My plan in life is simple, to live simply. Simple as that. Now the problem with living simply is that it is excruciatingly complex to retrieve the lost information of a self sufficient people. We are as Americans or Westerners or just the people of today too reliant on grocery stores and big food business to feed us. I have a problem with being that secure. I want to measure myself and work for the things I want, just to toil in the soil, a ‘hobbit’ life as my friends call it. I want to build my own earth lodge to live in, grow my own food, possibly live without power as it becomes a nuisance to the earth. I just want to experience that connection with earth and the signs in nature that are the true language of the world. So please help me with problem number one. I already have a wealth of knowledge about gardening/farming and more than enough experience but my issue is that when I start my garden the way I retrieve my plants is at some business or nursery. I don’t like relying on anyone else especially those that are in for the money and not the love. Monetary life is useless and not fulfilling. I want to grow tomatoes from the seeds of last years tomatoes, onions from onions and so on. I don’t want to have to buy seeds or plants but to use a system where last years crop provides this years and so on. so if someone could provide some info on this, as I have been looking for weeks and everything starts with "step one: Go to Nursery and Buy Plants." Any experienced self sufficient non-reliant gardener please help me.
It is true that with a nursery or small I business I will have to start. I plan on crafting my own tools. The plan is to step back into the archaic. No pumped water, electricity, internet, or television. With a roof of dirt and a bed of grass. No more shiny metal boxes set in their organized rows. Make my own clothes, furniture, everything. I wish the world were bigger. I don’t want money and when I finally have my own land I will not pay the taxes and don’t plan on leaving that piece of land. College was the biggest let down. Its a filing system placing you in your pragmatic pocket where you can help the system of carelessness and separation; our society. We are no longer bands of tribes but selfish pieces of a broken puzzle. Forgive the sorrowful poetry i am writing but this is my reality and the world around us. I would love to start a commune but it may be a tribe of one as i have met zero people who share this sight.
Self Sufficient Gardening. Please help?
Published on February 4, 2010 in Self Sufficiency. 4 Comments Tags: bed of grass, dirt, earth lodge, electricity, farming, food business, gardener, grocery stores, metal boxes, nuisance, onions, own clothes, own tools, seeds, shiny metal, soil, tomatoes, true language, wealth of knowledge, westerners.
