An Expectant Agrarian – Work

I’d like to clarify my reasons for wanting to become a smallholder who produces food and other necessities for his family and a surplus for trade. I will do this over a series of posts I have planned, with some attention given to various issues that contribute. I do this as much for myself as [...]

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I’d Live There – Sepp Holzer’s Austrian Farm

Check out these videos on permaculture and aquaculture at Sepp Holzer’s farm on a mountainside in Austria. His place looks gorgeous, and he’s got some great ideas here. One day, I’ll have my own place like this. Maybe not like this as in on a mountain in Austria, but like this in spirit. (This is [...]

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An Expectant Agrarian

As many of you know, I like growing plants. Recently, I’ve been thinking about trying to grow plants for a living. Or, to put it in other terms, farming. Until, say, six months ago, I had thought of this in entirely hypothetical terms. When I moved to Brooklyn last summer, one of the things I [...]

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