Black Woke Environmentalists

Black Woke Environmentalists

How can we become truly spiritually conscious, woke, and live our deepest realities, while we live with what is going on with the Environment of Mother Eartha and all its connections?

Who are we?

What is our true nature?

What is consciousness?

What is really going on in the environment?

And what are we really doing?




The Indigo Melanin Spiritual Consciousness movement must be the Environmental movement. 

As we reclaim our lives from the onslaught of invasion of the Civilizations of our Ancestors and our ancient cultures. Imperialism, Capitalism racism and the irresponsible disruption of our planet from, impersonal, millitarized, disjointed industrialized Corporations, and anti-lifestyles, which fragments us from the knowledge of our deepest part of ourselves and our connection to the universe.

Our Ancient Sages have taught us that;
We are ALL Connected to the cosmos of the universe, and the cosmology of the planet.

"As above, So Below"

The environmental and food movement is ultimately a spiritual conscious movement. As Souls having a human experience, our carnal bodies are ultimately connected to Air, Water, Food, land, and the Sun. Our bodies are ultimately dependent upon the Sun, and this amazing planet, and ultimately in this planet's relationship with our solar system and the universe(Yoniverse/Wombiverse). We must be stewards, first, with our own bodies, then with each other as human beings, and finally with all life energy of this living planet...

"We Are Souls Having a Human Experience"

So, the food movement must be about cultivating human food, in as much as it is about cultivating human consciousness.

Culture IS food! As we Cultivate, collect our seeds to replant and return to our regional foods to recieve their mineral, nutrients, and healing sources. we must return to propitualtion to the environment that we borrow from our children, grandchildren and the natural ecosystem

We are re-cultivating our connections with all creation, Living in harmony with Creation, Using local healing systems, like Meditation, QiGong, Yoga, as well as permaculture methods for Gardening, Gathering, Gleaning, Homesteading, Farming, and Harvesting, to connect with the KRST consciousness deep within us. So, the food movement is at root, a spiritual movement for humanity, unconsciously working to reclaim its consciousness amidst the onslaught of human unconsciousness.

It is about humanity reclaiming its birthright to peace, wholeness, and its own completeness as individual and collective beings as much as it is about human sustainability, the Air, Water, Trees, Plants, Oceans, the Bees, Butterflies, and other insects, Rivers, Birds, and Aquatic Animals, and their habitat. The Conscious, environmental, and Food Movement is about food justice and feeding ourselves locally, healthy nutritious foods, in a sustainable way with the environment we presently live in, as well as we return to our own cultural food varieties. Abolishing the GMO clone Food deserts. Our people have been displaced, from the equator's tropical regions, to be dispersed by colonialism and Imperialism.

So our spiritual consciousness is ultimately about reclaiming our true divinity while raising our human form to it's highest state of consciousness! We must be stewards and advocates against the environmental invasion and rape of nature for resources and the GMO modification and cloning of our food. as well as the ongoing enslavement of humans and animals.

"The Kingdom of Heaven Is Within!"

Cultivating and connecting to the collective consciousness, to live in harmony and perfect peace with all creation, here on Earth, rather than subsisting on capitalism and industrialized foods and polluted resources in an unsustainable and destabilizing environment.

As we over-consume and waste food, and resources, produced in ways that destroy ecological habitats, we create a shift in the entire planet, the "butterfly effect." For instance, we still move our bodies with fossil-fueled cars, buses, trains, planes, cruise ships, and other forms of transportation which destroy the homeostasis of the planet. Our overuse of non-biodegradable plastics, drugs, and chemicals, industrial waste, inorganic disposable diapers and pads, non-biodegradable clothing, home construction materials, Electric, radio, microwave, technology etc., and everything about the so-called desirable consumeristic capitalistic way of life is unsustainable and is destroying the environment. Over-consumption, over-waste, and impulse in fossil-fueled transportation must terminate...

This unconscious human activity is destroying the very nature, world, on which we depend on to live.  The Environmental movement is then an effort to save ourselves by reconnecting with the deepest wisdom, consciousness, intelligence, knowledge, and peace that lies within us, that is our birthright, our essence, who we are at the core, but from which we are becoming more and more disconnected. Our Ancient Indigo Descendants and Ancestors, paid Propitiation and reparation for any resources, that we used, with an attitude of humble gratitude. We did not take, rob, steal, debase, explode and/or waste.

