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by nonameiguess
1573 days ago
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Not a new thing by any stretch, though maybe more widespread these days as more people have the money to quit work and don't need to actually earn money as farmers. Back in the pre-Obama era, one of my girlfriends moved to California for grad school from the Pennsylvania Amish country, where her dad was a former electrical engineer who decided he hated it and would rather be a farmer. His was the only non-Amish farm in the county, but he used his engineering skills to run the entire operation on waste vegetable oil, disconnected from the grid, and he obtained all of his fuel for free from the Philadelphia restaurants he sold his vegetables to. I still remember and envy staying there for a week, the way he threw away no food, instead collecting all waste and giving it to his chickens, and they in turn gave him fresh eggs every day. Having that kind of symbiotic relationship with animals seemed almost magical. I love my cats, but all they do is consume and make messes for me to clean up. He had cats too, but they spent all day in the woods, slept in his barn, and killed all of the mice for him! |
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