Couldn’t the small backyard grower use a cold frame for winter greens to the restaurant. Just a thought if someone wants to make it a business. I give my extra free to anyone who wants them in hopes they may want to grow on their own. It has worked.

Jack this is Ryan from the woodybed event.
1) The company I work for uses dolphin docks every year and they are great.
2) BILTONG! That would be awesome to learn directly from you. If it wouldn’t be ready in the timeframe you could just shop it out to us. Also a good way to make yourself a ton of biltong.
3) how about a follow up on our woodybeds.

oh, and Jack, it’s the first thing I think of when you talk about the workshops….what might we eat? Beer’s cool, though. lol

RE: Dairy and Paleo

I don’t believe raw milk would violate a paleo diet.

However, I personally have minor issues with dairy concerning problems with my joints (aches and stiffness). Eliminating dairy helps me with my joint problems. But that’s just me. Your Mileage May Vary. (YMMV.)

As for my own efforts at ingesting raw milk, I just can’t get my hands on the stuff. So my own ability to experiment with seeing how my own body would react to raw milk is impeded by local ordinances against raw milk sales.

RE: Historical propaganda promoting the ingestion of grains

I can’t speak to ancient history. However, I learned from my school teacher training about the history of “The American Public School Free Hot Lunch Program” which was instituted in the late 1940’s after WWII. It turns out that the whole program is nothing more than a government subsidized way of propping up the endless sales of dairy and grains in this nation. The USDA is the primary driver behind this business strategy, and the “Food Pyramid” which came out in the 1990’s was designed NOT with human biological health in mind but instead was crafted to (falsely) promote grains as the most important food group a human can eat from.

Background:

Back in the late 1800’s when the inner city missions such as the Bowery Mission and the American hospital movement and the Salvation Army were all under way, the plight of daily hunger and severe malnutrition among poor inner city children was one of the most pressing concerns of those Christian charity/do-gooder movements. The New York City public school system produced a series of (at the time) magnificent public school buildings all strategically placed throughout the City to service all the common children (the children of the rich who didn’t attend private academies) and give them mandated educations. The buildings were equipped with classrooms and libraries, but none had gymnasiums or lunch rooms. Instead of gyms and lunch rooms, the kids ran around outside every day during recess, and then they brought boxed lunches from home which they ate either outside during recess, or at their school desks during inclement weather. (And any kids who for whatever reason didn’t bring a lunch simply went hungry that day.)

The Christian charity/do-gooder movement proposed that providing free hot lunches in public schools would be a way to ensure that all American children, no matter who poor, got at least one descent meal per day. The idea was flatly dismissed by all entities of government –City government, state government, and federal government. The very idea of feeding the masses for free utterly chafed against the political sensibilities of the day. Charity was not deemed to be the role of government and so all such programs should remain in the hands of private and religious organizations.

Then along came WWI. After that war was over, the generals all sat down and agreed that too many of the soldiers that came from the ranks of the American populace was mediocre. They felt too many young men who could have been called in for combat were rejected under the new Selective Service Act and classified as medically unfit for duty due to medical reasons clearly related to childhood nutritional deficiencies. Physical deformities and permanent injuries were something no one could do anything about. But the toll exacted by childhood malnutrition represented a terrible waste of manpower in their eyes. The generals suggested that if the American government could somehow assist with improving the nutritional intake of American children, then the next time a war rolled around we’d have a better pool of physically fit young men to draw from. So the generals borrowed the same proposal originally put forth decades earlier by the Christian charity/do-gooder crowd, and they likewise suggested that public schools could be used to feed proper diets to American children via a federally subsidized free hot lunch program. But once again the US government balked at the idea of public charity from the coffers of Uncle Sam. However, as a side issue, the generals also insisted that the government address a secondary concern, specifically the issue of overall physical fitness. They insisted that too many American young men were not as physically fit as they needed to be for combat. And so on this one issue the US government concurred, and that was when the laws concerning mandatory physical education classes in all American public school first came into being. And so from then onward, ALL new public schools had to be built with gymnasiums in them. And ALL children attending public school had to take phys ed class.

