poor. We see a country trying to become world dominant during this season. Some examples are the Nazi regime in Germany, the communist regime in Russia, and now the in United States we have the Obama regime. All of these are designed to create a few people with tremendous power. This par-ticular action is all based upon greed and power. The individual rights are totally forgotten. These leaders believe that they know exactly what’s right for the people and they will force them to do what they want them to do. That’s what they ought to do, and that’s the way they ought to live. Now the place where I see a comparison with this is in the Scripture in the holy Bible. This was Satan’s plan, I will bring all my souls back to my father by guiding and controlling them and eliminating their agency to choose right or wrong. After all I know what’s right and they don’t.\n\nThe exercise of agency or the right to choose the direction of one’s life is very important in the evolution of a country. When the citizenry of a country lose this right, individual free-dom is gone. At this point we see the dissolution of the family and we see the government taking charge of everything. This leads to groups being formed whose only purpose is their own gain. These groups may take the form of businesses, social organizations, religions, and governments.\n\nThe result of this is the loss of individual choice. The individual really has two choices,1) he can become transparent to the government by doing his own thing and just staying out of their way,2) He can be a member of one of these groups supporting the government and forcing his fellow beings to do their will. This is the path that most follow. This path allows them to be on the government Dole and supposedly have everything they need provided for them. Many like to think that this is not done at the expense of others. This is the true defi-nition of socialism, give me what I want so that I don’t have to work for it. Now this is sup-ported in government by the ability the government to support people and buy votes.\n\nWhen the government increases to this level, we no longer have a democracy but we have a totalitarian government operated by a group of people that the citizenry thinks they elect. This then becomes a government of the government and not a government of the people. This is the time when we developed the alphabet agencies, the NSA, FBI, office of homeland security and of course the IRS.\n\nAt this point we have virtually lost the middle class people. We have the rich, rich and the poor, poor. Many may not believe this but in reality this is how it. Throughout history the rich become richer and maybe the level of the poor is higher than it was before but their personal rights are still just as low. They are told how to build their houses. They are told how to farm or whether they can farm or the government pays them not to farm. This leads to the inevitable event that has occurred in nearly every country in the world over 200 to 250 years old. That event is a shortage of food. The real risk is of this point is when a coun-try’s history or seasonal cycle happens to coincide with a cyclic change in climate. Things can get really dicey for the people of the country and the world. Usually we see a large number of countries developing on approximately the same timeline and if they reach the fall and winter stage of development at nearly the same time then starvation becomes the norm.\n\nOf course at this period in history the government will do anything to maintain its power and to prevent revolution and rebellion. This is when we start seeing wars for no reason. We get involved in the internal effects of other countries. We try to dominate other countries to force our way of thinking. And we create wars because these wars distract the people and create a unity for the people to follow the government.\n\nThe fall season of a country really is not pretty. It’s the harvesting of the people by a few the think they’re smarter and deserve more than the rest.\n\n \nTHE WINTER SEASON OF A COUNTRY\n\nThe winter season starts with the rich sharply separated from the poor. Individual rights are gone. The government is always right and the government is taking more and taxing to higher levels for no reason. The government implements armed action against citizenry. This armed action can take the form as it has today of a large number of heavily armed SWAT teams. This was best illustrated by the Gestapo of Nazi Germany. At this point in history the United States has not quite reached that point. Within a 50 mile radius of where I live in a farming community that is a relatively rural area of the state Washington. We have six heavi-ly armed, fully staffed, with armored vehicles, and 24-hour a day, on call SWAT teams.\n\nThe economy begins to decline during the winter season of the government. This is caused because the ability of the individual has been restricted. The individuals the longer feel they need to achieve to become better, or to learn new things. The majority the soon want to live off the social services provided by the government without doing anything. When this happens, who is going to produce the products necessary to keep the society running? Well of course, what happens is the government intervenes and tells people what they have to do.\n\nThe government controls schools so they teach the young people what they want them to know rather than what history has taught. The school systems in the United States today no longer require the students to read the United States Constitution or the Bill of Rights. The government does not want people to realize that those founding documents have been totally violated. When this happens the country begins to go into what can be called dor-mancy mode. Riots occur because people starve from lack of food. Nobody’s producing and if there’s a food shortage of the rest of the world the country cannot buy that food. For exam-ple United States in 2014 is importing about 80% of the food that it consumes. All the while some of the most fertile farmland in the world lies fallow because the government is paying the farmers not the farm. This is been going on long enough that there’s no longer machin-ery to farm that land.\n\nThis will lead to rioting in the cities because of food shortage. The government of United States at this point has determined that there is no solution to this problem. They’ve decid-ed to reduce the size of the population. That will be accomplished by containing the people within the cities and letting them burn themselves out and starve to death. Some experts in this field estimate that 65 million people will starve to death in the United States in the next 25 years. Why is that possible and what some of the indicators? The office of homeland se-curity has procured over 1 billion rounds of hollow point ammunition. By international trea-ty this ammunition cannot be used off American soil. Therefore the only purpose of this ammunition is to contain the people in the cities. They have also purchased personal body armor for nearly all other personnel, both the office personnel and the field enforcement personnel.\n\nAs this dormancy and oppression of the country occurs the economy goes through eco-nomic collapse. The country can no longer afford world trade because their currency is no longer worth anything. The predicted plight of the United States is that the US dollar will no longer be the world reserve currency or the world value for exchange. When this happens inflation in the United States will skyrocket for a short period of time and then be followed by great devaluation of property and money caused by government policies. Harry Dent in his book, the demographic cliff predicts that this will happen in late 2014. Another example of this is the rise of the cyber currency bitcoin.\n\nNow the country is definitely in the winter cycle and this becomes a renewal. The people become dormant for a while but they will again realize what the true values of life are and a new country with new values will be formed or the old one will be repaired and go back to the standards of the original Constitution.\n\nThere you have the four seasons of a country what you need to do in each of these cases I can’t tell you. 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      "body": "I stongly recommend that you send me your email address because you need to see the illustrations in this book that don't show up well in the Steemit posts. Send your email address to [email protected]\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmczmFF1xXuS4QK4W78A8JmwUUe8JxgXARMSGhd4xV7bEX/image.png)\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmVur2kGWyESNYh4G3xob1zxdB3NxDJDD9zM1u1UtvqcTu/image.png)\nTHE FOUR SEASONS OF LIFE\nINTRODUCTION\nAll things upon the earth appeared to be divided into the cycles. These cycles seem to correspond to the weather cycles caused by the earth’s rotation around the sun.