Jeremy VanGelder

And two more, with a shoutout to thomas rubino.

Time for a few more.

This farmer has 5 acres of you-pick. 3 acres of blackberries, 2 acres of annual vegetables. She charges a $5 entry fee, then charges per-pound of produce. Tickets are limited to the amount of produce that is available. They almost always sell out.

Hi Tucker, how has the hugel done this year?

For me it is simply a matter of time. If I made it a priority I would surely have one in short order.

Those look really cool, Vadim! It would be handy to have those.

paul wheaton wrote:I had huge hopes that we would embrace the scenario I laid out, and then explore permaculture solutions.  

With a humble home and a huge garden ...

  - maybe it doesn't matter if you lose your job

  - maybe you have a MASSIVE advantage

  - maybe all this stuff becomes interesting rather than scary

  - is better than living in the city with a lot of money ...  which will drain away

  - maybe you can share your bounty with friends

I wonder what projects people have been able to complete when they haven't had a workee job? I find it easier to contemplate big life changes when I can compare them to similar ones in my past. So here is a list of some of mine:

Built a 30x80 garden with a 7.5' tall fence
Changed the timing belt in my car (twice)
Swapped an engine in a Ford Ranger
Mowed a neighbor's field so that drivers could see around the corner.

Another aspect. At college these days the students teach each other how to use AI. The goal is to get AI to do all the work without it looking like AI did all the work. Which will probably be valuable skill. I remember earlier days when we all used wikipedia even though we weren't supposed to. "Cite scholarly sources." So we cited wikipedia's sources.

And though the administrators make all kinds of threats against "cheaters" they don't really follow through. After all, the students are the customers.

I work in an industry that is tied to the housing market. So I have been laid off a number of times. And whenever that happens I have been able to move a bunch of projects forward. I don't have any debt, so that has been a big help. And I live in a great family village with some land to work.

Last time I was laid off I built our big deer-proof garden fence. That garden produces a lot of our food now. I'm not retired and Gerty. I have a job. But I have eggs in both baskets.