Now, in order for you to know who I am and what I seek, I will simply depicture my dream.
My dream is to have a simple life, close to Nature, autonomous from corporations yet strongly connected to a local community. However I believe that full autonomy as a target, can only contribute to enrich one’s experience through learning forgotten skills…
Yes forgotten skills… I don’t know for you but I feel very bad for not knowing how to actually live without all this assistance…
we have made a society of assistance/assisted. We cannot dress ourselves, feed ourselves, … and even THINK for ourselves…cause yes we aren’t… that is seen in what is called “fashion” … ideas are inspired to you, but not by you. Try to see as far as possible and you will quickly encounter someone that has done or thought what you just believed to have “invented”.
Anyway… i have a tendancy (as you will surely see later) to leave out the subject I was talking about and drift away with ideas that were raised, …
so… forgotten skills… can you make a fire without matches or a lighter? (not even a lens) … difficult isn’t it… do you know which berries / mushroom, wild plants are edible?
What if there’s no doctor around… or pharmacy .. cause yes, western medicine is pretty useless unless the whole petrochemistry follows behind…
So getting back to “my dream”. Autonomy, genuine skills, and relearning what globalisation and market pressure erase everyday. I want to grow my own food, with no chemicals, no heavy machinery (no.. not even free labour), but the help of Nature itself. I want to be able to build a house and fix it by myself, yet it would be very little in need of external inputs such as electricity, water, sewage. I want to learn of Nature, so I can learn of who I am. I want to make my own clothes with the natural fibers I would grow. All of this so I can consider myself a MAN… not an assisted, dependant idiot (please note: self criticism here).
So in this blog I will go through alternative technics of growing food such as the Fukuoka technic of no plough no additives (fertilizer, pest control … even organic ones); alternative crops to grow or eat, seeds, natural fiber and textiles (weaving, threading,…); preparing for “collapse” economically and physically. Analysing the energy crisis and gold investments; Analysing how, where and when buying property; Spirituality; etc…
I will keep my identity undisclosed. However I have to say that I’m European, from one country that has the biggest nuclear energy investment per capita in this world. Yes.. you got it… sorry! I’m not nationalist so any comments on that nature are irrelevant. Anyway… all this to say and precise that I have been living in a country up North of Europe for 7 years until now (the one where the Coca Cola dude rides a reindeer sledge)… but right now I’m in Asia… far east …
I might settle (temporarily?) in the country of the rising sun, for my love one is one of its citizen. That said, I have to add that there are remarkable people living and trying themselves at homesteading in Japan…Gaijin (foreigners) i mean and organically for the most… and therefore I believe that many references in this blog will point back to that area of the globe.
However, if you live in Europe or else… I believe that all information and tips that will be available here are still useful in their concept … giving the fact that YOU adapt them to your environment and political landscape.
What? you didn’t think everything would be given to you and you’d live happily, simply, ever after?
No! the truth is… we all have to experience it and discover it by ourselves, for all parameters are changing and,… most important… the best of it is not in reaching the goal, but travelling the journey towards it.
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Hi,
Thanks for this post!
I have popped the intro into my blog…
I hope you don’t mind!
Regards,
Rog(FB)