There are as many different views on religion as there are individuals with views, and the same seems to be true for governments. Everyone has a different view of what a real government should be and clearly to get everyone on the same page is way too hard.

I want a government where those employed by the government act like they actually work for me. Instead of stories of cops savagely throwing people into cars and laughing about it I want to hear more stories of cops listening to people and actually only dealing with a breach of the peace (instead of violations of statutes.) I want a government that generally lets me do my thing without trying to take things from people that the government clearly doesn’t need. I understand the need to keep the illusion but in the real world, people are suffering because no one creates the interest. If the PTB simply created the interest as well, the debts wouldn’t spiral. Maybe they don’t know how to do that either.

Really I just want a machine that can harvest hemp without starting on fire or requiring an 11 year old kid to climb in over top of the straw walker and cut away the fibre spool on the back of the fan blower motor assembly.

I’ve decided to use this website to discuss what I’m really doing these days. Initially I wanted the site to describe products I already make, but since they’re not really my focus, the site has been sparsely managed. So I’m going to use this to describe what I am doing, why I think its important, and also, where the ideas come from.

If anyone thinks they have a superior claim to the language “on edmonton county” then you best respond to me somehow. This is your notice that I’m using the term, and that I plan to issue cards to those whom I think are using the term the same way as I. I intend to call the cards licences, passports, or maybe exemptions. There is much to do in starting a de jure government.

My mom’s uncle Fred told me about arriving to edmonton county. They had a stove, an axe, a shovel, and a saw. The road was all mud (spring thaw?) so every 10 feet the cart got stuck and the adults had to take off the stove, move the cart, then put the stove back on. The road they took is still about 100 miles long, though paved finally.

On edmonton county his dad took to clearing a forest with the axe and shovel then built a house for the seven sons and daughters who spent their first nights with a generous family. They were in a one room shack with a roof that leaked, but since the floor was dirt it didn’t really matter. Turned out the family had seven younguns too, so Fred remembers early life on edmonton county as a one room shack with four adults and 14 kids. Or two adults as the men were out building digs.

The site for Fort Edmonton was chosen as the end of the water from Hudson’s Bay and the shortest portage to the Athabasca river over what was called the old wolf trail. Before ships could navigate under south America, Edmonton was the point of transition from water to land (then back to water on the other side of the continental divide) and, among other things, a trading post for furs. After the spring thaw ferry boats carried axe heads and turnip seeds from the Hudson’s Bay to Fort Edmonton and loaded a winter’s worth of beaver pelts and otter skins. Also delivered were firearms alcohol and tobacco, something that made the Kootnay Indians rather unhappy because the Cree Peigan and Blackfoot had a sizeable advantage, forcing the Kootnay band to either slaughter their animals for trade or lose their lives to more ruthless rivals.

Louis Riel started a furvour in Manitoba and many thought that rise against the white man was going to come here too. Never did happen, although a land based army did arrive to Fort Edmonton with 200 horse drawn carts full of reinforcements (ammo and whiskey) to help stave off any insurrections.

Fearing an American invasion, the railroad was rerouted south through Calgary and Edmonton was kinda hung out again. Some guys decided to get together and build a line from Calgary to Edmonton, however the steel rail did not cross the river and thus Fort Edmonton was still not connected. The people living north of the river, now outside the protective confines of the fort, together chose not to move to the south side and immigrants mostly took the property close to the tracks. A few years later a steel bridge did get built and the railroad did make it over the river, but that was all after one certain event which really stood out in my mind.

The growth of south Edmonton was far greater than north Edmonton in that period, and one morning a few citizens noticed a cart loaded with files. They surrounded the cart, took the nuts off the wheels, released the horses and refused to let the government servant move the archives to the south. Those files were staying here, the vigilante crew did determine, and eventually the servant did relent and the Dominion Government did eventually make a subpost on the southside leaving all the files north of the water. At that time, clearly, the government was subject to the will of the people, but not because they wanted to listen, it was only because the people made their collective voice clearly heard, and did not bend. It is this crew that I call the founders of edmonton county.

My grandfather grew up on edmonton county. He fished in the river then with a horse drawn cart went to the market. After running a dry goods store he retired at age 55 with seven kids and never worked for money again. While in the navy he was in charge of inventory on supply ships and happened to hit the water 3 times for u-boat contact. Survived all 3.

My grandfather’s filing cabinet is downstairs, but I’m going to move it to the back hallway. Eventually I can make a fireproof room, but for now I’m going to put it on the landing. I’m going to dump out all the papers and clean it up real good, then in the bottom drawer I’m going to put paperwork which never leaves the cabinet. They will be original copies of contracts and notices and whatever else I want that doesn’t need to be in the top drawer.

For the top drawer, I’m going to put documents which are scanned and appear on this website exactly. If there is anything on the back of the doc it will be page 2 of a pdf file, and I will give my personal guarantee that I will have an exact replica of everything in the top drawer, on the site, permanently to the very best of my ability, as I am able.