\n\nHuman life is very much cyclic in nature. We start out with the spring season followed by the summer season followed by the fall and then the winter season. I will try to go forward and described the seasons as I see them from my perspective of life. I now occupy the fall season of life. I am moving into the winter seems and it’s great\nSPRING OF LIFE\nThe spring season of life begins at conception of a new entity created by the father and mother. This is very similar to the creation of seed by the junction of cells within a plant. This spring season is much like a plant seed is planted in the ground and the seed begins to develop. The seed quickly pops up the surface. The same thing happens with human life the baby grows in mommy’s tummy until he gets too big and then he pops out. Birth is the sec-ond part the spring season. Now baby at birth is very much like a plant that emerges from the ground. It’s very tender and very dependent upon surroundings. This baby is completely dependent upon his parents. At this period of development the baby is going through tre-mendous learning and developing personality traits and becoming a human being.\n\nAs a baby matures into a toddler, its learning curve increases exponentially. It learns all kinds of things like hot stove burn hand. Me hungry cry, maybe mommy will feed me. The toddler is still extremely dependent upon his parents much like a plant that is just started to grow and move forward in life. This is definitely the spring season for the child. This new human being is learning vast amounts of things about the world as it grows and moves for-ward to the next level of existence. The young child has to interact with people and again an increase of learning and understanding of the world. This understanding is critical because it is this understanding that a child develops at this young age that will serve them throughout their lifetime. This is the time when building relationships are learned.\n\nThe child moves on through grade school and a high school. Generally this is a relatively uneventful. Child’s life for those that are smart and intelligent moves smoothly.. This is a time when they develop those skills that they will use throughout their entire life. For some it might be music. For others it might be a mechanical talent or an ability to build things. Some will develop a talent for writing. In fact many of the neatest things I’ve ever seen writ-ten were written by children between the ages of 10 and 14.\n\nLIFE’S SUMMER SEASON\nDid I say that word 14. At about the age of 12 or 13 the child develops a new an adoles-cent. The life of the adolescent is a very difficult. This time compromises the beginning of the summer season. This is when the adolescent start to learn to maintain himself, the respon-sible for herself and to take care of herself and her duties in life. The adolescent begins to bud and develop as the new hormones flow throughout their body. This is difficult for the adolescent because these hormones stimulate them to feel as if they’ve never had before. The young man looks at the young lady and thinks wow she’s really gotten cute in the last 10 years. I remember when we used to climb trees and dig in the dirt together. Now she’s wear-ing those frilly dresses. About the same time young lady looks at the young. Is This the same guy used to get all dirty and covered with chocolate that came visit me. He just doesn’t look the same anymore. I have a lot different feelings toward him than I used to have. But she really doesn’t think about those things because those are the hormones and the emotions beginning to erupt as she begins to flower into the womanhood of the next stage of her life.\n\nThis adolescent stage is also the stage of intensive learning in specific areas for the ado-lescent. This is the period of time when they develop the final skills for developing relation-ship of other people. If they do not mature in these skills to develop relationships they will have problems with their relations with people throughout their entire life. This is a period of time when the adolescent needs to learn certain social rules. These rules vary from cul-ture to culture but basically they are same in all reality. Those that will excel the most and feel the best about themselves learn three basic rules. The first rule is the rule of commit-ment, if they take on a project or the decided to do something and tell somebody. They learn to always keep that commitment The second rule is integrity. Integrity is the thing that teaches them what they ought to commit to and that to make a commitment they will follow through and complete. And the third rule that these young people desperately need to learn is respect. They must learn to respect others. They need to learn that other people have rights and the right of their own opinion.\n\nThe summer the individuals flight probably begins halfway through the adolescent years. This is where major growth takes place in the body and in the mind. As they a move forward through this, to about the age of 18 they learn skills necessary for them to go on and be suc-cessful, to multiply, and to be fruitful be fruitful in their lives \nSomewhere between 18 and 25 the individual enters the summer their life. This is the Time when couples marry and start their families. This is a period of immense emotional growth and physical growth. This is when the ability to become independent truly develops. Now the individual becomes independent but he also must become inter dependent with another person, their spouse. This interdependency is the thing that makes the summer of one’s life so wonderful and valuable.\n\nThe summer, produces offspring and a new generation of goals that will carry on in the next cycle of life. During the summer the parent’s life, the offspring are taught and trained from the things that the parents have learned in their lives and from their experiences. This is the time when the parents must work extremely hard to support their growing offspring and their growing families.\nTHE FALL SEASON \nMany folks believe that the summer of the human lifecycle is the season people earned their greatest advancement and do the greatest things in their lives? This is not the case the greatest earnings of a person’s life cycle occur in the fall. This is when their expectations, their skills and their talents reach their peak. During the fall period of life people money put in the bank for old age and for retirement. The fall season allows them to finance the educa-tion of their children and as their children get through school the needs of the children are reduced. There are more resources left for the couple to invest in the future. The fall of a person’s life is when he starts to see his grandchildren come. This is a great time because as a grandparent they can take an active part in the development of that child. It’s also a time when they can be of great assistance to the parents of that child because those parents who are going to run on overloaded with caring for their children and maintaining their families. It is the duty and the pleasure of grandparents to help out.\n\nThe fall of one’s life is probably the busiest time in life with maybe the exception of re-tirement. You are working the hardest in the longest hours as you’re trying to accumulate things and get ahead. You’re trying to determine your real life values, and you probably ha-ven’t really sat down and thought through your values before. This leads to a period of crisis time and uncertainty. Age wise men start to hit the fall period of their life in summer be-tween the ages of 45 and 50. They may go through a midlife crisis. Many never recover from this period. They just continue to go on like they always have. They don’t see the wonderful opportunities that exist in the fall of their life to prepare for their final years of enjoyment of the winter season that is to come. The female goes through many changes in this period of her life cycle. Women experience many physical changes and great emotional changes. They become less dependent upon their spouse and if they are wise develop a wonderful inter-dependent relationship. The sad fact is that many women of this age group become very self-centered and selfish. They really need to remain aware of the needs of others.\nTHE WINTER SEASON.\nThe winter season is the season when we live off the fat of our lives. This is a period of time just before retirement and after retirement and on until your death when we can enjoy life and be very creative. This is probably, if we work it right, the most enjoyable times of our lives. Now, the misguided can gets the idea that he is free from worry. Free to do all of the fun things that you did not get to do when you were younger. This is a misconception; the winter of your life is a time of great productivity. The winter season allows you to do those things that are of great benefit to others and a great service to others. This is the time when you can serve your family, by helping them along to build new and strong traditions. This is a time when you can serve God and those things which are necessary to improve the quality of living here upon the earth. The winter of your life allows your creative skills to develop their highest level. I remember my wife’s father. Wilbur was a really talented guy but when he reached the fall of life his talents for woodworking blossomed and he built things that were almost unbelievable. I still have a big old wood chest to he built for me when I needed a toolbox really badly. That tool box is one of my treasures today and there’s nothing like it will ever be built again. That creative power is important. As we get older we go back into a dependency mode.\n\nWe become more dependent upon the people around us, upon our children and upon the community. As this happens we develop wisdom. If we take the good lessons, we will write them down and pass these lessons on others to help them through the rough spots in their lives. And of course the winner of our life ends in death. There’s no need to agonize about dying. If we live every day of our life to the best that we can. 