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  • From: <eureka AT hctc.net>
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] History and homesteading
  • Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:00:50 -0600

Here's a few for consideration:

1972-2004 The Foxfire books 1-12 were published about the homesteading skills, lifestyle, and culture of people in southern Appalachia.

1978 two Australians, Dr. Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, publish Permaculture One, with ideas they hoped would move people away from the destructive industrial-agricultural methods poisoning the land and water, reducing biodiversity, and removing billions of tons of soil from previously fertile landscapes to one that attempts to replicate nature, where social aspects are seen an integral part of a truly sustainable system.

2005 Locavore Movement introduced by Jessica Prentice from San Francisco Bay Area on the occasion of World Environment Day encourages people to produce their own food or to buy from farmers' markets within a 100 mile radius, rather than support supermarkets that import their food using fossil fuels and non-renewable resources.


--Sage
Way Out in Texas



On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:35:25 -0800
Bill Jones <billj AT harborside.com> wrote:
Gene GeRue wrote:

Browsing through old files I found these notes and hope you will find them interesting. If anyone has suggestions for additions, please post same.

History and Homesteading


15th century: European peasants lived in hut villages, tilled the surrounding land, ate what they grew.

1785: The Basic Land Ordinance, lands in “the Northwest,” today OH, MI, IN, IL, WI, were surveyed into townships and sections, minimum purchase was a section, 640 ac., $1.00/ac. min. price.
1820: Congress lowered minimum purchase to 80 ac., $1.25/ac. min. price.
1832: Minimum purchase lowered to forty acres.
1841: Preemption Act, 160 ac. @ $1.25/ac. plus occupancy and improvements.
1862: The Homestead Act, 160 ac., filing fee $10, make improvements.

1900-1920: The golden age of agriculture per David B. Danbom, author of BORN IN THE COUNTRY: A History of Rural America (1995, The Johns Hopkins University Press).

1929-193?: The Great Depression caused many to revert to prior self- reliant lives based on home food production.

1935: FIVE ACRES AND INDEPENDENCE: A Handbook of Small Farm Management, by M.G. Kains, first published. Revised and Enlarged Edition, 1940.

1954: LIVING THE GOOD LIFE: How to Live Sanely and Simply in a Troubled World, by Helen and Scott Nearing.
• From the Preface: “During the deepest part of the Great Depression, in 1932, we moved from New York City to a farm in the Green Mountains [Vermont].”

1968: WHOLE EARTH CATALOG published.

1970: THE MOTHER EARTH NEWS was launched with a staff of two—John and Jane Shuttleworth. The back cover was an ad for a special issue titled How To Get Out of the City and Back to the Land.

1970: Stephen Gaskin led a group of hippies from San Francisco to Tennessee and founded The Farm. (Gaskin was a former English professor)

1971: The first issue of AN OLD-FASHIONED RECIPE BOOK, by Carla Emery, came out in pieces starting in 1971; the whole first edition appeared in 1974.
Carla died October 11, 2005 but her wisdom lives on in the lives of many.

2010: The government effectively outlaws small-scale animal husbandry by mandating that a microchip be placed in every chicken, and that rabbits receive frequent vaccinations and vet visits.


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