Crucial wisdom from Bill Mollison
بڬينيله چاراڽ ءممبرونتقء مننتڠ چوۏيد-19
Make shift happen:
1. Learn to plant, not only an orchard, but also basic crops (corn, grain, cassava, etc. ) and trees (fruit, native, woody);
2. Create a bond with some land, whether it’s yours or that of a relative, a project, a community garden, etc. Participate with the people who live there, go gradually looking for ways to spend more time in the countryside than in the city, learning to plant, purify water, treat organic waste and heal in nature;
3. Develop practical skills (cooking, carpentry, machine repair, food processing, sewing, etc. ). Teach these skills to children, friends and neighbors;
4. Seek a mutual support group, where people take care of each other, make products of basic need collectively, such as natural hygiene products, natural remedies such as syrups and herbal tinctures, food processing, such as preserved and fermented foods;
5. Simplify your life now, releasing more space and time. Discover everything you can do without money, walk, exercises, crafts and body arts, socialize with your loved ones, gardening;
6. Separate from the logic of consuming more and more. They prefer handmade products that last a long time, quality, made by small producers, social companies and solidarity economic companies. Make exchanges, give and receive gifts of affective value, rather than financial value;
7. Exchange, store, multiply and spread creole seeds (native, not genetically modified, produced by popular and family farming);
8. Recognize that life will be much better afterwards! We’re just transitioning. “Our creativity is the limit of the system.”
Gary MacDougall of Grow the food you love has this to share:
“This is more than growing healthy food for our family. A few years back we were in a crisis. My wife and I were bored in our jobs, and it affected our marriage. So we asked ourselves the big questions?
“What are we here for? What are our hearts inspired to do?
“My wife kept talking about starting a garden. She wanted to grow healthy food for our 3 kids. I wanted to help her because I kept getting messages to grow food and to do something good for the planet. So we went all in, tore up our front yard, planted fruit trees, got chickens, started composting like crazy and slowly over the past few years started growing more and more food year-round.
“Along the way we started learning more about the ecological and climate crisis. The population continues to increase, deforestation continues, insects are rapidly declining, and farmland is increasingly desertifying. Growing food in our yard, living a simpler life and encouraging and inspiring others may be the key to our survival.
“So looking back we are glad we made this decision to grow. We are closer now in our marriage and we feel more fulfilled in our lives. This past year we have begun supporting many new growers in our Facebook group Grow the Food you Love and have met some amazing people in our garden meetups, we can’t wait to get back to, after the COVID-19 crisis.”
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