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      "body": "![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmczmFF1xXuS4QK4W78A8JmwUUe8JxgXARMSGhd4xV7bEX/image.png)\n\nALTERNATIVES TO STANDARD MEDICINE\nWhy do we need to look at alternative medical treatments? \n•\tThere may be a more effective way to treat a condition outside of conventional medical practice.\n•\tMedicines may not always be available from normal distribution channels.\n•\tThe Medical and Pharmaceutical industries are some of the most corrupt and price controlling groups.\n•\tGetting an alternative perspective on personal health is a good idea.\nHow do you find alternative medical information? The best way is to do internet re-search; there is always information on the net. You will need to research each item that is of interest to you. If you find a substitute for a conventional medicine that you need then do extensive research upon that item. If you have a good relationship with you Medical Doctor then talk it over with him. \nRemember that the medical profession is scripted to a very narrow method of dealing with problems. Their basic method of operation is to diagnose a symptom and then look up a drug to treat the symptom. They are not trained to look for causes or ways to change your life style to remove the cause. Some MD’s try to treat the causes but they are not well sup-ported by the pharmaceutical companies, after all if you fix the cause you can’t sell a lot of drugs to treat the symptoms.\nThe best example that I have seen is in cancer cures and treatments. There are a lot of supposed cancer cures that might work I don’t know. I do know that the Government, Amer-ican Medical Association and the pharmaceutical companies will not support research to prove or disprove these cancer treatments. The most widely know is the use of cesium chlo-ride to treat cancer. The papers all debunk the cure but no one has done a controlled study to learn the facts about this treatment. The studies that have been conducted certainly did not meet the approved scientific model; however, they show results that are miraculous. The people treated in a couple of the studies that I read were all terminal cancer patients, in other words they had been left to die by the medical profession. Approximately 30% of these folks survived with this treatment. That to me indicates sufficient evidence to fund and conduct research to prove or disprove this treatment and to do the study in an open to the public manner. I do know that if I was diagnosed with extreme cancer I would not have a problem trying one of the alternative treatments. What would I have to lose?\nYou need to do your own research for alternative medicine and life style changes that may improve your health.\nI am a living example of using alternative medicine. A few months ago I found that I had very high blood sugar levels in the morning. My blood sugar was running over 200 on the standard scale using readily available test strips. After doing a lot of research of natural metabolic enhancers I came up with a plan. So far it has worked and my blood sugar levels run from 95 to 125 most of the time in the morning. I do not suggest that you do this unless you have the necessary knowledge. Try to find a medical professional that will work with you to find a natural method of control for type II diabetes. \n\n \nWHY SHOULD YOU?\nThis should have been chapter 13 because it is where all the nasty things are discussed that you need to know to develop a WHY you should take action. Your future and that of your family depend upon you taking action today. Your first step should be to make a plan of how you are going to survive in the 21 century.\nTHE BAD AND NASTY FACTS:\n•\tWe are faced with climatic change and we can’t do anything about it.\n•\tOur country is governed by drunks at least not by those with our best interest in heart. It is no longer a government of the people, by the people and for the peo-ple. Our economy is in the dumpster.\n•\tWe do not have a shortage of natural resources including oil and other energy products.\n•\tGreed is a larger part of our life than love of our fellow man.\n•\tWritten history has been modified to deceive the common man.\n•\tWe could see famine greater than that talked about in the Bible.\n•\tGlobal warming is a myth. Global cooling may be the reality.\n•\tFreedom will cease to exist in the United States of American in the next 15 years unless we mend our ways.\n•\tWe are facing a worldwide food shortage.\n•\tThe medical community no longer cares about human beings, only money. For ex-ample the local dentist here in Benton City, Washington charges $300.00 for a simple tooth extraction. They have no remorse in telling you that if you can’t pay don’t bother us. Obamacide is real and working.\nCLIMATIC CHANGE\nI can’t tell you what the climatic change will be where you live but you can bet that it will change. It is probably impossible for anyone to predict what our climate will do in the next 10 to 50 years. It will change and here are some of the reasons.\nThe earth’s axis has changed orientation to the sun by a significant amount. If you can measure this change it is significant to our weather and climatic conditions.\nThe sun spot cycle appears to be approaching an all time low. This means that solar en-ergy will be reduced.\nDue to axis shift, sunspot cycle and alignment of the planets the earth’s magnetic shield could be vulnerable to penetration by high energy cosmic particles. This will cause magnetic storms and other unusual events. A good example of this is an unusual lightning storm over the Rattlesnake Mountains of Eastern Washington in late December of 2012. It was not re-ported any where. I know it happened because I observed it. My guess is that the govern-ment suppressed the importance of this event to prevent possible panic of the people. I have interviewed a lot of the “old timers” in this community and they stated these things. 1) We have never had lightning storms in the winter. 2) We only started to hear thunder and see lightning here about 20 years ago. I am not sure how true the second statement is but when I was teaching school in Mabton, Washington about 1966 I do not remember any thunder storms, just a little rain in the spring and some snow in the winter. The significance of these statements is change is accelerated and we don’t know what the change will be.\nHere are a few facts to back up these ideas:\nThe Mayan calendar ended with no significant change or did it? In December of 2012 there was a galactic alignment of planets, sun, and the Milky Way galaxy that could have had a gravitational affect upon on the already shifted earth’s axis. My personal opinion is that the real damage will be caused by the effect upon the earth’s magnetic shield. This could create holes or passageways for high energy cosmic radiation to enter the space between the magnetic shield and the atmosphere.\nIn July of 2012 Climatologist Cliff Harris stated:”It remains the opinion of this climatolo-gist that this 7-year cycle of extremes won’t peak until at least 2038. We will continue to see long-standing weather records broken worldwide on an accelerated scale.”\nIf this is not climatic change what is it?\nThe drought of 2012 is now a matter of record rivaling the “dust bowl” days of the 1930’s.\nDuring the same time frame central Australia reported frigid temperatures in the low 20 on the Fahrenheit scale. Peru reported temperatures below 12 degree Fahrenheit in areas of generally mild temperatures.\nClimatologist Cliff Harris states, “What’s ahead weatherwise is anyone’s guess. Expect the ‘unusual’ and you’ll undoubtedly be right.”\nTHIS LOOKS LIKE A GOOD REASON TO STORE FOOD TO ME.\nDO WE HAVE A SHORTAGE OF NATURAL RESOURCES?\nThe answer is no. We have adequate resources for the next 1000 years if we are a little bit prudent in the way that they are used.  In his report “The Third Term” Porter Stansberry, of S & A Investment Research defines our petroleum energy reserves. We have plenty. I am not sure that I agree with his analysis that the cost of gasoline and heating fuel will go down. Under the current government and international policies it looks to me like greed will be the factor that sets the price and not supply and demand. In any case having enough oil is not the problem. The problem is government regulation and political profiteering. \nWe have an ample supply of all the metals that we need to sustain our country if we use them to manufacture finished products in this country.\nWe need to conserve our greatest resource “We the People.” The average Joe on the streets of the United States is just a mark for the established world powers to use to make more money. This is not about countries but rather about private greed and power.\nGetting out of debt makes sense even if it requires personal sacrifice.",
