What too many children learn at school is not to take risks and not trust their own thinking. When digital data-harvesting enters the mix, it becomes the perfect recipe for producing compliant consumers.
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Out-Growing Consumerism 3: A Self-determined Life
If you choose to keep growing as an adult, you’ll become increasingly self-actualized and self-reliant, and less dependent on corporate providers. This is very BAD NEWS for the growth economy, which is why no profit-focused corporation will ever fund government policies to encourage the public to behave like this.
Out-Growing Consumerism 2: An Act of Subversion
Better questions lead to more informed choices, enabling you to live a life designed by you rather than one that’s handed to you as a member of the consumer culture.
Out-Growing Consumerism 1: What Should Never Have Been For Sale
Having monetized everything else, in order to keep growing the consumer economy now needs to monetize the space inside your head.
Raising Pigs – Fence Training
Electric fencing works very effectively for pigs, but only if they get the right first impressions of it. Here are the steps we take to train our piglets to stay behind electric fences, without terrifying them in the process.
7 Easy Substitutes for When Lettuce Won’t Grow
6 Salad bowl contenders that can handle heat and high humidity. The 7th plant can make a nutritious salad by itself if you have the right growing niche for it. Plus a tip on getting the most nutrition from your salad greens. UPDATED July 2023.
Raising Pigs – Can pigs learn table manners?
Feeding the pigs, as they grow bigger, can easily degenerate into a full body contact sport in which the pig wins and the amateur pig-raiser gets discouraged and gives up on homegrown pork. Is there a way to keep pig-raising enjoyable when those cute little piglets are no longer cute?
Raising Pigs – New Piglets
Why we buy piglets rather than breeding our own; preparing for their arrival and minimizing the stress of their transition; what to feed them; a few thoughts on choosing heritage breeds versus modern breeds.
Raising Pigs – Mobile Pens vs Pigs in One Place
What we have (so far) found to be the pros and cons of mobile versus stationary pig raising systems, and why we are currently trailing a stationary arrangement for our pigs.
Two Different Kinds of Healthcare – Part 2
Why the modern healthcare system undermines our families and communities, and how we came to be so dependent on it.