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  • Hi Charly,
    You mentioned a while back that I could stop by and check out your worm operation - can I still take you up on that sometime? Also, I'm teaching a worm class tomorrow and was wondering if I can refer people to you for starter worms (for sale, trade, etc).
    Thanks!
    Lisa
    480-620-6053
  • Hi Charles, I feel stupid, I can't find or remember where I commented to Eva, haven't heard back from her, but I'll be happy to share some seeds with you. I know you have quite a bit of ground to cover, though; I don't have enough to cover all the (5000 sq ft?) but I can at least give you a couple of cups. I am in the 43rd Avenue and Greenway area; how would you like to work out the logistics? Do you have that other compost place sorta on the way from my place to yours? Have you gotten compost there and what do you think? If I was going to go there, I could just drop the seeds off at your house. But I'm a Ken Singh person and I want to make sure this other compost is worthwhile, lol.
  • Thanks Charles for the scoop on your shade cloth and your how to's. My hubs really appreciates that. he had a question: "I'm looking for shade cover as well as protection from the birds, to cover 4 garden boxes 4ft by 20ft. I'd like to use pvc pipe but wondered what would be the most cost efficient material to use for the covering. What would you suggest? ...and where do I purchase it? - thanks!" - Michael
  • I'll be out of town until the week of May 18th. I could bring you at least two dozen eggs. I will be back in touch.
  • Hello,

    Would you like to trade red worms for fresh backyard chicken eggs? I need one pound or 1,000 red worms to start my indoor bin.

    Janet
  • Charly,

    Sorry to melt your backbone! didnt mean it all that much. I did not mean to say that we cannot have rights. RIghts are a human social invention. and abstract concept. like a mortgage being paid with bank notes that , or Like chimpanzees picking flees off one another. What I was trying to get across was that in nature, there are not rights. and I feel it is my duty to get right with nature. So I have to question anything that doesn't align itself with nature and forces of the non-human world. rights are one of them.

    What I do see in nature is action and reaction; or Consequences. So to day that one should not rob a person because it sets a negative precedent for the community, then I have no problem with the public ostracizing the thief, or the glutton, or the rapist, or the murderer. because the consequences of such actions are detrimental to survival of the species.

    What I fear is that there are lines of politicians waiting give people their abstract 'rights', so long as citizen's legitimatize the governments monopoly on the use of force; at home and abroad, in order to secure these rights. This is a dangerous game, as people demand their 'right' to 'security' 'economic progression' 'equality of outcome' etc. they can easily loose other, more fundamental 'rights' like that of expressing oneself without being incarcerated and tortured. or the right to organically grow food close to home. or to organize for the betterment and strengthening of community at the local and state level. AS opposed to centralizing power at the federal level.

    good morning,
    cheers,
    Schreiber
  • Thanks for the invite, Charles. That sounds interesting. Since it is a bit of a drive, and I would only want to go when you're there for sure (as there is no way you would want a newbie like me rooting around in your garden alone :-), would you feel comfortable providing some contact info (a cell perhaps) so I can check in w/ you? If you like privacy, you could leave it in the email section in the upper right of each MYPAGE. I think this is only able to be viewed by the page occupant, and perhaps admin. Thanks again
  • Charly,

    you can call me Andrew, or Schreiber. I am glad to hear you understand the importance and power of local government action. It seems to me that creating an example of what thoughtful planning by qualified people who have a vested interest in the community is the only way to make a meaningful difference in Urban environments like Phoenix.

    I am not familiar with "The Right To the City" by David Harvey. But I just read an abstract about it. I cant say I disagree all that much with what it said. But I am weary of any sort of rights debate. I feel it is misleading to tag things like a useful urban environment as a right, per se. especialy inallienable rights. I am trying to get all of my philosophy from nature. nature doesn't have rights. Just look at all the exstinct and endangered species, and just look at what hurricanes and the like do to our cities. We have been living in a realitively prosperous and stable time in the states (geological, environmentally, socially, and politically). That doesn't mean to me that there is any right to have large population centers at all.

    A right implies a certain ethical basis which may not be shared by all those in a certain place. To say that one has a right to private property, is to ethically imply that he has a right to fruits of labor. and that they are the sole owners of those fruits. What Harvey is saying is that the right to private property (and other rights) and the preservation of wealth, is trumping the 'inalienable rights' of people to live in a healthy and socially just environment. that open up a another can or worms with the meaning and implementation of 'justice'.

    anyways, what I believe is, if we want a healthy community, and a just society , it is ours for the taking. Moreover, it is our duty, our Dharma, to make it happen. now rights need not be discussed. In order to survive we have to operate, on all levels, in cooperation and harmony with natural systems. otherwise we are doomed to fail. Nature doesn't seem to care WHY you do the things you do, just that they work within the given framework framework. We have had success slapping nature in the face for a few centuries, but that is not to say it is rightfully ours. By any means.
    Having a million people in the phoenix desert is like slapping nature in the face.

    as for what an intentional community is, It is sort of the equivalent of a commune thirty years ago. But i don't know what the hell a commune is. My community is a group of people coming together with a similar intention. To work for a unified goal. Ours happens to be researching and educating people on community scale (energy, food, water, social) technology.

