JUST GO GET GROCERIES and eat YOFoods

By: Jose Kabeer

Diabetes, cancer, those aren't just statistics or numbers in our communities, their loved ones. ~Olymipia Ausset

                             

Yo If you think about it, whens the last time you actually ate an apple? Not passed by some apples at the store, or seen one on tv, or in your pie or in your oatmeal flavorings. Whens the last time you had an actual whole full of fiber apple? I knew you would say, “at lunch”(Smile).

Just go get groceries, their more enjoyable than purchasing medical treatments, pharmaceutical cures or headstones. They just cost more up front.

YOUR HEALTH IS YOUR FIRST INVESTMENT>

EVERYONE CAN SEE IF YOUR STOCK IS GOING UP

FIRST GET ALOT OF GOOD QUALITY MEAT. NO BACON,HAMBURGER,SHRIMP.

GOOD MEAT It has protein in it. Protein is the beginning of our new generation of health. It helps us create DNA. DNA is what makes us special, each one of us unique. In order to live out your potential beauty, intelligence, destiny you need to have adequate good protein with 9 Ammino  Acids. If you don’t,  it will be hard to tell your special under your disguise of always being tired,sleepy, angry, weak or sick with colds. If you don’t eat enough protein, you wont be special.

GRAPE,purple  STRAWBERRY,red,  BLUEBERRY?
Your probably a genius and guessed blue. But in reality blueberries are purple. But the food marketing industry has made you and I think otherwise through a process known as association.  Smoking a grape blunt does not mean you are inhaling a pound bunch of white grapes in reality. But again through association, you believe you are. MAGIC? Drinking Peach Snobbs does not mean the drinker has had the pleasure of tasting a real peach or enjoying its nutritional benefits. Shh, the purchaser has no idea. Their hypnotized. Eating apple flavored pies and Sipping Orange Soda does not mean you ate an orange as sweet as the ones from Florida. It means you drank 56grams of sugar, with some flavoring .

Its Simple:JUST GO TO THE GROCREY STORE and buy YOFOODS REAL FOODS

DON’T BE A CORPORATE PET

BY Jose Kabeer

Our pets depend on us to live. When you come home after a long day at work, whose their to great you? Your pet. Its just been waiting all day to give you its attention. It wants you to know that its happy your around and that its so glad to see you. It wants you to engage with it. It has been waiting all day for you to come home after doing important human work to further a cause, to entertain it. Our pets spend most of the time waiting. Waiting on us to feed it, to take it outside for exercise, to entertain it, to help it heal and get well. We love our pets, especially when they follow the rules.

We teach our pets, how to live in a “civilized world”,  within our homes. We instruct them on where to lay, where to play, what to eat, what not to eat, how to act, how not to act. We teach them usually through a system of rewards. Our pets love getting treats. Treats are not usually the best for them, but they like them so much. Plus, our pets follow the rules , they deserve a treat.

   

YofarmStand

Perris~ Yofarmstand is finally opening up for business. A farmstand is a great way for small organic farmers to sell and market their food directly to consumers. So in "Season 2 of The Farm" , we will be running a farmstand from the road. We are so excited to have a market close to home in attempts to maximize our profitability and help the local community as well. We will have seasonal produce from our farm and in the future offering locally grown fruits as well. Don't forget EGGS too, grown by Brother Billy of Perris too. A 20 year black farm veteran.  In addition we will offer baked goods like Banana Bread, Whole Wheat Bread and Brother Lukman Shabazz's Famous  Pies. In stock will also be various value added products and soon locally made soaps and lotions too.
Yofarmstand will be open:
Friday's: 3-7pm
Saturday's: 8-3pm
22810 Old Elsinore Rd,
Perris, California, 92570

Come get Yofoods!

