by Wally Richards

SERIOUS STUFF

On Saturday mornings I normally write my gardening article for e-mailing out on Sunday, after proofreading it.

Having done this for so long now, every week, I have to think: what is happening in gardens now, what can I write about that will be of interest to most readers?

Sometimes when stuck for a subject I look back over the last 20 plus years of articles and see what could be of interest that I have written in the past and use that as the bases of a new article. Sometimes a reader will have recently contacted me by phone and we have had a chat which has then been used to write that week’s article.

Last Saturday morning a reader had placed an order for some products and I phoned; as I always do with every order to talk about the products and sort out freight and payment. People ask me why don’t I have on the mail-order website like most websites; have a pay on line facility?

If I did that I would lose contact with my customers and any help or advise which I am able to give would not be available. Also I would not learn how the gardens are going in ‘their neck of the woods’ what problems they are having and what advise I can give.

It is called service and like common sense, it is another thing that has disappeared in our times.

The phone conversation was with a lady by the name of Katherine whose family have a 10-acre (4 hectares) lifestyle block out from Rangiora in Canterbury.

The information Katherine gave me is of grave concern to all of us as it directly affects everyone.

It was all about food production in her area and what has happened this season on their land and other food producers in the area. Katherine said that the winter into spring was very good with ample rain before it started to dry out in more recent times.

So crops, fruit and grass should have been fairly good as they had a good start before it started to go into more drought like conditions. Besides Canterburians are accustomed to dry summers and still produce ample crops.

I was told; the hay taken off two paddocks was well down on the previous year, in fact less than half the bales when compared to the previous year.

Also the quality or the carbohydrate content was low which means that its not a lot of energy for the stock when they consume it. I know that last year around the Marton area farmers were complaining about the poor quality of their grass which is a result of lack of direct sunlight. I have not heard locally if the same has applied this season.

Katherine also said a noticeable reduction in insect populations, few Ladybirds, honey bees and white butterflies, but reasonable amount of bumble bees.

A few other people I have spoken to from other areas of New Zealand have also commented on not so many insects around, both beneficials and pest ones. (White fly appears to be an exception for many)

Katherine told me that fruit including berry producers in the area are well down on what they normally produce; in fact several do not have sufficient produce to have their normal gate sales and only enough to fill some orders.

When out bike-riding recently Katherine said she had to stop to catch her breath as the air had a sulphur like smell to it and it made her feel out of sorts. She noted that it was only while cycling she noticed it,not otherwise, and put it down to the bike exercise which meant breathing more air in. She also told me of a lack of blue skies with ample direct sunshine, instead hazy shies or overcast with noticeable trials in the sky which people call Chem Trails as they contain a range of chemicals which are released from planes.

The following is from Internet: These trails, unlike condensation trails, do not dissipate quickly into the atmosphere. In addition, there is proof which confirms the presence of there being harmful chemical elements in the trails. Some researchers have studied the composition and effects of this phenomenon, which may to us seem harmless and commonplace.

According to these experts, chemical trails are the result of experimental operations which have manifold purposes. The main objectives, albeit unproven, range from the meteorological (Weather Control), dimming the skies (Global Warming) to the military.

The analyses carried out have verified the presence of the following elements in the chem trails: barium, aluminum, radioactive thorium and cesium, copper, titanium, silicon, lithium, cobalt, lead, ethylene dibromide and several pathogenic agents.

I saw a few months back a Hills Lab report on rain water caught in the North Island that confirmed that those chemicals were in the water. What the effect on the health of all life forms including ourselves and plants is yet to be known. (And we worry about the dangerous chemicals chlorine and fluoride deliberately added to our water supplies.)

Considered a taboo subject in the 1970s, solar geoengineering has emerged into mainstream conversations about climate change adaptation within the past decade.

As of 2023, there were over ten major research groups pursuing stratospheric aerosol injection. Dimming skies: Sulfur dioxide forms highly reflective sulfates, which are considered the main cause of global dimming.

Global dimming had been widely attributed to the increased presence of aerosol particles in Earth’s atmosphere, predominantly those of sulfates. Remember… Katherine’s air with sulphur like smell/taste.

Henry Kissinger warned us when he said: “Control the Food, control the People. Control the Energy, control the Continents. Control the Money, control the World.”

Also as I said in my recent book, Gardening with Wally Richards, CO2 levels are getting dangerously low which is affecting plant growth as plants need good levels of CO2 to grow and thrive.

Then there is a lot of radiation that planet earth has been subjected to, affecting all life forms which is another aspect of which the dangers have not been acknowledged — see https://radiationemergency.org/

This could help to explain the reduction in insect populations and other phenomena such as recently.

RAINBOW LORIKEETS DROPPING FROM THE SKY and many other such reports from around the world: Last Wednesday, ABC News in Australia reported about hundreds of rainbow-colored parrots falling dead out of the sky along a swath of the east coast of that country centered on Brisbane. In 2010, around the time the first 4G cell towers were being built, ornithologists described the first cases of a mysterious disease that paralyzed and killed these stunning creatures.

During the summer of 2019-2020, when the first 5G towers went into service, 1,500 rainbow lorikeets rained out of the skies.

And last week, when more than 200 dead lorikeets were collected in just a few days, it made headlines again.

Knowing about things may be frightening for some, but at the same time it allows you to prepare for events that may or may not happen. One aspect that we must be concerned with is food security and keeping our gardens full of health giving vegetables and fruit.

Preserving surplus like our grand parents did for a ‘Rainy Day’

We see panic buying when a supermarket is going to close for one day which means that too many people are not food secure for even a few days.

I am very interested to hear from readers that have also noticed problems in their gardens, lack of insects etc as I can pass the information on though my articles and the recorded gardening programs with Rodney Hide on Reality Check Radio such as at

Link — plus many other discussions on RVR with yours truly.

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