governance without government
whoa - what? really?
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It seems to me that most (not all, but most) of our efforts toward equality have failed miserably, but I like your framing! That's pretty good.
oh, this is wonderful! I wish more folks could do something like your shack visits.
Usually homesteaders are self-sufficient in meat before they are with other foods!
Butchering beef is a big project and beyond the facilities and skills of most folks, but goats, sheep, ducks and chickens are relatively simple.
A few other thoughts I had while going to feed the chickens: I think there's probably a way to do things so that you lease/borrow the land instead of buying it.
Also - you're experimenting with carnivore, right? We're moving in that direction (I'm trying it until March and loving it so far, and most family members are intrigued). I'm realizing that this may dramatically shift our workload on the homestead. Gardens - weeding, composting/fertilizing, watering systems - are a lot of work!
At this point we're focusing mostly on perennials (fruit and nut trees) for beauty, livestock forage, back up food for us and on the animals. It doesn't improve the flexibility that you mentioned, but it definitely simplifies our routines.
We were lucky to have enough remote work (online teaching - one of the good outcomes of the pandemic for us) to keep our work when we moved. For live concerts, of course, we had to restart our community and connections, but after so many cancelled concerts for the lockdowns we realized how unreliable those were anyway.
If my kids were still small, this would have been a more exciting move (time outside, real connection to soil and animals...) but also much more difficult in terms of urgency of building local community and connections.
Once you have community, you can work with others to help each other with livestock chores (and there are a few things you can build in - automatic waterers, automated chicken coop doors). However - yes, in general you have much less flexibility.
A lot of families manage homesteading with jobs, and even with jobs and kids. You just have to choose your projects carefully.
I wonder who feels the same way and what you do/did about it:
Bear one says to get a smaller homestead, tend to it and rely on that piece of soil a lot. He'd like to sell the apartment in a big city and go have hens and carrots and raise homeschoolers, because fuck this system.
Bear two says to get Paraguay citizenship or whatever to have two passports, sell the apartment in the big city, start nomading, v4v via notebook and raise homeschoolers, because fuck this system.
There's actually that conflict, that we're on with nostr:npub1mu6e6ty69f3vp5tj333tesz5v64tksyj0gep5a6skg5qqznhdjzqmtzflr for years now. We're not sure what to do, because it's huge expensive leap into a dream. Could be stupid as hell.
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I think about this a lot, but we made the decision to commit to a piece of land and stay at least in the same country as most of our family. I have no doubt that some places will deal with upheaval better than others, and on my long list of sovereignty to-dos is figure out a plan B, but for now we're throwing ourselves into what we can build on our land.
It's good that both bears are thinking more or less along the same lines, that one of you isn't wanting to commit more to a city right now...
ah, yeah. We have coyotes and they've gotten a few of our ducks but I wouldn't classify them as heavy pressure.
very cool!
When White Rabbit suggested the additional text, Alice had the opportunity to edit his suggestion. If she were to do that, does White Rabbit have the opportunity to see the edits and possibly withdraw his support for the merge?
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Wow! congratulations
Concerts in muddy weather means a velvet skirt with mud boots to leave the homestead. The rest - make up, hair, mud flecks off the skirt, changing to reasonable shoes - happens en route or in the parking lot of the venue.
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working for me.
It's slow but I'm currently on a hotspot, so that's normal for me
I have no idea what this means but I'm excited for you!
Having daily contact with this community is good for me in many ways.
Best to you in your hard work! It will pay off beautifully 🙂
I'm sure you've thought of this, but wouldn't a duck or two make good use of the duckweed? ours love it