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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: MENF 2011: More on not having to go it alone
I think it is a human trait to view new undertakings, especially ones that are large or difficult, as occurring in some kind of isolation. Yet the truth is that very few people are really going it alone at anything we try to do. The growing desire so many people have to establish sustainable, ready […] Continue reading
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Tagged advice, commiseration, Farming, going it alone, help, Lessons, Mother Earth News Fair, Resources
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Farming: Figure it out
Let’s get something out of the way: growing food to feed yourself is not rocket science. Now, I understand that in the last half of the 20th century, a lot of rocket science found its way into growing food, and I think that fact is responsible for so many of the problems we face in […] Continue reading
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Tagged challenges, Choices, Farming, figuring it out, food independence, gardening, Gardneing, goals, Lessons, revolutions, you can do it
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Farming: Sometimes, the best way to learn is to do it all wrong
So, we had a bull calf born out of cycle last spring, and for some reason for the past year, I’ve assumed I was going to band him for a steer. Now, we don’t really need a steer that will be ready sometime in the fall, but that’s what I had in my head, so […] Continue reading
