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Small Business Ideas Bank

Small Business Ideas Bank

Initiated May 4, 2008

Shannon E. Hardie

 

This is the initiation of a small business ideas bank for people to take from and develop or add to, as they choose.

 

Sewn Fashion Accessories (printed fabric) with a table at the novel Bloor and Spadina Farmers Market.

 

Car Interior design (designer fabrics as seat covers)

 

Specific Guides to

Toronto

(food types, fashions)

 

Designer Lamp Shades

 

Embroydered Cloth Kleenexes

 

Paper Suits

 

Who's Comming to Dinner? (one table restaurant)

 

Aprez Ski (wine and cheese commode)

 

Diet Restaurant (Diet Products from Grocery Store)

 

Button Making

 

Small Business Ideas:

landscaping

trades (carpentry)

studios (provided materials)

sewn fashion accessories

shoe making

book grant authorings

Madness photography

Madness theatre (quotes spoken)

table at the farmer's market (artesania)

interior decor

booklet Consumers Guide to Orangeville (restaurants, shops, cafes, supports)

exterior decor

musical band whose proceeds go towards other ventures

designer lamp shades

quilting groups

embroydered cloth kleenexes (reusable)

Aprez Ski (wine and cheese commode)

eucaliptus sanitizing soap

banana peel fabric (saw in Yorkville)

paper suits

jewlery making

photo album covers

pupet show on recovery

(filing)

Fabric print making into fashions

Slate hanging business signs

apron making

hair styling (Styles on Wheels)

Who's comming for dinner? (One table restaurant)

Hat making

duotang making (packages)

stuffed animal making

duvet making

car interior making

diet restaurant (diet products from the grocery store)

conversations, speeches, debates, theatre, music, song, poetry, language recordings onto cd

button making

 

eucaliptus sanitizing soap

banana peel fabric (saw in Yorkville)

paper suits

jewlery making

photo album covers

pupet show on recovery

(filing)

Fabric print making into fashions

Slate hanging business signs

apron making

hair styling (Styles on Wheels)

Who's comming for dinner? (One table restaurant)

Hat making

duotang making (packages)

stuffed animal making

duvet making

car interior making

diet restaurant (diet products from the grocery store)

conversations, speeches, debates, theatre, music, song, poetry, language recordings onto cd

button making

1.The Socialized Medecine Tea Room

2.The Meneradeleeg Centre

3.The Fenousent Community

4.Decorate Street

5.Organic Fair Traded chocolate, coffee and ginseng

6.fashion (Tools for Peace?)

7.Community Laboratory (salt as fuel, desalination with water as fuel, solar pannels)

8.Goosetongues-"saltines-like a rush"

9.

Berry

Bear (24hours)

10.The Joy of Digesting

11.Detatchable Collars

12. 4 pedal bike-car

13.Bread-wood adoebe oven-bbq

14.Birch syrup and Maple syrup

15.oils, fibre, paper, cloth (leaves)

16.Ghost towns of

Ontario

 

 

 

 

The Great Canadian Tea Company

Each province votes on their tea of preference to be sold in the Great Canadian Tea Company.  The tea would be sold in stained glass bottles as elected by the province, onestained glass design per each province.  The tea would be sold with a cork in the bottle.  Refunds for the glass bottle would be available.

 

Provincial Packages

Each province would elect a clothing design to represent their part of the country.  Each package would contain elected clothing, sample foods and recipes, and music from their part of the country and books by provincial writers.  The packages would be sold through gift shops selling each provincial package.  This could be elaborated upon in various ways.

Fenousent Proposal

To whom it may concern I am proposing an agricultural community for the consumer survivor population, farming immigrants, retiring babyboomers, and mining communities.  It is a form of land reform in today’s ecomony of machine run employment wherein we find ourselves marginalized and dependent on government assistance.  Please consider the need.

Shannon E. Hardie

The Fenousent Community

The need:

There are few subsidized housing projects and by one common quote there is a ten year waiting period for acceptance to these subsidized housing projects.  In the marginalization of psychiatric survivors there is a lack of programs and lack of integration that leave some with a culture of the streets as homeless or otherwise.  On the streets there appears to be little hope to regain a footing in the normal life and in that way the streets are perceived of as the only opportunity. 

