Back to the Farm

[Blake4014]

Recommend = "Food Matters" documentary, its very informative.

[nph01234]

Jay, you should get a rake and some hay in the background and you'll feel right at home.

[Mrgyn]

One word:

Demand.

[JustPlaneNuts]

The yes men is WONDERFUL! They go around pretending to be the WTO and present these crazy ideas and the corporate jerks buy it hook line and sinker. I laughed my ass off watching that. Highly recommend.

[DreamingOfBaba]

We're putting in a garden-It'll be good knowing where our food is coming from!

[IChoseTheRedPill]

you're intense... i love your vids and what you have to say...

peace2U

[qanazir]

That's some pretty good looking wall decorations!

Another upside of this reccesion is that the unemployment makes it cheaper to invest in envoirmentally friendly infastructure improvements.

[qanazir]

But we must remember that we still need our modern tools to keep farming effective.

And we need to keep other industries going aswell.

[natewheatshelf]

hey great video :D

[Yarcofin]

I've love to start a small farm, do subsistence farming and sell the extra to pay the taxes. But as a city kid I don't know where to start, without having to buy a $250,000 plot of land. I've been growing stuff in my parent's backyard for a couple years, but I don't know how to expand.

I guess I could apply to start a community garden in the city, but then there is all the zoning and jumping through hoops at city hall for years probably.

[jayjayfroggy]

maybe check and see if there is a nearby Community Supported Agriculture farm. Go to localharvest(dot)org/csa/

[jayjayfroggy]

apt *Quote of the Day* on my iGoogle page........

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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas A. Edison

[xxpoisenandkissesxx]

DOWN WITH THEM BLOODY CHEMTRAILS, when i look up at the sky its just poluted with grids and lines criss-crossing its horrible.

greets from england!

[kegs666]

Where is yo son @?

[jayjayfroggy]

He's doing Comedy club open mic nights, and has only for the first time a couple days ago even been back to YouTube to look around. Sorry, but it doesn't look like he'll be back.

[thefakeyeti]

Oh, though I didn't put much thought into kevin, most of the time I simply log into youtube, see what videos there are, watch them and log out... with out much thought of "what happened to.."

Nice to hear that I shouldn't be expecting from him.. just in case i started to wonder..

[TiradeFaction]

Hey, I was wondering when you were going to make another video.

Concerning the whole "small family farms" and "growing your own food", well, that sounds good on paper, but with a population base that we have (300 million for the United States, something like 6 billion globally), food production on a mass scale is a necessity. P.S. I despise Monsanto, and think our food needs to be cleaner than the standards allow, but let's not get stuck in the romanticised primitivist "farm" life.

[jayjayfroggy]

Myself, I don't see how anyone can think that mass production food production is practical. Somehow people have gotten utterly used to the idea of looking at farm labor as a negative, when actually it can be a great joy! Go to the Solviva website. Its claimed that one acre can produce $50,000 worth of vegetables! With greenhouses and intensive planting, I see small scale food production as WAY more practical than what we have now, besides being more health and environmentally sound

[korwinblue]

The government pays the farmers to destroy crops, and to not develop the land just to keep the price of produce up. :(

[Anastasius37]

...that might be partially true, but you are obviously unaware of the fact that using land too long causes the land to be baron and useless. Dust bowl, look it up.

[TiradeFaction]

What you say works only if a far greater majority of people were willing to become "Farmers" or grow their own food, many aren't because that requires an intense commitment of their time they want/need to be spending on other things. More population=more need to produce things on a mass level. More advancement=less people wanting to go back to the "farms", many of us don't really want/admire the "farmer" lifestyle for ourselves.

[jayjayfroggy]

well, my feeling is that, when done right, many more people WOULD enjoy a farming lifestyle, and that it can be a creative way of life, with plenty of leisure time.

[TiradeFaction]

I'd have to disagree there, farming is a very work intensive lifestyle that doesn't leave much room for another occupation in life (let alone much leisure time). I'm with a lot of people that, I like cars, cities, easy access to food, and non hard labour occupations :).

[thefakeyeti]

"I'd have to disagree there, farming is a very work intensive lifestyle that doesn't leave much"

That is with todays technology, as technology progresses it may not be that big of a deal to own your own garden.

"It's just not practical in this day and age." OOOH... I guess we are in agreement then/than

[TiradeFaction]

Gardens are one thing, having much of our population going "back to the farms" is another thing.

[TiradeFaction]

What is the "Solviva" website?

[jayjayfroggy]

solviva(dot)com. Click on the *book* link. The claim is that one acre can produce $500,000!

[TiradeFaction]

You see, just because a website "claims" something doesn't automatically make it fact. Land value is relative to the land itself, that being said, I'll check out the site.

[jayjayfroggy]

I admit, I'm skeptical myself, applying the rule, *if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is* However, I do believe if we put a tiny fraction of the effort that's been put into putting someone on the moon into studying farming methods, great results could be achieved.

[TiradeFaction]

Oh sure, I'd be fine with more R&D funding put into advancing farming methods, I'm just saying the communal aspect isn't very feasible with our civilisation.

[liamgyu]

you said it mate,the reason we invented these machines and this system,is so we could smell the roses,our entire first world civilisation has been put through a lens and focused into what we are today,i for one dont wish to reap the hay for winter, and if i did it would have to be with a combine harvester.

"work intensive" is a nice choice of words for farming,like swapping intercourse for fuck!

[TiradeFaction]

Yeah, it's the romanticism of being completely self sufficient. It's just not practical in this day and age.

[ArchieAA]

This...

[TiradeFaction]

"This..." what?

[ArchieAA]

"This" as in I agree with what you're saying...

[TiradeFaction]

Typing "This..." is a strange way of saying "I agree with you".

[ArchieAA]

You're obviously not a farker...

Slashie slash!

[dackjaniels555]

FIRST!