Dagen has kindly recommended a follow-up mediation meeting. He became aware of the ongoing nature of the conflict here at Maybrook and communicated with Ahgamen and Michelle recently. So we are considering this opportunity for real community growth and development. This is how it really happens.
The main obstacle is that we cannot interact directly. As per the Protection Order with the state authorities, Michelle and Ahgamen are protected from harassment by Kevin Skvorak. I think that other people who are "siding with" Kevin can communicate for him. That's because the gang of four think alike.
We shall see if this will be scheduled, although we are willing as long as it is positive and constructive. We also would require that the meeting be video-recorded and those who do not want to appear, can sit off-camera. We however will be in full camera, as we have nothing to hide. The documentation is for learning and posterity purposes.
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"A Tale of SEVEN Farmers" introduction
Orchard farm Peter Appleseed 2018 |
"A Tale of Five Farmers"
(This is a new novel by Ahgamen Keyboa) "A Tale of Five Farmers" is about the current state of the progressive agricultural movement in America and the world. "A Tale of Five Farmers" details the lives of five individual farmers who may or may not learn to cooperate together. The first one is Haum. The second one is Brooke. The third one is Kelvin. The fourth one is MacKraut. The fifth one is Appleseed.
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UPDATE: the epic saga has been expanded to be:
"A Tale of Seven Farmers"
There are seven interconnected farmers, not necessarily in a harmonious relation you see. These seven separate farmers are all struggling in the post-modern world, to make a living from the soil, to return to closeness with the land. The story unfolds with a description of the farmers one by one: Haum, then Brooke, then Kelvin, then MacKraut, then Topper, then Handy, then Appleseed... the reader finds out the complexity of the farmer's world, which is a most revered tradition since the start of history.
This is a novel/book which is to be a stage play of the same name.
Michael Johnson GANAS would behoove us
GANAS Intentional Community: Michael Johnson, core member, painting coordinator. Michael Johnson is Quoted verbatim from a video interview on Ubraintv.com About why people are scared to communicate directly
"WE WERE VERY INTERESTED IN FINDING OUT WHY PEOPLE CAN'T TALK TO EACH OTHER, SO THEY CAN SOLVE THEIR PROBLEMS THAT THEY NEED TO SOLVE IN ORDER TO WORK TOGETHER. THEY HAD THESE EXPERIENCES IN WORKPLACES, AND VOLUNTEER PROJECTS, ETC. AND SO THAT WAS WHAT WE DID FOR A VERY LONG TIME WAS TO REALLY TRY TO UNDERSTAND THE FEAR OF TALKING TO EACH OTHER HONESTLY." cf. http://www.ubraintv.com/watch.php?id=740
It seems that one of the problems within the overall situation at Maybrook Lodge and Solidarity Farm (which is under the auspices of Ganas, as an early ally or customer/client of the farm produce) is the difficulty of communication, i.e. talking to each other honestly, without fear of doing so, or any other kind of overwhelming fear. My name is Ahgamen, I will cite several examples: Dominick is not present, he does not reside at Maybrook, which makes it difficult to communicate. I have not communicated with him since the initial agreement phase. I have experienced a variety of secondhand communications, nothing directly; obviously he has also experienced the same, it is mutual. Any communication between Dominick and my family are indirect and secondhand. Therefore, it is lack of communication, possibly obstruction. Is it an instance of fear? Maybe in the obvious meaning and also in an interconnected way, because the persons doing direct communication with Dominick do not want any other persons having communication.
That is a case of compartmentalization and a case of chain of command. That's what it is. That is the hierarchy. That has been a part of the informal agreement. However, only in the ideal scenario, it will suffice. In times of trouble or dispute, it will not suffice at all. Communications need to be opened.
I am sure that Michael Johnson and Ganas community were involved with exploring and figuring out exactly that issue with human interactions. What did they find out? Have no idea about that. I do not know much at all about the findings of Ganas and what is entailed in their "matriarchy" or otherwise core group.
Another example of fear is the manner in which Tanyth and Richard and Permilla try to communicate with Michelle and Ahgamen and their family and Haum and Edmund and Michael etc. They (the Solidarity farm gang of four) became so fear-based that they will not communicate, will not have meetings, will not have it recorded, and will not discuss anything rationally. Their conclusion is to tell anybody else to just go away, just leave, just be gone, shoo, good riddance! Is that communication or the fear of communication?
