Here and now

So..............

We've decided to stay in Singapore. At least for this year, 2010. Ask us 3 months ago if we would ever decide this, it would be an easy NO. But things change, nothing is permanent. We are not who we were even just a few moments ago.

But staying here doesnt mean that wwoofing has stopped. In fact, we're still doing it, here on our home soil :)

With GUI, Bjorn is working on designing, implementing and maybe running a rooftop organic farm in one of the schools here in Singapore. That's like - all Bjorn's ever dreamed of doing. Urban farming is perhaps the only option for us to be more self sufficient than we currently are (about 5 to 10 % only at the moment) so this opportunity to work on it here is like a dream come true literally. And for Singapore, it will perhaps be something no ones ever seen before. If it works out, it can be a template for all our rooftops on our island. Imagine the mindsets it can change once we realise that its possible to be close to our food again. And not rely on air flown, pesticide & chemical laden, unfresh fruit and veg. Once urbanites taste the freshness of their own labour, smell in the intensity of their own herbs, feel the difference in their health and diets, more and more things will start changing as well. We've lost so much of it in the last 100 years of history. And we're at the epoch of getting it back again.

Today we're going to be helping to deliver left over organic veg from pasir panjang veg market to an old folks home. So instead of it going to the bin, it will go into the dishes of our elderly, who perhaps already have accumulated chemical and toxins in their bodies from living in Singapore for the last 70/80 years. It will do them good.

And oh, I discovered while reading this enlightening, yet alarming book - The Hundred-Year Lie. How to Protect Yourself from the Chemicals That Are Destroying Your Health by Randall Fitzgerald. That flouride is poison. Its been tested to kill rats in labs, give cancer and and whole load of other diseases. Most of western Europe has banned it from their waterways because of this. But America and SINGPORE has it in our tap water. Claiming it prevents tooth decay. Now, applying it on your teeth via toothpaste, it makes sense. But ingesting it..., unless u gargle your water each time u drink it, doesnt make any sense?! Also, the aluminium industry & ther fertilizer indutry benefits from flouriding our waters coz the by-product of factory smokestacks operated by both industries is a toxic waste called silicoflouride that contained lead, cadmium, arsenic and other toxins (today an estimated cost of $8000 a truckload), flouridation enabled both to make money by selling the waste for use in public water supplies. HOW GROSS. So if u drink your local tap water, pls find out if it contains flouride, and swiftly get a filter that removes it if possible, because we are indeed slowly poisoning ourselves. (Or rather, our government is poisoning us)

And I leave u with a seedling of a bean that we sowed 1.5 weeks ago, and planted out 4 days ago at Bottle Tree Park, GUI's base for now.

May all beings be happy!