The Indigo Melanin Spiritual Movement is the Environmental movement, actually orchestrated by life consciousness itself, rather than a movement constructed by mankind, to restore order, peace and consciousness to the planet. The Aquarian Age is Arising! Humanity is reconnecting with nature as it should.

The Rocks ARE Crying out!

Amen Par Ankh (sacred temple of life) and Amen Ankh Academy; is a local homeschool network, and Urban Farm nestled around a Spiritual Outreach Ministry and an Education Center in the heart of midtown Kansas City, Missouri. Contact our Minister and Director: Queenma Nuta Beqsu Moses aka Adenike Amen-Ra El and become a member of our Gnome Maafia- as We Celebrate the Cycles of Life! Email: amen.ankh@live.com ,and Call: 816-281-7704 to sign-up for courses and support: https://PayPal.me/AmenAnkh -E-mail: amen.parankh@gmail.com , information:  http://amen-parankh.blogspot.com ,also Look for us on Twitter & LinkedIn. We acknowledge our Great Ancient Ancestral history and heritage of First People Spiritual Ways. We provide an Online Homeschool Curriculum network and Afterschool STE-A-M (science technology, Engineering Vocational Arts mathematics and medicine) careers with hands-on Agriculture Experiences. –You GROWW Girls and Youth Going Green Economic Literacy study group. We Respect Mother Earth and acknowledge the natural sciences and ecology with recycling. We provide Ancestor Libation Ceremonies, KMT Readings for Destiny, Health, Career and Relationship Consultations using the Ausar Auset Method, We perform Home Blessings Interior Design, African Naming, KMT Ordained Weddings, and Wedding planning, We celebrate and observe the Equinox and Solstice events, where we celebrate and show our respect for the wonder of nature with Cultural Ceremonies, Song, music, dance, Workshops and special events. We Grow and make Org-Ankh Electric foods, Gifts, and Accessories. We provide an Online Radio Call-in show for Outreach ministry: Amen Communications http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amencommunications Newborn Blessings, Home and Business Spiritual Cleansing and Blessings, Ancient Funeral rites and Ascension ceremonies, Par Ankh Reading Room, Herbal Teas & Juice bar, Nature walks and Outdoor camping Experiences, classes such as Spiritual Jewelry Making, Sewing, and other handcrafts, Henna Healing designs, of Head wrapping arts, Making Natural Hair oils, beading and Lox twisting, Cosmetics, and Herbal products. Also Envisioning, Dream Catchers, Vision Boards, Art Healing Mandalas, Spiritual Jewelry Making, Gentle Yoga, Canning and preserving food, We assist in Wellness for Body Mind and Spirit for Spiritual Attunement - to realize the fullest capacities of life, health, prosperity, and strength. We provide active space for expressions of our original wisdom ways of life. Ceremony, Counseling, Coaching, Cleansings & Classes The information on this Blogsite has been put together for general information, education, reference, Spirituality Current Events, and entertainment purposes only and is not intended to provide medical advice. This information has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any specific condition. Ask your doctor for his professional advice before making radical changes in your diet and lifestyle. Amen Ankh Urban Farm is an urban agricultural enterprise with the goal of achieving environmental justice and sustainability by Healthy local food production and improving local neighborhood access to healthy Foods. We are growing orchards and constructing Aquaponic Systems of farm-raised fish, Herbs and microgreens. We also provide Farm-a-See tours of successful Local Farmers with the “Green Griot”. We grow selected local “Org-Ankh” electric indigenous Herbs, Fruits, Vegetable and plant life of the Three Sisters: (Corn, Beans, and Squash/Melons) and cruciferous vegetables: Cabbage, and Kale, With Wheat Grass and other Sprouts, Herbs: Basil, Sage, Chives, Rosemary, Parsley, Peppers, with Moringa nutritional drink supplements, -From our Fresh produce we create canned and Baked Goods, teas, cosmetics, & liniments to provide Healing through the inspiration of Kujichagulia (Self-determination) for everyone. Feel free or Contact the Director: Queenma Nuta Beqsu Moses aka Adenike Amen-Ra Please like our facebook pages: https://www.facebook.com/Green.Griot https://www.facebook.com/PARANKH , https://www.facebook.com/Amen.Ankh.Farm  https://www.facebook.com/Adenike.Art , https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ankh-The-Way-of-Life-Communities Dua (Th-ankh you!) ♥.

