Good afternoon. This morning my girlfriend Diane and I joined a group of people for an informal couple of hours of talking and sharing.
it was a gathering of a diverse collection of individuals that centered around the slow food, slow money movement as well as permaculture and sustainability.
Slow food is a way to get to know your family, neighbors and friends thru gathering together around the hearth preparing good nutritious food and sharing the days/weeks events.
People need to get away from supporting big business factory farms/food production and concentrate on local farmers, ranchers, herders, and other food providers.
It is often said that it is cheaper to buy food at a fast food restaurant than it is to eat a balanced diet of fruits and vegetables and backyard raised eggs and the like. This cant be farther from the truth a garden can be started relatively cheaply and cuts down on costs in the future such as medicines and doctors visits. As Diane says, with a bag of rice, a bag of beans, fresh eggs and vegetables a family could eat very well and nutriciously and inexpensively.
Animals on factory farms are regularly mistreated, fed corn instead of their primal foods such as grass.
Chickens are kept in shoebox sized cages, unable to do what comes naturally to them such ranging to forage for food and socializing with other chickens. For people who are not familiar with chickens, goats and other farm animals are unaware that these animals share and contribute to our ecosystem. I raise chickens and was unaware that they have unique personalities quirks and habits.
I am not talking about foghorn leghorn here, but they are individuals none the less. Apart from waking us up at 7 am with a racket, they are fun to interact with, they have a calming affect at the end of a long day. They also are a supply of compost material and eat harmfull insects in your garden.
I am starting to ramble here, so i will quit for a while and play with the girls in the coop.
Every one a have a great weekend.
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