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#3cccJournal2TwittBook SUMMER 1973: Scott left just before the first of July. So these past few months I’ve been living alone. Well, 0332

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..most of the time. My Christian friends have noted that I seem to have a steady stream of female visitors. I’ve 0333

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..told them they’re just friends but they don’t believe me.  I’m getting far less sex then they think! I’ve 0334

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..always preferred one sex partner at a time, so when I want sex I hitchhike into Halifax where I visit Donna 0335

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..Carpenter. Since I have no phone the arrangement is simple. I show up, stay for a  few days, have some amazing 0336

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..sex and then hitchhike back. She likes it this way, I like it this way, so why not? She’s sold out to a strict 0337

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..macrobiotic diet and won’t listen when I tell her a living/raw foods diet is superior. I guess it’s our mutual 0338

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..stubbornness that has kept us from becoming more than just friends and lovers. The garden needs constant 0339

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..tending if I want a good harvest so hitchhiking into Halifax is only as weather permits. And I NEED a good 0340

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..harvest, since the only food I’ll be living on is what I can grow or harvest from the many abandoned orchards. 0341

#3cccJournal2TwittBook OCTOBER 30, 1973: A lot has happened. Since I’m totally broke but prefer my freedom to the city I knew I’d have 0342

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..to move out of the log cabin. In late August with only a month left, I went to the court house to find out who 0343

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..owned the abandoned farm across the road. I got the address of the owner, Davis Foreman, who lives in the 0344

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..Bronx, in NYC. I wrote him and asked if I could fix up the farmhouse to make it livable in exchange for free 0345

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..rent. To my surprise, he wrote back with his approval. There is no electricity, no running water (there’s a 0346

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..large dug stone well about 25 feet from the farmhouse) and no bathroom. Every room is totally bare, even the 0347

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..kitchen has no sink or cabinets. Just 4 walls and all of them covered with a heavy black mold. But I figured 0348

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..once I got the place sealed and and the air-tight heater in there (the one Scott and I used for our A-frame) 0349

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..it would be dry and livable. However, lacking cash for plastic to cover the windows (there aren’t any window 0350

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..frames) or for tar to cover the leaking roof, I’ve been thinking/meditating on creative ways to get help and 0351

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..give something back in return. I came up with this crazy idea to create a natural health and healing 0352

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..conference. I’ve got lots of friends, acquaintances and people I’ve interviewed, all of them into natural, 0353

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..organic, alternative health lifestyles. Once I got the idea and meditated on it I got that same awesome energy 0354

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..flow I felt when I started the BC Commune; it’s an absolute certain KNOWING that this is going to happen. Of 0355

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..course, it makes no sense in the traditional world where money is the criteria for whether something gets the 0356

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..go ahead. Its always so amazing when I’m in the flow. The positive energy and excitement is infectious. Bryan 0357

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..helped by lending the use of his phone and helping me secure free use of the hall across from their home/hotel 0358

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..and health food store in Bear River. I wrote to the Rodale people (Prevention and Organic Gardening magazines) 0359

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..and though they couldn’t send someone on such short notice they offered free use of their film, “Looking for 0360

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..Organic America”. The Baptist church has lent me their projector. I got a few of the local papers to do an 0361

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..article on the conference, which helped to get the word out. Dr. Bruce Hayhoe from St. John, NB came and 0362

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..taught Homeopathy, Cell Salts, and Reflex Therapy. Judy Curtis was back from taking a midwife course in 0363

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..England so she taught midwifery skills. I taught courses on organic gardening and farming. Beth Crosby taught 0364

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..on herbs and their medicinal properties. There were also teachings on yoga, meditation, organic foods and 0365

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..cooking, massage, nutrition, etc. But the highlight of the week long conference (October 21-28) was the 0366

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..arrival of Anne Wigmore, founder of Boston’s Hippocrates Health Institute. She flew into Yarmouth’s regional 0367

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..airport on the 23rd and stayed till the 25th. Anne brought all sorts of sprouts and wheat grass, including a 0368

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..wheat grass juicer so people could learn about her Raw Foods Diet. On her last day, many of us were sitting 0369

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..in an Indian sweat lodge that we got the conference attendees to participate in building. While in the sweat 0370

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..lodge Anne opened up and told me she nearly had the driver turn around and take her back to the airport when 0371

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..she saw the dilapidated farmhouse. But once she decided to stay, to see how it would turn out, she said it was 0372

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..one of the most amazing experiences of her life, one that she wouldn’t have missed for the world. I’m sure one 0373