I will also guarantee that I will never use the documents, period. I will never levy titles. Also, I will never release the original to anyone except they who gave it to me. There will be a clear record of who did what, and for titles to living bodies, release of any blue ink doc will only be done with a matching thumb print or something like that. Anyone who gives me anything can always have their stuff back, and really, it doesn’t cost me anything to leave it there, so I’m not going to charge any annual fees. I don’t want a filing fee either, I’ll do all this for nothing for the first 100 people who ask. It takes 10 minutes to open scan and file 5-10 pages, and I figure I can give 10 minutes to any brother or sister, so whatever.

After the first 100 files are created, I will still scan, file, and post on the site for others, but I may want an ounce of silver for every ten pages or so. Again, I will never seek an annual fee to leave files in a drawer, and the website should be able to take care of itself okay with banner ads or whatever. The scanning and filing could become a bit of a chore so I may add an initial filing fee, but later, and only if I get sick of doing it.

So this will be my guarantee to the first 100 senders: Everything you send will be put into the top drawer of the cabinet and scanned to the website exactly. Agricultural liens and land claims and silver bonds and titles to whatever I expect to see. I clearly cannot file money then scan it, so don’t bother sending any fiat currency for ledger cause I don’t know how to do that and I’m not going to try. Whatever you send will always be exempt from levy and I will never release the originals to anyone except the sender as proven. And I will never initiate any annual fees, ever.

If anyone wants a certified copy from the cabinet, I could probably do that and mail as necessary. I can think of 20 people in my life for whom I’ll do anything for free indefinately and most of them are in a hockey pool with names like fish and rilla and xwep. If certified copies from the files are required and it gets burdensome, then there may need to be a fee for service on that end too. I don’t expect much of that though because there will be an exact virtual copy on the site and if its on the site then I will guarantee that its identical in the cabinet. So mailings of copies should be required basically never, I think, but I’ll do that for free initially too.

I think I’m sufficiently qualified to keep a register in order, I finished a hardwood floor with a hickory inlay here in this abode and if I can complete that monster beast of a project while living under construction, then I figure I can certainly manage a filing cabinet. I completed a bachelor’s of science in chemistry at a private American school too, but I think the floor is a much better indicator of my ability and qualifications.

So the edmonton county register is open for public viewing and is, so far, completely free.

The original settlers to edmonton county had a judicial committee. The accounts of this crew are hard for me to find, but apparently they did together throw a couple structures into the river because they were considered to be constructed unlawfully. They must have understood land claims and honoured them as a community with no assistance from Ontario’s Dominion Government. They didn’t need a judicial organization authorized by Ottawa then, and I suspect we don’t really need one now.

If we have a dispute, I am certain that we can find a way amongst ourselves to solve whatever may come up. As for me, whatever nathanael thinks on any given subject will likely be sufficient for me, if orest and scott think the same as nathanael then I’m not really going to be interested to even look. I am sufficiently confident that I would agree with whatever those three figured, and that is enough for me. I cannot speak for what others may think, but I suspect rational minds could see the real solutions between parties as an independant council of brothers and sisters (jury) which both claimant and defendant would openly agree to heed for dispute resolution.

As for me to get involved in throwing someone’s home into the river, I would (my own self) need to see that both parties agreed to heed the decision of a few, in writing, and that the decision of the few was done to both party’s satisfaction, namely, that each was granted a fair opportunity to present their version of events, and that the committee did sign their decision and gain nothing from its outcome. If all that happened, then I would probably offer to burn the place first.

Its recipe week here at TVF. I thought they were already up but apparently not. So instead of simply putting up old news I’m going to rewrite the entire collection. Since writing them all I read Pitchford’s Healing With Whole Foods and Kaptchuk’s The Web That Has No Weaver. I read others too, but these are absolute must reads for anyone in the field of nutrition on any level.

Since its early summer in the centre of the world (Edmonton, specifically near where the Oilers play) its raspberry season, peas are ready, spinach has been going for a while now, and onions are showing up. Today I got two huge heads of garlic and a bunch of new potatoes. So with that in mind, I’m going to use old recipes and pretend I actually eat like I tell everyone else to.

This diet has cured every form of cancer and every kind of western disease so far. Some of it comes from John Matson’s Eating Alive.

Day One.

Breakfast.

1 strawberry.
Really.

After an hour, the body has turned on the digestion, it has digested the strawberry, and has started to clean the blood. A mere beginning mind you, but try this for five days and it will blow your mind.

Twenty minutes after the first hunger pain blend:

1C fresh blueberries/raspberries/strawberries
2T hempseed oil (since we only have flax at the market use whatever)
1C water/ice
4T hemp powder (dark green seed meal, not the dehulled seeds)
1T molassas (not really seasonal but full of minerals)
1T apple cider vinegar (probiotic enzyme stuff)

Lunch:

Using a juicer blend 80% carrot to 20% beet and drink as much of the juice as you dare. I add an onion and a bit of salt, my own self.

