“Change”
By Jeff Frank
circa 2001
“The first law of the universe is “Change”, everything is in flux or change every moment. Ten years ago, some folks had a dream that someday there would be no use for “toxic genetic chemicals”.
That someday we would wake up and find “alternatives” that were better and safe to use. That we would be using more of our minds and respond rather than react. That there would be places we could go to educate ourselves to “Low Tech, Common Sense” approach to our lives and the environment
“Compost”
By Jeff Frank
circa 2002
“Compost comes from the slow organic breakdown of plant matter by weather, time and microbes. Organic matter’s final stage is a perfect food for these life giving microbes. The stages before are beneficial: nutrient rich, environmentally friendly leaves, grass clippings, woody material and weeds that turn into black soil. This black soil is “mother’s milk” to plants because it carries all the nutrients a plant needs to grow with, in a form the plants love!”
“Changing the Spec’s”
By Jeff Frank
circa 2001
“I consult to Yankee stadium and stood at first base in the Spring of 2000 with the superintendent dan Cunningham and pointed to first base and said, “Danny, this is where Lou Gehrig’s dis-ease (Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis) started. You can become the premeier superintendent of the United States if you get rid of the toxic genetic chemicals and go organic”.
He said, “Well, we don’t spray as much as we used to””
“How Does Your Garden Grow?”
By Colin M. Graham
circa 2009
“Basically in an organic garden, you’re really feeding the soil, not the plants explained Jeff Frank, founder of The Nature Lyceum School for Environmental Horticulture in Westhampton. “If you have healthy soil, you’ll have healthy plants that will grow without the need for synthetic chemicals; you won’t even need insecticides because when plants are healthy and strong, they provied their own defenses by attracting helpful predators that will prey on the pests that prey on your plants.”
