Seed Capital to Abolish Food Deserts

Seed Capital to Abolish Food Deserts

From the Cyber Pen of Sasteh Meter Mosley   

November 6th, 2011

To download your Application links: http://www.emwot.ws 

Over the last three years, I have worked with many of you individually to gain more Food Sovereignty for the residents of the East side of Kansas City.  Now I would like to present a funding stream here in Kansas City that can provide the necessary start-up funds for farms, community food projects, stipends for workers, infrastructure for existing pantries, land acquisition, or any other reasonable expenses to wash away any obstacle to producing healthy foods. I am in Oakland, California for the Community Food Security Coalitions with thousands of other in the country that realize we have to take the next step in the Food Movement.

With the announcement that Aldi will open in 2011, It was suggested that the Food Desert in East Kansas City, MO will be eliminated.  Unfortunately, the definition of having a grocery store within a mile (12 city blocks) is woefully inadequate to address the nutritional challenges of low income and high health risk residents.  Several organizations have convened groups to define solutions: 

1.  2008 NBUF Food System meetings at Dubois Learning Center with Bill Grace (DLC), The Beys (Moorish Science Temple), Kenyattas (Seed Restaurant), and Sasteh Mosley (Amen Christ Temple)

2.  2009 Black Agenda Group present Jim Nunley Training on Health Care Foundation, Rosa James (NAACP), Carol Coe, Debra Mann (Emmanuel Community Center)

3.  2009 Stimulus Funds Economic Development Meetings on Creation of Green Jobs (Urban Farming), Marlon Hammonds and Sasteh Mosley, Craig Bland (Freedom Inc), Clyde McQueen (FEC), Ken Bacchus (Economic Development Chair BAG and Freedom Inc.), Carol Coe (Convener), 19 other Activists

4.  2010 Urban Farming Ordinance and Food Policy Summit,  Beth Gothstein (Organizer), Terry Riley, Sharon Sanders Brooks, Cindy Circo, Melba Curls, John Sharp, and Ed Ford (Ten Voted in Favor of Ordinance), KCCUA, GCFPC, Bad Seed, EMWOT, Green Acres

5.  2011 Urban Farm Movement, Will Allen Abolish the Food Desert Event by Green Acres, Chicken Ordinance KCMO, Green Acres Urban Farm and Research Project Aquaponics Program (KCMO, KCMSD, BEU), EMWOT Urban Farm initiatives and services (Real Estate and Land Acquisition for farming, Farm Tours, At-Risk-Youth with Green Careers, Tilling Services, Music CDs, Health Classes), Get Growing Kansas City (CultivateKC.org, KC Community Gardens, and Lincoln University) Adenike AmenRa (AmenRa Par Ankh- Urban Farms, Wheatgrass, Food Preservation Classes)

Let's all take the next step in this movement.  As other movements plan to come into the East side of Kansas City, let’s make sure we continue to do the work to ensure that residents have the healthy, locally grown food they need to be successful.  Let's get these applications in, help others submit them, pass them on to those who are willing to work for a healthier city.  This seed capital can help those with tight budgets do something fun to help them feed themselves, support farm businesses that can hire people, and help existing organizations get into the "teach how to fish" side of feeding people. 

 Please forward this information to the gardeners, farmers, and community leaders you know.  I can provide technical assistance, group presentations, and free workshops to assist in getting the applications complete. 

Thanks,

Sasteh Mosley

CEO of EMWOT (East Meets West of Troost), (816) 304-7240 and

Team Member Get Growing Kansas City (Zip Codes 64128 and 66104), (913) 279-1461

Part 2-Nov 2010 Jamal Ali Interview @ Heartfire Rendezvous.avi

PTAH OGUN!!! My ears to my toes miss your deep voice, …and your giggles …and then your open resounding laughter. As You would methodically construct, layer upon layer, with mathematical precision a concert of ideas, a labyrinth of concepts, …so intense was the heat of your SUN to me!!! As you have poured your wisdom, knowledge, your heart to me… I receive your love and your guidance. You are MY AKU! I will pass down your name to my children and to my children’s children!! I Love you Baba! Dwell in my consciousness, my dreams, my spirit always!!!! I SEE YOU!!! NUG O HA TP!

Are You a Whole Brain Thinker?

ARE YOU A WHOLE BRAIN THINKER?
Look at the charts below and say the COLOR and NOT the WORD... (Your right brain wants to say the color, but our left brain insists on reading the word..

 http://www.funderstanding.com/content/right-brain-vs-left-brain We really have 3 brains(5 parts) in our head. The right brain is Random, Intuitive, Wholistic, Subjective and Synthesizing. So, as a result, the right brain controls the way one Feels a rhythm, distinguishes color, stimulates Imagination or the appreciation of dimension and distance for instance. The right brain also controls the opposite-left side of one's body. So by closing the right eye, while using only your left eye, you might strengthen access to your right brain(which recognizes abstraction, structure and color... 