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      "body": "I really suggest that you get the PDF for free because the next section has a lot of pictures and they will not be in the Steemit file. Just send me your email address so that I can send them to you. Send it to [email protected].\n\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmczmFF1xXuS4QK4W78A8JmwUUe8JxgXARMSGhd4xV7bEX/image.png)\n\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmPbgEiCbeAviSiHAPZNvrKgb39HFM6dpAuykgRaxNhgN7/image.png)\n\nNext year I am going to get the proper weed spray and apply it through the irrigation sys-tem also. The injector system will be refined and improved.\n \n\nNow all that was left to do was to water the corn and watch it grow. Watering took about half an hour a day and was an enjoyable experience. Grow it did. Some of the corn grew to over 12 feet tall. Most stocks had two ears of corn and one had six really good sized ears. This corn was amazing.\nHARVESTING THE CORN\nWe were not able to find a mechanical corn picker that we could buy or borrow. So guess what? You guessed it, we picked the corn by hand and that was a lot of work the whole fami-ly helped and we got it done the first part of November. It is not all shucked yet (husks re-moved from the corn ears) but most of it is done. Here is the pile that still needs to be pro-cessed.\n\nThe next picture shows the corn with the husks still in place. It is work to remove those husks by hand.\n \nThis is what the corn looks like in the bin for storage. You notice the old pvc drain pipe with holes drilled in the pipe. This pipe is to provide ventilation to dry the corn and main-tain air flow during storage.\n \nAs you can see the Lord provided nice ears of corn for our animals.\nThe next step is how to best provide this feed to our chickens. The proper way to feed corn to chickens is as cracked corn, that is corn that has the kernels broken or ground. We don’t have a corn grinder. The Lord provided a grinder in a strange way. A family was moving out of the area and had a lot of stuff to sell. They had this old chipper and shredder for yard wastes to sell. It was a heavy old beast and needed a lot of work. I thought that the price was too high but a still small voice said to buy it. Well I bought it and rebuilt it. Because it is old and heavily built it is perfect for grinding chicken feed. I just throw the corn on the cob in the shredder and it comes out ground chicken feed.\n \nYou see this old shredder with some of the chickens we raised this year.\nHere is the corn patch after it was picked as you can see this was a pretty large corn field to grow by hand. Well except for the small tractor to till the ground. It is a miracle that this project was ever completed so successfully.\n \nLord’s Corn Patch After Harvest\nSUMMARY AND TESTIMONY OF THIS PROJECT\nThe inspiration for this project began after we had set a goal as a family to grow 50 per-cent, that’s half of our own food this year. With the Lord’s help we achieved that goal. 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      "body": "I really suggest that you get the PDF for free because the next section has a lot of pictures and they will not be in the Steemit file. Just send me your email address so that I can send them to you. Send it to [email protected].\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmSmq2dnaFD88runQJojfc1f5uPPLwBNBvzH7rZRhMj6Xk/image.png)\nINTRODUCTION\nThis book is not one of my traditional books. It reflects my religious preferences and a decidedly Christian outlook. Again I ask you to use the grocery store method. If you can use the information or it is entertaining to you take it with you. Don’t condemn the whole book just because you disagree with one idea.  This project started with a revelation form the Lord and continues today as he has his hand upon it. My perspective is from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints. This book is about a modern day miracle. \nI can testify to you personally about most of the happenings in this book. Those that I did not personally experience will be so noted. I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints commonly known as the Mormons. We believe in personal revelation and answers to personal prayers. This book is a testimony that these things do happen today, yesterday and they will happen tomorrow\nINSPIRATION\nIn the middle of May 2012 I was walking around my vacant and weed ridden field near Benton City, Washington wondering what I should do with the property. We had a real di-lemma on our hands as the Benton Irrigation District was assessing us over $250 per acre for the new pressurized water system. The cost of this irrigation water whether we wanted it or not was added on to our taxes. The challenge was what to do to pay the cost of the water and how could we make it pay its own way?\nA small voice came into my mind saying, “Why don’t you plant some corn?” My response was immediate, “I don’t have the equipment, seed and besides that is a lot of work”. This problem continued to plight me as the days wore on. About the first of June that little voice was back again saying, “You could plant corn.” My answer was the same and I ignored those promptings. About the middle of June that voice got a little more pervasive and said, “When are you going to plant your corn?” At this time I remembered a story that a friend of mine had told me.\nHe was from Salt Lake and had decided not to serve a mission for the Church. They were at a family outing and his uncle put his arm around him and said, “When are you going on a mission?” He thought no more about it as he was not going to serve a mission.  Later that summer they were at a family outing on a lake in the area and his uncle again asked him when he was going on a mission. He blew this suggestion off again. A short time later at an-other family gathering his uncle asked, “When will we see your mission papers? “ This time he got the message and turned in his mission application. He by his own witness stated that he had a very successful mission. When he returned from his mission he went to Uncle Tom’s office in the Church Office Building to tell his Uncle about his mission. His Uncle lis-tened with great interest and when this you man finished he said, “Don’t make the Lord ask you three times again to do his work.” I had heard from the Lord three times to plant corn. It was time for action no matter what the cost.\nPLANTING CORN\nThat afternoon I was out on my little John Deere tractor with a spring tooth harrow breaking up that field to plant corn. I tore up just a little over an acre. At this time our fi-nances were in the toilet. I did not have money to buy seed, pipe for the irrigation, or even a way to get the fertilizer that had been given to me on to the corn. This was when the mira-cles started to happen.\nI have a neighbor that is the manager of a fertilizer and seed business. I told him that I needed corn seed. He said, “Well I have some seed that we can’t sell as it is 103 day to har-vest corn seed and for most farms it is to late in the year to plant it. We can’t hold it over to next year. I can bring up a sack of that seed for you.” I got that sack of seed and it was pre-mium hybrid corn seed. It would have cost me a couple of hundred dollars to buy seed and the Lord provided it. Now I had this ground torn up and the weeds pulled off and piled up. Another friend and neighbor asked what we were doing and I told him I was going to plant corn. He said, “You can borrow my tractor and big disk to finish plowing the ground. That is just what I did. I borrowed his tractor and disk. Of course the disk broke while I was using it but Bud is known as the master tinker and fixed the disk much better than it was before it broke. My neighbors comment was, “You did a really good job fixing my disk, what do I owe you.” My answer was, “Nothing.” The way things worked where I grew up was that if you borrowed something you returned it as good or better condition than when you got it. This shocked my neighbor and he said, “Boy I wish everyone felt that way.” Then he proceeded to tell me of all the stuff that people had borrowed and returned broken. I am really glad that I did my best to fix that disk better than it was before. That was miracle number two. \nAfter the ground was disked it was harrowed again with the old spring tooth harrow and I had gotten all of the rubble left from the disking removed it was time to seed. We do not have a seeder to use to seed corn with the tractor, but I knew that the corn had to be seed-ed. Here was my solution. I made straight rows running north and south across the ground. This provided a furrow to use to plant the corn. Please realize that an acre of corn hand planted with rows about 38 inches apart is a lot of seed to plant. \nA neighbor had loaned me a Earthway Garden Seeder to use on my garden this year. It has a seed metering disk for corn. I set that seeder up and planted the corn. That seeder is a great tool and I will add one to my gardening tools for next year.\n \nEarthway Garden Seeder\nYou can see from this picture that it is a lot of work to seed an acre in this manner. It took me over a day to seed this ground pushing this seeder across the patch. This was an-other miracle that the Lord made available to me.\nIRRIGATION OF THE CORN\nCorn is a sub topical plant that originated on the American continent. Our current corn is a descendent of the plant called maze that the ancient Aztec grew. It requires lots of warm weather and lots of water as well as rich soil. We have planted the corn and it is about July 1st. The corn requires about 107 days to maturity for this hybrid. This means that the corn will be mature about the 15th of October if all goes well. The current problem is that it does not have any water.