Northern Farmer

Downright ugly outside as of this moment. Rain changing over to snow as I type. Every piece of work clothing I have for this time of year is soaked after today. But it’s sure nice and warm here in the house. Today I received two things of interest in the mail; one was the 2006 Seed Savers catalog and the other a letter from AARP. One thing I wonder about is how that AARP knows when a person is about to turn fifty. I never told them and furthermore it’s none of their dad blame business what I’m up to. If I figure I needed their services for myself I’d let them know. At least the Seed Saver’s catalog is sent because I’ve done business with them before. The trouble with the Seed Saver’s catalog is now I’m getting spring fever about a month early, boy, it’s going to be a long winter here on the farm.

We’ll be getting a few more seed catalogs as the week go by, but I love going thru the Seed Saver’s one the best of them all. With our greatly expanded gardens we’ll have room for many more varieties this next year. And in my never ending quest against Multi National Industrial Ag, I’m going out of my way to plant all heritage seeds. My personal feeling is anyone that’s looking to become independent should do the same. Doesn’t matter if they live in the city, the burbs, or out here. Start saving your own seed. In the future this might be one of the most important things that people did. The huge corporations are trying to have these seeds destroyed, forever, off the face of the earth. What happens when these huge corporations collapse someday, and they will. Where will people get their seed when they’ve become dependant on corporate seed?

Being branded the radical that I am nowdays I’ll keep bring this subject up from time to time. This subject is so, so important that I feel I have to keep on with it. This farm is big enough to become a haven for many varieties of open pollinated heritage seed. And it’s a dream of mine to bring this to pass here. AARP figures I should send them money so they can work for my retirement at some trailer court down south so I can enjoy my days playing miniature golf and figuring out how to take a dozen different pills a day to keep me alive so I can vote liberal. I don’t know, it just isn’t me. I think instead of sending them money I’ll take the same money and join up with the seed savers so this farm can really get into it. I can only imagine the later years around here when others are doing the tough jobs and I can be raising and saving seed to be distributed to like minded folk. There are very few things in life that are more important to our future generations than this. It’s a huge responsibility when faced with the alternative. The common folk will have to be ready for the future when these corporations collapse. And it can be a heck of a lot of fun in the process!

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