Milkwood: Choosing Farmland? Joel Salatin and Nick Ritar

Land ho?

Hubby said to me last week "maybe we should be looking at just land".  Oh my gosh, inside I am jumping for joy.  Been saying this for 2 years!  And been shut down on the idea for 2 years.  It's better to at least start than sit around, doing nothing.  A garden and orchard can be started, trees can be felled and aged for building material,  outbuildings can be started,  it could be a wonderful destination during the summer, camping out.  It's like paddling a boat up stream,  I am getting no where fast!  So now he must be feeling the persistent social pressure of sustainability because no one out there is going to care about us.  We will fall between the cracks, we're the working poor.  Working so hard for the government, with nothing left over for us.  We need to take care of our present and future.  We all need to consume less, and here in my house I am not only doing that but also letting go of 'stuff';  it sits in boxes, unused.  'Stuff' should not make us happy, family and friends should.  Working in gardens, with animals, in coordination with each other should be our goal for happiness.  When I was a kid, we heard that TV would rot our brains, etc.  Well it's happening.  Laziness, diabetes, heart disease are the proof!  Well, we'll see what happens!  Hmm, maybe we;ll be out looking this summer.

Dreams or not?

My dreams of the future always seem to get knocked back into reality. So I really want the impossible? Maybe so. I just want some land and an okay house. The land is the most important part. But I am half of a whole. And that half puts up too many obstacles. I dream of gardens, chickens, goats and horses But the land is what we need for the dreams to come true. Improving other peoples properties is fruitless because when you rent leaving all the HARD work is heartbreaking. I have had to do this before. So, here it is spring and I want to dig and plant and improve........... what, a rental. I work hard enough to have the 'American Dream'. After all these years, I feel the government and society no longer support this ideal! Been feeling a bit blah since the Japanese situation, It bothers me that governments don't think of the consequences of their decisions (nuclear plants, etc), definitely our own government thinks nothing of their own people! We are nothing!