"WE WERE VERY INTERESTED IN FINDING OUT WHY PEOPLE CAN'T TALK TO EACH OTHER, SO THEY CAN SOLVE THEIR PROBLEMS THAT THEY NEED TO SOLVE IN ORDER TO WORK TOGETHER. THEY HAD THESE EXPERIENCES IN WORKPLACES, AND VOLUNTEER PROJECTS, ETC. AND SO THAT WAS WHAT WE DID FOR A VERY LONG TIME WAS TO REALLY TRY TO UNDERSTAND THE FEAR OF TALKING TO EACH OTHER HONESTLY." cf. http://www.ubraintv.com/watch.php?id=740
It seems that one of the problems within the overall situation at Maybrook Lodge and Solidarity Farm (which is under the auspices of Ganas, as an early ally or customer/client of the farm produce) is the difficulty of communication, i.e. talking to each other honestly, without fear of doing so, or any other kind of overwhelming fear. My name is Ahgamen, I will cite several examples: Dominick is not present, he does not reside at Maybrook, which makes it difficult to communicate. I have not communicated with him since the initial agreement phase. I have experienced a variety of secondhand communications, nothing directly; obviously he has also experienced the same, it is mutual. Any communication between Dominick and my family are indirect and secondhand. Therefore, it is lack of communication, possibly obstruction. Is it an instance of fear? Maybe in the obvious meaning and also in an interconnected way, because the persons doing direct communication with Dominick do not want any other persons having communication.
That is a case of compartmentalization and a case of chain of command. That's what it is. That is the hierarchy. That has been a part of the informal agreement. However, only in the ideal scenario, it will suffice. In times of trouble or dispute, it will not suffice at all. Communications need to be opened.
I am sure that Michael Johnson and Ganas community were involved with exploring and figuring out exactly that issue with human interactions. What did they find out? Have no idea about that. I do not know much at all about the findings of Ganas and what is entailed in their "matriarchy" or otherwise core group.
Another example of fear is the manner in which Tanyth and Richard and Permilla try to communicate with Michelle and Ahgamen and their family and Haum and Edmund and Michael etc. They (the Solidarity farm gang of four) became so fear-based that they will not communicate, will not have meetings, will not have it recorded, and will not discuss anything rationally. Their conclusion is to tell anybody else to just go away, just leave, just be gone, shoo, good riddance! Is that communication or the fear of communication?
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Power of the goat, the sheep, the chickens, to stay on farm!
On Sunday July 22, 2018, there was yet another of the ongoing harassment incidents at the Maybrook Lodge Solidarity Farm Kerhonkson Accord NY. Another violent episode of the cult-like tactics that the group of Kevin is inflicting upon any individuals that they target. That's exactly what it is. What a shame. What a disgrace. We must expose it for what it is. The victims in this episode were the honored new members (who have been helping with the project since middle of May 2018, during their visits to the site), Selena Levy and Michael Essig.
Meanwhile there are new visitors who were mingling around the corner unaware of the insidious crime syndicate. They are being dubbed the gang of four. This elitist clique, The Solidarity Farm GANG OF FOUR consists of Kevin Skvorak, (the mother his child) Tanyth Berkeley, Richard Clark, and Purmilla "Prim" (sorry we do not know yet what her full name is, no background check was conducted on her or any of the gang for the past 4 months, perhaps she is resisting or she is grandfathered-into the company?)
The Gang of Four proceeded to bang on the door of the private residence early in the morning to harass and accost Michael and Selena. They screamed their demands at the new members. For what reason? Why were they so riled up and actually quite terrified?? That they had to spread their terrified state to others who were not yet terrified.
It was all because of THE PRESENCE of a farm animal. That morning they found a farm animal. A farm animal was in their midst... OMG... OMFG! and I mean, Oh my freaking goat!!! This is a farm, where one would expect to find farm animals located. But no!!! Not the gang of four. To them, it is another reason to attempt as hard as they can to intimidate all the other simple farmers to run away from them. It is futile and laughable, because the farmers are not running away, they are not scared. The farmers brought a great goat to the farm. The goat is to be a nice, functional part of the community and will be integral with the whole project. Does everybody here accept the power of the goat?
The Gang of Four has no power, no authority, their gig is up. Each one of them lives elsewhere; they maintain residence not on the farm, but in the metropolitan region. Their specific addresses are not known, but these facts will be determined (investigations underway), in order to serve them with legal papers. The litigation is in process. No longer do the Gang of Four have any power to intimidate, to harass, to abuse, to disrespect, to play their charade. The main reason is that they do not belong in a peaceful community, a place of simple farmers and human beings going back to the land.
