Yesterday was a day off.
I did something I'd always wanted to do. I went to a lecture at a local garden shop. It was about citrus. Yes, everyone there -- it was packed!-- was retired. But the audience and the speaker truly loved their citrus trees, and wanted to protect them.
Protect them?
Yes. Absolutely. Protect them.
It appears trees are susceptible to disease. And there is a killer disease out there that is transmitted to them by psyllid insects the same way malaria is transmitted to humans through mosquitoes. It's called HLB--huanglongbing (https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/plant/acp/) and it hardens up the 'arteries of the tree'--the vessels which carry the sap.
It's got a whole quarantine area in Southern California. And Florida too.
The citrus most at risk are the grapefruit and pomelos.
I had no idea, no clue. I had no idea why there was rebar in the ground by my tree (trees need iron. Someone there said when you plant a tree put three nails in the bottom of the hole). I thought putting in spikes of fertilizer was enough twice a year.
I learned there is neem oil and another spray that's bee safe but you need to spray your trees when they are dormant, after the blooms, and after the fruit sets. It's some organism that makes bugs sick.
So I bought everything.
My joy is to learn, and I had the opportunity to be in a class with some master gardeners. One woman just signed up to take horticulture classes at the local community college!
Long story short: the state of California will spray and 'drench' (give a systemic pesticide to the root system that lasts one year) all affected trees. For free. However, if the tree is on an organic farm, and selling the produce as organic, even though the tree has been sprayed and given pesticides, the fruit exposed to the pesticide is still labeled 'organic' and sold as such with no notification to the consumer whatsoever. This is because it is a STATE MANDATE and all other criteria for organic are still met. Furthermore citrus trees for sale are all treated this way, all of them. And there is no labeling about this. Lastly, baby citrus trees may no longer be sold in the quarantine areas, so hurry and get them while you can if you wish to be able to grow your own food. Every one at the garden shop is logged in and records of kept on it.
When you follow your heart, you are always led to the right place at the right time. Could anyone else in the audience have had a blog to raise awareness and share what has just been shared? I don't know. But I do, and I share.
I also bought many things to help amend and fertilize the soil naturally. I bought a book on growing your own food. It was fun. I realized even if I didn't know anything, composting our wastes from the kitchen at the old house also brought to the earth everything it needed. So whether you 'know' as in 'book smart science of growing things' or you follow your intuition, one way or another things are going to work themselves out.
I made a salad I want to share. It's a switch on the old grated carrot raisin salad. I grated the five large carrots and added plain yogurt. But instead of raisins I added about half of a pomegranate's arils, and also a large handful of dried goji berries. It's a treat!
I enjoyed the time with Anthony in the garden. I enjoyed his company. In a few short years work and higher education will take him away from the house. It's nice to have company.
Ross wants me to write about the swindle.
I ordered something special online, a crystal, a gwindel from Grimsel, Switzerland. These are very rare stones. Typically they come from Chaumonix or Pakistan. or Russia. A gwindel is a twisted, rotated crystal usually of smoky quartz that comes from high altitude. They look like a hammer shattered them, and are very beautiful. The seller was in Poland. It arrived with an empty box filled with a roll of bubble wrap and nothing in it. It was a trick.
I use these in my energy work, all of it benefits you.
I contacted the seller, the sales platform, the police (I had to file a report), and my credit card company. I did everything I could do.
But I felt stupid. And also, devastated over the energy work.
Ross helped me, in an instant. He showed me how to take my energy back in time to when I was in the water that was fed by these mountains, trace it back up, and connect even stronger than with a stone, because there is much, much more water than stone. I did it.
He asked me if I wanted him to step in with the people who swindled me?
I said yes.
He asked me, 'are you ready?' and looked me in the eye, and I know there's lots more to this than just what meets the eye. He asked one more time, 'are you sure?'
And I said yes to all.
I haven't really heard from him since. I imagine he's very busy.
This swindle, along with the blog snafu on FB (it was deemed 'aggressive' and erased every link. I have no clue where aggression can come from except perhaps the gruesome end to the suffering rat where I was terrified and shaking myself, doing the unthinkable to protect Anthony.)...are signs we aren't under the radar any more.
The diseases of the citrus trees, and the steps taken to fight it conventionally -- with the state taking control of the trees in your own back yard -- to me are signs that the think tanks Kerth mentioned in his first book (Blood drinking, etc, available on Amazon)--have been several chess moves ahead of the general public and the awakened community. This is way more than bee decimation. This is horrible in so many ways because the free will of the homeowner/agriculture business is usurped, as well as the joy of citrus quelled for so many.
Have joy anyway.
Even if our work is 'not under the radar', it's still a pleasure to write and to share.
Hiccups come along the way, and I learned a valuable lesson from Ross on how to raise my ability to work with the energies of the planet to the next level.
Today is another busy day.
Ross agrees with everything I wrote. He's always at my side whenever I am writing. He says hello too. He looks good, he's always handsome and healthy and clean and well-rested and well-fed. I'm grateful for this. That was my job in the past to make sure he was presentable and healthy in every way. I always check to make sure he's good because that job is still drilled into me.
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Aloha and Mahalos,
Namaste,
Peace,
Ross and Carla
The gardeners <3 of souls <3