Why Urban Farming Is The Most Important Initiative of Our Lives

Why Urban Farming is the Most Important Initiative of Our Lives

06/13/2013

Nuta Beqsu Amen-Ra

Everybody Eats! So the simple act of planting food can shape issues like economics, health, and politics at the same time. Food is essential to life. Food is the focal point of human activity all over the planet. As the Urban Farming movement grows, so grows a positive future for our children and the ecology of the planet. Amen Ankh Urban Farm (AAUF) is our name- Amen means sacred- Ankh means life. We move in the approach of reconnecting with nature, spirituality and showing accountability to the Earth environment, and revolutionary social transformation.

While most houses on my street have “lawns” with Grass, or wild growth, really cut “weeds” in their yards, our front yard and vacant lot, are sprouting, Sage, Mint, Wild garlic and onions, Dandelions, Plantain, Clover, Peppers, Zucchini, Tomatoes, Cabbage, Chicory, strawberries, and more. Agricultural Scientist and Master Gardener, George Washington Carver said: “A weed is just a flower that has been misplaced.” At AAUF, We forage the plants that are already growing In the spring to harvest natural healing essence of the season… In our lot, we plant and grow thousands of pounds of food per year on a plot of land the size of a basketball court. We grow and preserve enough fruits and vegetables to feed my family and neighbors year-round. Our house and land are part of a growing global movement of people involved in urban farming.

Joanna Grace Pepper Farmer (right) Adenike Amen-Ra (Left) at Amen Par Ankh and Urban Farm

Growing food is a revolutionary act of rebellion in these times of food compromises.

AAUF is a community teaching resource rooted in re-connection to nature, Stewardship, conservation, sustainability, and education. AAUF’s workshops strengthen communities by strengthening the relationship between plants and people and will inspire people of various backgrounds to agree to peacefully live in right relationship to nature– living as stewards to the insects, animals, plants, forests, land, water, and air they live “with”, rediscovering the value of various traditional ways of communicating with the useful plants that surround us, and support for the re-awakening of our harmonious interconnectedness

 

At Amen Ankh Urban Farms, we work in reconnecting and preserving original knowledge of our Aku/Sheps (ancestors) specifically relating to the relationships of plants with hue-mans. Our teaching farm will serve as a space for the rediscovery of our relationships with community-centered educational programs. This organization focuses on the importance of preserving the ethnobotanical and cultural wisdom taught by elders, ethnobotanists, community leaders Mentors, youth, and children. Classes for adults and students of all ages include after school programs, summer wilderness adventures, weekend seminars, and retreats. The curriculum includes local native plant identification, conservation, Environmental Responsibility, organic growing, seed collecting, making teas and medicinal herbal products, wilderness survival, mystery school studies, Rite of Passage, and many others. The Green Griot Gathering at Amen Par Ankh is designed to artistically express, grow and adapt to the community base it serves as a vehicle to connect with schools, Churches, and other community forums. 

We work along with EMWOT- (East Meets West of Troost) to build sustainability in the most desolate urban areas and Zip-codes that are not supported by city green zone initiatives. We have Artist-to-activist and Adenike’s Art reduce reuse recycle as a cultural-Cultivation for our youth to engage in STEAM (science technology engineering Vocational arts medicine) education through agriculture and green craft initiatives. Here are ways that Urban Agriculture will transform our world

Revived local economies. Local neighbor-to-neighbor commerce, bartering or home cottage industry generally does not happen in our communities anymore. Although there are many successful home-based businesses that have created a boom in the economy, like Apple Computers, and Marion Laboratories, and may network marketing constructs, Residential areas almost never include edible common spaces or gardens, where community exchanges might happen. The law discourages community autonomy, economy, and commerce, and even giving away free foods. Instead, most cities want to encourage you to purchase from the supermarket chain.

