John McCabe from
Sunfood Livingsent out an email last week about his new book.
Here is what he wrote:
Hello everybody,
After years of work, I have decided to pass over the
traditional bookpublishing fiasco and to publish my newest book on an
advertiser-supported Web site:
http://www.hempnowbook.com. People told me, “Oh, you can't do that!”
Yes, I can!
Yes, I did!
Various
publishing companies that looked at the manuscript
wanted the book to be shorter, to be focused only on hemp,
and to not contain the “controversial chapters” about the drug war,
political corruption, the prison industry, and corporate greed.
To their proposals to cut my book in half, I say: No, thanks!
That would truly be a book to nowhere.
By publishing the book for free on the Web,
people all over the planet can educate themselves on the topic.
People all over the planet have already been looking at
my other Web sites (
http://www.sunfoodliving.com,
and
http://www.sunfoodtraveler.com - which is going to be overhauled).
This new site will give them more of my writing to read.
I didn't write the book for money. I wrote it for the environment,
for wildlife, for family farmers, for the health of humanity,
and for a more sustainable world.
According to the authorities and industry leaders who
read through the manuscript as I was writing it,
it is the most up-to-date and complete book on the history,
laws, and uses of hemp, the world's most useful plant.
Even though the U.S. is the world's number one
importer of hemp products, U.S. farmers are not
allowed to grow it, but Canadian farmers are growing
many thousands of acres of it, and they are doing so
largely to supply hemp products for the U.S. market.
Read my book and understand why the U.S. government
refuses to allow family farmers to grow hemp.
My new book has been endorsed by
The Canadian Hemp Trade Alliance;
The Hemp Lobby;
The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML);
Oregon NORML;
and The Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform.
Also, the people at
http://www.VoteHemp.com read
through the manuscript, provided me with information for the book,
and connected me with people to interview.
After years of writing, rewriting, researching, toiling,
interviewing, editing, and more researching and writing and rewriting…
As of today,
December 30, 2008…
The complete manuscript of
HEMP: WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW
can be read for free by accessing:
http://www.hempnowbook.com "Hemp: What
The World Needs Now" is the first book to be formulated for this strain of Web delivery by a new company. If you know of any other authors who want to publish their books in the same advertiser-supported format, feel free to contact Sam Estrin:
Sam@Odinmetatech.com.
Meanwhile, spread the word about
http://www.hempnowbook.com.
Link it to your Web sites.
Educate yourself about hemp and what it can do
to create a more sustainable culture.
Add raw hemp seed powder and raw hemp oil to your
daily diet, and feel your health improve.
And, have a great New Year!
Rock on!
John McCabe
This is what the blocks look like, Jordan's wife Fran later told me that she thought they looked like brownies ;) They do have a delicious sort of look to them. The soil was made from a mixture of peat moss, mushroom compost, green sand and colloidal phosphate. Cam and Adi mixed the soil in a large plastic tub and then added filtered water to get the moisture level perfect for forming soil blocks.
Our friends Seth and Alicia are total sustainability rock stars (aren't they cute?) They'd probably say they're more like wanna- be's but these two have the heart for it, that's for sure! They were so gracious to share many amazing varieties of seeds with everyone. I don't remember now, but I think I started at least 10 varieties of tomatoes between our own seeds and the seeds other brought. I can't wait to watch our little seedlings grow. It's so incredibly gratifying.
Sacha is enthusiastically seeding her soil blocks while Seth and Alicia work on their own seeding project. It was so much fun to see everyone just digging in and having fun with this whole process. We ended up using the lid of a shoe box size plastic container as a tray for the soil blocks (you can sort of see what the boxes look like in the above picture on the side table to the right, behind Alicia .) Cam had the brilliant idea of using the lid for the blocks and then placing the container over the top to create a mini greenhouse. Then the whole thing should be placed on a low-temp heat mat of some sort to help the seeds germinate properly.
Wow, we were so excited that everything went so well. We're anxious for the next party in a couple of weeks to start transplanting. We'll keep the blog updated as our seeds begin to sprout.
