Max Igan... How to Defeat Bill S.510

Max Igan - American Voice Radio - 09/02/10

The criminalization of home food production is a crime against our humanity and our most basic human right. We must NOT lay down and comply to this! It is your duty as a citizen to defend your right to grown food.

Now is the time to get together as community and put food as much throughout the community as possible. To this end, Max has fostered local community gatherings, and is initiating Permaculture gardening awards in his region. Building community is really the only option we have available to stand against the changes that are coming.

Max continues with more advice, including how to make friends and sway your local law enforcers to do the right thing...

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Small Farm Self-Sufficiency

The bad news is that we will probably be feeling significant effects of peak oil by 2012. Everything that relies heavily on oil (notably transport and modern food production) may become either very expensive or in short supply. So where will our food come from? From sustainable, small scale, local organic farms, that's where!

The good news is that small acreages can produce a lot of food! In this Peak Moment video, Janet Brisson demonstrates her home-canned and dried vegetables, fruit, and beans she grows along with chickens and bees on her small acreage .

Renee Wade talks about adapting farming practices to suit the land: Though her property doesn't have access to much water, for example, she is able to raise goats.

Permaculture Demystified!

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Here's a great introduction to Permaculture. Former truck driver Bill Wilson describes permaculture as a viable, realistic way to use nature to provide the abundance we really need - using good design to harvest sunlight, food, wind, water and more.

As a Permaculture educator, Bill not only passes on a bounty of practical, common sense ideas, he also inspires people to experience being alive on the planet, finding their connectedness with life, their passion and ways to make a world that works for everybody.

Grow Your Way to Freedom!

Here's a positive, uplifting story (for a change!). These guys show that you don't need to leave your little block in suburbia to develop self-reliance in food production. Watch this video for a fantastic example of Permaculture in action.

So don't despair folks - get inspired instead, reach for that gardening fork and get growing!