Then the Roaring 20’s happened with lots of money flying around and a lot of terrific public school buildings got built everywhere in America with some truly state-of-the-art (at the time) gymnasiums (such as the swimming pool seen under the gymnasium floor in the movie It’s a Wonderful Life). But then came the Great Depression of the 1930’s. Lots of poverty and malnutrition ensued among an entire generation of children from 1930 onward. After 10 years of terrible diets, those 6-year-old and 7-year-old kids from 1930 were suddenly 16 and 17 years old when WWII started. And of course those kids all signed up to fight in the war. But too many of them (at least as far as the generals were concerned) showed up with rickets, bad teeth, underweight, etc. Too many of them were classified as 4-F (rejected for medical deficiency).

We won WWII. But the generals AGAIN came back to the post-war discussion table and they AGAIN insisted that there were too many cases of malnutrition that could have been avoided through earlier dietary intervention. So they AGAIN proposed a free federal hot lunch program for the US public school system. But … AGAIN the government itself said “No! Charity is not the place of government.”

However ….

The American agricultural industry stepped up and voiced their current plight over the whole War Machine getting shut down on them, and thus all their very lucrative produce contracts of supplying the military with food during the war years were suddenly no longer needed due to the war effort now being over and done with. The bottom was about to fall out of the entire us agricultural business, which would send thousands of farmers into bankruptcy, would shut down thousands of farms, and we’d see a huge rebound effect in prices. That rebound would start off with a huge fire sale of all agri-products where food prices would drop down into the basement. But then the following growing season we’d see all food prices everywhere spike right up into cosmic heights due to the sudden food shortage that would result from too many farms going out of business. The agricultural industry demanded that Congress act immediately to prevent a devastating US food crisis.

So for the very first time Congress elected to feed the masses. They went ahead and approved permanent funding for a permanent federal free hot lunch program for all public schools. From then onward ALL newly built public school buildings in the USA had to include a commercial grade cafeteria in their construction. The main focus of this new food distribution program was going to be on potatoes, wheat and dairy. So lots of potatoes, lots of bread, and lots of milk. Dairy in particular was in a serious plight with all those canceled war contracts. But this new lunch program would ensure that all (or at least most) dairy operations throughout the USA could continue their high-output operations which they’d achieved during the war and which they now didn’t believe they could throttle back from without decimating the whole dairy industry. (Just ask a dairy farmer even today in the year 2013 how FINANCIALLY difficult it is to scale back on milking 300 cows every single day once those ladies get cranking along in daily output).

So … next time anyone says the American public school free hot lunch program is a GOOD thing, just remember the true motivation behind keeping it afloat. They couldn’t care less about your kids’ well-being, they just wanna endlessly sell milk and grains. (And as a secondary consideration, they also wanna send your kids to war one day.)

In today’s show I’m pretty sure jack is saying micro liters

Jack, just wanted to let you know that i really hope Rob comes out of this on top. Just had my 3rd comment deleted from CD’s site. Never called anyone a name or any malice. Straight up questions and observations about all three parties involved in this. Yet he lets someone use fat and gay slander repeatedly without any deletion.

I have some concerns about Rob, but CD has really made himself look like a tool even if he is 100% correct. It’s not just the comment boards, it is the way he has handled the whole situation. He comes off as a smug. Sorry for the name calling, but it is what it is.

I’ve tried to look at both sides and CD has some pretty damaging material, but his approach makes me think twice that he is not being 100% honest.

I can imagine the stress this has caused you and I admire that you are sticking to your honor with a friend that could be possibly lying to you. (Not saying for sure that he is) Some call it blindness, I see it as loyalty. We are in short supply of loyalty in this country and im sure many here see that you are trying your best and trying to stick to your word / honor.

Even if this blows up in your face, everyone makes mistakes, no one is perfect. I LOVED the sentinal coins you produced. I ordered some as a hand down to my children when I die some day. I look forward to when this gets cleared up to ordering more.
I recently sat down with my oldest (11 yr) and explained what the coins meant. When my other two get old enough, ill tell them as well. This past week, my wife and I took my oldest to the range for the first time and we both attended a intro to pistols class.

I love your show and love the community of ppl here. I hope someday to attend one of your workshops and maybe have a beer with you. Stay strong in this shit storm that you are in and remember to keep your cool. CD looks like a fool when he goes emo, don’t fall into the same trap.

Again, still rooting for Rob and You to come out on top of this. Take care.

Rawles has posted the outcome of his investigation of Mulligan Mint today ( 8/23/2012 ). It seems like even though he’s been paid his commission and 99.2% of all orders have already shipped, he’s cancelling his relationship because Rob has not answered a complex question with either a yes or a no.