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This is a call to public officials or any politically minded person who has the time to pick up the ball and run with it. I am doing all I can and will not be able to become active in the local political scene for a few years yet. That may be to late. I do not present any evidence here as I assume my audience is familiar with the current library of work on the fragility of our industrial food chain. The call is for no less a duty than to avoid famine.

Dig if you will a picture (my apologies Pri… Continue

Whats a Hadley Farm? Well, Ruthy has named the Farm. After much haggleing and indescision we decided to let the farm name itself. It is on Hadley Street, so it is Hadley Farm.

Staying with the simplicity theme I have also named the co-op which I hope to form as a food security organization and controler of the properties. It will simply be The Sayre Family Co-op in honor of the largest initiial stake holders Frank and Gennie Sayre. The Co-op is not public, but will retail to the public. The co-… Continue

Last night I had dinner with a staunch conservative. We brought out the textbook cases of liberalism and individualism. He of the keep government as minute as possible because it can’t be trusted in any configuration, and I of the government as a tool of the people to improve their lives camp. Though civil, we are quite polarized when it comes to government assistance to the poor, the absoluteness of individual responsibility, and governmental involvement in our general needs, like health care.… Continue

Did everyone check out the TV show about global warming/peak oil? I only saw a bit of it, that was enough, we know the story. It was the graphic novel type piece on two nights ago, “Earth 2100” or something. It played like the pollution scare movies of the sixties. I also have just read a couple of articles with perfectly sane people sanely predicting shortages soon. We here on this site are perfectly aware of our fragile food supply line, and the looming dangers of environmental catastrophes. O… Continue

When we choose to purchase an item or service, we choose to give away the knowledge and power inherent in that item or service. That is why we have such a fragile food supply chain. I would be suprised if even a thousandth of a percent of my total caloric intake has been self produced; therefore, I have less than one thousandth of one percent of the knowledge and power I could have had if I had been producing my own food all these years. Granted I gained power and knowledge in other arenas. The… Continue