In my own city, the local statutes (Chapter 88-312) that permit urban farming will reinvigorate local commerce. Yet many officials do not see the vision and are allowing residential inspectors to rack up charges and fines on property owners to discourage this development, with the expectation of promoting gentrification. So, Instead of buying tomatoes, I can now plant a seed and grow and sell food or trade cucumbers for tomatoes from my neighborhood. Many are afraid that if urban farming continues to grow, it will cause a massive and positive economic eruption by introducing local Food production that would compete with the corporate mainstream on price, quality, convenience, and level of service.

Earth Stewardship 

Industrial agriculture is a major source of air, land, and groundwater pollution due to the use of petroleum-based chemicals. Petrochemicals are used to fertilize, spray, and preserve food. Gasoline is used to transport food worldwide. Plastics and Styrofoam are made from petrochemicals and are used to package the food, Petrochemicals also affect pricing by foods outsourced to foreign processing and preparation sites then shipped back to the US to be warehoused. Urban farming disconnects us from fossil fuels by minimizing the transport footprint through local growing and using organic pesticides and cultivation methods.

While industrial agriculture often maneuvers to avoid paying for environmental pollution, urban farmers have to bear the ecological costs of their actions directly. This makes urban farmers better stewards of their land because they draw their nutrition from it. Rather than using inorganic chemicals that destroy soil biology, urban farming permaculture stresses sustainable organic techniques that enrich the topsoil. So we Compost using a worm culture system. We return Ash, Epsom Salt, hair, and food scraps back to the soil

Connecting to local politics. Urban farming makes it easier for people to be involved in local politics because it brings home the issues that directly affect the environment right to the local neighborhoods, like health and wellness, Youth Education, air and water quality, birds and bee populations, while crime, moves to the background. Local regulations become far more relevant to the day-to-day life of a person attempting to cultivate their own food. The growth of urban farming has resulted in legal pushes, like the California Cottage Food Act, which will allow people to legally sell certain homemade goods like jams and bread. Other neighborhood issues such as raising goats, chickens, beekeeping for pollinating plants, and the production of honey, berry bushes, and local fruit and nut tree gleaning, as well as homemade cosmetics. Fluoride and the chlorination of water, Windmills, and Solar energy, are also in the sights of urban farmers and environmentalists.

A Revolution for Nutrition Awareness of the negative health effects of GMO food from the industrialized food market is a big reason why urban farmers grow their own food. When you feed your products to your family, you’re less likely to use poisons. Local food is the freshest and has the best flavor, and nutrient retention, because it goes through less transportation, preserving, and processing. As the urban farming movement grows, it will mean more access to nutritious local foods and more time spent doing exercise and physical work of growing and cultivation. This could result in more intellectual capacity in our youth, more energy and vitality, Lower Crime, less obesity, less chronic disease, and decreased healthcare spending.

Blossoming of re-community exchange. Urban farming is a lifestyle inherently centered on the community. Growing food is, after all, a cooperative effort. In my own community, I see that the knowledge of how and what to grow is exchanged, seeds are swapped, labor is shared, and the harvest is traded. Home cottage industry grows, as urban farming grows, a stronger interdependence within communities is likely to result as local food systems bring more community interaction into people’s daily lives. Mega-Corporations had largely killed small-town ways of life, which were essential for the re-circulation of wealth, by destroying small businesses, Mom and Pop stores, and driving Black and small farmers off of their land. Now, successful Cooperatives, microloans, seed capital systems, and bartering and exchange is growing.

The Influences of Urban Agriculture is significant because food is a central necessity that affects everything and everybody at once and more people live in cities than in rural areas. Seeds of change are already being planted in our children, like my students across the world. These seeds will grow and blossom, where the need to demand more local food will be essential so that the market for local urban- organically grown produce will expand. We also need to put pressure on the City, County, State legal systems to allow easier local trade and more local food production.

