VICTORY GARDENING 2.0
(ORGANIC) GARDENING CLASSES & GATHERING
SCHEDULE FOR APRIL & MAY:
(Organic, because there is no such thing as non-organic "gardening". If it's "gardening" at all, then it's organic. Earth poisoning and poisoning yourself can never be "gardening").
(ORGANIC) GARDENING CLASSES & GATHERING
SCHEDULE FOR APRIL & MAY:
(Organic, because there is no such thing as non-organic "gardening". If it's "gardening" at all, then it's organic. Earth poisoning and poisoning yourself can never be "gardening").
Here is an excerpt of what we currently send [V138-94N] to the people who express an interest in our trademark no-cost hands-on classes and Organic Gardening gatherings.
We hold classes both on week-ends, usually on Sunday, and also have weekday classes in the late afternoon, starting at 3 or 4. They often end after 8, always with a few people coming only after 5. It is perfectly OK to do that, particularly if you work normal hours.
April 27 - May 3 Week and May-June Organic VICTORY GARDENING EVENTS
in the GREATER LOS ANGELES area.
in the GREATER LOS ANGELES area.
If you want to replicate what we do in "Hollywood" elsewhere, please contact us and we can help setting you up!
This week at the request of "Whole Foods Markets", we will have a class going at "Whole Foods" in Redondo Beach April 29th at 4 PM (open-ended). As usual, there is no cost to attend, and in addition, some lucky people will get home with a seeded tray that will grow them hundreds of plants to transplant!
Subject will be how to start an Organic Victory Garden in your backyard or rooftop with what you have available locally, and how to use store-bought organic food as a reliable source of seeds.
Also we will explore how to use scrapped trays and boxes to make seeds starters for plants to transplant.
We will have several new projects starting shortly, Mission Hills for sure, Pacific Palisades probably, Sylmar possibly, etc...
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APRIL: The address for that last April class is:
Whole Foods Market
405 N. Pacific Coast Highway, Redondo Beach CA 90277
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405 N. Pacific Coast Highway, Redondo Beach CA 90277
MAY: Saturday May 2, 1:30 PM : Beginning of a self-managed new Project in Mission Hills CA 91345. First hands-on class: Installing new raised beds from scratch. If this location is practical to you, please email with your phone number for directions. And if you have any spare seaweed, woodchips, compost, old bricks, etc, feel free to bring it! Nothing on May 3rd, as Dr Green will be busy that day.
MAY: On May 10th, 17th and 24th, we should have classes, or in Bel Air, or at one of the new locations. To be announced!
On May 13th, we will have a major class in Orange County, so that people there don't feel left out! ;) Stay tuned!
And sometimes early or mid-May, we should also have a follow-up class at our location in Alhambra.
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JUNE: Announcing this year's EARTHDAY L.A. VENICE BEACH ECOFEST
coming on Venice Beach on June 27th, where we will of
course have our own booth, for which we need volunteers!
|=============================================================|coming on Venice Beach on June 27th, where we will of
course have our own booth, for which we need volunteers!
|>>> DIRECTIONS to our classes & gatherings are AT THE BOTTOM! <<<| Meaning, if you are looking for DIRECTIONS for the NEXT class, you will find them at the very end of this post!
|=============================================================|An idea for which the time has come - reaching beyond Tinseltown!
Do you speak and write a foreign language? People need your help!
http://victorygardens2.blogspot.com/2009/04/victory-gardening-events-go-national.html
LATEST NEWS 1: If you want free horse manure for your own garden, we now have a source in Burbank, that we can share with you. The deal is up to half of what you collect is yours, and you bring the other half to the class (bags, or any containers of your choice). If interested, please email for instructions and directions!
Our fifth Bel Air class (our Earthday class) was held on Thursday April 23 from 3 to 7:30 in the same location as the four previous ones! The theme of the class was: Learn to Build Magic Boxes with the P.L.E.A.S.E. Method! About PLEASING, perhaps start by watching the videos listed here, particularly the ones showing Sepp Holzer's applications of his personal version of the P.L.E.A.S.E. approach in harsh environment (alpine) permaculture, growing oranges and lemons as regularly planted trees on the mountainside in the Austrian Alps at 5,000 feet!
