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The Great Chicken Adventure [In Five Acts]
This is the saga of “Big Red Mama and Her Friends”: A Great 2-hour Adventure about Getting Chickens in 5 Acts…Papa sets out with James, Bella, and Kats to get the chickens from Mrs. Jan’s farm. On the drive over, they talk about how fun it’s going to be to have chickens…
Life at a Human Pace in a Smaller Place
I set my bike up with a rack and saddle bags. I rode to the grocery store. I rode to work. I rode to friends’ houses for potlucks and parties. I rode the 6 miles to the school farm I help with. But I also found out how much I was dependent on a car for so many little things…
Self-Reliance vs. Self-Sufficiency
Today rather then judge ourselves by some illusory benchmark of rural American self ’sufficiency’ we might better make an effort to be more self-reliant…we can discipline ourselves to participate in the world economy in a more conscious way and to strive for a level of self reliance appropriate to our life circumstance…
Life Without Money
What Mark and Katharine have in common (and with a growing number of people) is a plunge into the deep end, giving up money and seeing how life turns out…
Why We Choose Simple Living
When it came to explain the purpose of the garage the Africans were incredulous, “You have a house for your car??? Many in our area have no houses at all!”
The Key To Action
Now I simply eat locally, shop locally, and largely avoid the big box stores. Those choices are no longer conscious choices. They are simply the outcomes of my form of life.
