Kin Domain Food
Anastasia in the Ringing Cedars series again and again emphasises the importance of growing ones own food and
consuming it fresh and full of vitaility from your own garden.
Diet amongst kin members will not be set. It is up to each member within the confines of the ethos of their own
belief systems to decide if they will be omniverious, vegetarian, vegan, raw vegan, or any other possibility
therein. It is hoped that as the domains develop people will naturally tend towards a strong vegetarian position as
we build relations with nature and the animals on the settlement.
In keeping with this ethos, Tanen Kins Settlement members will grow their own food with the aim of being as
self-sustainable as possible... using as much as possible non-chemical methods of production, especially
drawing on the principals of permaculture design.
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“I am seed and he is man.
His warmth surrounds me and I surround him too. I will stand tall beside him,
remind him that he is loved. And this day that is now, man is so tired from
being away from me, seed for so long. But no worries, cause I have everything
he needs and he has everything I need too, and life will continue to grow
from this place. We make it now, always available, gods sacred space for man,
and mans sacred place for life too.
That makes life more than an
existance but a space of love. That special flavor, only man has it, we will
all share together. I am seed and I never lose faith, man slowly comes back
to me, he says sorry in his eyes for years of abuse and neglect. For
forgetting me, so that I am lonely without gods light in man. He puts me in
his mouth, and I taste him as he tastes me, he is starting to remember and so
am I. He blows gently on me and puts me high up so I catch the first glimpse
of light. I feel beneath this moment the tears unshed within man, for the
barren ness in his land and his heart too. How did this happen, I have all
the answers, and I will stand by man too, no matter whatever comes, I will
remind man that he is loved. I look forward to your creations divined in
love.”
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by afallenleaf
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Food as Medicine
In book one of the Ringing Cedars series, Anastasia advises of a very specific method of planting and
growing food for each individual in the kins domain to engage the "seed as the physician". This quote below is most
informative of this.
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“Every seed you plant contains
within itself an enormous amount of information about the Universe. Nothing
made by human hands can compare with this information either in size or in
accuracy. Through the help of these data the seed knows the exact time,
down to the millisecond, when it is to come alive, to grow, what juices it is
to take from the Earth, Moon and stars - what it is to grow into, what fruit
to bring forth. These fruits are designed to sustain Man's life. More
powerfully and effectively than any manufactured drugs of the present or
future, these fruits are capable of counteracting and withstanding any
disease of the human body. But to this end the seed must know about the human
condition. So that during the maturation process it can satiate its fruit
with the right correlation of substances to heal a specific individual of his
disease, if indeed he has it or is prone to
it.”
~ Anastasia in
"Anastasia", Book 1 of The Ringing Cedars Series,
p77 ~
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What to Plant
The Ringing Cedar's series was of course written for the Russian people, and then translated into English.
Anastasia in the books discusses the kind of food one could expect to plant in a Russian dacha (which is a parcel
of government allotted land for food production given free to Russian citizens).
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“The same variety that exists in
most garden-plots is quite sufficient: raspberries, currants, gooseberries,
cucumbers, tomatoes, wild strawberries, any kind of apple tree. Sweet or sour
cherries and flowers would be very good too. It does not make any difference
how many plants of each kind there are or how big their area of cultivation
is.
There are a few 'definates',
whithout which it would be difficult to imagine a full energy micro-climate:
one of them is sunflowers (at least one plant). There should also be
one-and-a-half or two square meters of cereal grains (rye or wheat, for
example), and be sure to leave an 'island' of at least two square meters for
wild growing herbs - ones that are not planted manually. If you have not left
any growing around your dacha [kin domain], you can bring in some turf from
the forrest and thereby create an island of natural
growth.”
~ Anastasia in
"Anastasia", Book 1 of The Ringing Cedars Series,
p80 ~
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And also:
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“It is not necessary to plant a
whole bed of cucumbers, tomatoes, etc, in this manner; just a few plants each
is enough.”
~ Anastasia in
"Anastasia", Book 1 of The Ringing Cedars Series,
p79 ~
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With this information in mind, and taking the context into Australian conditions at Mount Barker, the following
food bearing plants will be used in the kins settlement... although how many of each will be individual to the
Kins Domain they are planted within.
| Decidious Trees |
Evergreens |
Berries / Shrubs / Grouncovers |
| Apple |
Loquat |
Stawberry |
| Pear |
Carob |
Currants |
| Cherry |
Jelly Palm |
Raspberry |
| Plum |
Olive |
Blackberry |
| Apricot |
Feijoa |
Blackberry |
| Peach |
Citrus |
Chilean Guava |
| Nectarine |
Naranjilla |
Pepino |
| Quince |
Natal Plum |
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| Persimmon |
Tamarillo |
Nuts |
| Fig |
White Sapote |
Hazelnut |
| Mulberry |
Babaco |
Chestnut |
| Jujube |
Advacado |
Walnut |
| Medlar |
Custard Apple |
Macadamia |
| Pomegranate |
Brazillian Tree Grape |
Almond |
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Pecan |
| Climbers |
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Andean Walnut |
| Kiwi |
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| Passionfruit |
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| Grape |
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| Choko |
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