USAToday has a piece on folks who are simplifying their lives as a response to the economic troubles here. For those interested in some concrete advice, see this piece on homesteading in…
Mark T. Mitchell is the co-founder of Front Porch Republic. He is the Dean of Academic Affairs at Patrick Henry College and the author of several books including Plutocratic Socialism, Power and Purity, The Limits of Liberalism, The Politics of Gratitude, and Localism in Mass Age: A Front Porch Republic Manifesto (co-editor).
“Whoever it was who said that agriculture is the mother and nurse of all other arts was right, because when agriculture is faring well, all the other arts…
The Prince of Peace---rather a seditious title in our age of Homeland Security and endless war, eh? "Love thy neighbor" and "Thou Shalt Not Kill" were no less subversive 95…
I was visiting my pal, Smitty, on his farm back in ’68, I believe, and he showed me a new mag he’d bought-The Mother Earth News- and I went out and subscribed. I’ve got a whole pile of them up in the attic but quite my subscription when Schuttlesworth sold out a few years later.
We were part of the self-sufficiency movement toward the end of the years of the Carter economic malaise. We subscribed to Mother Earth News and other such publications then, and bought a small acreage. We were a little slow to get into it and slow to get out of it. We kept on with our chickens ‘n goats even through most of the Reagan years. I do remember one co-worker suggesting that pretty soon we’d have our own third-world country on our place.
The goats and chickens are long gone, but we still have the same acres. I’ve sometimes thought how if Bush-Obama keep driving the economy into the ground, maybe it’ll be time to go back to those days.
It’s interesting to see from your note that Mother Earth News is still going.
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Bill
LINK: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123992073614326997.html
Bill
And don’t miss Peggy Noonan’s Wall Street Journal piece about the USA TODAY article:
Bob Cheeks
I was visiting my pal, Smitty, on his farm back in ’68, I believe, and he showed me a new mag he’d bought-The Mother Earth News- and I went out and subscribed. I’ve got a whole pile of them up in the attic but quite my subscription when Schuttlesworth sold out a few years later.
The Reticulator
We were part of the self-sufficiency movement toward the end of the years of the Carter economic malaise. We subscribed to Mother Earth News and other such publications then, and bought a small acreage. We were a little slow to get into it and slow to get out of it. We kept on with our chickens ‘n goats even through most of the Reagan years. I do remember one co-worker suggesting that pretty soon we’d have our own third-world country on our place.
The goats and chickens are long gone, but we still have the same acres. I’ve sometimes thought how if Bush-Obama keep driving the economy into the ground, maybe it’ll be time to go back to those days.
It’s interesting to see from your note that Mother Earth News is still going.
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