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Farming: People like us
I’ve noticed a lot of these kinds of articles recently: articles about people giving up on what most people consider the modern way of life and the American dream to embrace or return to agriculture. Most of them head down the sustainable route, finding small farms where they can embrace the ideas of multiculture and […] Continue reading
Posted in Farming, Philosophy
Tagged agriculture, challenges, Choices, Farming, reinvention, revolutions, Self-sufficiency
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Farming: Feeding the world without reducing the problem to the absurd
I’ve been following the growing absurdity of the media fueled meme about food production since the UN declared the world officially hit 7 billion people with a mixture of frustration and amusement. The center-points of this meme are that we will have to grow as much food over the next 100 years as humanity did […] Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Farming, Food
Tagged challenges, Choices, Farming, revolutions, Self-sufficiency
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Farming: MENF 2011: Small steps are better than no steps at all
The task of becoming sustainable, local-reliant, and ready can be a daunting one. If you’re just beginning, it can seem impossible. Yet, it turns out that far too many people want to do it all instead of doing what they can do when they can do it. It turns out that small steps are better […] Continue reading
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Tagged Choices, Farming, goals, Lessons, Mother Earth News Fair, small steps
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Farming: MENF 2011: It takes a village
While it is possible to do, there are very few people who manage to establish complete self-sufficiency, and it is my belief that such an effort is counter-productive and, in many ways, wrong. Perhaps a better term for the effort I advocate is “local-sufficiency” because I believe that it really does take a village to make […] Continue reading
Farming: A question of contrariness
Quite a few people have asked me over the past few years why it is that I decided to start farming. While there are a lot of reasons why I’ve decided to do this, I’ve discovered that many of them boil down to a simple idea: I’m farming because you’re not. Now, I know that […] Continue reading
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Tagged challenges, Choices, Farming, I'm farming because you're not, ideas, Tests
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