Meeting Today & So Much News!
Meeting Today & So Much News!
1st & 3rd Thursday Meetings
Dear MAFA community!
Our Let’s Trade Kentucky potluck and seed swap is today, Thursday, March 7th at 4974 Old Versailles Road, Lexington 40510 at 6:00 p.m. . We hope to see you!
Here is what’s inside. Scroll down for details and links!
Great presentation last week: Thank you, Chris Cogswell!
Thursday, March 7: Let’s Trade KY Potluck, Networking & Seed Swap
Simone Gold webinar on Navigating Medicare: Tonight!
Youth Wilderness Survival Workshops this weekend and in April
JP Sears at Comedy Off Broadway: March 15th!
Good Reads & Listens: the New U.S. Censorship Policy, Why the Elite is Doomed to Fail, Neutering the ESG Collusion Net Zero Climate & more!
3rd Thursday Presenter, March 21: Navigating the health care system, clean blood, and more!
Newton’s Attic invites you to Robot Gladiator League Melees! Help us fill the stands this weekend!
1st Thursday, April 4: Let’s Trade Kentucky Potluck & Networking
3rd Thursday, April 18 Presenter: Patriot’s Day April 19, 1775
Revere’s Riders Rifle & History Clinic: MUST register!
(Mostly) free gardening classes at the UK Ag Extension. Must RSVP
KFIC Food Club pickup times and options
Please email Kathy at KathyGornik2@gmail.com with presenter suggestions.
Tonight! Let’s Trade Kentucky Potluck & Networking . . . and Seed Swap!
We are creating community, building resilience, and sharing resources! Bring something for yourself or something to share for the potluck. Bring your business cards and be ready to share what you have to offer to or what you need from this community. Come at 6:00 to visit and eat. Announcements and group conversation at 7:00 ish.
T’is the Season! If you have extra seeds or starts, please bring them to this meeting and the next few meetings. I got the BEST tomato harvest ever last year thanks to Karen Goss and her tomato plants! I have some great Butternut Squash seeds to share this year!
Simone Gold Webinar on Navigating Medicare Tonight at 7:00: You can register and get a recording if you don’t want to miss our gathering!
Great Guidance!
Thank you, Chris Cogswell, for a great practical and actionable session on using your financial planning powers for good! We could all sleep better and make the world better with these simple financial strategies. If you missed Chris’s session last month, don’t let it happen again! In related good news, see Good Reads below. Go Thomas Massie and Jim Jordan!
Youth Wilderness Survival Workshops this weekend and April 6th
From Ky Parks and Rec:
JP Sears at Comedy Off Broadway: March 15th!
JP Sears is coming back to Comedy Off Broadway March 14 - 17th. Some of us are getting tickets for the Friday night show (3/15/24) at 7:00 pm. It would be great if we had a group of MAFA folks there again :) Here's the link to buy tickets: Comedy Off Broadway
Good Reads & Listens
• The Rosetta Stone of the new American Censorship policy. COVID and the 2020 Election are the most censored topics in US History: Tucker Carlson and Mike Benz. This explains SO much! It moves fast and is gripping.
• Latest Ron Johnson Roundtable with Exclusive Interviews by Mary Holland of Children’s Health Defense. Kathy’s pick!
• Why the Elitists are Doomed to Fail
If, like me, you are wondering about the woman in the pictures below, that is a young and old Victoria Nuland, considered the Biden administration’s top Russia hawk and powerful advocate for military support for Ukraine. In yet more good news, Nuland resigned this week!
• The Good Guys are waking up and fighting back in ways that matter: Neutering ESG Collusion on the Net Zero Climate Agenda!
