Wake up motherfuckers!

Right now there is a huge movement towards state sovereignty and personal freedom and liberty.

The recent "Tea Parties" could have been a part of that movement. Texas declaring it's 10'th amendment right to sovereignty could have been a piece of this movement but given Rick Perry's past I ain't falling for it, it's just a future bid for presidency. Glenn Becks tireless charades and house of cards could have been a revealing piece of the Illuminati puzzle if only his balls were larger than the paycheck he was cut for creating propaganda.


It is time for all of you whining lefties and righties to open your fucking eyes and realize that the paradigm on which you swing is imaginary and the in-fighting is getting us nowhere.

Your all deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow.

Question the motives of the supposed right and supposed left.

Who got us here? What is the agenda?

Banking powers that be and the 1913 Federal Reserve act set the stage in our country for this, it can be traced back even further if you do your research, but start there.

You are being duped by both sides and they are playing us against one another, the liberty and truth movements are being demonized and taken over by the right wing and left wing, the same groups who got us into this mess.

How long before the first shots of a "false revolution" ring out, that is to say, how long before left and right are goaded into war by the powers that be instead of standing together and taking back our country.

I hate to imagine that you are all this stupid.

Shut down the fed. Be a part of the solution. Take the fight against those who would subdue the American spirit. Fight the banks and corporations. Pave the road and clear the path for a legitimate government.

Do you for a moment see a bit of difference between Obama and Bush? You've been had! Wake the fuck up! The time is now. Do your research. This is our country don't let them create a war between the American people over imaginary issues, don't let them systematically label us terrorist, don't let them trample the constitution.

LIBERTY OR DEATH! DON'T TREAD ON ME!

It's now or never.

Do you want a "CZAR" or do you want a representative?

Do you want a republic or do you want a totalitarian dictatorship.

Choose motherfuckers or their going to choose for you.

We are systematically being labeled and taken out on group at a time, we are weak because we can't get of the pettiness of "red" or "blue", shut the fuck up and do something! Stand together and let our voices be heard, see through the shit, turn off the T.V., create new and viable options, rid the government payroll of familiar faces by exposing their corruption and placing real change to their seats.


Don't be fooled by the media or the two party system, don't let the government terrify you, they work for us, we don't work for them, they are the true destroyers of our country, the true terrorist organization, they keep us in fear and panic mode, don't be afraid, voice your opinion, speak the truth.

Farm updates

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As you can see we have been extremely busy! Planting, weeding, hatching eggs, building a goat pin, cutting potatoes, spreading compost, starting plants, buildign water catchment and a ton more!

We also managed to get hold of a new (to us) labratory incubator for hatching eggs and currently have our hovobator genesis loaded up with Turkey and Guinea eggs, we are prepping the new incubator for Turkeys, Guineas and Chickens!

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Spring Is Sprung

The first of the early planting is done with many sprouts already showing their beautiful little heads right above the soil line including a number of cabbages, kales, collards, broccoli, hull less oats, wheat, onions, peas and more. I'm also nearly finished seeding in the greenhouse and composting like crazy.

Currently there are 4 bantams setting eggs and 30 eggs in the Hovabator Genesis of Salmon Favrell and Cukoo Marans heritage which will be followed up with a dozen or so Guinea eggs.

We are waiting on some pear rootstock to arrive in the mail for grafting with a number of interesting pear scions which we a really excited about, one of our biggest projects this year is starting our small orchard and vineyard for fresh fruit, preserves, and wine making! We have also been studying maple taping which we hope to implement next January! This august we will be recieving a number of apple bud wood selections for grafting as well.

The honey bees have been out flying the past few days and it's nice to see them once again.

Today we tilled and mulched an area and planted gooseberries and blackberries. We mulched using some ten year old composted sawdust, very beautiful stuff.

The worm population is growing in the new "wrym" house, eating away at some well composted cow manure and making terrific castings all the while increasing my worm stock. Unfortunately we will not have enough worms to supplement the farm income with fishing worms this year, but by next year they should be going well enough to supply as many fisherman as will make the trip up our long driveway, to the farmers market and to the stores we supply.

The chickens are laying very well. We are getting close to 35 eggs a day. With the new chicks on the way this fall we will have to focus on improving our chicken house design. I'm really glad we have a good bantam population, they seem to be very good garden helpers, turning compost for us and digging out root maggots.

Out in the forest the Ginseng rootlets are just greening up and preparing for their emergence in the next couple of weeks and morel season has started though I have yet to see any grow from my kits or stumble upon any wild ones, though a good friend of ours has already found several.

We are expecting a load of well composted chicken manure in the next day or so which we will work into the ground in areas where high N. content is necessary.

Today I seeded a number of Morus Alba (white Mullberry seeds) as well as some very interesting wild white blackberry types and red flowered types.

