• We have had some really dry years.
• Much of the grain that we produce is being diverted to the production of ethanol for fuel.
• A lot of farm land has been taken over for housing.
• The citizen garden is a thing of the past.

What can you do to help this situation and protect your family?

• Grow a garden.
• Store at least a years supply of food if possible. You can get information on how to do this at lds.org.
• Develop a good financial plan.

Now about the garden. You say I don’t have any space for a garden. If you have a front lawn then you have space for a raised bed garden. These intensive raised bed gardens can be made beautiful. Any food that you grow lessens the load on the world food supply. We have quite a bit of acerage and this year our goal is to produce over 5o percent of our own food. These will be the methods that we will use:

• Raised bed intensive gardens.
• Raise our own chickens for eggs, meat and manure for the garden.
• Grow an open field garden for corn and potatoes.
• Develop a method to raise pigs. These animals can be feed all vegetable scraps from the household and the manure composted for the garden.

Our family will produce half of our own food for three families and 13 people with these methods consisting of raised bed gardens, regular garden and meat production.

The intent of this act is to prevent folks from stealing your intellectual property. In other words don’t steal my book or report–buy it. In theory that is a good idea but this act appears to be nothing more than a attempt to add more control to free speech in this country. The implementation of this act as written will probably eliminate many interactive web sites like Facebook or Twitter. The terms are so broad that any small infraction even unknown to the site owner could get the site banned from the internet.

A good summary of the act is published here. Do some research and read this act. It certainly could get out of hand and be used by the government to suppress those that might disagree with any arm of the government. This could be applied by both local and national governments. It is a violation of our constitutional rights. If you doubt that read the constitution.

Have you ever wondered how to get extra cash by working at home? With the economy going the way that it is many of us will probably be home because of layoffs anyway. The first lesson to learn about working from home is that it is still work and your success depends on your action. Working from home may become a necessary part of self sufficiency.

• How can we make this time productive?
• What does it take to start a home business?
• Am I good enough to run my own business?
• How much will it cost?
• Who will teach me?
• Can I trust the guru’s?
• How can I manage my time to get all of the tasks necessary to start a business done?
• Do I need a mentor?

These are just a few of the questions that you need to answer about starting your own home based business. Here are a few simplistic answers. Unless you are well versed in marketing you will probably need a mentor. This does not mean that you need to enroll in an expensive coaching program. Find someone who does business in a manner that you are comfortable with and copy their style and actions. My favorite is Dennis Becker. He wrote and ebook called 5 Bucks a day. This is a great place to start.

He offers some other great stuff also. If you have some cash to spend on learning the business of internet marketing you need to be part of his insider club.

The concept is to set up any type of marketing site that will earn you five buck a day. Anyone can do this. This is the place to start to begin a home based business.

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No matter who you are you need to have adequate finances available for health care. This can take the form of saving, (who that is trying to be self sufficient has that much saving), insurance plans or investments to be liquidated to cover medical costs. There is no other answer, you say, Well I can declare bankruptcy and clear up this issue if it get bad enough. I am sorry but the AMA lobby has been able to exempt medical expenses from the bankruptcy code. You might be in the fix that some of these folks are. Link to American Truth and Justice League.

These are honest hard working people trying to make it, however, the AMA has arranged the system for their own needs.

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“ARE YOUR VEGETABLES TOO BIG?”

By

Charles L. Evans

Update July 2010:

We have had a cool spring here and a lot of our seed rotted in the ground.  Our beds are now doing well about two months late.  It looks like the intensive beds will again out perform the conventional garden about 3 to 4 times.

Not to be bragging but one of my son-in laws says that the only problem I have with a garden is that I can’t grow anything small. This was after we harvested about 1500 pounds of potatoes out of a bed about 4 feet wide and 75 feet long. He thought two pound potatoes were a bit much. Off to the side in another bed there were three pumpkins about 100 pounds each all on one plant. These did not receive any special care. A couple of years ago one 4 foot square bed of beets produce all that we could eat in the summer and about 30 quarts of canned beets.

You asked, “How can you grow so much in a small space?” I could give you the long answer that starts out—the science of gardening has come a long ways in the last few years…several discoveries have been made. But the real answer is that I am sit on your butt lazy. I don’t mind doing the work but I only want to do it once. The first year of my intensive beds is a lot of work, unless I can get into the area with my John Deere 755 compact tractor. (I call this gardening by John Deere.) The secret is in the construction of the bed.

We dig a hole about 4 feet wide and two three feet deep. This is filled about half way with any kind of carbon waste that you can find. I use weeds, cardboard, wood chips, old hay, sawdust or anything else that I can get for free. Next soil that came out off the hole is placed in a layer about 6 inches deep. The rest of the soil is mixed with hay, straw, compost or anything to make it porous and easy for root penetration. This lay can be mixed with manure, commercial fertilizer, sand, peat moss wood chips or most anything. The secret of this layer is to mix a lot of nutrient in. This is the layer where your plants will get their nutrients the first year. Make it rich.

These type of beds work best for started plants but you can direct seed into the bed if you create a fine grained surface in the top couple of inches. I plant stuff as close as I can based upon my experience. The “SQUARE FOOT GARDEN” has a lot of good information about this type of planting.

After any seed I have planted has a good start I pull the weeds and mulch the bed with about 3 inches of shredded mulch. The plants are close together and will shade most of the bed soon reducing weed growth. The mulch pretty well takes care of the rest of the weeds. There in about 500 words I have shown you how to create a lazy man’s garden.

The next year and every year there after things a easy. Clean up the beds in the spring and spread a couple of inches of compost on the bed. Rack or spade the compost into the top layer of the bed and you are ready to plant.

P.S. I’m not a purist as I have been know to use Round Up to control the grass and weeds around and between the bed. This method is a grow method not a look pretty method.

Charles L. (Bud) Evans is a retired health physicist, owner and operator of a small repair shop, former school teacher with more education than good sense. He is active in the alternate energy field and currently specializes in self reliance and internet marketing. His web site (http://pathtoselfsufficiency.com) is a treasury of information on becoming self reliant.

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