Imagine if we grew food everywhere there is grass or so-called rank weeds. Even looking at alternatives like Aquaponics, Vertical and Rooftop Farming, and Aeroponics. Every community is a local food economy of small home cottage industries, waiting to come to life. The answer to climate change, the health crisis, and the recession economy is right outside your door. I’ll meet you at the Farm!

amen.ankh@live.com
816-281-7704

Kandaki-Ma Nuta Beqsu (Adenike Amen-Ra)

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We are available for Lectures, libations, Home Blessings, Panel Discussions, Conferences, and Workshops, along with an Af-Ra-Ka-N Centered curriculum for youth STEAM homeschooling, Workshops, and Itinerate Tutoring. 

We live in our ancient KMT Spiritual systems to serve our community in Libations, Griot Spoken Word Presentations, KMT Wedding, Naming and ReBirth, Personal consultations for Nia (Purpose), Health, Career and, Relationship, and Ascension officiant, Salutations and Blessings for new beginnings, (Home and Businesses blessings), Afrikan Storytelling. Amen Par Ankh is a Sacred Temple of Life- We are a KRST conscious Community. We Grow Food to restore balance in our relationship with the cosmos, earth, and our Natural communities by increasing awareness of Life, Health, and the Environment. We are a Ma'afia a "Healthy Place To Live" Amen Ankh Urban Farm’s Mission is to produce, promote, and perpetuate food, resources, and comfort and to grow local healthy Indigenous Foods in environmentally, respected, earth gentle ways. Call /text us-816-281-7704 

Contact: amen.parankh@gmail.com or amen.ankh@live.com 

The information on this website has been put together for general information, education, reference, Spirituality Current Events, and entertainment purposes only and is not intended to provide medical advice. This information has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any specific condition. Ask your doctor for professional advice before making radical changes in your diet and lifestyle.

Indigo American Growers in Urban Agriculture

Indigo American Growers in Urban Agriculture in Kansas City, MO. 

Amen Ankh Urban Farm is an economic development Cooperative Organization, with three tenets of the organization’s Eco “Nome” -ic philosophy-

 1. Local Urban Agriculture to access the freshest and healthiest foods, and to reduce fossil fuel transportation and long term storage that reduces the nutritional quality.

2. At-Risk youth -entrepreneurial and Green skilled vocational training for vital health and wellness of Mind and Body and cultural community accountability 

3. Reduce, Reuse Recycling initiatives in composting and habitat and ecosystem recovery. 

We provide technical Support (Tilling, Weeding, Health Consultations, Soil Testing) for Health conscious, Gardeners, Seniors, and New Urban farmers. We also provide "Farm-A-See" Health and Wellness landscaping and advocate and support an Aquaponic center nestled in a community school green house. We have outreach programs and curriculum for holistic health and wellness centered around STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics in an urban farm environment.

Plantain

Sage Hedge

 AMEN PAR ANKH (Sacred House of Life), and Amen Ankh Urban Farms began business in 2011. We are available for Meetings, Counseling sessions, Classes, Spiritual healing.  Sign up for classes through the link below -for Private Consultations, Jewelry Making, Mandala Art, Aromatherapy, Gift basket crafts, Food Boxes, Afrikan Weddings and Ascension ceremonies, Seasonal Events, Workshops and family sessions and retreats.

Inspired by the 2008 documentary film "Unnatural Causes," which shared many of the tenets that we agree, still need to be rectified in the urban community. "So many are getting sick and dying prematurely from "Unnatural Causes."

“Access to proven health protective resources like clean air, healthy food, and recreational space, as well as opportunities for high quality education, living wage employment, and decent housing, is highly dependent on the neighborhood in which one lives. These inequities cluster and accumulate over people’s lives and over time successfully conspire to diminish the ultimate quality and length of life in these neighborhoods…”

*Homicide is the 6th leading cause of death. Before that is Heart Attack, High blood pressure, Diabetes, and Cancers and stroke, that can be reduced or eliminated by what we choose to put into our mouths and how we detox what we are exposed to in our environment.

*We need to address and relieve the correlation between Food and stress.

*We need to alleviate and expose the target marketing and institutionalization of additive consumerism found in toxic fast food – drive through restaurants, saturated alcohol marketing, highly processed and GMOs (Genetically Modified Objects)

*We need to obtain relief from codependency to prescription and illegal drug addiction

*We need to re-mediate the Unsafe, polluted, and hazardous waste environments.

