July 22, 2024

[@brianbennett4374]

Building everything up here in NJ so sad I feel your pain.

[@jamesfeeney52]

Great insights Pat, keep them coming. Are you raising the rabbits for personal consumption? I hear they are one of the best forms of protein with very little environmental impact. Not long ago Paramus was mostly celery farms.

[@middensteadfarm6151]

Because of the economy, our entire society will have to change. More mothers will be forced to work, and as a result, more children will essentially be raised by the daycare and government schools. In addition to that, people have chosen not to learn basic self-sufficiency skills - the skills that kept our forefathers alive. As a society, we have become utterly dependent on those who grow our food and make our clothes. What would happen if our local supermarket stopped getting deliveries? What if walmart no longer gets shipments? Who would feed and clothe us? The correct answer is, of course, us! You are on the right track with the rabbits! If you ever want to learn how to mend your clothes, knit, make simple cheese or yogurt, and other self-sufficiency skills, let me know!

[@HarBeeBeekeeping]

See I am making the argument that it doesn't have to change overnight. It can happen slowly converting one meal a week (out of the 14) for something that you have traded. I want to keep the current systems as I like being a merchant of goods.

[@middensteadfarm6151]

@HarBeeBeekeeping I think you cannot change overnight. Other than the logistics of it, it would simply be too expensive. Despite being an all or nothing person, I recognize that slow and steady is the way to success here.

[@HarBeeBeekeeping]

Yes that is what I am saying