    And by the way, my web page is not MY webpage. It is a data base of Vedic (ancient Indian) scripture. If you are interested the web page for the community of which I am a part. it is:
    www.windward.org
    check out the notes section link in the center of the page for our continuous twenty year long blog of technological development.

    Peace, and keep up the good work,
    Schreiber
  • Hey Charles, just wanted to see if you got the reply I made to your post, I put some links for you for activism sites to protest our financial situation. I am with you, I wish there were enough people like us that are ticked off enough to get out there and protest it, but the majority of us are sheep, and won't do it. So, the blogs are the best way until we can become more active.

    Maybe you, Dan, I, and the rest of the like minded people should start a movement or somethin'.....
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"Hello, my friends call me Charly. Yes I can do property line fences."
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I have a 5000 sf patch that is future orchard and field crops. It is flood irrigated residential property, probably once a lawn. It has been unmaintained for at least a year, but probably closer to five years. It was mostly dust with a few hearty…
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Charles Calbom left a comment for Jane Doyle
"Morning: I'd stick with Ken. If you are talking about the place by the dump, (27th ave I think) I never went back. Their stuff was too black and too amonia smelling. It was black even though all the stuff wasn't broke down. There is the guy south of…"
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Charles Calbom left a comment for Lindy Ross Barnes
"Hello, my name is Charly and My wife's is Ruthy. Just wanted to introduce myself. We looked at property in Aguila. I like it out there, but my model is for urban agriculture. If I am wildly successful I would someday get a large parcel of land and…"
May 13, 2009
Charles Calbom posted a discussion in Archived-Southwest Valley Permies
Hey those north valley guys got it going on. We got more land, more irrigation, and besides old areas are just cooler. (both personallity and temperature). If some SW folks want to start getting togeather I offer my place. Another great thing about…
May 13, 2009
Charles Calbom left a comment for Jane Doyle
"Hi, I eavesdropped on your offer to Eva for the ground cover seeds. If she did not take you up on it, I could use them. I have earthworm castings as a return gift."
May 13, 2009
Charles Calbom left a comment for Michael and Lylah Ledner
"Well you might overestimate my experience. I used some standard 50% shade cloth, probably got it at Bakers. I used a roll I had on hand for a couple of years. How about chicken wire down low for air flow and insects, and the shadecloth up high and…"
May 12, 2009
Charles Calbom replied to Mari Ross's discussion What's growing in the west? in Archived-Southwest Valley Permies
"I have corn, melons, squash, tomatillos, and sunflowers doing well. Cucumbers and peppers not so well. And than of course the most important growth of all, my understanding of how to be part of a natural system.

Thnx for ratteling the bushes and…"
May 8, 2009
Charles Calbom left a comment for Janet
"yes on your worms, I will be there 6 am to 4 am tomarrow, Friday. Let me know when yyour coming and I'll get em ready.

north and east of 35th ave and Buckeye 3422west hadley"
May 7, 2009
Charles Calbom left a comment for Andrew Martin Schreiber
"Good Morning Schreiber: Nice comment, thank-you for the effort. I have been experiencing either a paradigm shift or expansion depending on your view. Your post has added the concept of "do we have a right to rights?". I have never thaught about…"
Apr 29, 2009
Charles Calbom left a comment for Andrew Martin Schreiber
"Good Morning, I go by Charly are you Andy? I read your personal info, what is an intentional community? Your blog on the local action was right on target. I am a Washington State born almost life long AZ resident. All the while when raising our kids…"
Apr 28, 2009
Charles Calbom left a comment for Joe Raymond
"Good Morning Sir: My name is Charly Calbom, I am working on a peice of property at 35th ave and buckeye. Whats your gig, hobby or more? I am hoping to make my living in the local sustainable food production industry.

Currently on Unemployment, I am…"
Apr 15, 2009
Charles Calbom replied to Joe Raymond's discussion Soil preparation in Soil Builders
"I have been waiting for responses to your discussion as I am in similar shoes. I grew some beets cabbage and brusselsprouts and peas last cool season in bermuda turf with roots removed and about 4 dirt to one homemade compost. Made into raised beds…"
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Charles Calbom left a comment on Archived-Southwest Valley Permies
"I am retrofitting an old house to an (almost) off the grid residence. I am also installing 20,000 sf of permaculture and sustainable annuals. I am looking to join or form co-operative organizations. My property is at 35th and buckeye. 3422 west…"
Apr 11, 2009
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