Solutions:

*Limit number and density of fast food restaurants, especially in low-income areas.
*Increase healthy food availability:
Retain and attract Farmers markets and locally Grown Food stores and restaurants through tax write-offs and other incentives.
*Streamline permitting, zoning variances and local government support for Urban Farming.
*Strengthen alternative sources of fresh produce such as farmers’ markets, community and school based produce stands.
*Enforce regulations to limit nuisance activity (litter, prostitution, drug dealing) in and around stores and market places.
*Limit the hours of operation and restrict the sale of cheap, fortified alcohol products
*Establish and enforce regulations to restrict the number of liquor stores in census tracts with an over-concentration of off -sale premises.

What Makes Communities Healthy?

*Clean air, water, access to healthy foods,
*Elements of economic, social, and physical environments, represented by the people within the community
*Having Community services, Recreation and other social supports, 
*Cultural Autonomy and Respect
*Having access entrepreneurial support and green jobs,
*Home ownership, affordable housing
*Belonging, Safety, trust,
*Safe places to walk and play,
*Good relationships with civic servants who are free of racism, class-ism, and sexism

Amen Par Ankh is a Spiritual Center with the Amen Ankh Urban Farm. In the heart of the Kansas City Urban neighborhoods- for the healing of the neighborhoods.  We invite you to enjoy, our network of natural and holistic practitioners, Natural Hair services, Jewelry Talismans, Healing Henna designs, Tattoos, Yoga, Meditation, Counseling, Meetings and other healing classes and workshops! We are available for lectures, workshops and classes. For more information, please contact:
A. Nuta Amen-Ra

Amen Par Ankh (Sacred House of Life) amen.parankh@gmail.com 

Amen Ankh Urban Farms 

amen.ankh@live.com

Call: 816-281-7704

Kansas City, Mo. 64130

   
Amen Par Ankh (Sacred House of Life) and Amen Ankh Urban Farm; is a local Urban Farm nestled around a Spiritual Center in the heart of midtown Kansas City, Missouri. Contact Us and become a member as We Celebrate the Cycles of Life!Email: amen.parankh@gmail.com , amen.ankh@live.com Call: 816-839-7945 sign-up for courses and support and information: http://emwot.ws/Amen_ParAnkh , http://amen-parankh.blogspot.com , Look for us on FaceBook & Twitter. We celebrate the Cycles of Life, Wellness and Balance in our everyday existence on earth. We assist in Wellness for Physical Fitness, Mental Health, and Spiritual Attainment - to realize the fullest capacities of life, health, prosperity and strength. We provide Whole Life Coaching, Energy work, A Par Ankh Reading Room, Org-Ankh Electric food Boxes, an Herbal Tea House & Juice bar, Outdoor Experiences, classes such as Cultural Head-wrapping, Natural Hair Braiding, beading and Lox twisting, ASCAC (The Association for the Study of Classical African Civilization), Art Healing Mandalas, Jewelry Making, Gentle Yoga, Canning and preserving food, Health and Wellness Study Courses, Gifts, Accessories, Cultural Ceremonies, Workshops and special events. Amen Par Ankh means sacred House of Life. We acknowledge creation. We provide a space for your own personal discovery with quiet reflection and time for internal work, as well as an active space for expressions of our original ways of life. Ceremony, Counseling, Coaching, Cleansings, & Classes Amen Ankh Urban Farm is an urban agricultural enterprise with the goal of achieving environmental justice and sustainability by Healthy local food production and improving local neighborhood access to healthy Foods. We run Aquaponic Systems of farm raised fish, Herbs and micro-greens. We sell Org-Ankh Electric Food Boxes! We also provide Farm-a-See tours of successful Local Farmers. We grow selected local indigenous Herbs, Fruits, Vegetable and plant life of the Three Sisters: Corn, Beans, and Squash and cruciferous vegetables: Cabbage, and Kale, With Wheat Grass and other Sprouts, Herbs: Basil, Sage, Chives, Rosemary, Parsley, Peppers and Moringa nutritional drink supplements, -From our foods we produce Baked Goods, cosmetics, & liniments to provide Healing and Sovereignty: Through the inspiration of Kujichagulia (Self determination) All Original people. Dua (Th-ankh you!) ♥.