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..of the reasons everyone had such a great experience, despite the venue, is because I required every attendee 0374

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..to participate. As they arrived I gave them things to do. Some people were sent to the dump to find a kitchen 0375

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..table, a sink, and some wood to make benches. Others would pick berries for everyone. We spent the first few 0376

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..days of the conference just putting the farmhouse in order. People who came from a distance had their own 0377

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..sleeping bags and slept on the floor in the various rooms. Those more local would come on the days we were 0378

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..teaching something of interest to them. Mark and Beth Crosby were involved from the beginning, when I first 0379

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..got the idea. They helped in many, many ways, especially with securing the plastic for the windows and some 0380

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..tar for the roof. I don’t remember who all brought food but we ended up with an abundance of natural foods in 0381

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..large containers. Of course I contributed lots of fresh vegetables from my garden. No one had to try to get 0382

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..people to participate, that was one of the most amazing parts of the whole conference. People were motivated 0383

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..and more than willing to pitch in. Archie Morrow was hitchhiking back to Saskatchewan and stopped by. He 0384

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..stayed for the entire week.  A couple from Providence, RI attended, Terry and Nancy Cannon. And of course 0385

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..there were many people from Nova Scotia and a few from New Brunswick. I estimate that between 45 and 60 people 0386

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..attended throughout the week. Since the conference ended I’ve been busier then ever.  I’ve made several trips 0387

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..to local abandoned orchards to gather apples to store in the root cellar of this old house. With a dirt floor 0388

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..its perfect for root vegetables and apples. I’ve learned that covering them with leaves will retain their 0389

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..moisture but allow for breathing so my produce won’t rot. I put down a layer of leaves, then carrots (or beets 0390

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..or apples, etc.) then a layer of leaves, then more carrots, then more leaves, etc. I’ve built some wood bins 0391

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..that I’ve raised up off the floor for better storage and protection from mice. I’m learning a lot about the 0392

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..large variety of apples that consumers know nothing about, some 3000 varieties! I’ve found in these abandoned 0393

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..orchards, Bishop Pippins (almost banana like taste), Cox’s Orange Pippin (absolutely the best tasting apple in 0394

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..the world; at one time, prior to WWI, farmers in Nova Scotia shipped most of their apples over to England and 0395

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..Cox’s Orange Pippin was their best seller. According to a local farmer, they had more flavor grown here in NS 0396

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..then they did grown in England. But WWI killed the apple export industry in NS. Other apples I’ve harvested: 0397

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..Golden Russet (great eating and juicing apple), Gravenstein (great juicing apple but requires hard frosts to 0398

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..bring out their sweetness), King (bred for natural resistance to insects; this apple is one of the few that 0399

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..have no worms in them and no blemishes on the skin; good tasting too), Bough Sweet (early apple but unlike all 0400

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..other early apples it’s not tart; it has a nut like flavor and is mildly sweet, making for great eating), 0401

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..Baldwin can’t be eaten till after Christmas because it’s so hard (frosts improve the flavor too). Earlier this 0402

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..year, at the height of the wild blueberry and blackberry seasons, I experimented with putting up berries raw. 0403

#3cccJournal2TwittBook Totally new technique I developed, based on my experience with honey.  Honey is a natural anti-biotic so I 0404

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..figured a 50/50 water/honey mixture would preserve the berries. My first one’s exploded, so I tried old glass 0405

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..canning jars filled only ¾ full with berries and honey/water, to allow for some expansion. Then I dipped the 0406

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..jars with lids in paraffin, layer after layer, after layer, to seal in the gases. I was surprised to find IT 0407

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..WORKED!! The key was the extra air space, a thick paraffin coating and placing the jars right on the cool 0408

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..earth to keep them at a constant cool temperature. I sent in the recipe to The Mother Earth News but not sure 0409

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..if they’ll publish it. To make sure I have fresh greens this winter, I’m going to do a lot of sprouting. Anne 0410

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..Wigmore left her wheat grass juicer so I can use it juice the wheat grass. I also have alfalfa seeds and 0411

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..sunflower seeds that were left over from the Health and Healing Conference, so I can grow sprouts all winter 0412

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..too. To make sure my wheat grass gets enough light (and the sunflower/alfalfa sprouts too), I’m going to build 0413

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..a bay window that juts out into the sun, cover it with plastic and place shelves in there. 0414

#3cccJournal2TwittBook There is a large rectangular hole where a south facing window used to be and it will be perfect for this. 0415

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