Class members learned to P.L.E.A.S.E. in the most efficient way with the help of Magic Boxes!
Most useful knowledge! Now, you may think, "Wait a minute, I don't have a Magic Box!" Well, maybe not yet... but getting one is yours, just for the asking! In fact, anyone can do it almost anywhere! You can do it in California, of course. But you could as well in Alaska, in Maine, or even in Iceland or Patagonia, if you were to move there! You don't even need land for this!
You can do it in the Spring! You can do it in the Summer! You can do it in the Fall! And you can do it in the Winter as well!
Learn Magic Box tricks, and they will soon become the key to all sorts of remarkable results! Out of two old pallets gathered for free by Krystal, we built one magic box about 3' x 3.5' which should be good for a couple hundred pounds of potatoes. It took longer than planned, and we actually ended the Project only at 8:45 PM!
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LN2: NEW INTRODUCTION VIDEOS LISTED AT THE END OF THIS EMAIL ============================================================
LATEST NEWS 3: Our fourth class in Bel Air was held on Wednesday 04/15 from 3 to 7:30. It mainly featured how to transform a useless band of earth alongside a house into a productive little home garden in which we planted all sorts of goodies. 14 people attended, which again is quite remarkable for a Wednesday afternoon. We also talked about seeking grants and starting to do these no-cost classes wholesale.
We had our third class/gathering in Bel Air Thursday 04/09 from 3 to 7:30, attended by 18 people, which is remarkable for a week-day class, and shows how these classes truly address a need. So, if you have a location where a Project could be started or have some experience and could be teaching or help teaching about gardening, please tell us about it, and we will send you the material that goes over the four main options for creating a new Project, namely: Do and manage it yourself; Have it done and managed for you commercially; Have it done and managed at no costs to you in a partnership between you and our non-profit, if the conditions for that exist; and finally, Have it done with our support as a collective local effort between you, your friends and family, or your school or church, supplemented with local volunteers. Plus, there are several side options or sub-options we also overview. Also, if anyone has experience with grant requests writing, and a bit of time, that would be great, as we want to explore that avenue, since we could do a lot more if we had the funds for it. That week, we planted various things such as potatoes, chayote, purple corn, celery roots, beets, and much more, as well as seeding for 9 varieties of lettuce courtesy of Jack McAndrew the bio-dynamic wizard at www.biodynamiccompost.com , who unfortunately is now completely out of biodynamic compost until the next batch is ready, so you can't buy any at any price right now (that's the problem with small-scale production of a high-demand product -- sometimes all of it is just gone).
Our previous Class in Bel Air on Sunday 4/5 was also very fruitful. We created two small raised beds where nothing was before in one afternoon, almost totally from local materials, if we except two buckets of decomposed granite and calcareous sand, seaweed from the Palisades, and a mix of horse manure and alfalfa from a stable...
The current Bel Air series of events should be considered both a "Westside" as well as a "Valley" class, as they are exactly mid-way. There will be nothing again at the usual Alhambra location till May. We absolutely love to show people how to create an optimal organic (and sustainable) garden, so we look forward to see you during all our coming classes and gatherings, which will all be announced in time, usually once or twice a week, about 5-6 a month.
The Alhambra project got lots of new wood donated, and help with easy carpentry is also needed there (to set up new raised beds)! But this is not a "class", just volunteering.
Please note: No Pasadena classes in the near future, contrary to what was in the planning, but there is something in the making in Mission Hills, Pacific Palisades, Sylmar and perhaps in Palos Verde -- stay tuned about these ones!
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A Special Note for people owning or having permanent, stable access to some available land:
Please also note that if you have a substantial (or even a small) backyard, besides trying to do something out of it entirely without help, you could also consider creating a "Project" of your own at your place. Such a Project can be entirely self-administered and self-managed from garden design to on-going maintenance. It can also be designed by a Resident Coordinator who'd reside there for a couple months (if you have the space to host one, that is, an unused bedroom, big RV or even real or virtual garage conversion), and then managed by you or by us. Of course there are many other options, such as having it done commercially; making a community project out of it, etc, etc. Please inquire for details. Please note that a standard "Project" is not a "community garden" (that is another type of project), but a garden of your own that is created with you or for you at no costs to yourself when it comes to design and labor, in exchange for a share of the produce, to be determined by common agreement depending on many possible factors.
