She is beautiful. She is also mournful!
Why do we terrestrials keep making our Mother cry?
(“Mother Earth” image[1] by Andrew Green Mann, Pinterest.com)
Whatever, I am excited. I have never been excited as in
mid-morning today, Friday, 03 December 2021, when in thinking what to write about
for my next essay on Regenerative
Agriculture (RegenA), I had the singular idea of publishing a magazine
to promote RegenA, a relatively modern concept of farming, by virtue of a
monthly magazine, available in digital & print formats, and I thought of
the name “Regina" – a clearly feminine contrast to RegenA. Mann’s
picart above will be my mag’s logo. On the coming out of the first issue, I
will celebrate by giving out drinking cups with her image painted on 2 opposite
“sides.”
Now then, my previous “RegenA” as acronym for Regenerative
Agriculture has become “RegINA” – as well as I am assigning it as the name of Queen Mother Earth, that is, the
practice of agriculture to please us terrestrials and at the same time make
Queen Mother Earth smile! (Not weeping as above.)
RegINA
is an acronym:
Regenerative from Intelligent,
Information-Intense, Insightful, Nature-Assured Applicable Agriculture.
Today I begin looking for Regina-loving terrestrials – that
is, individuals and institutions to be featured in the maiden issue, out this
Christmas season, target date 25 December 2021, celebrated as date of birth of Jesus Christ, Son of God. I am a Roman
Catholic; in any case, whether you believe in God or not as long as you believe
in the Earth As One Whole, you
belong to RegINA, whether it refers to my magazine on regenerative agriculture or
our Queen Mother Earth!
RegINA is the latest incarnation in my personal journey
along the paths of the sciences of Agriculture
(I am a BSA major in Ag Edu, UP Los Baños 1965); Agroforestry (I was Chief Information Officer of the Forest Research Institute, 1975-1981);
and since 2000 Blogging – early
this month, I transformed my 3-year old blog Communication
for Development (ComDev)
into “Communication for Village
Development 2021” (CoVID21) – and now RegINA, Queen
Mother Earth.
“Regenerative from Intelligent, Information-Rich, Insightful
Nature-Assured Applicable Agriculture” – “Intelligent” refers to scientific
findings; “Information-Rich” refers to experiences based on science or guesswork;
and “Insightful Nature-Assured” refers to any accidental agricultural discovery
or act arising from intuition that afterwards proves productive and
ecologically sustainable.
The RegINA magazine will feature any newsworthy item on any
individual, group or institution public or private that is currently pursuing
what we might term “reginable” or what is fore/seen to be a naturally
regenerative practice or process in agriculture. Note: On their own, the
following already-existing sciences & practices are worthy entries to the
RegINA Knowledge Bank and worth featuring in the RegINA Magazine:
Recognizable and/or known
regenerative sciences/practices:
Agroforestry
Biodynamic farming
Cover cropping
Crop diversification
Crop rotation
Free-range growing of animals
Minimum tillage/No-till farming
Natural farming
Organic farming
Permaculture
System of Rice Intensification (SRI)
Trash farming.
Welcome
into your intellectual and agricultural lives RegINA, Queen Mother Earth!@517
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