The Way Back. The Way Forward.
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I built a greenhouse from recycled windows.
This greenhouse will extend my growing season into January.
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“The human mind is an incredible thing. Put it in a meat-grinder (aka the modern world) and it thinks the world is about to end.
Then put it outside for five minutes, and suddenly Eden is just beyond the hill, over there.”
- Nicholas Kotar
Stare Poti retweeted
Fantastic piece by @FreeRangeKids about how we have criminalized healthy parenting decisions. The damage this is doing to kids is tremendous. We have to stop this.
A 5-year-old’s neighborhood walk shouldn’t be a crime wapo.st/4cB3BQo
Good morning.
Everything is going to work out just fine.
Especially if you see to it that it does.
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I was drowning in a culture of industrial nihilism, eternal pessimism and competitive victimhood.
But I managed to achieve escape velocity and have landed amongst these sheep.
Surrounded by lush biodiversity, a wellspring of optimism and infinite possibilities…
You can too.
Up until the 1940s, America had around 50 million sheep.
Today that number is around 5 million.
Why?
- Globalization (importing of cheap NZ lamb)
- Government land grazing disputes among Cattle vs Sheep Ranchers and the overall ease of ranching cattle in the West Vs predator prone sheep
- The invention of synthetic fibers which severely hurt the wool industry.
- Poor marketing.
We must bring more Sheep back! We can revive the American wool industry!
Twenty years ago I was homeless, eating roadkill and dumpster diving.
Now I have a few acres that I caretake.
Gently cultivating the soil, planting fruit trees and grazing Sheep.
One day, twenty years from now, this piece of land will feed my children. And their children.
Our little farm will do what we can to carry on the wool tradition.
Picked up wool for the very last time from Montana. Bittersweet to say the least. Machines will be disassembled, moved to our shop, and reassembled by next month.
Some wise parting words from the man who has been running this wool mill for the past 25 years.
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