To give you an idea, each year, here in Southern California, any 500 square feet of usable space, if optimally prepared, that is, raised beds, designer soil, mushroom mycelium inoculation, etc, once mature, is big enough to produce about 1,500 pounds of organic and sustainable food of the highest quality. Plus, normally there is always additional space people would normally not think of for gardening, along walls, etc, but which is usually usable as well with proper plantings, for example with vines such as, say, chayote squash, pole beans, and all sort of long-vined squashes and fruit, such as passion fruit, kiwi, grapes, etc. If you are interested in starting a Project of your own, no matter if self-managed or managed for you by a Project Coordinator, we have a separate detailed email that goes over the several different options you might want to consider. Just send an email saying "Please send Project information" to get it. Actually, this is now getting so elaborate that we are going to put it on its own website soon.
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WHO WE ARE:
We are a "Victory Gardens 2.0" (Hey! even Michele Obama just
got into it, at the same time legislation to make organic gardening
illegal under the guise of "food safety" is discussed in Congress -
- now is this a case of political schizophrenia??? Perhaps consider
calling your congresspeople and tell them what you think about it!)
and "HEALTH THRU GARDENING" informal group open to new participants,
active in the Greater Los Angeles area - several locations, from
Orange County to Southern Ventura County. But in fact, read on,
and you will find out why we are a lot more than that as well...
WHAT WE DO IN THIS PART OF THE PROJECT:
First, design, start, maintain and share local Organic Gardens.
So people can emulate what we do on their own. "Copy it", if you
wish, adapting it to their own needs, environment and conditions.
So as to, in turn, become models to others.
As a matter of principle, we never charge anything for what we
offer. The unfortunate side of this is that also, we cannot
compensate you for your input either, would you wish to help us.
We believe that during this "Second Coming of the Great Depression",
as the Crisis further unfolds into a "Greater Depression", endeavors
such as ours will become increasingly in tune with the necessities
of the time as well as the needs of the people.
In fact, it is not impossible that in a future perhaps not too
far away, cities which will have adopted early timely programs,
such as those we advocate, might congratulate themselves for having
done so while they could. We certainly hope that the Greater Los
Angeles will show leadership in this area. However, as is often
the case with anything innovative and outside of the cages of
habit and conventional thinking, there has been some talk among
politicians, but little action. And, so far, certainly nothing
that will make any difference worth talking about.
With one exception we wish to fully acknowledge here: The strong
leadership expressed in and by the city of Santa Monica.
There, several innovative and impactful programs have been
developed and are currently successfully implemented. They all
express a clear will to cut through the red tape, as much as can
be done, and truly make a difference. We do not know who to
truly credit for these efforts, but we certainly wish to hail them.
But even more important than mere economic reasons, it is our
core belief that to be healthy, the very first thing we must do is
master systemic input. That is, breath clean air, drink pure water,
and eat fully functional food. In other words, EAT RIGHT.
For this, nothing can beat food grown truly organically (or shall
we say "ecologically") right where we live - that is, "zero food
miles" "truly organic" and sustainable food.
In fact, for the active environmentalist, instead of focusing
on nebulous and perhaps even misleading issues of little
immediate benefit to the many, nothing beats showing people and
factually proving that "eating Right" is a choice anyone can make,
anywhere and at any time. And that it is actually "a choice easy
to make".
Including (and preferably) by going straight to the ultimate
and optimal choice, access to your own "truly organically-grown"
"natural and functional" "sustainable" food.
One of our specialties is the concept of "Above Organic"
"Sustainable" "Optimal Edible EcoSystems" or "Edible Landscape".
Actually, saying that we "believe" that, to be healthy, one
"should" eat right is rather misleading.
