http://civileats.com/2008/12/19/the-guide-for-beginning-farmers/ Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:08:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://civileats.com/2008/12/19/the-guide-for-beginning-farmers/comment-page-1/#comment-2304 Columella: On Agriculture « Thoughts On the Table Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:42:08 +0000 http://civileats.com/?p=880#comment-2304 [...] work is rather like a grassroots organization’s guidebook, back when twelve volumes was perhaps the appropriate length for such a thing, and begins with a [...] [...] work is rather like a grassroots organization’s guidebook, back when twelve volumes was perhaps the appropriate length for such a thing, and begins with a [...]

]]> http://civileats.com/2008/12/19/the-guide-for-beginning-farmers/comment-page-1/#comment-2075 Uncle B Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:08:34 +0000 http://civileats.com/?p=880#comment-2075 Driven by hunger pains and fed information from the internet, the next generation of high tech survival farmer will use the new GMO'ed potato, corn and other veggies in solar oriented electronically controlled greenhouses. The new ultra-cheap LED lights will provide grow lights. Gone are the days of "Five Acres and Independence" with horse and cart, and in the new world of web communication and solar cells, windmills and geothermal heat storage, along with the now perfected Swedish "dry" composter waterless solar powered toilets, solar powered house lighting, using LED's, Cooking by microwave, and super-insulated solar oriented homes, a homesteader will face little in the way of hardships. Solar refrigeration, without the use of electric motors is alive and well in Africa, and as soon as the shysters and shylocks of the fridge world are exposed, we will have cheap efficient homestead systems, very different from the glorious metal and gadge-laced crap we have in our homes, but cheep low power fridges none the less, and adequate for homestead uses. Aquaponics, the cheapest, fastest way to fresh greens and fresh fish for protein in the diet is very well known and publicized, and new pages showing chicken rearing methods on small scale appear almost weekly on the web. Growing hemp for fiber and food may re-appear as laws modernize, and a new nation of fit, computer savvy self-reliant and well educated Americans will evolve. The (GRD) great republican depression must winnow out the fat assed, unwilling and unable folks, and it will, the few survivors rising to the top as usual, will remain democratic, but prefer barter over all other forms of trade, avoiding the capitalists haven of printed money, and the shylocks and systers will have no power either! A new world is dawning, some of us will be excluded, some of us sacrificed, and some will live in a pollution free utopia as never before! Driven by hunger pains and fed information from the internet, the next generation of high tech survival farmer will use the new GMO’ed potato, corn and other veggies in solar oriented electronically controlled greenhouses. The new ultra-cheap LED lights will provide grow lights. Gone are the days of “Five Acres and Independence” with horse and cart, and in the new world of web communication and solar cells, windmills and geothermal heat storage, along with the now perfected Swedish “dry” composter waterless solar powered toilets, solar powered house lighting, using LED’s, Cooking by microwave, and super-insulated solar oriented homes, a homesteader will face little in the way of hardships. Solar refrigeration, without the use of electric motors is alive and well in Africa, and as soon as the shysters and shylocks of the fridge world are exposed, we will have cheap efficient homestead systems, very different from the glorious metal and gadge-laced crap we have in our homes, but cheep low power fridges none the less, and adequate for homestead uses. Aquaponics, the cheapest, fastest way to fresh greens and fresh fish for protein in the diet is very well known and publicized, and new pages showing chicken rearing methods on small scale appear almost weekly on the web. Growing hemp for fiber and food may re-appear as laws modernize, and a new nation of fit, computer savvy self-reliant and well educated Americans will evolve. The (GRD) great republican depression must winnow out the fat assed, unwilling and unable folks, and it will, the few survivors rising to the top as usual, will remain democratic, but prefer barter over all other forms of trade, avoiding the capitalists haven of printed money, and the shylocks and systers will have no power either! A new world is dawning, some of us will be excluded, some of us sacrificed, and some will live in a pollution free utopia as never before!

]]> http://civileats.com/2008/12/19/the-guide-for-beginning-farmers/comment-page-1/#comment-1158 Weekly Sausage Links « What Would Jesus Eat? Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:13:08 +0000 http://civileats.com/?p=880#comment-1158 [...] The Guide for Beginning Farmers [...] [...] The Guide for Beginning Farmers [...]

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