Newsletter - August 15, 2023

Dear brothers and sisters,

Our delight to bring you almond butter ice cream. We add mangoes and peaches for summertime ecstasy. The recipe is simplicity itself. Go ahead give it a try!

We then bring you James Prigioni bubbling with enthusiasm as he tells us what crops to plant in August. He starts with cucumbers and summer squash and goes on to salad greens including lettuce, arugula, Swiss chard, mustard greens and spinach. He then  talks of root crops-carrots, radishes, turnips and beets and gives excellent tips on  how to insure good germination of carrots. He then goes on to the brassicas including broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage. So go ahead, brothers and sisters, and keep planting your Victory Gardens!

This week's sale features Sunflower Butter - $3 off.

Our August Victory Garden sale includes Zinc Cantata, Selenium Sonata, Milk of Paradise-  a combination of cashew and macadamia butter and Blue Cornmeal which lends itself to breads and casseroles.

The recent release of the film, “Oppenheimer” has brought to the fore the  story of Robert Oppenheimer, the remarkable man who led the Manhattan Project in creating the atomic bomb.He fell victim to the plague of fear and hysteria that marked the onset of the Cold War. He shunned the development of the more powerful hydrogen bomb and advocated for world peace and understanding.  He was humiliated and  ostracized. Only now are we beginning to appreciate his stature as a truly great human being.

We conclude with an article by Josh Mitteldorf delineating the collapse of ecosystems all around us and tragically enough, the disappearance of species. The  author attributes the collapse of biodiversity to the following causes:

- Habitat loss.
- Deforestation.
- Every war is an environmental disaster.
- Widespread poisoning of insects, which are at the base of the animal food chain.
- Insects are also pollinators, and plant life becomes fragile when insects disappear.
- Draining of wetlands, mining of fossil water and damming of rivers.
- Deliberate targeting of apex predators, including lions, wolves and whales.
- Washing of topsoil into the rivers and oceans.
- Wasteful practices in mining, agriculture and industry.
- Global travel, bringing invasive species that tend to homogenize ecosystems worldwide.

This is a profound insight into the dynamics of our world and deserves your careful attention.

May we wish you and family an alive, organic  summer of good health, prosperity and success,

Jesse Schwartz PhD
President
Living Tree Community Foods

By Josh Mitteldorf, Ph.D.

Last week, Nobel physicist John Clauser came out of the “Clausit” to speak his own inconvenient truth about global warming and CO2. No good deed goes unpunished.

Another physicist, Freeman Dyson, who was a personal hero of mine has expressed similar views.

This is a big subject, and I don’t feel engaged enough with the issue to write a book on climate, but I will say a few things about which I feel pretty certain — but to which Right Thinking People may take exception.

1. Global ecosystems are indeed in crisis, and this is the result of human activity.
2. Greenhouse gasses, CO2 and climate change are peripheral to this story. The net effect of CO2 emission is likely to be beneficial, if at all relevant.
3. Environmental activism may be the most important movement on the planet today, and its diversion into a narrow focus on carbon is dangerous.

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