A crash course in changing the world.
I have some land outside of town where I live with my boyfriend, son and mother. I plant as much fruits and vegetables as I can, and eat what I grow. We buy our beef & pork from a local farm, our turkey and chicken from Dave's brother, and we pick up cheese from the mennonites in a small town 100 km north.
On this evening, we're sharing a dinner of BBQ lamb (from a cousin out of town), potatoes & seasonal veggies (my own), bread from the neighbour, and red wine from the vineyard 2 km away. For dessert, apple pie (also with own apples). Everything tastes delightful because it is fresh and we either grew it ourselves or know the person who who did. We worry less about the food when we are in control of producing it - we know how it's grown, what it's fed and how long it's been stored.
Sometimes throughout the year, friends and FOAFs get together for large cook outs. here we often trade canned or baked goods and other items of need. It almost feels like a large family - a community of people who are neighbours and friends. Years before people may have called this community survival socialist or that we're hippies in a commune. Instead, I think of our ancestors who lived contently on the land, without the need to destroy the environment, how tribes and villages of people survived food shortages, illness and disease.
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