I have property. I have materials to build 2 greenhouses and shelter for farm animals. I have had some health issues, but I can bust ass still at 55. I have equipment. What i don't have is any help...and motivation is an issue at this point. Long story, but after a Cat 5 hurricane, massive destruction and personal upheaval, it's been a rough 3 years and then add the financial strain and a myriad of other issues and here i am. I need help. If anyone is anywhere near the Panama City, Bay County, Florida area and would be interested in working together, I'll help you if you help me and we can build some sustainable food sources for multiple families. My dream is to be able to provide stability of food source for my family and other families as the need arises. I'm not looking to make big money. I'm looking for sustainability and fostering my ability to help others in need as we all know whats coming. I don't want to work with anyone who isn't a pede and Patriot at heart. Message me private if you can help. God bless!
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Certified Permaculture designer/ Owner operator of 1 acre market garden. Wife and I support 24 families a week for half the year and 2 farmers markets for 9 months of the year in Pennsylvania. Too established to join you but happy to answer any questions you might have. I hope you will find some help as there seems to be a lot of people becoming aware of the need for secure local food systems.
This site may help you to get some feelers out there, but you may have to sort through some commies. My experience with sustainable farming includes a lot of lefties. But I find farming and local food to be the best way to bridge the left and right and prove that decentralizing and direct production and sales are the way forward. https://wwoof.net/
What a great resource and kiddos to you! You are what I want to be. Thank you so much!!
I'm also one of those too far away to help, but I'm praying for your efforts to be blessed and I admire what you want to do. Also wanted to say I had a good natured chuckle when I noticed you wished for farmforfreedom to be fruitful and multiply! : -)
I’m sitting over here wondering what I can do to make a trip.
Kids. Five years into the future and we would have a lot of help.
Right now it would be like herding squirrels lol
Howdy! Could we talk outside of this thread at some point? This kind of community building effort is my dream (community market/garden model, but with hydroponics so it doesn't req a huge space for yield, + is my background though I grew up around trad. farming.) and I would love to pick your brain!
I think this model could work across communities too, but right now just connecting with people like you who are doing it! My end-goal is to create a modular 'franchise' model of community garden/market that can adapt to the local climates/markets, maybe even supporting it's own/piggybacking local logistics chains. The idea is that it must run as a co-op to avoid exploitation via wanton profiteering on a community good-but what if that market generated income/value in a broader market? I have some ideas on staking as a DAO and using blockchain to operate but that's down the line, the point is a community should have a fairly self-sustaining garden market that they can tap as a resource year-round (another reason for my passion re: hydro; ultimate crop versatility, within limits ofc.), and I am going to help build it, dammit.
This is the American way.
I'm gonna keep you in mind. I'm in south central PA, and I've got my eye on a beautiful piece of property. Would you be willing to give someone with the same goals a few pointers? I grew up raising beef cattle, but my dad refused to adapt and kept losing money on the farm until his health forced him to give it up.
In South Central PA too and would love to get connected. I can't really help with your endeavor, but just knowing someone like you and I might not be far apart, could really help us both down the road. I taught myself to garden and can a few years ago, but my 2 raised garden beds is all I have room for.
Chester County here, happy to give any tips I can and forward any resources you might find useful.
How so? I figure they would mostly be like panty-fa and burn-loot-murder from CHAZ last year, where they piled some dirt on cardboard and expected a good harvest with no care.
I grew up as an anarchist and I can say that the left has a soft spot for small, local businesses. I can also say that permaculture and sustainable agriculture including grass fed meat are quite attractive to those on the hippie left. Most of my regular farmers market customers are aged mid 30s-50s and are moderate left. On my website I wrote a blog post about how the great reset is no good from a sustainable farmers perspective and was surprised by the response. We just need to think productively and be an example and show the left that what the talk the right walks by having creative solutions rather than asking the government to help.
Salute!!! Very well done