The gang of four have been plotting to turn this farm into a drunken, cigarette-smoking haven for the deranged and desperate, such as themselves. Their twisted fantasy is to generate another shady alcoholics bar for picking up loose women, thus relocating the rampant debauchery of the City-life up into the countryside here. Well, their bizarre plans are failing miserably.
They cannot remove and dispose of the simple farmers, the new generation of good people who do organic farming; nor can they remove a farm animal which is rightly situated. The goat is here to stay and many more are on the way. This is more likely a home for goats and sheep and chicken than it is for the Gang of Four. This project is for organic gardens, food-forests, permaculture, and biodynamic activity - such endeavor which will succeed and foster life.
Michael and Selena suffered the abuse and harassment but are recovering well. They have the strength to stand-up against the nuisance and frankly, the injustice to their humanity. Michael and Selena are doing the right thing in trying to maintain harmony and friendly terms with the Gang of Four. Yet I know the gang is a form of domestic terrorism. The Solidarity Farm Gang of Four will go down in history as being willfully mentally diseased and using their actions to go against good people. What I mean by willfully is that they were notified many times for many months, they were given constructive criticism, but they chose to ignore it and go ahead with their crimes. I cannot explain it any other manner, it is mental disease that they have. It's like an episode of Twilight Zone, where the farmer wakes up and discovers that the village has fallen into insanity.
There is only one way to solve the problem, and that's by facing it and exposing it to the light of Truth. That's what you the reader can gain here, the blazing light of truth and it will set us free.
related note: snipped from the web search website http://www.whowalkinbrooklyn.com/?p=1518
Brian Berger: [Fumbles with tape recorder as granadillo drips down his chin] Whoa, now that’s what I call batidos! Some people think you’re from California but it’s a lot more complicated than that, isn’t it?
Yes that gangmember of the Gang of Four lived on a goat farm, yet now tromps around with the gang trying to intimidate goat farmers on the farm!
Meanwhile there are new visitors who were mingling around the corner unaware of the insidious crime syndicate. They are being dubbed the gang of four. This elitist clique, The Solidarity Farm GANG OF FOUR consists of Kevin Skvorak, (the mother his child) Tanyth Berkeley, Richard Clark, and Purmilla "Prim" (sorry we do not know yet what her full name is, no background check was conducted on her or any of the gang for the past 4 months, perhaps she is resisting or she is grandfathered-into the company?)
The Gang of Four proceeded to bang on the door of the private residence early in the morning to harass and accost Michael and Selena. They screamed their demands at the new members. For what reason? Why were they so riled up and actually quite terrified?? That they had to spread their terrified state to others who were not yet terrified.
It was all because of THE PRESENCE of a farm animal. That morning they found a farm animal. A farm animal was in their midst... OMG... OMFG! and I mean, Oh my freaking goat!!! This is a farm, where one would expect to find farm animals located. But no!!! Not the gang of four. To them, it is another reason to attempt as hard as they can to intimidate all the other simple farmers to run away from them. It is futile and laughable, because the farmers are not running away, they are not scared. The farmers brought a great goat to the farm. The goat is to be a nice, functional part of the community and will be integral with the whole project. Does everybody here accept the power of the goat?
accept the goat power |
The gang of four have been plotting to turn this farm into a drunken, cigarette-smoking haven for the deranged and desperate, such as themselves. Their twisted fantasy is to generate another shady alcoholics bar for picking up loose women, thus relocating the rampant debauchery of the City-life up into the countryside here. Well, their bizarre plans are failing miserably.
They cannot remove and dispose of the simple farmers, the new generation of good people who do organic farming; nor can they remove a farm animal which is rightly situated. The goat is here to stay and many more are on the way. This is more likely a home for goats and sheep and chicken than it is for the Gang of Four. This project is for organic gardens, food-forests, permaculture, and biodynamic activity - such endeavor which will succeed and foster life.
Michael and Selena suffered the abuse and harassment but are recovering well. They have the strength to stand-up against the nuisance and frankly, the injustice to their humanity. Michael and Selena are doing the right thing in trying to maintain harmony and friendly terms with the Gang of Four. Yet I know the gang is a form of domestic terrorism. The Solidarity Farm Gang of Four will go down in history as being willfully mentally diseased and using their actions to go against good people. What I mean by willfully is that they were notified many times for many months, they were given constructive criticism, but they chose to ignore it and go ahead with their crimes. I cannot explain it any other manner, it is mental disease that they have. It's like an episode of Twilight Zone, where the farmer wakes up and discovers that the village has fallen into insanity.