Mix:
1C carrot/beet pulp
1C sprouts
2T flax oil
1T fresh basil
1t fresh chilis (your call)

and roll the mixture into chard leaves. You won’t be able to eat two of them after drinking the juice. They travel for lunch really nicely and you can do it in the morning if you need this stuff portable and really they’re good for a couple days.

Dinner.

Chop the bottoms of 4 onions and start a cast iron skillet at about 40% heat. Add 2T water and cover until it boils. Add a couple garlic shoots, bok choi, carrots, broccoli stems, celery (bottoms and roots) and soften them for a minute or two. While that is boiling chop the tops of all the units then add 4T olive/flax/hemp oil to the pan. When its a good boil add the tops of the vegetables for about two minutes until they all wilt.

If you’re eating more than you can hold in your hand you’re simply not listening.

All these can be done with no oil and if so, the total caloric content for the day is about 200 max and there is no way you could finish any of these portions alone.

Note: To get a protein deficient diet you need to eat white bread and jelly because white bread and jam still delivers more than enough.

Endless references available upon request.

Breakfast:

One strawberry.
(again).

Twenty minutes later blender:
1C spinach / chard / leafy green stuff
2T hemp seed meal (flax works too and sprouted cereal crops)
1C sprouts
1 clove garlic
1 small onion with the green tops
2T hempseed oil (flax)
2T apple cider vinegar (with the cloudy stuff in the bottom)

Lunch:

Back to the juicer. Today mix 70% carrot and 30% beet and try and drink 2C of the juice. This is really a liver cleanse. Each day build the beet volume until you can drink 100% beet juice. If at any time you have the sense to double over in pain, stop for the day and then tomorrow cut the beet concentration in half and start climbing the ladder again. It usually takes less than 10 days to purge things better left unsaid and you’ll know when you’re done.

Dinner:

Put the potatoes in the oven for 45 mins at about 325F. Cook twice as many as you think you need. (See day three)

Blend:
6C mushrooms of any kind. (I like using a base of button mushrooms with a few portabellos for spunk but it kinda comes down to whatever you can get)
2T soy sauce
1/4C flax oil
then when its nice and smooth add 6T flax meal (The hemp isn’t nearly as nice) and blender it all again.

Warm on the stove but don’t cook or boil. Just to take the cool edge off really. Then I top with chopped green onions or garlic shoots and raw oyster mushrooms chopped into long strips.

Potatoes and raw mushroom gravy. You can’t even imagine.

My favourite part of the oven baked potatoes happens the next day. This one takes a while but the payoff is obvious.

Breakfast
1 strawberry. Three blueberries, a couple raspberries, a quarter of an apple all work too. Any piece of slightly acidic fruit about the size of your thumb is the idea really. They all turn on the digestion machine.

In a cast iron skillet combine:
4T water
2C onions bulbs chopped
Cover for 20 minutes until the onions are clear. Eventually the water all escapes and the onions start to stick to the pan. The edges of the onions on the bottom will turn to a caramel colour at which point you can add about 4 more T water and stir it all up. The onions should be all caramel coloured.

Add:
1/4 C flax oil
1t salt
2T chili powder (optional)
4C chopped cooked day old potatoes

When that is nice and hot you can add the green onion tops or put them on the plate as a garnish.

This should cover lunch probably too

Dinner:

Juice 40% beet to 60% carrot and try and drink 2C of the juice at some point through out the day.

Make the biggest salad you’ve ever seen and eat a bowl the size of a basketball. It takes about 45 minutes so maybe try this during a football game. If you can think of anything to do with the juicer pulp this could be a good place to try and use some.

If you ever find yourself hungry through out the day add a bit of seed meal (hemp or flax) to some of the carrot/juice blend and it will solve the problem in minutes.

Breakfast:

you can probably guess this by now. I’d follow the strawberry with a fruit smoothie like day 1.

Lunch:

50 - 50 beet : carrot day. Wrap the pulp in the chard leaves with the flax oil, apple cider vinegar and salt, pepper, and curry powder (optional).

Dinner:

Make twice as much rice as you will need and leave half for tomorrow.

On that you can put pan fried onion bulbs then in the pan gently wilt whatever vegetables you have. As for me I shred fresh ginger into it right at the end and Cheryl really digs cilantro.

Breakfast:
you can probably already notice the effects of starting the day with the one strawberry then waiting 45 minutes before you eat again. Keep doing this until you sense that you’re done. Could take 2 weeks.

Lunch:
Mix the day old rice with a can of coconut milk and 2T maple syrup. Add water to make it thinner than you think it should be (it will thicken). When its hot add whatever fruit you’ve got. If you add flax powder right at the end it will get super thick depending on how much you add.

Dinner:

I’m going to have to work on this one. I wanted to get the rice pudding up there though.