When I first had this idea, it was met with derision.

My neighbours thought I was a crazy foreigner, and heck they may be correct. You see I had all this spare land, that regardless of use, the government wants tax for it, what better use then than growing food to give away, and added bonus, getting some money from the government for using the land, win win.

Even with these positive gains, some people still thought I was a little crazy for not wanting to farm the land for profit. You see all I am is a big city boy in truth, the little I know about farming I could write (as stated before) on a postage stamp, and still have room to lick it and use it to post a letter.

A local farmer who supplies me with free grass mowing creatures every year, he calls them cows, decided he would help me by being my man in a tractor to plough the fields and seed them, he went one step further by getting another farmer to agree that when the time comes, he will harvest it for us.

He also talked to a company that has offered to separate the useful parts from the roots/stems etc, now you can see my lack of farming knowledge as I do not know the correct terminology, lets just call it processing, easier for me.

Note all of these people are doing this for FREE, as they like the idea, not the money.

Cooperation.

So I started off with a seemingly crazy idea of giving food away for free, and it has grown, and grown so much that every part of the project is covered by willing and able (qualified) farmers or people.

This for me goes to prove, that actions speak louder than words, and no idea is too far fetched, if you want it, make it happen.

Let take a look at my other gardens for sharing smaller food varieties than wheat/barley etc.

In there are cucumbers, to beans, parsley, carrots, herbs, raspberries and a whole load more.

That is full of carrots, tomatoes, peas, beans, onions and again loads more.*

The image above is a raspberry patch with some tomatoes also, and the apple orchards to the rear, I make cider also and give it away in the autumn, plus grow 6 different varieties of apples, from cooking to various eating varieties.

If I had listened to other people I would never have done this.

Never give up on your dreams just because other people say you can not do something, if we are to get a balance in this world, it is never going to be with fiat money or with crony capitalism. I know this, so I changed me, after I changed me, all these other people around me changed themselves, it has to start somewhere, I started it here. Maybe dig up that nice lawn you cut every 2 weeks to compete with John next door, and grow some food to share with John instead.

It started off with 2.3 acres, I would say we have used 3 or 4x that amount of our fields for this now.

Deliberators verdict = food is free, and it is time to share, cooperation not force is the key.

As always, have a superb week.

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