By Leni Sorensen on 08/14/2010
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…
Posted in Features, Intentional Living | Tagged American history, Community and Ecclesia, community-reliance, economics, food production, Intentional Living, inter-dependence, interdependence, Leni Sorensen, local food movement, localism, rural living, self-reliance, self-reliant living, Social Justice, urban and rural homesteading, urban living |
By Ragan Sutterfield on 01/26/2010
If we are to recover the agrarian virtues of self-reliance and free ourselves increasingly from the bad valuations inherent in the money economy we are going to have to not only grow our own but breed our own…
Posted in Agrarian Notebook, Features | Tagged chicken breeding, Christian agrarian, Heritage Breeds, Homesteading, Marx, Poultry, self-reliance, self-sufficient living |
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