Many would participate in programs offered at supportive subsidized housing projects in the name of program participation as an aid to recovery and subsequent return to employment.  Many survivors wish to be integrated as normal citizens yet can't foresee themselves volunteering indefinitely into employment.  In exchange one might consider supportive subsidized housing to relieve the shelter experience and provide the means to affording rent, with programs that could be labeled employment preparation.

Street culture and dependence should not be the future and the way.  Recovery and employment should be the target. Idleness and lack of use are destructive.  The Empowerment view of Recovery is that recovery is attainable and the return to a normal life is an expectation.  This requires infrastructure.  Supportive subsidized housing is preferable to the present street habitation as there is a greater chance at becoming self generating individuals. 

Recovering addicts and psychiatric survivors alike need supportive environments to return to full recovery.  Likewise, there is a need for rental costs to be afforded by social assistance benefits. Subsidized housing is necessary, to ease the burden of the adjustment to independence and subsequent employment.  Supportive subsidized housing is the means to recovery and should be more accessible to consumer survivors.  Returning to a normative social roll is the goal of independent living.  They need assistance in reaching those goals.

The Fenousent Community

A design of supportive housing, where one would require their independence in the country and a strong sense of community, I have a ten year old design from the

University

of

Dalhousie

which is named Fenousent. The Fenousent community is designed in such a way that one would have independence in their own home with their own piece of land, large enough to feed one+ for a year while being closely connected to an encompassing community.  The houses would be built in a circle around the land where each member would have a piece of land within the circle.  At four points in the compass there would be community institutions: a hospital/healing centre, a community auditorium that would hold the office of the community politician, a church and a barn with trades and studios.  Each community institution would have a piece of the land within the circle.  Four Fenousent communities could be connected by a quar auditorium and marketplace.

As the means to recovery and a return to employment I am advocating the Government to invest unto housing.  The supportive home leads to accomplishments.  Accomplishments can lead to permanence.  People want the chance to be reintegrated.  They need the means of doing so.  Please consider this proposal.

Proposal#

The Meneradeleeg Community Core:

A Project of Sustainablilty, Self-Reliance and Dividend Creation.

Written By Shannon E. Hardie

Conceived of in

Halifax

, in 1997.

Revised in

Caledon

, in 2008.

The Marginalized Consumer Survivor Population: The Need

The Consumer Survivor in a state of structural poverty: a generally marginalized portion of the population who, as consumer survivors, have had experiences of extreemes of sensory stimuli, that they can't integrate without some form of analysis, which in turn classifies them as having a disability.1   "This impairment causes a disability depending on the degree to which it interferes with a person's capacity to function in a major social role such as worker, parent, or student."2  Consumer survivors can exist without extreemes of sensory stimulation in the proven capacity to recover.  People have lucid existences in their recovery wherin they are without cognitive, perceptual and affective extremes and furthermore, can be objective, responsive to others, interactive and responsible for duties.3

For consumer survivors unemployment, and a lack of a normative social roll or an official means of applying oneself, abandons one to the margins where it is expected that one would assimilate and practice the 'good' of ingrained systemic socialization despite their lack of a means of integration.  This exclusion consumer survivors experience is a structural poverty in that there are few programs or groups to belong to or interact with.4 Inclusively, there are offered few choices of opportunities to be an intelligent, reasoning, imaginative, memorical, knowledgeable and experienced person.5  It is expected that consumer survivors would exist in society as idle members gathering for a daily coffee perhaps, or hanging out at a drop-in centre.  One can't think that it is an easy metamorphasis to adapt from ingrained socialized activity to idleness.  Yet when ill, the most beneficial environments are those that offer idle meditation, and when well, one needs greater integration.6  Accordingly, to be expected to retreat to the margins and exist there indefinately in divine silence is difficult to accept.7 Side efects from underemployment or unemployment can be withdrawaling, lacking cognitive application, lacking in motivation, exclusion, lacking in relative socialization, lacking in education, lacking in specialization, drug addiction, crime and membership to subculture.8 The ideology that it is excessive work to train and prepare one for a return to a social normative roll can in fact be corrected to be recognized as a social need whose investment would save the tax payer millions of dollars over time.9 

