Farm Assist: Green Teams, this is a great one for you. Your team can do a whole world of good to set a struggling farm straight. Food prices are soaring. Farmers are struggling. Both tie to bankers’ plans to drive up land prices, increasing interest and tax. Entire countries can be driven to despair this way. If we don’t care for one another, this will not end well. Reach out to a farmer today.
It makes sense to make deals with farmers. Or with anyone in the country. Fix up their old shed, in trade for a place to do woodworking. If you rent, you have no access to land, no place for tools, no access to a workshop. Set them up with beekeeping, orchards, or a mushroom shed. Make a sharecropping deal.
Farmers are already reaching out, making sales in advance for their local produce. Every venture takes an effort to get started, but once running it goes smoothly. How about a farm store? Planting trees on unused fields?
Perhaps just build a small cabin so your family and others can visit sometimes, or pitch in with the fall harvest. That’s a smart deal. As wells dry up in California and across the southern States, food production shifts north. We get most of our produce from California. If you can’t afford greens, you have to start growing your own.
We wrote up a whole package of deals like that. We want to make it easy to make friendly proposals. Prepared plans. It helps if you have a variety of things to choose from ready upfront. Life is not going to get any easier, because we’ve hit the limit of all planetary ecosystems. We have to be smart about this, pooling talent and resources, setting up fair trade deals locally. That’ll save a lot of gas and your life too. Get to know a farmer today.
In government-speak, this is called integrated sustainable rural economic development. It ain’t rocket science. It’s diversifying the income of farmers. We set up the Company of Canadians to do just that. You join and the farmer joins, if you want, to make direct trade, deals and ventures easy, fair and well-defined.
We’re not just talking about food production. That requires tools, so we include metalworking and machining, casting and milling, manufacture of SEVs (small electric vehicles) and off-grid power tools. That’s just smart.
To join this program, click the Edit button and add your name here. Details are on the Trenton News website http://web.ncf.ca/en369. For now, the main contact person is David Teertstra, but this is about family and friends working together to tackle issues of life security. Make a deal with a farmer today.