Fall Planting Guide

Perris~  Fall farming and gardening preparations begin a little before the fall season actually starts here in Southern California. Out here in  SoCal,  summers are very long, I mean very long. I define summer growing conditions, when night time temperatures are in the 50-70s. For us, that window stretches from May-  October. October will bring the return of a day time average temperature ranging from 75-89. This is when the fall season is fully underway. This article is purposely written two months prior to the wonderful fall season, to alert you that, now is the time to prepare! Anyone whose been working a farm knows that preparation is key. Input cost aside, preparation is a top indicator that determines your probability of being profitable. This is Season 2 of "On the Farm" and we have learned alot in our first year that has helped us in preparing for our fall production. Farming has universal principals deriving from nature and theory but every farm in my opinion has unique challenges and advantages. So as I give out general farming techniques and guides, be mindful you will have to be aware of your particular field , plot or bed. There are many aspects to preparing to farm. This article particularly addresses preperaring the land. See our other Fall Preparation Guides.

Preparing The Land 

So your going to attempt to grow good food too eh? Right on, first thing we must do, is prepare our land.
We start by assessing the soil. *Does the soil look dry and sandy? *Does the soil have any bugs in it? *Does the soil have any weeds growing on it?
*Does the soil need food?

Let's go through each assessment question and explore how to handle what we can observe.
1. If the soil is dry and sandy looking and feeling, this is a sign it needs water and compost added. Make sure you have an efficient irrigation working in place, prior to start of season. Worst problem is realizing in mid season your plants are not getting watered correctly. Too little or too much water either way will cause a problem with your plant production. See our article on irrigation for ideas and suggestions.

Compost, add it to your list of preparations and to your land before you plant! Compost is a must when preparing for any season but especially in the fall if you've grown crops on the land during  the summer months. Compost is decomposed  organic matter consisting of many different things found in  nature. This could be and old leaves, food waste, animal waste and increasingly being studied worldwide are bio solids. At the farm, we use old leaves and goat manure. Compost, add it to your list of preparations and to your land before you plant!

2. Does the soil have bugs in it? Well, we hope so! Bugs or bio organisms are a natural part of a productive plot. Like life, there are good bugs (good people) and bad bugs (bad people). Each needed to give the other existence. Your job in preparing for the fall is to get to know "whose who" in your soil and if you notice too many bad bugs loitering in your soil. Don't be quick to hose them out with chemicals. To get rid of them, add good bugs , especially ones to are predators to your bad bugs. Another tactic, is to plant plants that repel your pest. If all else fails , grab the chems. But just please for the love of sugar maple syrup, dont use RoundUp ready! Instead use an organic deterrent and pest regulator like neem oil, aged Garlic water solution, pepper sprays and Epsom salt. There's are a war going on inside no bug is safe from.

3. Does the soil have any weeds on it? Make an observation keeping in mind time. Weeds, on a postive note, indicate water in the soil and the ability to grow in on that land. On the other hand, weeds are a major pest and need to be cleared prior to planting. Depending on the scope of your operation will determine the method in which you do clear your weeds. In a small  backyard garden, a hoe will be sufficient. On a small farm a rear tine tiller will produce great results, and on a larger farm, a tractor will be needed with a disc harrow and rake attachment. We use a combination of the first two techniques. If you don't till the weeds into your soil directly, you can safely put the weeds in your compost pile and reap a return of valuable humus in the future. If you have grass on a large field, make those pesky weeds useful,  turn them into hay bales and sell it or fees it to your own livestock. No matter what, just get rid of those weeds and get moving happily forward with your preparation schedule.

4. Does the soil need food? You can't tell if a healthy person is  hungry by just looking at them. They have to tell you. Same goes with the soil. Before you go out and buy expensive fertilizers and magic supergrow potions, get a soil test and see for sure if your soil is hungry and what is the best solution for it. Nitrogen is lost rapidly through the growing season from the soil. But this doesn't guarantee that the soil needs a boost of Nitrogen to start off. Test the soil and then you can make an educated decision and not an educated guess.