\nSomehow we managed to come up with enough cash to buy the sprinkler heads and riser pipes but no money to buy the irrigation lines. I have an old pile of pvc pipe that probably is not good. My buckets of pipe fittings are always an assortment of many different pipe fit-tings and will provide what we need. As I go to this old pipe pile, what I need is always there. My irrigation plumbing may not be the prettiest but it works. I have named this the magic pipe pile. It supplied what I needed. When the job was complete there was little pipe left in the pile. This pile of pipe supplied more than I ever put in it. This was one of the Lord’s mira-cles to get this corn planted.\nIt is into the month of July and I don’t have water on the corn. If it is going to produce a crop that seed needs water now. As I am working on the irrigation lines one afternoon I look to the sky and say Lord this corn really needs water if it is to grow this year. Then I go back to work.\nEither the next day or two days later, I don’t remember the exact day and I did not write it my journal an unusual event occurs. We are blessed with an unprecedented summer cloud burst over the Tri-City area. This just does not happen here. This rain thoroughly soaked the corn patch. I expected help from the Lord but I did not expect him to dump a bucket of wa-ter on my corn patch. By the time that the ground was dry again I had the water system op-erating. The irony of this system is that I started out with 5 foot risers and by August I had to add another foot to the risers as the corn was over 8 feet tall.\nThe only problem with the irrigation now is that Benton Irrigation District is assessing us over $4000.00 for the water for 14.3 acres next year. 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      "body": "If you would like a pdf of this whole book please email me at [email protected]. I will send you the file for free.\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmczmFF1xXuS4QK4W78A8JmwUUe8JxgXARMSGhd4xV7bEX/image.png)\nDEVELOP STRONG SPIRITUAL BELIEFS\nYour spiritual strength is what keeps you going when all the rocks are falling on you and no end is in sight. Your spiritual strength will give you the faith to keep going against all odds and succeeding. Now I won’t tell you how to do this but I will share my approach with you. I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints. The power of God gives me the strength that I need to conquer any obstacle. I have had many experiences that have given me a sure knowledge that this power does exist and will aid us if we will just ask.\nI will give you a very simple but important miracle that happened just the other day in my life. I lost my keys to everything on the place but our cars. I checked all of the pockets of the clothes that I was wearing looked on the ground and in the pickup. Tore up my bed room looking, made a mess in my office and the shop looking for these keys. My daughter said, “Dad you always tell us to pray when we have a problem that we can’t solve alone. Why don’t you ask Heavenly Father for help? I am sure that he will help.”\nI was convinced that I had lost those keys at Wal-Mart. In fact my wife and I were getting ready to go to the store to check at the lost and found. Just before we were going to leave, I checked the pockets of the pants I was wearing. In the back pocket under a pair of gloves were my keys. Now I know that they were not there before because I had checked that pock-et. In any case that was a prayer answered.\nIt is the faith and spiritual strength that keeps you going when all the chips are down. There is a saying that there are no true atheists in fox holes and I believe it.\nThe following book is included unedited, please take the good from it and use it.",
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You really want to take your significant other to the is-lands. The problem is that you have no cash, but you have a couple of credit cards with a lot of available credit. You think this is a chance of a life time. The fine print says that you will need to pay for your own meals during your stay. That could be several thousand dollars in expenses. You really want to take this trip. Then a nagging little voice says “What was that goal? Was it to get out of debt?” \nA sudden realization hits you. I don’t need to take this trip and it does not fit in with my goals. A quick calculation shows that by not going on this trip you could pay off one credit card by the end of the year. The amount that you save in interest will buy the rings that your significant other wants before the wedding next year. The kicker is that you find that you can sell the tickets for enough to buy the ring set for your intended. Things don’t always happen like this but if you have your goals and plans in place the chance of a miracle happening are a lot greater.\nNow reader you are about to ask what has this got to do with feeling good and maintain-ing a positive attitude. Everything, you made a decision that you could control and moved toward a goal that is important. It is a lot easier to be positive and cheerful when you are on the path to your goals.\nWhy should you maintain a positive attitude and be cheerful? 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      "body": "If you would like a pdf copy of this book send me your email address to [email protected]. Please put Steemit in the subject line.\n\nMAINTAIN GOOD HEALTH AND STORE NEEDED MEDICATIONS.\nMany of us have medical needs that might not be available at the local pharmacy in an emergency. I recommend that you keep at least a three months supply of medications such as heart medication, blood pressure medication and all diabetic supplies and Insulin. Some types of insulin can be stored up to a year in the refrigerator. You can rotate your medica-tions to ensure that you always have a fresh supply. You will need to discuss emergency pre-paredness for your medications with your doctor.\nThere are many natural and herbal medicines that are useful to maintain in your emer-gency supplies. \nMany people stay healthy by living a healthy life style. Eat right, particularly fruits and vegetables that can be home grown and stored at home. One of the greatest advantages of home canned food is that you know what’s in it.\nIf you have a medical condition that needs treatment, it can be a good idea to do some research and see if there is a natural remedy for the situation. As always discuss the use of these substances with your doctor. \nAdequate exercise is a good step toward a healthy life style. I have always thought that a couple of hours of hard work in the garden should be just as good as going to the gym and a lot more productive. Gardens are a part of a healthy life style from many perspectives. \nI will not attempt to tell you how to meet your medical needs. My advice is to do your research and talk with competent medical personnel. Some doctors will work with you to use natural remedies. Not all doctors fall under the AMA and pharmaceutical companies’ meth-odology. Treat the symptom with a drug and not look for a cure at the source. This philoso-phy has lead to our current problem with antibiotic resistant bacteria and virus. The treat-ment of diabetes is an example of this. They would much rather sell you a high priced drug for the control of this disease than to find a cure or a natural remedy. Of course the natural remedy would cut them out of the money chain.\n\n \nMAINTAIN A POSITIVE AND CHEERFUL ATTITUDE\nMost of the things that we worry about are beyond our control. If you can’t change it why worry about it. How you feel about everything is really under the control of your mind. We can choose how we will react to a situation. An example of this happened to me . I was in Walmart with my Batman cap on. It is a low key black cap. A man came up to me and asks how I could possibly wear that hat after the shootings that had taken place by a man wear-ing a Batman hat. I could have responded that I didn’t care or any other response but I choose to just smile and walk away. The bottom line is that my cap is not a symbol of some-one that is going to shoot up a crowd of people. Yes I am sorry that that disaster happened, however, I can’t do anything about it. I was not there to stop the shooter.\nThis is a perfect example of something that is beyond your control and there is nothing that you can do about it. My question is, why worry about it? There are three points in time that are important in our lives. These are the past, the present, and the future. The past is good for lessons learned. We can’t change it but we can learn from the past. Why should we worry about the past as we cannot change one jot or line or one whit of it. \nThe present is what we need to be concerned about. This exact instant is the only place in time that we can change anything. I view it like this. I draw two lines in the dirt and step between the lines. This represents the present. Behind me is the past and in front of me is the future. The present is where we can make a difference. Your actions should be based upon what you want the future to be. Correct choices will determine the future that you want.\nOkay, what can I do to change the future? In an earlier section we talked about planning and goal setting. The planning to achieve them and goals that you wish to achieve will help you to make the decisions in the present to get you the results you want in the future. A perfect example is getting out of debt. You made the decisions and choices in the past that got you into debt. There is nothing that you can do about that except learn the lesson to avoid all debt if possible. You have set a goal to get out of debt. What does that mean? That means that you will do what it takes to get out of debt. The choices to do that are made in the present.