Dear Peacemakers,
In the wake of such an historic election the task at hand is to continue to pay attention to facts on the ground. Despite Obama's overwhelming victory in the electoral college and so many key Red states turning Blue, 47% of the electorate is against what ever it is that Barak Obama and the Democrats hope they are going to accomplish over the next four years. The one question that both McCain and Obama consistently dodged during their debates was "to what degree are you going to have to give up your promises based on the economic realities you are going to inherit?" Let's take a look at what some of the important numbers are that are going to turn our next Commander in Chief into the Janitor in Chief. |
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If I Can't Sing I Don't Want to be Part of Your Revolution |
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The farm band is back in the studio. We have seven songs in the can and a bunch more in the pipeline. We are hoping to have a CD ready to go for fund raising in a couple of months. Years ago we were the movement band of choice singing at demonstrations, rallies, fund raisers, events, and just for fun. We are hoping to do more of the same now. If you need music for an event let us know. If you want to audition the band (Relative Minor- because we are all related and a minor, little band) go to Neil Young's website Living With War Today. We are currently ranked 20 out of 3000 songs. The more you get listened to the more you move up the charts. Click on our song (Shovelin' Shit) which will take you to our band website. Enjoy. |
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How to Build a Composting Toilet |
We've been working on the website and one of the changes you will be seeing soon is a section on technology we use at the farm and how you can do it yourself. In the meantime check out this photo essay on how to build a composting toilet that I constructed at Jonah House a few years ago. Jonah House is a resistance community in inner city Baltimore that is homesteading a twenty acre cemetery. Barb and I got our start there in the early 1980's before they moved to their present location. Check out their website after you read about their toilet. Then you will be able to recycle your poop and save the world at the same time. How about that!
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Our Harvest Breakfast/Open house was a phenomenal success. Despite scattered, down pouring rain around 150 people showed up for breakfast and tours of the farm with our emphasis on low cost, easily attainable renewable energy components. We couldn't make people leave!! They ate us out of house and home and tromped through puddles just to see what there was to see. Everyone seemed delighted to be here AND we made over $1000 for the building fund. The stories that appeared in the local papers the following week were very affirming. It all make us think that folks are ready for renewable energy and locally grown food RIGHT NOW!!
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20 Year Anniversary Party--7/7/07 |
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Can you believe we've been ten miles out of Luck for 20 years? So it's time to have a party like no other. Saturday, July 7--7/7/07 is party day, the same day as Live Earth--Al Gore and friend's day of concerts to call attention to the problem of global warming so we are jumping on the bandwagon. World class concerts will be happening in Sydney, Shanghai, Tokyo, Johannesburg, London, Istanbul, Hamburg, Rio de Janerio, New York, and LUCK! |
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