The two remaining Salvia Divinorum plants are soldiering along and making shoots along the nodes which in a few weeks we will use to propagate our new army of plants.

Sometime shortly I need to take the time to build some bean tepees for pole beans.

In the next few days I'll cut my seed potatoes and prepare to plant those along with several Brassica plants as well as maca seedlings.

I'll update with pictures soon! Tonight I rack and bottle Snozzberry wine!

Very excited that spring is back! I'll be even happier when it's time for heavier planting of crops.

For those interested in whats available on the farm at the moment, we have brassica seedlings on sale at 3 for two dollars and alpine strawberry plants potted up in one gallon pots for $10.00, we also have farm fresh eggs (white, salmon, brown, green, bantam and large size) for $1.75 a dozen.

We will be selling produce, eggs, plants, seeds and worm castings at Crossroads store in Pekin coming shortly. We expect baby lettuce, radishes, and mesclun mix by the end of April!

If you live locally and are interested in our products feel free to contact us or stop by the farm at:

Bishop's Homegrown
5604 S. State Rd. 60
Pekin IN 47165
812-967-2073


In other news the Homegrown Goodness message board is moving along nicely and we are preparing to release a new paper documenting the future of Hip-Gnosis seed development here on this blog. The paper will detail some of the work we will be doing with various food and flower crops this season as well as the announcement of our first official seed circular this fall.


Our good friends over at Brambleberry Farm finally got a web-site as well, be sure to check it out, they have a great selection of fruiting trees and shrubs and run a diversified and self sustainable market farm in neighboring Paoli Indiana


Lot's of stuff going on within the U.S. and world government and economy, too much to keep up with posting at the moment, but I'm sure I'll be back with commentary soon enough, until then be sure to check our www.prisonplanet.com

Believe in Liberty? Soverighnty? Your a terrorist!

At least that is the claim being made by the Missouri Information Analysis Center in this Document hosted by Alex Jones and prisonplanet.com

While they try to paint this up as a send up against the militia movement (nothing wrong with militias in the first place!) they wholeheartedly group libertarians and their supporters into the same category and liken constitutionalists to terrorism, paint us as racist and anti-semetic, and throw in the old New World Order "conspiracy" believers (such as myself) for good measure and lay at our feet the responsibility for terrorist attacks within the U.S. while also publishing a brief section on logos used by libertarians/militias or as they term it supposed "terrorists" including some of the most patriotic and historic symbols of the American Revolution, the Gadson, Culpepper, and Navy Jack flags!

Not only this but they go on to list Alex Jones and Aaron Russo produced media as terrorist inspiring literature and make the jump that the Turner Diaries is touted amongst libertarians.

While I am sure there are some fringe white supremacist and anti-Semitic groups who believe they are part of the solution they are by no means accepted by or associated with widely the growing libertarian and sovereign states and peoples movements.

This is propaganda and nothing more and just more proof of the prison state we are becoming. Suddenly if you believe in small government and personal liberty and the constitution and founding fathers you are to be watched at all times and never trusted. Do these idiots who publish such information not realize that this is the equivalent of the first shot fired in the coming citizen revolution? You can't step on the toes of the citizens of this nation and turn them into monetary and subservient slaves to the big bank backed federal government and not expect what is happening to happen. Shit is getting scary!

The nation is starting to wake up from the haze that has obscured it since the death of the last true president JFK and see that left and right are of no consequence, it's all one in the same. We are headed on a one way track towards a world government controlled by the elite bloodlines (bankers/funders of kings) and their New Global Banking Order. They think they control everything, they use their new "king" (shill/puppet) Obama to distract you with a friendly face while they pull his puppet strings.


The diamond in the rough for today is Alex Jones new movie "The Obama Deception", weather you are a democrat, republican, libertarian, a supporter or op poser of Obama I can not in words tell you how important it is for you to see this film. Either order the DVD, subscribe to prisonplanet.tv or find a password from a friend (which Alex fully understands and allows) or you can check it out completely for free via this Youtube link! Copy the files/dvd and send them to everyone!


In other news some friends and I are getting some interesting IP hits via stat counter due to our coverage of the new comprehensive farm regulatory bill that we posted about along with our continuing coverage of other agricultural related farm bills and injustices. It still bears questioning to me though why The Lockheed Martin corporation continues to record information from blogs all accross the net, I have caught them on this blog on three separate occasions using three separate IP addresses, all of which I have blocked, the visiting times are only long enough to take a digital snapshot of the page and information posted here. Remember, these assholes never forget who their working for and it ain't you, the open minded, free thinking, freedom loving, patriotic American who questions the direction of the future that we are headed into.

Gnosis by mail mystery!

Last week I received a mysterious package in the mail with no return address listed, inside the package was a terrific little book, a gem of knowledge as you know if ever you have read it (BTW Gnosis=Knowledge.


