Self Reliance WikiResource
Cindy47452 photo: An Amish barnraising.
Over at Jackrabbit Ranch, we've started a Wiki: the Self Reliance WikiResource. It will cover such topics as:
- Renewable energy
- Self employment
- Gardening
- Making cheese
- Preparedness
- Cooking & recipes
- And more...
It's not exactly an encyclopedia, because it will contain personal experience as well as facts. So we're calling it a resource.
At present it only has a few pages. I'd like to invite you to add something, or edit something that already exists. If you're not familiar with editing a Wiki, don't panic: I'm creating a Help page (left margin menu) that tells you the basics.
Please stop by for a visit! It will have its own domain name soon, but for the time being, it's at:
http://www.jackrabbitcheese.com/selfreliancewiki
Posted by DJ at 11/3/2009 9:34 AM 
Categories: Internet Resources
Tags: solar entrepreneurship local food crafts gardening self determination
Categories: Internet Resources
Tags: solar entrepreneurship local food crafts gardening self determination
out here in Ohio, Timber poaching has become popular. poachers show up with heavy trucks, occasionally bulldozers and cranes. they help themselves to whatever beech, ash, hickory, oak, maple, black walnut, etc growing on your land.
sometimes they'll leave a bulldozer or crane on your property. if you try to move it they charge you with theft. this isn't a joke about State or County officials. these are real poachers.
modern prosecutors and sheriffs aren't clever enough at using existing laws to to arrest the poachers.
anyways, a small scale lumber kiln and sawmill would be a useful thing to have. gotta wonder where the Amish get so much lumber.
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Most homes in the east and north were built of wood, even before kilns.
If you'd like to add a page on wood and/or kilns, or even prevention of wood poachers, please feel free!
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported reported a big jump in productivity. Companies wqueezing more work from fewer worker-hours.
I count 18 guys on that barn frame in the picture. Wonder how the Amish measure productivity. Might be something like "everybody works, everybody eats."
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Yes, they're calling this the "jobless recovery." WTF? If my neighbor doesn;t work, he can't hire me to do his taxes, or my friend to fix his house. He won;t buy cheese (or anything else) at the farmers market.
Putting people to work is a good thing. Productivity can't be ignored (probably even by the Amish-- if someone works too slowly I bet they get a lecture). But it's not a rational goal in itself.
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