Guest speaker: Ruth Boloment

I hope I spelled the name correctly.

Ruth briefly spoke about her past and how she got where she is today. She started off talking about how she was living in I think California where she designed clothes and one day she was hit by disturbing news that her father was very ill.  Her father later pasted away, but some land to his kids.  The three kids didn’t really know what to do with the land and two of them wanted to sell it, but Ruth said to herself, “he gave it to us for some reason and we shouldn’t just sell it.”  So she convinced her two siblings to sell their portion of the land to her.  She finally decided what she would do with the land and started growing plants.  Once she started on this path, she started to feel enlightened.  She practiced Yoko farming, which is praying for the food.  To her surprise the method worked, the plants were growing and those that weren’t growing as well, she would pray for them individually and the next day the plant would look better.  Unfortunately, Ruth was starting to get sick and losing her memory, at one point she didn’t remember having a daughter.  So she went to find out what was wrong with her and she later found out that she had a bunch of chemicals occupying her body.  She had no clue why this happened because she is an organic farmer and the farm next to them is also supposed to be organic farming.  Ruth later found out that the farmers next door were spraying chemicals on their plants and the wind was caring these chemicals to Ruth’s garden.  She tried bioenergetics medication which really helped her and her memory is slowly coming back to normal.  She also said “being in control of our health, by controlling the environment,” the environment will help us.  Some interesting things she briefly touched on besides her story which is sad yet inspirational, were how polyester is actually harmful and yet we use it all the time in clothing.  Also how bottle waters are actually harmful as well and when they are left in the heat they are much worse.  Thanks Ruth for coming in to speak with the class.