The Title: The One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka

I have had little time to read as of late but have made room for this little brown gem of knowledge alongside Dr. Alan Kapuler's resource journals and old Peace Seeds catalogues. The knowledge gained has been outstanding! Questions that have long lingered in my mind have been answered, light bulbs have been lighting up over my head, and I feel connected even more so to my resolve to explore alternative agriculture in a way I wasn't sure would work previously and now the sun in shining and the Easter Lillie's are blooming, I have undeniable and unalienable faith in my ability to rally these ideas and cross pollinate them with my own in order to create my very own "chocolate factory"!


But what was really cool was that the book had no return address, the person was even clever enough to use my name while ordering the book! Like anyone I love a good mystery so I blew a couple hours trying to figure out who had sent this beautiful piece of knowledge and love my way! As it turns out, there was one connection listed on the receipt accompanying the book, an e-mail address, one which I was sure I had seen before but could not remember the source of, after a bit of research I found out that my good buddy Glenn Grossman who runs the excellent Clark County Food and Farm blog had sent me this special package! I can never thank him enough.

If you have never read the One Straw Revolution or heard of Masanobu Fukuoka I strongly suggest you check both out. I also cannot recommend enough the Peace Seeds Resource journals available from www.peaceseeds.com or from www.seedsofchange.com they are invaluable!

Spring is here! (nearly). Some on farm updates.

The past week I have been spreading compost and working up the ground in preparation for early spring planting, including "double digging" some beds for trial next to the chicken coop. Yesterday was an exceedingly nice day for Southern Indiana at this time of the year, the high was about 77 degrees or so with ground temperature nearing 55 degrees.

I did some hand digging and bed making, did some discing with the tractor, and even got some Egyptian walking onions and red and white "green" onions in the ground along with numerous varieties of peas, some turnips, cabbage seeds, wildflowers and poppies and a nice section of hulless oats, we will probably continue to succession plant these crops for the next couple weeks, I plan on ordering another 10 lbs of hulless oat seeds in the near future. I will probably plant the vast majority of the "cole" crops somewhere around the 20'th of March should the weather co-operate.


We have spread nearly all of the compost from this past year and I am still running short as I still have four our five areas that need some additional organic matter, however I have noticed a marked improvement in soil fertility in these areas from the high amount of OM we have applied over the past three years and the relatively little cultivation that we have done in these areas. Alan Kapuler wrote a great paper once speaking of weeds as being a great source of organic, soil building matter and I think he is really onto something, we have plenty of weeds here and we try to keep them under control with straw mulching and some light cultivation but late into the fall we sort of let them do their own thing and build up their own bio-mass and then we bush hog them and allow them the winter to lie on top of the ground providing food and shelter for micro organisms and earthworms, early in the spring we very lightly plow the ground (about 3-6 inches or so) and reincorporate this new humous into the ground, every year we see a marked improvement in the crumbly and "earthy" smelling soil, it may be that the fields are not even in need of more improvement this year and I wasn't going to worry with it until a neighbor stopped by and offered me the opportunity to clean up a barn in which the manure is composed of already aged horse, goat, and chicken manures! So, I can't pass that up, it's a balanced meal for a garden! Friday I will be a busy man as I see at least ten manure spreader loads coming out of there, more than enough humous material for the remaining fields and a couple of loads good to go for some new compost piles.


This year we will really focus on composting everything, weeds, animal manures, humanure, food and flower plant residue, leaf mold, day old bread and so on and it will be done on the spot to allow for less wheel barrow travel.


Today the temperature plummeted back down to the 30's and 40's but made for a good day in the greenhouse where the temperature was a constant 80 degrees! I seeded about 30 flats of mostly tomatoes and peppers but also basil, Tom Wagners true potato seeds from last year, and a few other things. The brassicas in the greenhouse are up and running as are the early tomatoes for planting in the greenhouse in bags of composted cow manure which I'll probably plant early next week. I've still got just a bit more to get started in the greenhouse, mostly the several varieties of rice we will be trialing this year, Ken Allen's Tetra Baby watermelon, some cotton, eggplants, and Yacon and Oca.

Just for those wondering, the Tim Peters interview is still in the works, Tim gave me a call this morning to let me know that he had completed the interview twice only to have it disappear into the void that is cyberspace and that he needed a break, so I will be interviewing him by phone sometime early next week.

Humanure/Solar Shower Project And Composting Chicken Litter and Bread.

First up, some pictures from my birthday (Feb. 22) adding 600 loaves of out of date organic bread to the existing chicken litter compost pile. The temp outside was in the 30's but the compost was hitting 140 F!









Second, the new on site, "outside" composting toilet facilities/Solar Shower room complete with water catchment and "dug in" active and passive bins for composting (to catch and prevent leachate from entering groundwater




Just a quick update of on farm projects.