(1st in a Series) Everything we need to create a more just, alive, abundant and beautiful world exists today. Why aren’t we using it?
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Beyond Eggs: How to Keep Chickens Happy in Confinement
The best way to have healthy, happy chickens is to integrate them tightly into a thriving, bustling ecosystem that benefits from their presence, rather than allowing them to spread out in a sparse ecosystem that they steadily degrade because it is unable to support them.
Beyond Eggs – 8 Advantages of Deep Litter Housing for Chickens
Deep litter bedding for chickens mimics the forest floor environment they evolved in, builds their health, provides them with entertainment, and captures fertility for soil building. Here is why we decided to try confinement on deep litter with no outside foraging.
Beyond Eggs – Pros and Cons of Free Range and Mobile Pens
Chickens can either be very helpful to gardeners, or incredibly destructive. How can we harvest all that chickens have to offer, in ways that keep everybody happy, healthy, and productive?
Out-Growing Consumerism 5: What We Must Do
Self-determination is the ability to re-parent ourselves: to learn new ways of being that make it easier for us to out-grow consumerism and all the forms of separation and alienation from each other and from nature that have befallen us.
Out-Growing Consumerism 4: School, Screens, and Our Kids
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.
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.