AdAgrA 2014 Conference

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AdAgrA: Adventist Agriculture Association

Principles of Simple Living

Deidre Dealy

3- Preserving the Harvest

Michelle Lesher

4- Farm to Table: Simple Recipes

Byron Smith

Janice Smith

5- Simple Parenting Principles

Pamela Dysinger

7- The Agrarian Life and Homeschooling: Help for the Frazzled Mother

Are you all being blessed here at the conference?

Such a beautiful idea of coming together and learning about true education and agriculture.

I wasn't here at the very beginning yesterday.

I wanted to share why I chose to kind of put this breakout session together.

So last year was my first time at the conference, and there was a lot of teaching on homeschooling and how important it is and how agriculture and the homeschooling go together.

And learning a lot about what Spirit of Prophecy says about schooling and teaching our children, like what our presenter this morning was telling us, how it's better to wait until the brain is ready.

These were concepts I did not know and did not understand.

It really opened my eyes and my understanding to a lot of things.

And so I learned a lot about why we should do it.

And then I wanted to know more about the how do we do it.

So that was where the idea for this session came from.

I wanted to do really practical ways of how to incorporate sort of this agrarian life into raising children.

I myself don't have any children yet, but I know that it's something in my heart.

I would love to be a mother and it's such an important job.

I think it's the most important job on the planet.

I work with pregnant and pregnant mothers and children from age birth to 5 with my work.

And so that's why I wanted to develop this breakout session for moms and for children.

Because you know, children are such an important thing.

And I admire mothers very much because it's a total surrender isn't it just a total dedication and fathers too But I know with moms it's a, you know, oftentimes you're the 1 that's home with the child more often or you're the 1 that's really interacting with them all day.

And so how are you to incorporate homeschooling and schooling your children in the agrarian life.

There's a way to do that and it's something that I aspire to do and that's why I wanted Pam to share and tomorrow there's going to be a lot on specifics with how to homeschool.

She's going to, I told Pam, I want you to just go through a day in the life of Pam with her 5 kids because she's homeschooled them all living at Bountiful Blessings Farm.

So she's going to do that for us tomorrow.

We have some other really great speakers also that's going to be really focused in on the agrarian life kind of homeschooling aspects.

And today, with the intro and then the natural remedies and the preserving, and now I'm going to talk about simple recipes, because it all goes together, doesn't it?

It's a lifestyle, and that's what we want to help people to understand how to do it.

And it's a process, just like anything else in life, wherever you're at.

Some of you may be living in a city still some maybe just moved to the country So there's a lot of different places where you're at and we just want to be here to support Every person in every place that they're at to learn how to achieve this agrarian life and living in harmony with nature, the garden, your children and your family and God.

Because we know that's the calling, isn't it?

So it's about time to start now, so I'll just start with the prayer.

Dear Heavenly Father, we praise you so much and thank you so much for this time that we have here together now.

I pray that whatever I say would be an honor and a glory to you, Lord.

We know anything that's good comes from you, so we just want to thank you for all the good things in this world.

I especially want to thank you right now for every mother and child that is in this room.

Thank you for the blessing of the children and we just pray that what we teach here would be something to grow them up, Lord, so that they would know you better.

So I just want to reiterate, I love children.

And there's lots of them in this room and it's just cool that this happens to be conveniently located next to the playground.

And there's a nice bathroom exit over here.

It's just God planned this perfectly, didn't he?

So we thank every person for coming and for being here and everyone has a handout.

I'm going to try to speak in front of the microphone.

I'm a registered nurse and a registered dietitian, but most of all I'm the wife of Larry and we have Eastward Gardens as our ministry.

So we've been farming for about 9 years now.

Just to give you a little bit of a background.

Larry and I, when we met, neither 1 of us were Christians.

We came to the Lord together through a Sunday keeping church and then the Lord led us to learn the truths, the Adventist truths, which are so amazing, completely changed our lives.

I've been following a total plant-based diet since I was 16 years old and I'm now 38 years old.

So I've been following this diet well before I was ever a Christian, well before I was ever an Adventist, pursued my career in nursing and after I got finished I thought oh dear I don't think I want to do this.

I really want to help people to heal and I really liked the assessment and the caring and the nurturing part of it, but I really didn't like the giving out the medicine part.

It really bothered me, because I was giving some people some pretty heavy medicines that I knew were not good for them.

So the Lord impressed me and Larry to table the nursing career and pursue a master's in nutrition so I could help people to learn to heal through food, to prevent the medicines.

And through the course of all of that, basically I went to a school called Bastyr University to get my master's and that was in Seattle, Washington.

And that was the very first place that Larry started farming.

So, I grew up in a home where my mom would cook dinner.

I remember we ate dinner usually sitting in front of the TV and would eat lots of candy and chips and pop and things like that.

I was not raised eating a really healthy diet.

My passion for health food actually, believe it or not, started with my passion for the environment and animals.

I cared about animals and the environment and that caused me to learn and care more about through the course of a lot of mistakes caring more about what I'm putting in my own body and so I'm happy to share with you as a registered dietitian that you can feed yourself and your families a total plant-based diet and be healthy and have Vitality and feel good about that So I'm going to help you with that because I know it's hard for moms because you want to give your children the best You don't want them to be deficient and I don't either.

We're going to start off with GMOs though.

Tell me here, does anyone not know what a GMO is?

So everyone knows what a genetically modified organism is So what I'm going to do is help you to know how to avoid them does everyone here understand that they are not Good for us to eat right They go against God's great design and so what we want to do from our understanding of these things is avoid them in the food system.

When you're trying to avoid genetically modified organisms, where you get into your most trouble is in the packaged foods.

If you're eating mostly fresh foods, it's not as difficult.

Because we don't want to eat packaged foods anyway, right?

But aren't they using regular foods that are genetically modified?

So there are some fresh foods that are genetically modified, but the bulk of the problem is in packaged foods.

70 to 80 percent of the ingredients in packaged foods are genetically modified.

Series

Principles of Simple Living

4- Farm to Table: Simple Recipes

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

Daniel 12 and the 1335 with Q&A

1h 28m

The Plant-based Revolution: A Unique Opportunity for Adventists

45m

GYC 2013 Seminar: The Most Important Book Outside of the Bible - A Deeper Look at The Great Controversy

03-Adventism’s Prophetic Message in the Great Controversy

1h

The Future of Adventism: Will Our Biblical Foundation Give Way to Culture?

3. The Future of Adventist Lifestyle

1h 20m

The Almost Overmastering Delusion

54m

Eric Walsh Weekend

01 Purified in Persecution

1h 1m

AMEN 2011 Plenary Sessions

Our High Calling, Part 3

39m

Beyond the Tithe: Practical Lessons on Personal Finance

6. Lay Up Your Treasures: Earning Interest in the Bank of Heaven

1h 10m

Diet and Sexuality

58m

GYC SE 2011 Seminar: Devotional Life

The Undoing of the Saints: A Testimony

43m

The Vindication of God

45m

What Jesus Said

1. The Word of God

57m

Sound Doctrine