This has little to do with "belief". It is definitely FACT. Fact
that has been proven over and over during the ages. Fact already
summarized almost twenty-five hundred years ago by no less than
the "Father of Medicine", Hippocrates, with the well-known aphorism
"Let Thy Food be Thy Medicine". Fact further explored nineteen
hundred years ago by his disciple Galen, whose core idea was that
"Nature" had designed living creatures to function perfectly.
That such was their own nature, if they were allowed to express it,
that is, assuming they lived with optimal input in pure air, water
and food. So, it's truly not that we are proposing anything new here.
Moreover, this fact was demonstrated again recently during the longest
(and still on-going) research project ever made on human nutrition,
known as the "China Project". Cornell and Oxford Universities,
working in team with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese
Ministry of Health, under the remarkable leadership of Pr Dr T.
Colin Campbell, have accumulated an enormous wealth of statistical
facts that stare us all right in the eyes. All we have to do is look
at them, and *think*. For a change!
Further, we feel that if one wants to do something for the
planet, one needs to start with oneself and one's own environment.
In other words, that "active environmentalism" is what counts.
Rather than "environmental activism", which is unfortunately
too often fluff and waste of time and resources in what are often
dead-end or misleading directions (think, for example, "ethanol"
or "peak oil").
And if the reward for doing right for you ends being vastly improved
health and well-being, are you really going to complain? We certainly won't!
So what we do is endeavor to educate people about issues pertaining
to the Environment, Ecology, Green Living and Green Buildings,
Organic and Sustainable Agriculture and Gardening, Alternative
Health, and New Energy. And how they all relate to our health and
well-being. For this, we are in the process of collecting data
and producing substantial educational and edutainment material.
You can see some of that material on websites such as:
http://victorygardens2.blogspot.com and its complement
http://vg2gardenerhandbook.blogspot.com , as well as other sites
such as lawncrusade.blogspot.com healththrugardening.blogspot.com
www.topangamodel.blogspot.com www.optimalbiomass.blogspot.com
www.pathtofreedom.com / www.pathtofreedom.org , and many more...
We'd suggest to explore the first two listed first, and to finish
with this one: http://savetheplanetandourselves.blogspot.com/ .
We apologize for the fact that this placeholder and PR ranking
accumulating material has yet to be properly edited. (Worse,
some of the older material hasn't even been properly spellchecked!)
We are slowly working on these issues.
Some of the things we are best at are soil design and using the
systemic relationship between soil, natural energy, plants and
humankind for both our individual and collective benefits.
This is based on a long experience, grounded in and on the input,
over the years, of the most amazing mentors, and with historic
affiliations going back to the likes of Karl von Reichenbach,
Rudolf Steiner, Otto Warburg, Carl-Gustav Jung, Wilhelm Reich,
Viktor Schauberger, Viktor Frankl, Konrad Lorenz, Karl von Frisch,
Karl Bauer, Hans von Reichmann, Helan Jaworski, Alfred Korzybski,
Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Maurice Maeterlinck, Louis Kervran,
Andre Birre, Andre Voisin and Jean Pain. To name just a few.
This lead us to develop concepts such as what one could call the
idea of "Optimal" "Above Organic" "Edible EcoSystems". Which, at
the practical level, leads to something like sort of " 'Square Foot
Gardening' and 'Companion Planting' 'on steroids' " as part of
"Edible and Sustainable EcoSystems", and was finally formalized
as the PLEASE Organic Victory Gardening approach.
Another of our areas of specialization is the relationship between
functional food and human well-being and health, in other words,
"Optimal Nutrition". This, in a sense, was the true specialty
of Pr Dr Otto Warburg, even if the fact is totally ignored nowadays,
as he reached wide recognition for his work in cell physiology.
It is the knowledge and experience so accumulated over the
years, that allows us to recognize and acknowledge the
contemporary input of Pr Dr T. Colin Campbell as absolutely
invaluable. We cannot think of anyone else who, today, would
more deserve a Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.
Theory is great, but practice, even better. So we tend to
think that teaching by showing people how to do and experience
the things that can change their lives by themselves is the most
important part of what we do.
This is why we were absolutely delighted to discover by chance,
a couple weeks ago, that our concerns and vision are widely shared
by one of the most outstanding architects and urban designers of
our age, Ian Ritchie, Royal Professor of Architecture at the Royal
Academy in London, who assured us of his full support.
