It doesn’t matter whether you are a ship of the desert or a waterfowl you need to stay afloat regardless of the circumstances this is what our life dictates to us and this tendency can be traced in everything.
Several years ago I became interested in everything related to agriculture probably because we were already tired of the city.
I began studying this issue with beekeeping, having studied almost everything that can be learned about this matter in theory and smoothly moved on to studying the issue of livestock and poultry farming.
You know, it can be funny to watch on YouTube how people move from city to village they have different paths, but they all strive to stay afloat.
Not everyone is able to maintain buoyancy.
In theory all you have to do is look at a duck or a goose which float perfectly on the water due to subcutaneous fat which prevents the feathers from getting wet.
It turns out that the fatter you are the better you will swim but not all people with fat wallets can stay in the village for this something else is needed.
It takes some special talent and a combination of circumstances for what we call buoyancy to become a part of our life.
Do you remember the storm from the movie “Forrest Gump”, which sank all the shrimp fishing boats that were fleeing the storm in the harbor but only Forrest’s ship survived as it did not return to the harbor, but remained on the open sea under the power of the storm.
Something similar should probably happen in the village if you are looking not only for survival but also for prosperity.
It is interesting to see the changing attitudes of people who took up farming over time.
One year they think that prosperity is a product of poultry farming after a while they are already thinking about livestock farming and someone decides that a greenhouse with tomatoes will solve all his problems and that poultry farming and livestock farming should be forgotten as something unprofitable and labor-intensive.
It turns out that there is no perfect recipe for maintaining buoyancy this can only come to you by going through your own victories and defeats.
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Very true… I have found the best approach is to build up slowly and do what you can do with little. As Thoreau says … Simplify
Reduce your dependence on the automobile and fossil fuels. It helps to live walking distance from a Farmer’s Market and grocery store. The cost to grow your own food is ridiculously expensive.
Especially in Drought conditions.
Recently, all this has been felt especially acutely. The most reliable path, as practice shows, is the path of the ancestors, who paid due attention to working with their hands on the land.