In the light of exclusion, street culture could be seen as the effect of protest and adaptability to structural poverty thus, creating their own culture out of their dislocation and personal poverties. Therefore, the result of socialization, years of unemployment, no social normative roll, or official means of applying oneself, provides to people with disabilities the subculture that exists on street level today.  Street culture proves that one can create their own culture.  Hence, a consumer survivor could personalize that one can create one's own future out of one's own capabilities and experiences: through advocacy and communication in the formation of groups or as a consumer survivor representative.  To give street survivors a chance at assimilation, with the client centred, client driven model, the time to advocate for employment preparation and employment opportunities as social change is now.10

Proposed Needs For Programs

With the Empowerment View of recovery return to employment is an expectation of survivors. In this light, a temporal disability becomes an experience of extremes that with the right psycho education can be insightful and revelative to the student of matters of the mind and society at large. One form of empowerment is to identify public issues or ideologies that alienate, create anomie, discriminate or disempower a signifigant portion of society, such as unemployment, and to advocate for the self and others intending societal change.11

Empowerment Self Help Groups that involve psycho education, writing and speaking skills, could be a primary option given to survivors as a means of shaking off the rust prior to attempting employment with little or no experiential relativity to the demands of the workforce.  Furthermore, employment preparation that assists consumer survivors with finding thier own voice;  thier experience compared to larger social structures; and the recognition of identifiable, employable, personal skills attained through experience; would be an investment that could socially prepare the survivors and that would save the taxpayers over time. 12

A possibility for these described programs, could be within the proposed Meneradeleeg Community Core which could house employment preparation and employment training programs, that could accomodate an employment drop-in program.

Meneradeleeg: A Model of Sustainablity and Consistency in Program Provision

This Meneradeleeg Community Core is a design of a  Community Needs Employment Centre surrounded by greenhouses and gardens.  The long commodity of this Core would cover the costs of the running of the Core, while the short commodity would cover the costs of an employment drop-in program.  This said employment drop-in program would allow people to drop-in and make $10.00 per hour, watering the plants and harvesting them, without a reference, experience or a resume.  Ginseng yields $800,000.00 an acre The Globe and Mail reported in the spring of 1997.  Camomile can be harvested every 8-10 days.  These are examples of plants which could be grown in the greehouses. 

I picture a log cabin community auditorium with an office of the political representative at the top of a four floored building. This building would be surrounded on the facade with glassed-in walls that would serve as the greenhouses.  There would be alternate gardens surrounding the circumference of the building.  The main floor would house a community auditorium, a gift shop of atresania, an herbal apothecary, a community restaurant, and offices of the employment officers.  A mix of the short and long commodities could cover the costs of employment preparation and employment training programs housed in conference rooms on the second floor of the building, neighboured by grassroots organization offices. On the third floor could be a development and mental health library.  As previously mentioned, the forth floor could house the office of the politician.  All floors could have a balcony looking down over the auditorium to live in an openness, an honesty, and an inclusiveness in the Core.

One manner of erecting this Centre could be through community share holders, whose shares would be returned to them following the first harvest of the long commodity.  This is my attempt at sustaining funding for programs through self-reliance techniques and dividend creation.  This Centre could house other industries that would aid in the sustainability of the Centre.  

One such industry could be studios that use the refuse of the gardens to make paper and cloth.  Another would be a reccording network wherein people could reccord their conversations, their speeches, their debates, their theatres, their songs, their poetry, their music and their languages onto cd.  These cds could be sold at 50%/50% with the Core.

This is a micro proposal of an opportunity for funding consistencies, self-reliance and dividend creation. 

The Outlook

One 20 acre piece of land with water access

Logs for the structure

Rental of machinery to hoist the logs

Mortar

Glass walls for greenhouse

Window frames for greenhouse

Four floors of flooring

Wooden partial walls for dining room area

Kichen construction

14 Complete office constructions

Library construction

4 stairwells at the back of the centre

Solar pannels

Windmills

Conclusion

This proposed design of the Meneradeleeg Community Core, a Community Needs Employment Centre, is brief yet intact.  It proposes employment preparation programs and employment training programs funded sustainably by the agriculture of the Core. It hosts the advocates of our society in office spaces and provides a floor of office space and an auditorium to the community polititian.  The Core would run on the agricultural provisions.  This is a micro proposal of an opportunity for funding consistencies, self-reliance and dividend creation.

"A chance.

Someone.

Somewhere.

