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Originally Posted by islandman
Alright there everybody,
Good Luck with the meeting. For what it is worth I would just like to put out my own topic of discussion which I will not be able to present in person.
The most positive step that I could hope to make in all of this is to try and lobby local groups and politicians, to get land outside each town and city and set up an unemployed people growing Co op. With the state of the financial system even the most clueless of decision makers must now surely realise that the dole queues are getting bigger and this is a perfect opportunity get us more self sufficient. I will follow this idea up and keep you all posted.
We could talk for a week about all the topics on this discussion board, but regardless of any of the outcomes of any of the scenarios we will need to start growing again and fast. The more people that can be brought on board the better for us all.
This idea can be sold as strictly a recession/depression damage limitation exercise to help the vulnerable people in our society in these tough times, with no need to mention any of the other unbelievable sci fi conspiracies you crazy paranoid lunatics are on about, Ha ha, joking.
As the Hopi say "The time of the lone wolf is coming to an end" We need as many people as possible tooled up in the ways of self sufficiency and community spirit because it wont matter how many tins of tuna you have because if nobody else has any your in trouble anyway.
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Islandman,
I am totaly with you on the idea of people getting a plot of land and learning how to grow food for themselves. This is one of the things I will be doing in the very near future. As yet, I have no land to work, I can't afford to buy any and my local council only provides a certain amount of allotments, which there is a waiting list for. So i'm kinda stuck. I live in a flat and I've no garden.
I would love to have a small plot of soil to learn how to grow plants and food.
Of course I can learn the theory of this stuff without doing any of the actual planting, but I love the hands on kind of learning, through experiance, in the doing of the thing. So, yes, a bit of land to start learning how to provide food from the soil would be fantastic for me, I'd love it.
Ideas anyone?
Merlin.