\n Let’s consider an example. \nThe phone rings, “Hi Mr. Miller, I am Sonia from miracle mile travel. You have just won a trip to the Bahamas for two. This includes free transportation and lodging.” \nYou say, “Sure send me the tickets.” \nThis is where the problem begins. You really want to take your significant other to the is-lands. The problem is that you have no cash, but you have a couple of credit cards with a lot of available credit. You think this is a chance of a life time. The fine print says that you will need to pay for your own meals during your stay. That could be several thousand dollars in expenses. You really want to take this trip. Then a nagging little voice says “What was that goal? Was it to get out of debt?” \nA sudden realization hits you. I don’t need to take this trip and it does not fit in with my goals. A quick calculation shows that by not going on this trip you could pay off one credit card by the end of the year. The amount that you save in interest will buy the rings that your significant other wants before the wedding next year. The kicker is that you find that you can sell the tickets for enough to buy the ring set for your intended. Things don’t always happen like this but if you have your goals and plans in place the chance of a miracle happening are a lot greater.\nNow reader you are about to ask what has this got to do with feeling good and maintain-ing a positive attitude. Everything, you made a decision that you could control and moved toward a goal that is important. It is a lot easier to be positive and cheerful when you are on the path to your goals.\nWhy should you maintain a positive attitude and be cheerful? Here are a few reasons.\n•\tIt is good for your health.\n•\tIt attracts opportunity.\n•\tYou day goes faster and there is less stress.\n•\tMany of the seemingly complex things become simple.\n•\tHow can you maintain a positive attitude when everything is going wrong?\n•\tLive in the present.\n•\tTake things one day at a time.\n•\tIf one day is too long, how about an hour at a time?\n•\tBreak big things down to little parts and actions.\n•\tChange what you can and leave the rest.\n•\tTake action that you have defined.\nOne of the greatest complements ever given to me was given to me at my 70th Birthday Party. A very good friend said, “No matter what kind of a lemon the world throws at him, he will turn it into lemonade or maybe even a lemon pie.” This means that you can always turn a bad situation around and use it to your advantage. It may not be what you originally wanted but it is always better than the alternative of doing nothing.\nYou can choose how you feel about a situation. 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      "body": "If you want a pdf file of this book please send your email address to [email protected]. Put survival book in the subject line.\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmczmFF1xXuS4QK4W78A8JmwUUe8JxgXARMSGhd4xV7bEX/image.png)\n\nPLANNING\nThe usual way to start any project is to define what the project is. So what is vegetable garden? Hey, this is an easy question. I’m sorry for the joke but a vegetable garden, to me, is a place where you grow food to eat. It might be several acres or a couple of containers of tomatoes on the balcony of your apartment. This is a vegetable garden.\nThe real key is that you grow something. Everyone can grow some of their own food. Why is it important that you grow your own food? The next few sentences may scare the daylights out of you. This country has the lowest reserves of food in its history. \nIf you doubt this do your research. Google is wonderful but scary. Search for such things as “US food reserves”. You might want to search for something like “US grain reserves”. When you do these searches you will find two groups. Those that want to scare you into thinking you will starve tomorrow and those that think the government has it all taken care of. Both of these groups are wrong. You will need to make your own choice. In any case no matter who is right you need to be prepared.  You must be prepared and one part of being prepared is growing your own food and becoming as self sufficient a possible. This is what this section is all about.\nSo, your back and have decide to grow a garden. Let’s get started. It is time to make a de-cision about where you are going to grow your garden. Here are a few options:\n•\tA container garden on your door step: This is an option if you don’t have a yard.\n•\tIn a multi-family public garden area.\n•\tTill up part of your front lawn if the locals will let you.\n•\tTill up your back yard.\n•\tIf you have a little extra acreage—then dedicate it to a garden.\n•\tThere are lots of other options to consider in finding a place to grow a garden. You have decided to grow a garden. You will find a place.\nMEASURE YOUR GARDEN AREA.\nI mean take a tape measure and measure the area where you will put your garden. This is a must for the following reasons:\nIt will help you to decide what you are going to plant.\nMeasurements will help to decide what kind of garden you want for example an inten-sive raised bed garden or a plane old flat garden.\n•\tYou measurements will help you to plan for the cost of your garden:\n•\tCost of materials\n•\tCost of seed and bedding plants.\n•\tCost of irrigation as needed.\n•\tNumber of hours you must spend tending your garden.\n•\tWhat the return from your garden can be.\nAfter you have measured the area where you want to put your garden you will need to make a scale drawing of it. Also do a scale drawing of the lot surrounding your garden with the garden in it. I admit that this is one place that I have not followed my own advice. My excuse is that I have many acres that are setting idle. Just because I didn’t do it doesn’t mean that you don’t need to create this drawing. Bite the bullet and do it.\nHOW BIG SHOULD YOUR GARDEN BE?\nThe general rule given is this, if you are a beginning gardener, start small. I don’t neces-sarily agree with that. My motto is to grow all of your own food that you can. The end choice on garden size is yours. You need to develop a balance between these factors:\n•\tHow much time do you have for gardening?\n•\tHow much “land” do you have for a garden?\n•\tWhat are your gardening goals?\n•\tHow much will you spend on your garden and is the return worth the investment?\n•\tWhat do you expect to gain from a garden personally?\nIf you have never gardened before and have the room a 20x 50 garden will keep you real-ly busy. On the other hand if you have the land a 200 x 200 garden is okay, provided you have some power equipment to help out. This is another one of those choices. A relatively good garden will produce one pound or more of food per square foot.\nYOUR GARDEN NOTEBOOK\nThis is one aspect of gardening that gets neglected. You need to keep a garden notebook or journal from day one. Look at all the information that you have collected so far and we are only a few pages into the subject.\nMy garden note book is a three ring binder labeled Garden Notes. I put things in this binder that are worth something to me. Do I keep as good a set of notes as I should? The answer is no. I don’t have frost date or total production for any of my gardening years. I do have some rough sketches of what my garden will look like. I use these for ordering seed and preparing or buying bedding plants.\nHere is a list of things that it would be helpful to have in your garden notebook:\n•\tLast frost in the spring and first frost in the fall dates.\n•\tWhat seeds you bought where.\n•\tWhat produced best each year? Different plants produce better some years.\n•\tWhere you bought your bedding plants. Were they what was advertised or what they were labeled? We have had some interesting result from bedding plants.\n•\tWhat pest bothered your garden and what you did to control them?\n•\tWhat kind of fertilizer you used and when.\n•\tAny information about what works for you and what doesn’t.\n•\tAny information you want to pass on to your children.\nMany people make their garden note book a simple journal of their summer lives. Keep this notebook. It will pay for the effort in many unexpected ways.\n Contrary to what the Extension Service says, there are no master gardeners, only some gardeners that work harder and study more than others. Anyone that grows a successful garden is a master gardener in my book. (And this is my Book.). Any garden that produces some food or a few flowers is a successful garden. Don’t get discouraged if your first results aren’t as good as your neighbors.\nWHAT SHOULD YOUR GARDEN BE?\nIt is now decision time. You have most of the information that you need to plan your garden. It is time to decide what kind of garden you want:\n•\tJust a flower garden.\n•\tA garden that produces a few great tasting vegetables for dinner.\n•\tA garden that produces most of the produce for your family during the summer.\n•\tA garden that is all of the above and produces surplus food to be stored by can-ning, freezing or winter storage.\nFor myself I always choose the last option. We have lots of room and love fresh vegeta-bles. Our crops range from spinach in the spring to potatoes for winter storage.\nAs mentioned before there are basically two types of gardens. These are intensive bed gardens and field or flat gardens. These two types of garden can take many forms.