A vantage to see.

Self application.

Communication.

Advocacy"13

Thank you for your time,

Shannon E. Hardie

End Notes

1.Hardie, Shannon E., "The Consumer Survivor Experience: Survivor Currents-the Survivor" Dec/Jan 2007/2008

2. Fisher, Daniel, M.D., Ph.D. "A New Vision of Recovery:  People can fully recover from mental illness; it is not a life-     long process" National Empowerment Council-Articles p.1  2007

3.Hardie, Shannon E., "The Consumer Survivor Experience: Survivor Currents-the Survivor" Dec./Jan 2007/2008

4.Hardie, Shannon E., "The Consumer Survivor Experience: Survivor Currents-the Dislocated" Dec/Jan 2007/2008

5.Hardie, Shannon E., "The Consumer Survivor Experience:Survivor Currents-the Survivor" Dec/Jan 2007/2008

6. Hardie, Shannon.  "Accountability"

Caledon

,

Ontario

.  Nov. 2007

7.Hardie, Shannon E., "The Consumer Survivor Experience: Survivor Currents-the Dislocated" Dec/Jan 2007/2008

8.Hardie, Shannon E., "The Consumer Survivor Experience: Survivor Currents-The Survivor" Dec/Jan 2007/2008

9.Hardie, Shannon E., "The Consumer Survivor Experience: Survivor Currents-the Dislocated" Dec/Jan 2007/2008

10.Hardie, Shannon E., "The Consumer Survivor Experience: Survivor Currents-the Dislocated" Dec/Jan 2007/2008

11.Hardie, Shannon E., "The Consumer Survivor Experience: Survivor Currents -The Survivor" Dec./Jan 2007/2008

12. Ibid

13.Hardie, Shannon E., "A Chance" February 2008

 

Consumption by Shannon E. Hardie

Consumption

by Shannon E. Hardie

 

We are a comsumptive society on large.  People congregate around food, beverage and entertainment.  Many people work to consume; technology, clothing and new products, for example.  All facets of our society are not creative.  We do not only think to create, but rather also tend to mechanically serve to consume. 

 

Addiction is a need that is created in an individual do to consumtion of a particular 'thing'.  The addictive creation of a need can be transformed into the need for something else.  One could determine that the creation of a need is the creation of a vital force that outweighs a needlessness and can be transformed into a need for work or creation.  This transformation enables addiction to be a good need of society.  In this fashion addiction can be seen as fueling the economy, with consumers and hard workers.

 

Want can be a dangerous, desperate feel.  Impatience in our convenient society makes want dangerous.  Want, in security, requires a great deal of inner strength to fight internally to control want.  Therapies to make one stronger internally to control want are a necessity.

 

Due to our custom of consumption in our society, and the susceptibility our societal members have in the creation of a need, I advocate that government monies be spent on addiction programs that aid in the creation of inner strength to ward off addiction.

Conservation by Shannon E. Hardie

Conservation is to retain the mass of organisms that themselves maintain the ecosystems of the biosphere.  With the rate of develpment of humanity consuming as a custom and habit as an alarming rate of natural destruction, one is left advocating for the survival of these said ecosystems against the mechanisms of progress. 

We rely on ecosystems to provide O2 and to consume CO2 to lessen the dawning of the global warming crisis.  The communities of organisms are lessening due to the progress and developments of human survival provision and excess.  Humans are dependent on preservation and conservation to aid their existence in the present decomposition complex, exampled as extinction and clear cutting, which could result in massive loss and decimation that could destroy the existence and survival of humanity, were humans not to preserve. 

The length of life of some species is far beyond that of a human extended to 100 years due to the onset of medication invention and discovery.  To respect one's elders, with intention to preserve the first forms of life as the means of protecting their ecosystems, is to provide one with a means to observe with an understanding of the ancient species and another benefit, to provide humanity, and its investigations into life and its compositions, a means to discovering details of the ancient world thorough ethical experimentation that could lead to human survival and furthermore, human adaptation or cure. 

To realize that as humans there were at one point in history a dependece upon the ancient species, it is due to the symbiosis (or living together) of this realationship that humans exsit today.  To have found alternate modes of dependence in the human developments, into modes of control over nature such as farming, one would be lead to believe that humans protect another species as a  function or a use in human dependecy as heterotrophs, however reject that which was the means to survival when discovery of greater control and ease was made or encountered. 

