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by Aumicron » 05/12/09, 16:11

I know a couple who is 80 years old and who has practically always had his vegetable garden (around 150 m²) in a housing estate since 1970 in a valley of 60000 inhabitants.

Their parents already made one, it's tradition, education. They buy very few vegetables and fruits (they have around twenty fruit trees).

They eat their salads and potatoes all year round. They collect their own seeds as much as possible (salads, beans, etc.) and use rainwater for watering. They use manure for their vegetables and a little chemical treatment for fruit trees.

They seem rather healthy. They have saved a lot and I can assure you that their footprint on the planet is very small. They do not ask the question of freedom (they have known war) or that of ecology.

One last thing: having lunch with them in summer is a delight.
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by Ahmed » 09/12/09, 22:53

The desire for autonomy, (a term I prefer to that of self-sufficiency) even without practical results is already progress since it establishes a distance from an increasingly complex society where each person * is increasingly specialized and dependent, both materially and psychologically.

Practical autonomy, which is necessarily partial, is also desirable for two reasons; firstly by consistency with this necessary distancing, not from society but from an unsatisfactory type of societal relationship.

Second, the extreme division of tasks and the increasing complexity that it entails removes all visibility and viability from the current system which is, in fact, self-referential. This last point logically implies a breaking point due to the absence of a retroactive regulation loop: the system only works (or, if you prefer, manages its internal contradictions) by gradually getting carried away.

In these conditions, it is of the most elementary prudence to develop general skills to acquire, Firstly the frame of mind required to deal with trivial problems, on the other hand the ability to implement simple techniques oriented not to production, but to sufficiency (personal, but especially of the group). The term sufficiency is justified here, because it introduces the idea of ​​limitation (therefore, regulation).

* it would be better to say here "producer-consumer", reintegrating the status of person being the goal to be achieved.
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by the middle » 01/05/11, 08:52

Subject become useless, because serious risks of accident nuk, and everything is polluted.
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by sen-no-sen » 01/05/11, 11:22

You must not exaggerate!
You can eat the fruits and vegetables from the garden.
It is simply a question of assessing the risks, the real ones, which are sometimes completely hidden: (example: TGBT transformer filled with Pyralene buried underground, and pollution of an entire area, etc.)

It is sometimes necessary to do your little investigation, all the more so when you live near an old industrial site.
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by the middle » 01/05/11, 13:58

Ok, I misspoke,
Those who do not trust our crazy society, and who seek a certain security of life, are aware that now they have a famous sword of Damocles on their heads ...
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