From: Joe and Ellen Hecksel <jhecksel@voyager.net>
To: mrtejas@lycos.com, North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Cc:
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Re: Changing Jobs
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 18:50:39 -0400
I agree with the fluffy bunny.
Let me add that I think growing fruit is a nice counterbalance to a
"normal" job. It can be an anchor when other things are going insane.
Having many activities smooth out lifes injustices. It is rare when
*everything* goes into the septic tank at the same time.
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I once read that it was the women in primative societies who, day in and
day out, brought home most of the calories. Every day they would pick a
few handfuls of seeds, a pouch of berries, and a cluster of tubers.
The guys, on the other hand, would often go for weeks without bringing
home any meat (read; protein and fat). But let me tell you, it was a
heck of a party when they downed a mastodon.
I have seen several families treat the day-job and the home-grown food
as the day-to-day way of living. This is analogous to the women
gathering seeds, nuts, berries.
Then, they have a little enterprise on the side that was their
mad-money. One guy sold seed nuts. He sold enough seed nuts in a good
year to buy his wife a new car. I suppose others might use the money to
travel. The enterprise was like the guys stalking the mastodon.
I think this is a pretty sane way of approaching things.
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-Joe Hecksel
My personal website: http://my.voyager.net/~jhecksel