\nAn intensive bed garden can be intensive raised beds with a wall around them to hold the soil. An intensive bed garden can be a mound of soil that has been prepared to enhance plant growth. Raise intensive beds are my favorite type of garden. What are some reasons for raised intensive beds?\n•\tTheir production is incredible. We had a 5 foot by 5 foot bed of beets a couple of years ago that produced beets for the family throughout the summer and we canned 38 quarts by fall.\n•\tAfter the beds are constructed most of the gardening work is done. Besides a bed that is 2 feet above the ground is a lot easier to weed. My beds are designed so that I can reach the center of the bed from either side without too much stretch-ing.\n•\tPreparation for planting of an established bed is simple.\nHere are the only disadvantages that I can find for raised intensive beds:\n•\tThey take a lot of work to construct. I spend at least 20 hours to construct a 5 foot by 5 foot two foot high raised bed with a wall around it. A lot of this construction is hard work.\n•\tThey cost more to prepare initially than a flat bed or mounded bed.\nI recommend ordinary field gardening for crops like corn and potatoes and with potatoes there are a lot of things that must be done.\nThe field garden is just that. The ground is plowed up or tilled and then smoothed. I like to add manure and fertilizer at this point. Then I till it again. The steps for a field garden are these:\n•\tLay it out.\n•\tTill or plow the garden.\n•\tRake or smooth it.\n•\tFertilize it.\n•\tTill it again.\n•\tRake and smooth it to prepare a surface layer for planting.\n•\tPlant your garden.\n•\tMaintain the garden until it is harvested.\n•\tLove it.\nA derivative of the field method is sometimes called the French Intensive method. This method adds an additional step. It is called double digging and is just what it means. The area to be planted is dug down at least a foot to two feet. The soil is removed and then re-placed as the digging proceeds. I like to add a lot of organic material at this time to loosen up the soil. This is the best method to make a garden for heavy clay soil. This method really teaches you the meaning of the word intense. It is a lot of work to create a garden using this method. I have to confess that I use this method a lot but here I garden by John Deere. My tractor does most of the work.\nGiven the right conditions, all of these methods will produce a respectable garden. Being lazy I don’t mind working hard once and harvesting the results for a number of years. That is the reason that I am slowly converting my garden to raised bed with walls around them.\nWHAT TO GROW?\nHow do you know what to grow? These are the things that I ask myself about what to grow in my garden:\n•\tWhat does my family like to eat, if nobody is going to eat it why grow it?\n•\tWhat will my climate allow me to grow?\n•\tWhat will my garden support? This becomes a question of size and available plant resources.\n•\tHave I checked the time required to grow each item from planting to harvest.\n•\tIf I grow too much can it be stored or given away? Try giving away zucchini squash around here in the summer.\nThese are the criteria that I use to select my garden plants.\nYour climate is a definition of your growing season. The best source of information is the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map. The web site for this map is http://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/. This is a really nifty site please check this one out.\nAfter you determine your zone it is easy to find the average last frost date and first fall frost date. Here is a nice site for length of growing season. http://www.basic-info-4-organic-fertilizers.com/hardinessmap.html I don’t even have an affiliate link to them. After I have determined the hardiness zone and the length of the growing season it is time to proceed to the seed catalogs. Here you will need to look at each plant you plan to grow to determine if it will grow in your climate. This book can’t do that for you. We live in the Mecca of garden-ing. Our hardiness zone is 7a on the 2012 map and our growing season is usually from about May 15 to about October 15th. You must do your own research. I say it again you must do your own research for the location of your garden.\n\nWHAT ARE MY FAVORITE THINGS TO GROW?\nHere is a list of my favorite vegetables:\nPeppers\nCorn\nPotatoes\nTomatoes\nPeas\nBeets\nLettuce\nKohlrabi\nParsnips\nCarrots\nRadishes\nCabbage \nBroccoli\nBrussels sprouts, (This is one vegetable that I have not been very successful at growing.)\nRhubarb\nTurnips\nSpinach\nChard\nVarious Squash\nPumpkins\nIf I have missed anything that you want grow, please feel free to add it. I realize the rhu-barb might not be classified as a vegetable; however, it grows like a vegetable.\nThis should get you started with your garden planning. There are three P’s of a successful garden:\nPrayer\nPlanning\nPersistence\n\nTOOLS\nAny project requires tools for its completion. Gardening is no different. There are a few specific tools that you need. There are a lot of tools that are available that may not be needed. I like tools; therefore, I spend too much on tools. The following tool list is similar but different to the one listed in raised bed gardening. This one is aimed at flat gardening instead of raised bed gardening.\nBuying tools is necessary and there are a few things to keep in mind before you purchase a tool. Always buy the best quality tool you can afford. Price is an indicator of quality; how-ever, the highest price tool is not always the best quality. You will need to judge the quality of tools that you purchase. \nBuying used tools is an option. There are yard sales, second hand stores and various in-ternet sites that sell used tools. One of my friends has obtained nearly all of his tools at yard sales and they are top quality tools.\nIf you are only going to use a tool once or twice it might be better to rent the tool in-stead of purchasing it.\nHere is a list of what I consider the needed tools. Yes this is duplicated in the section on raised bed gardening, but you will notice if you read closely that there are some significant differences. Buy power tools only if you need them as they are expensive and require quite a bit of maintenance:\nHand Tools\nRound pointed shovel\nSpading fork\nBow rake\nGarden hoe\nSmall hand hoe\nVarious trowels and planting tools\nStirrup hoe\nPitch fork\n4 tine rake/cultivator\nClippers/pruning equipment\nHeavy scissors\nSmall stirrup hoe\nHammer, screw drivers, pliers\nPost bar, any kind of heavy steel bar for starting driven posts and digging post holes.\nHand post hole digger, only if you have a lot of fencing to do.\nGloves\nWheel Barrow\nPower tools—only buy those that you really need.\nLawn Mower\nString trimmer\nMini-tiller\nGarden tiller\nLawn and Garden Tractor\nCompact tractor\nChipper/shredder\nWHEEL BARROW\nBuy or obtain a good quality wheel barrow. My favorite is the model with two wheels in front. The two wheeled wheel barrow has better stability and will carry a larger load with less effort. The single wheel model is more maneuverable in a garden. \nTOOL MAINTENANCE\nGarden tool maintenance and storage is a do as I say not as I do issue. Frankly I don’t maintain and care for my garden tools as well as I should. Your tools need to be stored in a shelter out of the weather and sun. So please do as I say and not as I do (No one is perfect, right.).\nWooden handled tools need to have their handles maintained. The original finish on garden tools handles is not usually very durable. The best finish for wooden handles is the old linseed oil finish. This is applied by lightly sanding the old finish off the handle and then applying several coats of linseed oil. This is not the only finish to use but it works. You can visit your local home improvement center for other options.\nKeep your tools sharp. This not only makes you tool safer but it reduces the amount of effort needed use the tool.\nGood tools should last a life time with proper care. Many tools are passed down from parent to child.\nPOWER TOOLS\nThere are two power tools that you will want to have for a garden and the good thing is that if you have a lawn and a yard you already have these two. You will need a lawn mower and a string trimmer.\nBuy a lawn mower that is appropriate for the yard that you have. If you have a small to medium size yard a push mower with a rear grass catcher is adequate. Personally I cannot see a lot of difference in these mowers so almost any will do.\nFor a string trimmer my opinion is to buy the best that you can afford. I like those that use a detachable power head. This allows you to buy various attachments’ such as a mini-tiller. If you do raised bed gardening, a mini-tiller can be very helpful. If you have a fairly large row garden, then a mini-tiller is almost a must have tool.\nIf you have a fairly large row or field garden then a roto-tiller is probably necessary. At least it is necessary in the beginning. If you setup you garden using one of the methods that require less tillage, you may not need to own a roto-tiller. Consider renting a tiller when you need it. Maybe you can borrow one from a neighbor.\nBuy a lawn and garden tractor only if you really need it. They are expensive and this is all about producing food and saving money. If you buy a lawn and garden tractor try to get a model that has attachments available for various tasks.\nCompact tractors are necessary only if you have a lot of ground and need to maintain it. My compact tractor is a John Deere 755 with a loader. I got mine in a pile of parts and rebuilt it about 10 years ago. This tractor, to buy it today, would cost about $10,000 on the used market. If you need a tractor, shop around.