Respect for the journey that lead humanity to its place in space and time would be to avocate for the conservation of ancient species, with appreciation for the journey of life, that has existed for the majority of time on Earth without involvement of human interaction.

Origins of Humanity

The fern is a plant that has existed on Earth for millions of years.  It is theorized that the fern developed out of the green and red algaes in the journey from water to land.  The fern produces spores and is self fertilizing.  The fern has no seed.  The Braken Fern appears on areas that once were ablaze with fire.  The presence of ferns in a decimated area is to consider the survival of ferns over time.  The conception of the ferns are identified as a development of eukaryotic cells. 

Eukaryotic cells include human, animalian, plant, fungi and protist cells.1  The fossils of eukaryotic life that have been encountered in scientific inquiry have presented the history of eukaryotic life that dates back to 2.1 billion years of cellular activity.2  The first cell forms found were the prokaryotes from whom the eukaryote cells emerged.3  The adaptations into eukaryotic life have been theorized into two possibilities:  The first possibility is that the prokaryotes experienced a membrane infolding which captured the organelles and nucleus within the membrane fold.4  This is excepting of two organelles, chloroplasts and mitochondria, whose adaptation into a eukaryotic cell was said to be made through an endosymbiosis with a prokaryote cell.5  The results were the creation of the eukaryote cells. 

Eukaryotes cells can be observed through microscope as highly adaptive and highly developed cells of protists, plants, fungi, humans and animals.6  The means to identify the closest ancestor of the original adaptation of the eukaryotes cell is to observe the protists, who are the closest descendents of the original eukaryotes.7  Such observation of eukaryotic cells today is to acknowledge the division of eukaryotic cells, to observe the complexities within each cell, and to recognize the unicellular and multicellular protists of the eukaryotes chain from which terrestrial plant life emerged.8

The protists are not simply the representation of a 2 billion year old cell, but as the origin of life adapting from water to land.  The theory of adaptation is that it is from the unicellular protists algae, that red and green multicellular algae developed which are plant like however lacking in stems, roots and leaves.9  It is from this adaptation into a muticellular organism algae, that plants are understood to have developed onto the land.10  One of the primary origins of eukaryotic cells on land can be found as the fern, one of the oldest members of the terrestrial plant species.11

FERNS

In regards to the conservaton efforts of science and civilians, attempting to end deforestation, end the removal of ecosystems, and control the domestication or agriculturalization of angiosprems in place of the original communities, one must first consider what the original habitats were, and how one might return the organisms to that said ecosystem in the name of conservation and preservation of species. 

It was written that the burning of fossil fuels emits CO2 into the atmosphere that is the catalyst for change as global warming.12  One solution of conservation and preservation is to return plants to their natural habitats and allow growth beyond that habitat.  As plants use CO2 to create photosynthetic foods the plants could therefore consume the abundance of CO2 to clear the air polutants.13  This said compensation for an abudance of CO2 is potentially the means to quell global warming.  It is hypothesized that the return to growth of plants in a natural environment would consume the excess CO2 in the biosphere through photosynthesis and would in that way reduce the increasing rate of both CO2 levels and its effect, global warming.

The domestication of plants can alter an environment or ecosystem, invasively overtaking the original species, displacing the original lives.  However, domestication can also be used to incubate seedlings of endangered species, to be returned in the end to a natural environment, hence aiding in their survival. 

Species such as protists are billions of years old.14  The protists have survived massive extreemes and changes in the biosphere.  Would not the protists survive the changes that have occured in this past century without assistence or rather, do they require a sybiosis in order to survive or adapt.  The question is, do we need to aid the species in their survival or do we rather agree with Darwin's theory of "natural selection (and) evolution". 15 

Adaptation reveals new species emerging from the changes in environments.  Ancient species grow alongside such youth.  To allow new species to exist while enabling the preservaton of the ancient species as representations of ancient, primary life forms on Planet Earth, that could lead to great discoveries in regards to the history of the biosphere Earth, is to preserve plant life as dominantly as humans preserve themselves, and is one accomodation for the salvaging of living species from extinction.  New species shed light on the present day adaptations and can reveal the life structure to aid humanity in understanding their own capacity. 

