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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

Thanks, Sage. I have all but the last. How could I have forgotten the  
Foxfire books? (Old brain) And Mollison and Holmgren are heros who  
lit a fire in me to always seek ways to close the loop and make every  
part of my homestead design do double or triple duty.

I have added your suggestions to the list.


On Dec 20, 2007, at 10:00 AM, <eureka AT hctc.net> wrote:

> 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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