Proper preparation pays off. We must start preparing at least 2 months before we intend to plant. The land is our first preparation. We must have the land properly textured to hold water and nutrients. This also means insuring our irrigation is set up prior to planting. After we secure water, we need to observe the soil for bug activity and weed appearance. Once we assess the situations, we need to make an educated decision on how to best respond to our observations.

Peace,
JK
Jose Kabeer

Community Bean Mural: Exploring creative ways to engage community and use extra crops for art

COMMUNITY BEAN MURAL: Perris, California 6/15/17

Perris, CA~ In late May, the Perris Green City Farm lead by Eduardo Sida and Jose Kabeer, agreed to embark on a journey to create a Community Bean Mural. The goal was to create a public art piece with the diverse range of residents that Perris has. With 3 weeks of planning and organizing, the event was set to take place on Thursday, June 15th,2017 @ the Perris Green City Farm.  The morning of the event, we had only 2 RSVP's and 2 staff members who committed to showing up. By the end of the event, we had a truly cross generational art piece. With 38 participants showing up ranging in ages from 4-68, we organically let our creativity prosper as we created the first in the City, and as far as we know, Community Bean Mural.

Jose Kabeer, leading the Bean Mural. The bean mural was inspired Kabeer said," By his own youthful days". When Kabeer was young he had created a Bean Mural  together with 10 children from his West-Side neighborhood in Saratoga Springs, NY. The mural is still displayed in the Saratoga Springs Public Library. Now residing in Perris, Kabeer saw the need for a community mural and the necessity to display more public art. Working with the Perris Green City Farm, over 38 community residents and children were able to help create the first ever in Southern California, :
COMMUNITY BEAN MURAL

A mother and her son, help draw the initial outline of the Bean Mural. The Mural Started with just a blank Masonite Board, 10 pencils and a communities imagination. Community members were instructed to draw a symbol or design that they felt represented the Perris Community. Many expressive and traditional designs were created. Among them were a hot air balloon, representing the Hot Air rides offered locally in Perris, a train, representing the historical Perris Depot and many cultural designs and symbols too.

 A very diverse group of youth, teenagers, adults and seniors, all helped create a piece of art, expressing the values and love of the Perris community. We had artist ranging from 4-68 years old!! We demonstrated a community mural, does not have to cost a lot of money or require a lot of materials.  The only materials used were, dry beans, pencils, wood glue and acrylic paint.




Pictured: Lavell  Kearney and Jose Kabeer. Lavell is the administrator for the Dora Nelson African American Museum located in Perris,CA. She stopped by to add local African American history symbols and designs to the mural. The mural took a total of 2 days to complete and a few extra days of touch up.  

 The mural represented many of the Aztec, Mexican and African traditional cultures of the residents of Perris.  The mural once completed, will go on a local tour throughout the City of Perris. First stop will be the Dora Anderson African American Museum, then the Perris Green City Farm, the Historical Perris Depot and the Boys and Girls Club.

The event was very energized and residents and community members came out from all across the little city of 65,000 to help out with the mural. Many were called and a few but awesome artist came out to help make history. Thanks Friends!

 

 

 

 

 

Confidence

Leirmert Park, Courage is what a farmer needs to continue to farm. Once you realize you will make mistakes , miscalculations and come up short you have to accept this fact and still proceed with your endeavors. Move cautiously but with courage. Courage is what a farmer has to have to start farming.  Agriculture to the masses is an ancient science like alchemy or a perceived far out idea like " Outer Space". Not really cared about. Which baffles the mind , when you think its the very science that allows you to sustain your life. As a farmer, you are providing life to people. Much like a doctor. You have to have courage to use your intellect , your knowledge of chemistry, mathematics, biology and most importantly the teaching and lessons from the Elders. You can't be afraid of knowledge of knowing important things. You are a farmer. A very important person , a  V. i. P.  Everyone has a personal favorite  barber, a Security Guard, a Uber driver a teacher . Everyone soon will want their food grown by their own personal farmer. That's you. Have confidence in security  and blessings. They are abundant , there's going to be plenty. Your a farmer .