This led us to hope that in consideration of such support, the
City of Los Angeles will end starting to show leadership in these
areas. Indeed, at a conference at the USC campus on January 21st,
2009, and in private conversations thereafter, Mr Ritchie outlined
ideas which, if they were to be adopted by City Hall, would
certainly prove quite instrumental in helping to alleviate
some of the unavoidable problems that will come with the further
unfolding of the economic aspects of the Great Crisis.
The good news is that to start living a better and healthier life,
we do not need any impetus or incentives coming from above.
In fact, "choosing a better and healthier life" is one of the
easiest thing for you to do. Simply because starting to "Eat Right",
doubtlessly one of the most impactful and transformational action
anyone can take, is something anyone can do. Truly, it is a
choice any of us can make, anywhere, and at any time of our choice.
The very first thing to do starts in and with your own backyard,
or the backyards of friends and/or family. Here in Southern
California, any backyard or rooftop can easily and very cost-
effectively (read -- on a total shoestring, if needs be)
be transformed into a little paradise. An oasis that can produce
2 to 3 pounds of food per square foot per year, and more.
Meaning, handled optimally, a 1,000 square feet backyard can
produce 1 to 1.5 and, in fact, 2+ tons of fresh, wholesome organic
food each year. Something which can easily be demonstrated.
Because this is not at all just theory. Anyone who so wishes can
visit a place, right now, right here, in Pasadena, where this
was achieved in 2008: 10,000 pounds of organic food produced
on just a 4,000 square feet backyard! You can see this fully
illustrated at www.pathtofreedom.org and www.pathtofreedom.com .
The videolog for PTF is here: http://www.youtube.com/user/dervaes?ob=1
We simply teach people how to do the same. For this, we have
several on-going projects that will be completely documented
on video, from small clips to feature-length, professionally-
edited material, in which you can participate. And more are coming.
And we encourage our emulators to do as we attempt to do, try to
be "channels' in the sense expressed by Carl-Gustav Jung:
"The channel is not a person endowed with free will who seeks
his own ends, but one who allows 'creation' ('art') to realize
its purposes through him. As a human being, he [or she] may have
moods and a will and personal aims, but as a channel he [or she]
is 'human' in a higher sense - 'symbolically human'; a vehicle and
molder of the unconscious psychic life of humankind." - Carl
Gustav Jung, "'Psychology and Literature," 1930.
[The word translated here as "channel" is extremely difficult
to translate. It could be translated as "artist" or "poet", which
would be misleading, as it does not mean "poet" or "artist" in
the common sense, but rather "poieit" as in the Greek "poiein" -
- creator, inventor, maker of things or ideas. Or even more
truthfully, the expression of collective memes, the "channel" or
incarnation of or for archetypes.]
Moreover, we are currently looking for a land donation or long term
lease for a symbolic dollar allowing us to create as many as
possible model facilities. Currently, we have two small projects
in the process of being documented, one in Bel Air (Beverly Glen)
between Bel Air and Sherman Oaks, the other in East L.A., at the
exact border of L.A. with Alhambra and South Pasadena. There are
several other projects in the pipeline, for example possibly in
Sylmar and Palos Verde
WHAT WE NEED: Help in all forms, and first, volunteers to help do
as well as document the work in progress, as well as potential
Projects Coordinators. Of course, tools, materials, money, etc,
are quite welcome too... As well as more places to demonstrate
what can be done -- such as perhaps your own backyard!
At any rate, TO DO WHAT WE DO, WE NEED YOUR HELP! So, if you are
interested in what we do and want to help, or want to learn how
to transform a lawn or an empty backyard into an organic food-
producing garden, or know people who might be interested, please
contact us and come participate in our on-going activities.
In any event, our next Organic Garden Gathering and Hands-on Free
Class will be every Sunday in April and May in a new location to
be announced, and you can still volunteer at the old location
in L.A. near Alhambra off Huntington Drive.
We are also open to weekdays volunteering, if there is some interest
for it and to special on-demand classes for schools, groups, churches,
etc. Just tell us what would be most convenient to you.
