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Okay, whew.
We've been completely moved in for a few months now. We've bought most of our seeds and achieved needed equipment some way or another...now, to spring!
Lots of developments have been happening, like...my ex's state's economy died and I offered him a job on our farm. I know, I surprised myself to with that offer. But if I'm farming to show the world how awesome it is to do it on however much land you've got and how you can live a fairly good life because of your own hard work -- with nature, then helping someone I've known for years (even if we aren't on the best terms most of the time anymore) shouldn't be surprising.
Because if you set out to help be a part of a changing world, then helping people ain't that much different. People ARE a huge part of th world.
Things look...on track. I'm personally a little overwhelmed by that fact. I mean, gosh. A taste of stability for myself and maybe my ex + family too!
Last few months I've been working for the Salvation Army practically everyday, in the coooold. So I'm not gonna complain about the distance between now and the spring...I'm sortof burnt out, haha.
I've still got to finish up my high school education, get a mode of transportation (scooter, yo), and work on higher education...by myself, mostly. I can't afford college atm, and this economy makes it sortof unwise to try to get into one...so, while it'll be harder to try to work on it myself, there's some free online courses at the MIT. I have the internet. Access to a few libraries. I'm sure I can manage.
I gotta round up where I'm gonna be traveling to, to sell veggies by July. Flea markets + farmer's markets. So that I know where I'm gonna be at first, and can get a good guess where I can go next.
Most of my money's gonna be saved up for a vardo to hook up to my scooter if I have one at that point.
For those who don't know, a vardo is a small house that you hook up to a horse, car, or some other sort of transportation. You probably know it as a gypsy caravan, but the correct term is vardo.
My first house, lookit me go. =)
Anyway, I'm either going to purchase a kit for it, or put it together myself out of materials that I can get for free or find cheap.
Alot of furniture factories will let you cart away the bits of wood they throw away for example, and maybe someone wants to get rid of a utility trailer (which is what you build a vardo on, nowadays).
I'm all about the recycling, reusing, and scavenging man.
It's possible that I might even be able to barter for materials, wouldn't that be awesome?
Anyway, mostly, a vardo's just a hope for me. A goal I've set in mind, because until I can actually start thinking about buying a real house (or a yurt, or a treehouse)..my home SHOULD be the road, so that I'm not a weight on my family's shoulders.
So this house'll be basically my work place, and the road my home.
At least til there are more possibilities.
And I was considering painting the word "GROWTH" on the side of it. (Because that'll be my Business' name if I file for one)
it'd be cool if I could find some green (both literally and as in better forthe environment) paint for that, if all this works out.
In other news, I've been blogging as much as ever. One of my subscribers has told me that he's seen a rise of permaculture villages across the states. I'd love so much to be able to visit one in my own state, to be honest.
Just to see it with my own eyes. How many people can say that they've seen a permaculture town or village in their own lifetimes?
Lots of developments have been happening, like...my ex's state's economy died and I offered him a job on our farm. I know, I surprised myself to with that offer. But if I'm farming to show the world how awesome it is to do it on however much land you've got and how you can live a fairly good life because of your own hard work -- with nature, then helping someone I've known for years (even if we aren't on the best terms most of the time anymore) shouldn't be surprising.
Because if you set out to help be a part of a changing world, then helping people ain't that much different. People ARE a huge part of th world.
Things look...on track. I'm personally a little overwhelmed by that fact. I mean, gosh. A taste of stability for myself and maybe my ex + family too!
Last few months I've been working for the Salvation Army practically everyday, in the coooold. So I'm not gonna complain about the distance between now and the spring...I'm sortof burnt out, haha.
I've still got to finish up my high school education, get a mode of transportation (scooter, yo), and work on higher education...by myself, mostly. I can't afford college atm, and this economy makes it sortof unwise to try to get into one...so, while it'll be harder to try to work on it myself, there's some free online courses at the MIT. I have the internet. Access to a few libraries. I'm sure I can manage.
I gotta round up where I'm gonna be traveling to, to sell veggies by July. Flea markets + farmer's markets. So that I know where I'm gonna be at first, and can get a good guess where I can go next.
Most of my money's gonna be saved up for a vardo to hook up to my scooter if I have one at that point.
For those who don't know, a vardo is a small house that you hook up to a horse, car, or some other sort of transportation. You probably know it as a gypsy caravan, but the correct term is vardo.
My first house, lookit me go. =)
Anyway, I'm either going to purchase a kit for it, or put it together myself out of materials that I can get for free or find cheap.
Alot of furniture factories will let you cart away the bits of wood they throw away for example, and maybe someone wants to get rid of a utility trailer (which is what you build a vardo on, nowadays).
I'm all about the recycling, reusing, and scavenging man.
It's possible that I might even be able to barter for materials, wouldn't that be awesome?
Anyway, mostly, a vardo's just a hope for me. A goal I've set in mind, because until I can actually start thinking about buying a real house (or a yurt, or a treehouse)..my home SHOULD be the road, so that I'm not a weight on my family's shoulders.
So this house'll be basically my work place, and the road my home.
At least til there are more possibilities.
And I was considering painting the word "GROWTH" on the side of it. (Because that'll be my Business' name if I file for one)
it'd be cool if I could find some green (both literally and as in better forthe environment) paint for that, if all this works out.
In other news, I've been blogging as much as ever. One of my subscribers has told me that he's seen a rise of permaculture villages across the states. I'd love so much to be able to visit one in my own state, to be honest.
Just to see it with my own eyes. How many people can say that they've seen a permaculture town or village in their own lifetimes?
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