Here's also an ABC program on Dervaes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W51JRTjoI1A And an Interview with Dervaes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hummPBWNX4&feature=related
This is pretty cool for suburbia. Inspiring hippie family busts the moves. I'd still rate truth activism as highly as organic gardening as a survival skill given the weirdness of our times.
He has a Morris Minor...cool, I had one in the 80s...it was pristine. One of those dream stories. I got it for two hundred bucks from the mother of the guy that owned it. He died in Nam. And she would drive it around the block once a week to keep it in running order. The thing was like new. Not a drop of oil on the engine. Like off the showroom floor really. But now, to address the homegrown revolution--it is really the best way to become free and self sufficiant isn't it. It is independence--like the original agrarian founders. \\ll//
Way to grow, Pod. I'm a novice at homegrown myself, just hanging out on a farm with some dedicated green thumbs. We eat off our land about in the same percentage as the Dervaes, about half of the total. It's not going to fix the big picture problems but it helps avoid consuming unlabeled GMOs like it did for them. The Dervaes do this surrounded by development and civilization. Wild resources have been overexploited for centuries and can provide only limited bounce or resiliency during food shortage. Hunting and fishing require a certain abundance or there is not a positive energy return on investment. We are already facing the kind of food price increases that occur when there is a shortage. Tunisia and Egypt demonstrate that when people lose everything, they lose it. Looking at MySatan's engineered destruction of soil fertility, food nutrition and heritage seedstocks in the world's industrial agzones I'm very nervous, but then I already was from all the other assaults on our health and freedom.
You're making the right move Mary! We are starting work on more than an acre this year so we can gain farmer qualifications. Though Japan's farmers have been bankrupted by globalization, just like individual farmers everywhere, they have traditionally enjoyed a respected position in society, and I reckon they will soon be highly appreciated again.
Exactly, Patricia, the last shall be first. Best wishes to the organic farmers of Japan. Your volcanic soil is fertile. Japan still has forests too. Farming in the US is down to under 2% of the population. Farms making under $100k typically are operated by senior citizens and they lose money. Kids don't want entry to a segment of the economy that is losing money. You can see youth will start an indoor Cannabis grow operation to make $100k mostly profit and they are not much interested in busting ass outdoors to grow food for the little profit...but there are exceptions. I've seen some youth (to me that is under 30) figuring out ways to run profitable organic orchards, gardens, and farms. And we just love the WWOOFer kids. Who will join them will be the smart ones who can suss it out economically and make it work. This is a classic rebound point, like the interest on Treasury bonds, the farm sector of the population can't go much lower before a long trendline reverses. It will have to once the petroleum based industrial ag system falters. Coming soon to an empty shelf near you.
Here's also an ABC program on Dervaes:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W51JRTjoI1A
And an Interview with Dervaes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hummPBWNX4&feature=related
This is pretty cool for suburbia. Inspiring hippie family busts the moves.
I'd still rate truth activism as highly as organic gardening as a survival skill given the weirdness of our times.
He has a Morris Minor...cool, I had one in the 80s...it was pristine. One of those dream stories. I got it for two hundred bucks from the mother of the guy that owned it.
ReplyDeleteHe died in Nam. And she would drive it around the block once a week to keep it in running order.
The thing was like new. Not a drop of oil on the engine. Like off the showroom floor really.
But now, to address the homegrown revolution--it is really the best way to become free and self sufficiant isn't it. It is independence--like the original agrarian founders.
\\ll//
grrreat clip mary, purrr ..
ReplyDeletelast season I grew
cowpeas (Vigna unguiculata)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowpea
my neighbors thought I was loco
covered my back yard wit'm
and in my front yard I planted
sunflowers (Helianthus annuus)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflower
for my birds, purrrrrrrrrr ...
Way to grow, Pod. I'm a novice at homegrown myself, just hanging out on a farm with some dedicated green thumbs. We eat off our land about in the same percentage as the Dervaes, about half of the total. It's not going to fix the big picture problems but it helps avoid consuming unlabeled GMOs like it did for them.
ReplyDeleteThe Dervaes do this surrounded by development and civilization. Wild resources have been overexploited for centuries and can provide only limited bounce or resiliency during food shortage. Hunting and fishing require a certain abundance or there is not a positive energy return on investment.
We are already facing the kind of food price increases that occur when there is a shortage. Tunisia and Egypt demonstrate that when people lose everything, they lose it. Looking at MySatan's engineered destruction of soil fertility, food nutrition and heritage seedstocks in the world's industrial agzones I'm very nervous, but then I already was from all the other assaults on our health and freedom.
Let's see some pictures in Spring POD and Mary.
ReplyDeleteV for VEGGIES Gardening. I have my heirlooms too.
You're making the right move Mary! We are starting work on more than an acre this year so we can gain farmer qualifications. Though Japan's farmers have been bankrupted by globalization, just like individual farmers everywhere, they have traditionally enjoyed a respected position in society, and I reckon they will soon be highly appreciated again.
ReplyDeleteExactly, Patricia, the last shall be first. Best wishes to the organic farmers of Japan. Your volcanic soil is fertile. Japan still has forests too.
ReplyDeleteFarming in the US is down to under 2% of the population. Farms making under $100k typically are operated by senior citizens and they lose money. Kids don't want entry to a segment of the economy that is losing money. You can see youth will start an indoor Cannabis grow operation to make $100k mostly profit and they are not much interested in busting ass outdoors to grow food for the little profit...but there are exceptions. I've seen some youth (to me that is under 30) figuring out ways to run profitable organic orchards, gardens, and farms. And we just love the WWOOFer kids. Who will join them will be the smart ones who can suss it out economically and make it work. This is a classic rebound point, like the interest on Treasury bonds, the farm sector of the population can't go much lower before a long trendline reverses. It will have to once the petroleum based industrial ag system falters. Coming soon to an empty shelf near you.