Also, please note that we are also actively looking for more
projects to take on, particularly from April-May 2009 on.
At any rate, if we don't have it already, please provides us with
your location and a number to contact you, just in case there are
changes in location or timing, or new Projects closer to you. And
please feel free to bring along anyone in your friends or family
who might be interested, including children, as long as they come
with at least one parent.
Please note that we also need help with Project Coordination,
Talent Management (for example for the videos) and technical help
(for things such as websites set-up and maintenance, text editing,
and making and editing audios and videos or other multimedia
material, for example Camtasia (or similar)-based educational
material).
Projects Coordination
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INTRODUCTION VIDEO MATERIAL
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See how using one's brains and observing nature, it is possible to grow ORANGES and LEMONS in the AUSTRIAN ALPS at close to 5,000 feet altitude not in greenhouses, but as REGULAR TREES. Using the same principles, you can grow
ANYTHING in Southern California. So... JUST DO IT!
(That's what Victory Gardening is all about!)
P.L.E.A.S.E. GARDENING is the most cutting-edge and powerful
approach there is, and it is yours just for the asking.
Here is is an introduction video to one of its simplest
and most time-proven approach, usually known as "Square Foot
Gardening", which goes back to Rudolf Steiner's 1924 Lessons.
But PLEASE READ THIS WARNING before watching or downloading videos!
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WARNING: HOW TO USE ANTI-VIRUS & ANTI MALWARE SOFTWARE WHEN WATCHING OR DOWNLOADING VIDEOS FROM THE NET, and PRACTICE "SAFE SURFING"!
When you use these URLs to play or download the following video files,
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If you read their "terms of service" (something no one does, but we
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Not only would they collect "personally identifiable information"
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have any remedy if they installed virus, trojans, worms, *any* form
of spyware, including keyloggers, or even simply remotely destroyed
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As for the files themselves, they are just videos you can play
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And run these programs after downloading and before playing *anything*.
You can (and should, if you haven't done it yet) install the
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Ad-Aware, which can be found on the CNET.com download page here:
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Spybot - Search & Destroy, which can be found here:
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If Norton, McAfee or Kasperski tell you not to install Spybot
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Against these, all we can do is continuing down the legal road,
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There are no incompatibilities, only an attempts to corner the
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The best two f r e e anti-virus programs (together, superior to any
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three above-named commercial anti-virus companies with shady
practices, and both are f r e e for personal use, on as many
machines as you want:
Avast Anti-Virus can be found here:
http://avast.com/ and downloaded from cnet.com:
http://download.cnet.com/Avast-Home-Edition/3000-2239-10019223.html?part=dl-AvastHome&subj=dl&tag=button
You will need any throw-away (or even "real", as in our experience,
they don't spam) email address to get a f r e e license number
for private use. That is fine -- we have no idea why they collect
them, since it appears they never use them or sell them. The
licensing page (for which you need an email address) is here:
http://avast.com/eng/home-registration.php
AVG Anti-Virus can be found here:
http://free.avg.com/download it can be downloaded directly from here:
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(Don't get caught with the "Free Upgrade" (which is "powered by
TrialPay" -- that is, you have to "complete an offer"...)
Installing its complement "AVG LinkScanner® Free Edition
Real-time protection against online threats such as hacked or
infected web pages" could be useful too. "Makes your search and
surf safe" (let's tone that down to "a bit safer"). It can be found here:
http://free.avg.com/download?prd=lsf or directly downloaded from:
http://www.avg.com/filedir/inst/avg_lsf_stf_en_85_289.exe
AVG also has an integrated download manager, if you need one:
http://www.avg.com/filedir/inst/avg_lsf_stb_en_8_18.exe
It is possible to install AVG over Avast and have both running,
which is supposedly not possible. In our experience this works
just fine if you install Avast first. And you decided to install
only one, it is possible that AVG is marginally better, as it has
some anti-malware aspects. However, it has no rootkit (a particularly
annoying form of malware) detection or protection, while Avast does.
http://www.trendsecure.com/portal/en-US/tools/security_tools/housecall/
is a secure external scan of your computer by another anti-virus
company (the same that produces "HiJack This"). You might want to do
this too, as it might detect something missed by Avast and AVG
(but these two will detect malware that "Housecall" won't).