\nThis chapter is not meant to be a comprehensive guide to tools but as a place to start. Do your own research and reading to find those that are best suited to you.\nSOIL AND GROUND PREPARATION\nThe life blood of a garden is the soil. The soil provides nutrients for the plants and holds the water that the plant needs to pick up the nutrients and move the nutrient up the plant stem. The root system of the plant is the supplier of the solid material that a plant requires. Your soil determines what you plant root system will be like. You need to provide the best possible place for your plant roots. Soil test for nutrient levels will provide valuable infor-mation. You can get a personal test kit or your County Extension Office can tell you where to get your soil tested.\nFIELD GARDENS\nField gardens are those that are fairly large in area and are usually used for such crops as potatoes and corn. Many people plant their whole garden this way. The garden is laid out like a farmer’s field and tilled to prepare the seed bed. The plants are planted in rows with a space between for growth and a path for maintaining the rows. This is the conventional method of gardening. This method is fairly labor intensive as these patches require yearly tilling and a lot of weeding.\nYou can combine one of the intensive gardening methods with field gardens. This will re-duce your labor and increase your yields. You won’t see a great decrease in labor the first year but the second year, if you apply mulch generously the first year and the second year the amount of weeding needed should decrease.\nHow do you start a new field garden? I like to start a new garden the fall before it is to be planted. These steps to put a garden in order for spring planting are somewhat like these, there probably is no one method better than another, so just do what feels right.\nFirst you need to clear and cleanup your garden patch. Remove all of the weeds and mow the area.\nTill the area two or three times. I usually till it first by going around the garden. Then I till it from corner to corner from two directions.\nLet it set a while.\nRake out the roots and other stuff. This goes into the compost pile.\nTill it again. These few steps should be completed before the first snow or when the ground freezes.\nEarly in the spring cover your new garden with manure or compost.\nTill in the compost and manure.\nYou can raise a good garden without compost and manure by using commercial fertiliz-ers, however, these never seem quite as good as using natural materials. Even with natural materials it may be necessary to provide additional plant food by using commercial fertilizer.\nRake you garden to get as even a seed bed as possible.\nYou should now be ready to plant. If it sets for a while and weeds start then till it or rake it to remove the weeds.\nA variation to the conventional garden us a layered garden. I have used these with great success. These are the basic steps to build a layered garden. \nLocate where you want your garden rows.\nCover the area that will be planted with cardboard old newspaper old paper sack com-pletely. Be sure that you have a couple of layers at least.\nStrip the sod from the areas between the rows and throw it on the paper layer.\nPut a layer of organic material on the sod. This can be compost, manure, old grass clip-ping, old hay, and so forth.\nThe next lay is a layer of soil. I usually get it by digging between the rows. Put several inches of soil over the organic layer.\nMy last layer is a layer of compost or aged manure and this layer is mixed with more soil.\nThis layer is the planting layer.\nAfter the plants have started and the first weeding is done you should mulch this type of garden. The mulch can be old hay, grass clipping or if you are really short of material buy a couple of bales of peat moss at the garden center.\nNext year you just add a layer of compost, pull back the mulch where you want to plant and plant your garden. In a couple of years the soil will decompose and you will have a fine garden bed.\nIn summary soil and ground preparation is fairly simple:\nDig it up.\nFertilize it.\nRake it.\nPlant it.\nOh yes, enjoy your garden. This is the most important step. If you don’t enjoy a garden you won’t take care of it and your plants will know it. Tell them that they are doing well and they will.\nNow, here are a few words about compost.\nThere a volumes of material written about compost. So what is compost? The common definition of compost is that it is decomposed organic material called humus. Really that is just what compost is decomposed biological junk. It might be old leaves, hay, straw, kitchen waste, animal waste, manure or just about any biological material. In short good compost is a light brown material that smells like good fresh earth. It does not smell like the smelly waste it came from.\nHow do you make compost? Compost is created by mixing various organic materials to-gether and letting them decompose. The decomposition is carried out by small microscopic animals and by bacteria. The science of decomposition is a whole life time in itself. You make compost by putting all this stuff together and letting it cook. Good compost reaches a fairly high temperature, in fact, if certain conditions exist composting or decomposition can cause a fire in the compost pile. This is most widely known as spontaneous combustion. If hay is too green and not allowed to dry properly before processing or stacking it can spontaneous-ly combust. Compost is formed by the same process.\nThere are two types of decomposition of organic materials. These are:\nAnaerobic, which is the decomposition without air. This is the one that is stinky and messy like sewage. In some instances this is a very valuable process for the decomposition of organics. A methane generator or bio-digester uses this process to produce methane gas for fuel.\nThe other process is aerobic digestion. This is the process that is generally favored for the creation of compost. It is a controlled decomposition in a pile, bin, or tumbler. The secrets of aerobic digestion are the carbon to nitrogen ratio, the moisture content and the size of the particles of organic matter.\nThis may sound like an exact science but it isn’t. Generally you just place all of your old grass clipping, kitchen waste—organic and your weeds in a pile. Add some soil to get things started and wait. Many methods exist to speed up the composting process but in my opin-ion they are not necessary. To avoid problems I use two compost piles. One that I use in the garden this year and one that I add waste to this year for next year. Next year I have great compost with not too much effort. The only labor is to turn the compost pile a few times during the year to ensure aerobic decomposition. \nThat is the story of composting.\nFERTILIZERS AND SOIL PH\nThis is not a book about organic gardening. Organic gardening is great once that you have an established garden, lots of compost and other organic material. This is usually not the case for starting a garden. (I never have enough compost even though I make it by the ton.) At some point you are going to need to add commercial fertilizer. If you do add fertilizer do it the right way. The first question is what do you need to add? This depends somewhat up-on the plants that you are going to grow in your garden.\nMany berry plants like an acid soil. The acid or base content of the soil is measured by PH this is a log scale of the hydrogen ion ranging from 0 to 14. PH of 7 is considered neutral. Many garden plants like a soil that is slightly acid with a ph of 6.5 to 6.9 do your research. You will need to do your research for the specific ph that your plants require. In general a slightly acid soil allows the plants to absorb the nutrients from the soil easier.\nThe best way to find out what your soil requires is to have it tested. Your County Exten-sion Office can tell you how to do this and where to send the soil sample. Another way is to buy an inexpensive soil test kit at the garden center. \nI have an instrument that I poke in the soil to measure the ph. This is not the most accu-rate method but it is good enough. Generally my soil is tested with a store bought test kit. These are not the most accurate but are good enough for growing a great garden.\nMy one challenge for ph has been blue berries. Our soil is quite alkaline from years of ir-rigation and high nitrogen fertilizer. In addition about ten years ago our farm was burned over by a very high temperature ground fire. This removed most of the organics from the soil. This has created a real challenge to return the soil to a productive state. One successful method to rebuild the soil is building raised beds.\nYour soil PH can be adjusted by adding sulfur to alkaline soil or lime to acid soil. Be care-ful when you do this. This is one time to really do a good job of researching what you need and asking around the neighborhood. The really great thing about gardening as we have de-scribed it is that you won’t have these problems after your garden is established. The excep-tions are those plants that require a quite acid soil or a very alkaline one. These types of plants will require special care for soil preparation. As I stated before, getting your soil test-ed for nutrient level is not a bad idea.",
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