Hi Keith, It may be that there is some kind of economy and people may trade off, but it appears to be totally family oriented. Since our closest family is 3000 miles away, we don't have anyone to trade with. We are slowly finding people, but mostly it is teaching how to weatherproof a house and lower their power bill. The concept that dinner does not come from a package is taking longer to catch on. That we do home butcher and refuse to use chemicals on the land, gets us called crazy. Many people just plain refuse to use our compost toilets. I have actually had people do a 4 mile round trip just to use their own facilities and to avoid mine.
We are members of several lists for intentional communities, and we are talking to some people about forming or joining but that would be after we sold this farm. Bright Blessings, Kim At 08:39 AM 4/17/2004, you wrote: >Hello Kim, Brian and all > > >This is a wonderful idea, but we have found that finding anyone who is > >interested in actually doing the work, is a very different story. We would > >love to live with that kind of community, and have joined many community > >lists, but there doesn't seem to be anyone interested in this part of > >Texas. Keith, how do you find the people to work with? > >Bright Blessings, > >Kim > >It's not much different to any surviving rural community - that is, >one which is still locally based, with the kind of family farming >that suits that, and hasn't traded everything in (including much of >the basis of the community itself) on the industrialised agriculture >specialisations. > >There'd alway be some degree of specialisation. Most people would do >the basics, but beyond that you'd have folks who hatched eggs and >others would buy (or barter) the chicks, there'd be seedsmen, someone >would always have extra piglets for sale, someone else would run a >workshop and do lots of equipment repairs and general fettling, and >it all went to make up quite a widely varied and capable local >economy. Has that all gone in your area? ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