If a community weren't to consume the foods of the ancient species, or have a use of some application ammoungst the threatened ecosystems, would conserving or preserving them as ancients or modern adaptations be as direct a reasoning for acceptance to the mission of preservation, or do humans, the catalyst for ecological changes today, require a use or a function in order to enable preservation.

The function of this discourse is to discover the Braken Fern in Nova Scotia, a 420 million years old ancient species, and to discuss the preservation of ancient species as primary neccessities upon which life is dependent for protection.16

End Notes

1. Campbell, Neil A., Reece, Jane B., Taylor, Martha R., Simon, Eric J.; Biology: Concepts and Connections Fifth Edition; Pearson Education Ltd.; Brnjamin Cummings, San Francisco, 2008 p.333

2. Ibid: p.332

3.Ibid

4. Ibid

5. Ibid

6. Ibid: p.333

7. Ibid

8.Ibid; P.338

9. Ibid: p.336

10.Ibid p: 338

11.Ibid: p.346

12.Ibid: p.350

13.Ibid:p.3

14. Ibid:p.333

15. Ibid:p.8

16. Ibid: p.346

Amazon

A Journey into Growth

by Shannon E. Hardie

The ground was rock and lichen covered.  The isolation was wind swept and uninhabited.  The peaks revealed themselves to vision only to appear at each turn.  There was no end in the scarce signs of life to accompany.  It is a life of climbing to reach a common goal of vegetation and wild fields.  The descent of bushes and grasses was followed by shoots of bamboo that had to be cleared to forge a path. Too much noise to attract animals, hiding in the depths of the Amazon Basin.  The temperature was humid relief in the shade.  The known path was overgrown and followed the Amazon River.  As the descent lead along the cordillera of wild fields of long grasses, there were signs of the African Killer Bees that swarmed and followed.  None were bit yet resting for a moment on a log, the ants consumed leggs only to infect with a foreign ailment. The journey from barrenness into vegetation and out into the fields that ran along the crest of the cordillera was a journey of environments.  The end of the trail emerged as a gold mining town with false fronts and gold toothed children.  It was a drive back to habitation along a one laned ridge where cars would pass on a splinter of a room to move.  Such was my Bolivian Hike through the Andes and down into the Amazon Basin.  It has taught me well nature's environments and conditions. It inhabits my mind's eye and won't soon be forgot.

Sow your wild oats!

Sew your wild oats!

ShannonE.Hardie

Wild Oates, or taxonomically named Avena Fatua, is a grass grain that can be found on each continent.  http://www.ars-grin.gov Wild Oates have been found in ancient Egyptian tombs and have been known to have been used as food and bedding in the least as of 2000 years ago. Wild Oat seeds have also been found in caves of Northern Europe. The vastest density of Wild Oats strains is found in Asia Minor where it is believed that the location with the most varieties of a given species is the place of origin of that researched species. The Wild Oat seed (Avena Fatua) is cited as the origin of the Common Oat seed (Avena Sativa).  http;//www.agron.iastate.edu

Oats were brought to North America through the Elizabeth Islands, Massachusetts in 1602.  Incidentally Wild Oats have been used as a "feed grain" for chicken and horses and humans for over two millenniums. Grazing animals are continued to be fed on the wild oat grass. http://www.britannica.com  Similarly, native peoples continue to apply wild oats to their food sources as the Cahuilla, Diegueno, Kawaiisu, Luiseno( Food Staple), Mendocino Indian (Food Staple), Pomo ( Food Staple) peoples use them as culinary basics. http://herb.umd.umich.edu

Today wild oats are considered a weed to grain growers.  Wild oats can hibernate for up to ten years in the soil before growing above. http://www.agf.gov.bc.ca Above the grain lines of a farmer’s field of Avena Sativa or Common Oats, the Wild Oat can be seen growing up to 4 feet high. http://www.calflora.org It is a flowering plant from June to July, and reproduces with seeds from August to October. The Avena Fatua flower has hermaphrodite organs that are pollinated by wind or animal.  The plant prefers light, medium and heavy soils (sandy, loamy and clay soils). The plant can grow in very acid soil. . Wild Oats tolerate a pH in the range 4.5 to 6.5. http://www.ibiblio.org Wild Oats can also tolerate drought. http://www.gov.pe.ca Wild Oats blossoms in full sun and tolerates an elevation of 82 to 4002 feet. http://www.ibiblio.org  http://www.calflora.org, http://www.gov.pe.ca  The seed’s awn opening and closing in the changing humidities creates a twisting action that burrows the seed into the ground.  The majority of wild oat seeds will germinate in the same year they were produced.