Reps. Massie and Jordan Secure "Big Win" Against the Woke Takeover of American Financial Institutions:
From U.S. House Rep (R. KY) Thomas Massie: Chairman Jim Jordan and I scored a big victory against the woke takeover of American financial organizations. After we wrote them to call them out for potential violations of antitrust law, major corporations dropped their involvement with an Environment, Social, and Governance ESG group. Chairman Jordan and I (as Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust) wrote Blackrock, Vanguard Group, State Street, and the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero about their ESG coordination. A copy of the letter we sent to Blackrock appears at this link. In our letters, we warned these companies that their ongoing efforts "coordinating their members' agreements to ‘decarbonize’ their assets under management and reduce emissions to net zero" were potentially illegal under the Sherman Act. Collusive agreements harm competition and consumers. This includes collusion to advance radical net-zero ESG climate policies. Such policies "require draconian 'declines in the use of coal, oil and gas': as much as 98% for coal, 94% for oil, and 86% for fossil fuels overall." After receiving our letters and document preservation requests, J.P. Morgan and State Street quit the Climate Action 100+ coalition pushing net-zero goals. Blackrock has "significantly limited" its involvement in this ESG effort. This is great news for economic freedom.
Random Fact: Did you know that Kentucky has a maple syrup industry? Thank, Tina! Sorry we missed promoting last week’s farm tour!
Thursday, March 21st Lexington Guest Presenter: Navigating the Healthcare System with Sierra!
Sierra Hamm is a freedom advocate and health mentor. Beginning before she graduated in 2013 with her Bachelor's of Science in Nursing, she became a certified professional doula. As a doula, she practiced what she learned about patient's rights, self advocacy, informed consent and refusal, and how to support vulnerable people's decision making process within the industrial medical complex. She helped many families during COVID navigate the hospital system and obtain the care they desired while avoiding treatments that were not in alignment with their values. March 21st, join us as we explore self advocacy and how to support loved ones while building a dynamic relationship with your healthcare team. These simple skills can literally mean life or death. We will then discuss an upcoming project, Life Blood, that seeks to encourage un-jabbed people to donate to one another and the greater population of Kentucky.
Newton’s Attic invites you to the Season 1: Robot Gladiator Melees
Help us fill the stands this weekend in Morehead at Rowan County High School. Four melees on the hour starting at 10:00 a.m.
WHAT IS RGL?
Robot Gladiators League is an innovative, high energy, robotics-based sport that exists at the inter section of technology, engineering and entertainment. This youth STEM learning program with ‘live player’ opposing forces closely mirrors traditional sports team dynamics of coach, team, individual player, taking STEM learning out of the science club and into the athletics arena. RGL takes combat robotics to schools through a sports model with teams, coaches, a season, inter-school matches, playoff tournaments, and offsite championship events. RGL exposes students to hands-on STEM learning in meaningful ways, provides highly engaging resources, connects theory to application, builds technical skills, and creates confident, inspired students. The dynamic and exciting nature of the competitions also provides an engaging spectator element with the potential to attract a broader variety of students to STEM.
Please help us fill the stands!
Revere’s Riders Patriot’s Day Weekend: April 20th- 21st
This very special weekend only has 12 total slots available. The last time we announced it at a MAFA meeting, it sold out in 10 minutes. Kevin would like to focus on new attendees, so if you have had the pleasure and privilege of experiencing this event, please wait to register to give new people a chance. This Revere’s Riders Patriot’s Day clinic is being hosted at Aradyn, Dawn and Bill Cloyd’s Wolfe County property. Although Dawn will be out of the country, Kathy, Bill and Trish will be there. Details can be found in the information sheet linked below as well as on the Revere’s Riders website.
2024 Gardener's Toolbox Document
The UK Cooperative Extension has some great gardening classes starting this month (most of them on Thursday evenings, unfortunately!). Most are free but require registration. Find all details in the Gardener’s Tool Box linked above.
New Presentation Date TBD
To be rescheduled:
Bretigne Shaffer Calvert will present on Notices of Liability, a process that holds individuals in industry accountable for attempting to institute or mandate unsafe or poorly tested products and services in our communities. Bretigne was a journalist in Asia for many years. She now writes fiction and hosts a membership group dedicated to Building Parallel Solutions. She has filed numerous notices of liability against rights violators at the federal, state, local, and international levels. You can find her on Substack. Meet and greet starts at 6:00, and the meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. sharp!