There is only one way to solve the problem, and that's by facing it and exposing it to the light of Truth. That's what you the reader can gain here, the blazing light of truth and it will set us free.
related note: snipped from the web search website http://www.whowalkinbrooklyn.com/?p=1518
Brian Berger: [Fumbles with tape recorder as granadillo drips down his chin] Whoa, now that’s what I call batidos! Some people think you’re from California but it’s a lot more complicated than that, isn’t it?
Tanyth Berkeley: I was
born in Hollywood but have no real connection to the West Coast; my
family is on the East Coast. Before my mom and I settled in New York
City though, I lived on a goat farm in Colorado and in Providence, where
my mom was going to the Rhode Island School of Design.
Yes that gangmember of the Gang of Four lived on a goat farm, yet now tromps around with the gang trying to intimidate goat farmers on the farm!
Sunday, July 22, 2018
Dominick, notice of mismanagement, misrepresentation of NEFA mission
Dominick,
This is sent to you by Ahgamen (Peter) and Michelle Ann, as well as our family and community. I hope this letter finds you doing well. How is your farm work going? How are your sheep doing?
The subject of this message is about mismanagement, greivous injustice, as well as a legal warning. It has come to our attention that Kevin and others that he associates-with are in wrong conduct and being dishonest. The arrangement has been that Kevin speaks to you about the issues and concerns of operating the former-Maybrook. The problem is that he is not able to function in that capacity without distortion and lying. If he has made statements about us (Michelle and Ahgamen) then he must be spreading lies and twisting all the facts. He should not be trusted. He is now known to be somebody who will sabatage his own self.
In fact, let's talk about the way he tries to run the operations. He makes a horrible mess, a messy disorganized person. But he does make good rows of vegetables, I will give him credit. However this messy chaotic method he displays is also affecting the way he attempts to manage. First of all, he is not the manager of anything. I introduced the project to many new members who are great workers. Yet what did he do? He displayed a rude, nasty attitude and made a fool of himself and pushed them away. These people are the key to success, these are the farmers for access to the farm.
Kevin lies about the work we are doing. We have worked since we arrived in April 2018. What has he reported to you? We both have done work and were told in mid-May that there would be a 100 week stipend starting in that week. We have never been paid. He also told this to Jennifer. Now she has informed us that she is getting the 100 week stipend. Why is that? Is it because Kevin told lies? We have been working and Jennifer was not even here in the beginning, she was working for our friend at his house, so we directly know all the days she was paid by him. While she was there, we were working here! Where is our stipend, our sweat equity for these hours?
About the leadership position, Kevin tries to, he attempts to, then he contradicts himself about managing. He says "nobody is in charge", "I don't want to be the manager", "I'm not the Sherriff". He is a disorganized, disjointed thinker, almost as bad as his friend Little Bear Alex. We do not know if you heard the story about Little Bear, you probably didn't. He was working here every other week. I saw him and spoke with him many times. I planted the potatoes with him. Then he started to yell at me and slander me, for no reason; I did nothing wrong to him. He then started to harass and yell at Andre and they had a heated argument leading to a potential physical fight. He then ran into the house where Kevin stays. After that he departed. Several days later he went to my friends house on the other side of Accord and he proceeded to get into an argument. My friend had him remove him from his house because he became so nasty and vile.
Kevin cannot be trusted for his word and I can only imagine the lies he has stated about myself and my family. It would behoove you to find out the truth. We are good workers and have improved the land and structures here. We are continuing to do so, even after the antagonistic conduct of Kevin, Little Bear, and his other associates.
My conclusion is that Kevin needs a lot of therapy. He lost a relationship at Clove Valley and Sara W. who apparently was his partner, separated from him because of violence and other problems. He always brings up this experience of his, especially with Michelle. He tries to use Michelle as a therapist. She did not ask for that, she told him to stop. Kevin needs mental treatment from professionals.
This is the recommended solution: Kevin should leave and go to New Jersey where he can better access the Staten Island market he wants to serve (Ganas et al.) This project needs workers. I have literally more than a dozen qualified people ready to go. But they will not be able to do it with Kevin here. They are simple farmers and want to be close to the land and also repairing the infrastructure. If this is implemented, there will be success.
This is the legal warning: NEFA has a declared mission. If it is not followed, then it is clearly fraud. They are collecting money, property, and investors to provide a system that farmers will access the farms. Specifically, former-Maybrook was for housing of the farmers and Arrowhead was for main piece of land to farm. I am doing that along with the group that is forming the cooperative. If any party is to take any action to hinder or obstruct this, then it is grounds for a lawsuit. Labor laws will be invoked at the Federal level. ICE will be brought in. Discimination is the major flaw here. It can and will be proven by multiple witnesses and documentation.