Whole brain thinkers are able to balance the right and left functioning of their thoughts. http://www.holisticjunction.com/categories/HPD/whole-brain-thinking-practitioners.html ...As a parent and educator, I have often thought a...bout the flaws of our educational system. Many are well aware of how the educational system is not set up for the achievement and advancement of our Afrikan children. There is still (imho) too much of an emphasis and imbalance of left-brain functioning as a gauge of intelligence and academic success. I often sought to give opportunities for our children to express themselves using more of their multiple Intelligences.




Dr Amos Wilson speaks truth to power on the challenge of our Afrikan children! https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150195550139782 Also: http://www.trainerslibrary.com/Previews/WholeBrain/CT-wholebrain.pdf Also: http://www.funderstanding.com/content/right-brain-vs-left-brain 

Matriarchal Society, POLYGYNY | POLYGAMY

POLYGYNY | POLYGAMY - In Africa
Polygamy/Polygyny expert Esther Stanford gives a sharp and profound scholastic food for thought on polygamy and African people.

African Marriage Customs from Halaqah Films

"Polygamy became taboo with Colonialism due to the conflict with inheritance in large families, the social-economic threat caused by increased African populations and the Eurocentric Christian/puritanical values.
However today polygamy is still a reality and is becoming an option in the African Diaspora in response to social dilemmas. Polygamy within the framework of law and balance is a viable aspect of African family systems which is existed from Kemet to Sokoto.

Perception of African self has been so given to us by the “other” that it is hard to distinguish what is indigenous intelligence and what is a product of mental conditioning because of the European dynamic.

There is a great confusion around modernity with progress and development and too often Westernization or more specific Europeanization is collapses into modernity.

African people must objectively re-examine structures that were the backbone of their historical development in an attempt to successfully engage in modernity. "

CHOICE IS THE OPERATIVE WORD! In the Matriarchal society, the WOMEN made the Choice to take on another wife!

I reflect on The Biblical prose of  The Virtuous Woman... "

The Virtuous Woman is a married wife to her husband, and queen of her household. She owns land and provides resources to her community. She is in charge of making selective choices on the provision of her household. This proverb speaks of Children, her Husband, Maidens, Elders, Land, a Vineyard, Handwoven tapestry, clothing, merchandise, Selling, distribution, and vending and Philanthropy. The Caretakers of her children, Educators, Agriculturalist, Water, food, and sanitation are Present. Industries such as Wood Carving, Animal Husbandry, Woven fibers from Flax, Silk, and Cotton, as well as Leather, Wool, organic dyes, Wax collecting, Candle making, grinding wheat, Bakeries, Food preparation and processing etc., were mentioned in her household.

Our Afrikan Women dwelled in successful matriarchal communities. Our early Matriarchal societies were a society of hermaphrodites, in that they were able to procreate their own girls. Women were Rulers, Queens, and Mothers; which were roles that maintained harmony and prosperity in the gnome society. Our ancient societies Venerated the Black Pregnant Mother as Goddesses! So, the whole of society worked to the prosperity of new life and the pregnant Mother.

Auset was the first Queen Mother to give birth in immaculate conception a male Sun named Heru!

Much later, Marriage began to be a very significant achievement. It was the merger of Gnome families, This provided an abundance of wealth and resources. Of course, she couldn't do this all alone! Often, in the matriarchal society, the new bride would either be negotiated with a bride price from the groom's family. This bride price may be cattle, gold or other precious minerals, game. or many other produced or manufactured materials. The bride price paid for the loss of her valuable role in the economics of their family Gnome. The Bride may also bring her own inheritance of resources, Land and a staff of workers from her family through marriage endowment. The Matriarch would also have her Mothers, from both sides of her family, Her Sisters, Aunts, and cousins would be involved and accompany her own gnome of resources. So, the choice of a wife taking on another wife from her sisters, or even concubine from her staff, to add children, wealth and resources to her family was a major accomplishment for her household. The Matriarchy was more often the Mother passing her inheritance to her Daughter's relationship., yet in later times, the Mother-Son. Mary is the Afrakan manifestation of Ma/Re. Ma/Re, Ma/Sun Ma/n was established, The Queen/Kandaki sat in power with her Son/Nsbity.

 Our ancient societies venerated the Universe of the night stars as the Great Mother Nut/Net. She was constantly giving birth to new Stars. "Evening and the morning is the first day,.."  Every day at dusk, Queen Mother Nut would swallow the Sun Ra and give birth to a new Daystar every morning, Our ancient queen mothers would present themselves to the sun, and like any plant or tree, she would ask the sun for new life. So, our ancient Ancestors thought of all Mothers as Madonnas and virgins who immaculately conceived their children from the Sun.

Auset was the sister/wife of the benevolent Ruler Ausar. Ausar was murdered by his jealous possessed brother Set. In her grief over the loss of her husband, Auset immaculately conceived a sun and named him Heru. The paradigm of Mother and Sun is prolific within the Ancient Afrikan diaspora.

MARY and KRST were the foundations of Christianity. Yet the Presence of Mary diminished to no representation in the patriarchal trinity who covered her with a sheet, then embalmed her into a Holyghost in the Aryan Abrahamic, Jew, Christian, and Islamic religions and cultures.

Until we return to the Matriarchal structure, the Melanin people will continue to suffer, economically and in our families
We must return to the trinity of the Father, Mother, and Child reunion.