Welcome to the Kentucky Food Independence Club!
On meeting nights, Newton’s Attic will also remain open until 9:00 p.m. for Kentucky Food Independence Club (KFIC) pickups. On non-meeting Thursdays, we will remain open until at least 7:00 p.m. If you would like to use Newton’s Attic to meet on a non-MAFA meeting Thursdays or any other day, or if you would like to pick up your food orders at a time other than Thursdays, please text Dawn at 859-492-8511.
Kentucky agriculture remains the foundation of our culture: raising/growing nutrient dense food for home and/or market, maintaining strong family ties, respect for property, and a strong work ethic.
Our Mission is to connect Kentucky’s “real food” farmers to educated consumers. Real health begins with clean food and a clean planet. As more and more of us wake up to this fact, we see an increase in consumers wanting to leave behind unhealthy practices and jump in with local "real food" farmers!
What’s a real food farmer? By “real food”, we mean NUTRIENT DENSE food raised and/or grown as close to the earth and as naturally as possible.
Real food farming practices include:
• non-GMO or organic feed -- hopefully soy-free and corn-free when financially feasible.
• pastured livestock on unsprayed fields
• grass-fed cattle - GRASS-FINISHED IS AWESOME BUT NOT REQUIRED as long as the supplemental grain is non-GMO or organic, and the cattle continue to live on pasture with the sun shining on their backs
• pastured milk cows - supplemented with non-GMO or organic SOY-FREE grains while milking to keep the cows happy and standing still
• unsprayed hay
• organic gardening practices (you do not need to be certified organic but just farm organically)
• regenerative soil practices
The KY Food Independence Club (KFIC) is a private membership food buying club featuring healthy food provided by Ky farmers. It’s like an online grocery only all the food is REAL & healthy. Nutrient dense foods like…
• farm fresh milk & dairy products
• goat’s milk when available
• pastured eggs & chicken
• grass-fed, pastured meats
• organic baked goods
• local honey
• organic sourdough bread
• organic* fruits & veggies when available locally
• all feed non-GMO or organic
• prepared foods all using organic/non-GMO ingredients & cultures
*organic means either USDA certified organic or grown/raised using organic practices. You do not need to be certified organic, just use organic practices.
HOW THE CLUB WORKS
Members order online and pick up their food once a week at their closest drop location. Orders are due on Mondays by 3pm.
Deliveries are as follows:
-- Winchester and Newton's Attic are delivered Thursdays by 2 pm.
-- Morehead is at 9 am on Fridays.
-- Robert's Health Food delivery is Fridays by 2pm.
-- HOLIDAY weeks will often need to be delivered on different days TBD :)
Costs To Join
There is a $59 annual membership fee (which breaks down to $5/month) as well as a $75 inventory deposit which is returned to you if you leave the club.
If your orders regularly exceed $75, then the inventory deposit will need to be increased. This is so that its clear that the club buys a member's food with the member's money rather than the club buying and re-selling food.
If there is financial need, please contact me and we'll work it out. We want you in the club -- everyone deserves clean food! I can't do anything about the inventory deposit but you can earn the annual membership fee by working with me a couple of days doing delivery!
Here's how to join:
1. Fill out the questionnaire at www.farmmatch.com/kfic
2. I approve that and you get a text letting you know.
3. Then you log back in, sign the Membership Contract and pay the $59 annual membership. You can pay the inventory deposit once you are a member, you'll see that in the catalog.
4. Then you can order!!!
Don't hesitate to ask any questions. Text is best at 859-550-3862 or email sallyoh@pm.me :)
PS. Don't hesitate to share this site with your friends: https://www.farmmatch.com/kfic On the questionnaire, there's a place to write in who referred you -- please be sure to let us know so your referrer get a $5 credit when you become a member :)