You are responsible and culpable in anything that transpires here. We are just a simple family with a lot of friends who want to be on the land and participate in a fair deal. Would you just sit back and let this turn into a nightmare, when it can be a lucrative venture? We hope that you will proceed in a way that is mutually beneficial to all parties.
Sincerely,
Michelle Ann, Ahgamen, family, and cooperative-forming
This is sent to you by Ahgamen (Peter) and Michelle Ann, as well as our family and community. I hope this letter finds you doing well. How is your farm work going? How are your sheep doing?
The subject of this message is about mismanagement, greivous injustice, as well as a legal warning. It has come to our attention that Kevin and others that he associates-with are in wrong conduct and being dishonest. The arrangement has been that Kevin speaks to you about the issues and concerns of operating the former-Maybrook. The problem is that he is not able to function in that capacity without distortion and lying. If he has made statements about us (Michelle and Ahgamen) then he must be spreading lies and twisting all the facts. He should not be trusted. He is now known to be somebody who will sabatage his own self.
In fact, let's talk about the way he tries to run the operations. He makes a horrible mess, a messy disorganized person. But he does make good rows of vegetables, I will give him credit. However this messy chaotic method he displays is also affecting the way he attempts to manage. First of all, he is not the manager of anything. I introduced the project to many new members who are great workers. Yet what did he do? He displayed a rude, nasty attitude and made a fool of himself and pushed them away. These people are the key to success, these are the farmers for access to the farm.
Kevin lies about the work we are doing. We have worked since we arrived in April 2018. What has he reported to you? We both have done work and were told in mid-May that there would be a 100 week stipend starting in that week. We have never been paid. He also told this to Jennifer. Now she has informed us that she is getting the 100 week stipend. Why is that? Is it because Kevin told lies? We have been working and Jennifer was not even here in the beginning, she was working for our friend at his house, so we directly know all the days she was paid by him. While she was there, we were working here! Where is our stipend, our sweat equity for these hours?
About the leadership position, Kevin tries to, he attempts to, then he contradicts himself about managing. He says "nobody is in charge", "I don't want to be the manager", "I'm not the Sherriff". He is a disorganized, disjointed thinker, almost as bad as his friend Little Bear Alex. We do not know if you heard the story about Little Bear, you probably didn't. He was working here every other week. I saw him and spoke with him many times. I planted the potatoes with him. Then he started to yell at me and slander me, for no reason; I did nothing wrong to him. He then started to harass and yell at Andre and they had a heated argument leading to a potential physical fight. He then ran into the house where Kevin stays. After that he departed. Several days later he went to my friends house on the other side of Accord and he proceeded to get into an argument. My friend had him remove him from his house because he became so nasty and vile.
Kevin cannot be trusted for his word and I can only imagine the lies he has stated about myself and my family. It would behoove you to find out the truth. We are good workers and have improved the land and structures here. We are continuing to do so, even after the antagonistic conduct of Kevin, Little Bear, and his other associates.
My conclusion is that Kevin needs a lot of therapy. He lost a relationship at Clove Valley and Sara W. who apparently was his partner, separated from him because of violence and other problems. He always brings up this experience of his, especially with Michelle. He tries to use Michelle as a therapist. She did not ask for that, she told him to stop. Kevin needs mental treatment from professionals.
This is the recommended solution: Kevin should leave and go to New Jersey where he can better access the Staten Island market he wants to serve (Ganas et al.) This project needs workers. I have literally more than a dozen qualified people ready to go. But they will not be able to do it with Kevin here. They are simple farmers and want to be close to the land and also repairing the infrastructure. If this is implemented, there will be success.
This is the legal warning: NEFA has a declared mission. If it is not followed, then it is clearly fraud. They are collecting money, property, and investors to provide a system that farmers will access the farms. Specifically, former-Maybrook was for housing of the farmers and Arrowhead was for main piece of land to farm. I am doing that along with the group that is forming the cooperative. If any party is to take any action to hinder or obstruct this, then it is grounds for a lawsuit. Labor laws will be invoked at the Federal level. ICE will be brought in. Discimination is the major flaw here. It can and will be proven by multiple witnesses and documentation.
You are responsible and culpable in anything that transpires here. We are just a simple family with a lot of friends who want to be on the land and participate in a fair deal. Would you just sit back and let this turn into a nightmare, when it can be a lucrative venture? We hope that you will proceed in a way that is mutually beneficial to all parties.
Sincerely,
Michelle Ann, Ahgamen, family, and cooperative-forming
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