Northern Farmer

I was reading in our “free” county paper this weekend, in the farm section, that the culture of death is on the march in Washington, DC. You know, the place where money is everything nowadays. Looks like the corporate culture of death ag guys figure on pushing GMO’s in the farm bill. They figure on making it illegal for state and local governments to decide the safety of them. Also, the feds would make it illegal to question anything food wise that they had approved, or should I say corporate ag approved. They’re a little embarrassed with that China food scandal and figure to put an end to anyone questioning what they do. So if you find any rat poison in our imported food and the feds say that it was inspected, (which anyone with even half a brain knows it wasn’t), you’re in big trouble for rocking the boat. Now, see how they can take care of food safety problems? The wisdom of Solomon, eh!

I tell you, I can’t believe how things are going down the tubes. It’s nothing but the “economy”, nothing else matters. And the “economy” means only one thing, keep the money coming into the corporations no matter what. Every thing that there could possibly be from birth to death they want to make money on it. They don’t care about your health, they don’t care about your family, they only want to make money off of a person every single moment with every single thing a person needs to live. Total dependence on the corporations is what the economy truly is. I always get a kick out of some who will defend the system as “good”. As far as I’m concerned they’re just showing their faith, or should I say whom they follow. An economy that has taken everything good and calls it bad, and then takes pure evil and calls it good is not something to be defended. I don’t care who or what it is!

They said they’d be curing all the diseases in a few years with genetic engineering, they said that about ten years ago. The diseases continue to get worse and worse. But corporate drug sales are sky rocketing so everything is just rosy! And I wonder if I’m the nut! Yup, I wonder sometimes when a person works from very early in the morning till late at night most days. You can tell from the frequency of posting here that I’m not in front of a computer all day. Wasn’t even planning on writing this, was going to write about our chickens the first chance I had and what happens, the fingers just tear into the keyboard ranting! That’s what happens when you’re out in the hot dust all day. I’ve been neglecting this blog a bit because of busyness but I’m still around. And I still have opinions.

So what’s a person supposed to do? Every single direction I look she’s going down the tubes. You name it every where is self destruction, everywhere! From ag issues to every social issue she’s on a tailspin down and fast. Hardly anyone really cares, oh some say they do but take away a little comfort and they’ll be on the bad side in an instant. Threaten them with what is supposed to be poorer medical care and the most supposedly sincere person will march lockstep with the culture of death. Threaten them with their toys being taken away are not being to have so many toys and you’ll see how people really are.

I wonder, I really wonder sometimes, well actually all the time, am I just wrong with so many going one direction and us going the other. I’m serious, people probably snicker and all that or even feel sorry for us “bumpkins” being so deprived. We’re not able to take off every single weekend and go gallivanting with our toys up north or anything like “normal” folks do. Just tend to our own things, visit with friends, work hard, worship our Almighty God, don’t bother nobody, (that I know of), and eat better than kings and presidents! Yup, if I had a choice what would I change, hmm, not all too much. If anything get simpler.

I should’ a just wrote about chickens tonight, might’a kept my blood pressure down, but then again who knows! But the chicken project here is finally taking off, the one I always dreamed about, (figured I’d better get a little bit about it in here). Over the last year or so in Small Farmer’s Journal they had what I figure is one of the best articles ever written, bar none! It was about the old time way of incubating and brooding little chicks and it just amazes me! We’re talking about some pretty good numbers here too! Not just an old cluck doing her thing. The main thing is to get some real chickens that can set. The kind that will set durn near no matter what. Well, a sizable flock is on it’s way here in the next couple of weeks and this winter will be spent in a warm shed making everything I need to become self sufficient on the chicken part of this farm. From egg to chicken tractors and everything else the plan is total self sufficiency. Marketing will be no problem at all and the inefficiencies compared to modern day broilers will be taken care of by the low cost and fairly high return. Plus no broiler problems. Over the next year I’ll document how it all works out. I’ve preached the dangers of what would happen if things fall apart with the precious economy may times and I firmly believe that every farm should have what I call an inner farm that can take the storms of what will come sooner or later and be able to keep on thriving. This is not knocking the raising of broilers, just realizing that when one does go that route there’s absolutely no independence. We have a couple hundred broilers almost ready to lose their heads as of this moments so I hope folks can understand what I’m saying here. I practice what I preach from totally Open Pollinated crops to self sufficient critters, not having to rely on buying the every year with all reproductivety bred out of them. Oh I could preach this tonight but I’d better get showered up cause all this hay chaff is itching down my back.

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