Another good thing to do would be to try their f r e e "BotNet
Detector, which you can get on this page:
http://www.trendsecure.com/portal/en-US/tools/security_tools/rubotted
Do NOT EVER download anything that ~pretends~ to be an anti-virus
or anti-malware program, registry scanner, etc... that has not be
recommended by a truly reputable source, PARTICULARLY IF it pops-up
out of nowhere in a seemingly "Windows Internal Message" or Fly-in.
Numerous virus, trojans, spywares, etc, pretend to be the opposite
of what they are... If you find no other way out when one tries to
install itself, use Control-Alt-Delete depressed simultaneously,
and shut down, or even just unplug the power cord from your machine.
Another very useful tool is the "HiJack This" Registry Keys analyzer.
However, don't delete anything after a scan, unless you actually
know what you are doing! You can find it here:
http://www.trendsecure.com/portal/en-US/tools/security_tools/hijackthis/download
along with directions about how to submit a scan for comments by
knowledgeable people before deleting anything.
After this long but necessary introduction to security (triggered
by actually *reading* the "Badongo Toolbar" "Terms of Service"), and
realizing that we might unwittingly indirectly cause people to install
de-facto malware such as the Badongo toolbar, here is a first batch of
links to relevant videos about Organic Victory Gardening, which we
believe to be quite educational, and highly encourage you to watch:
[You will have to wait 60 secs before being able to download!]
[Do NOT download the "Badongo Toolbar" or "Buddy" for any reason!!!]
[When you see "Please wait, loading ....." scroll to the bottom of the
page and click on "Download" when it appears. If you don't, it will
time out and you will get confusing messages trying to persuade you
you can't download anything without paying! If www.youtube.com hadn't
a tiny 10 MB file size limit, life would be easier, wouldn't it?]
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SFG P.L.E.A.S.E. Patterning -Introduction to Patterned Gardening
in the form of "Square Foot Gardening" - 178.4 MB
http://depositfiles.com/files/hy61r4t51
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http://www.badongo.com/vid/1096575 - .avi format 178.4 MB on a different host.
http://www.badongo.com/vid/1096156 - .flv format 175 MB on a different host.
Same file in the in Badongo service. [Do NOT download their "Toolbar"!!!]
The back-up source on another different host has been DISCONTINUED!
http:// xxx .com/go/cnCt5i - .avi format 178.4 MB . This site has turned
on the full crooky mode, trying to make you pay $2.98 a month.
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Holzer - P.L.E.A.S.E. Patterning - Raised Beds and Terraces - 291.4 MB
http://depositfiles.com/files/j5cfiwdd0
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http://www.badongo.com/vid/1096818 - .avi format on a different host.
http://www.badongo.com/vid/1096204 - .flv format on a different host.
[Do NOT download their "Toolbar" for any reason!!!]
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Holzer - P.L.E.A.S.E. Patterning - Working with Nature - 357.9 MB
http://depositfiles.com/files/ovn6d7v20
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http://www.badongo.com/vid/1096278 The same file on a different host.
[Do NOT download their "Toolbar" for any reason!!!]
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DIRECTIONS TO THE REDONDO BEACH CLASS
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The directions are very simple, since you are going to the Whole Foods
Market in Redondo Beach, which is directly on the Pacific Coast Highway
at 405 N. Pacific Coast Highway, Redondo Beach CA 90277
If you are in Downtown L.A., you can take the 110 to the 405 North
(North for a very short time only) and get out at W 190th St. to
continue toward the seaside until you hit the Pacific Coast Highway
(Note that 190th changes its name to "Anita" - its the same street).
From the Westside you take the 405 South till Artesia West, then go
South on any major cross-street such as Hawthorne, till you cross
190th Street, and then West on 190th Street to the PCH.
Or use any other way to get to the seaside that's practical to you.
Sooner or later, you will hit the Pacific Coast Highway, and you are
going to 405 N. Pacific Coast Highway, Redondo Beach CA 90277.
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