Keys to small farm breakthrough

The thriving small farm swims against as great a current nowadays, as it ever has. (Which is odd considering the humble aims involved, and the persistency of our attraction to them.)

Here's a sampler of some things that might reverse that tide and make them a stable, multi-generation way of life again:



"The aim is Joy"; Family;  Soil; "Permanence";

Soil cement; Sea minerals; Ramial chipped wood; Sprouted seed; Chickens and livestock belong; Permanent pasture and perrenials; Earthworms and bugs belong;

Scripture, sketchup, and "study" (draft)

 1'st century Jerusalem from southeast toward the Via Dolorosa
(unfinished sketchup model)

My conception of events in the bible often stays at the it-happened-in a vague-dusty-brownish-sort-of-place-and-time stage.
 

Trouble is, because we're such visual/experiential creatures the unconscious consequence of this is that they get mentally "filed" there too.