The seedling of the Wild Oat has a leaf twist and has hairs on the leaf margins. The spikelets customarily contain up to 7 florets. The plant may produce up to 250 black, brown, grey, yellow, or white seeds. The seeds are hairy on the ventral side and carry a circular scar where attached.   http://www.calflora.org  The florets of Avena Fatua are heart shaped  Http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu and the plant is known as nodding.  http://herbarium.usu.edu The roots of Avena Fatua are fibrous with a straight hollow stem and dark nodes http://www.gov.ns.ca Avena Fatua is in the group Monocot and the family Poaceae and is a Graminoid in its growth.  http://plants.usda.gov Avena Fatua is a vascular flowering seed grass plant also known as Flaxgrass, Oatgrass, and Wheat Oats http://plants.usda.gov

In the prairies of Canada Wild Oats are considered an invasive predator of a grass weed. There is a registration of financing that records losses as high as $500 million annually in grass grain farm lands due to Wild Oats (http://www.gov.mb.ca) Wild Oats have been recorded as having immunity to herbicides and tolerance of pesticides. It is a strong plant that survives as the fittest and naturally selected http://plants.usda.gov   Barley and Canola compete with Wild Oats however it is difficult for Wheat and harder still for Oats and Flax. http://plants.usda.gov  There have been movements towards the harvesting of Wild Oat seeds as a provider of fall sowing cereals. http://www.rothamsted.bbsrc.ac.uk The Wild Oat species could be of importance in the cultivation of Common Oats (A.Sativa) where the Wild Oat has drought tolerance, disease resistance and higher yields http://www.ibilio.org

To conserve this ancient species with its utility over the millenniums, organic farmers are known to not require a field of one species alone but consider the field as its own ecosystem with its richness and abundance providing for a dominant species. http://eap.mcgill.ca  In this way Wild Oats can be conserved while the farmers can liberally "sow their wild oats" at their own discression.  As a weed, Wild Oats are not without utility, it is the emergence of more abundant species of Oats in evolution that makes a preference to the younger adaptive Oats than the Wild Oats.

Conservation is to retain the mass of organisms that themselves maintain the ecosystems of the biosphere.  With the rate of development of humanity consuming as a need, a custom and a habit at an alarming rate of natural destruction, one is left advocating for the survival of these said ecosystems against the mechanisms of progress.   One such example is fallow fields or grazing pastures that feed horses and cattle with the Wild Oat species within those ecosystems.

We rely on ecosystems to provide O2 and to consume CO2 to lessen the dawning of the global warming crisis and to provide food substance to living organisms.  The communities of organisms within the natural systems of life and consumption webs are lessening due to the progress and developments of human survival provision and excess. 

The age and life span of some plantae species is far beyond that of the human or animalian species.  To respect one's elders, with intention to preserve the first forms of life through the means of protecting their ecosystems, is to provide one with a means to observe with an understanding of the ancient species and another benefit, to provide humanity, and its investigations into life and its compositions, a means to discovering details of the ancient world, thorough ethical experimentation, that could lead to human survival and furthermore, human adaptation or cure.  Such as the learned benefits of the Wild Oat which is immune and sustaining compared to other Oats or grasses which in itself could lead to a stronger grasses due to the symbiosis.

To realize that as humans there were at one point in history a dependence upon the ancient species, it is due to the symbiosis (or living together) of this relationship that humans exist today.  To have found alternate modes of dependence in the human developments, into modes of control over nature such as farming, one would be lead to believe that humans protect another species as a function or a use in human dependency as heterotrophs, however reject that which was the means to survival before discovery of greater control and ease was made or encountered. 

Respect for the journey that lead humanity to its place in space and time would be to advocate for the conservation of ancient species, such as Wild Oats, with appreciation for the journey of life that has existed for the majority of time on Earth without involvement of human interaction however within human interaction there was a subsistence to wild oats as primary producer.  The food stuffs of our ancestors should not be considered a weed.  I advocate for the preservation of this biospheric grain.