I am not rich, as in rich enough to buy anything I want to buy.
I am 60 years old, so it is to late to make a great change now, I missed the big Marijuana stock rage, the Bitcoin swing, the Gamestop thingy too.
I am lucky, my father bought land, paid it off & left it to his children, I have the land & that is a big start.
But people have raised 90% of what they eat on just an quarter of an
acre, other on an acre.
My biggest problem is
perennial weeds & keeping them at bay, the snake in my Eden.
As corny as it may sound, we all
should bloom where we are planted, start small & learn as you go.
Saving seeds is great, but we should learn other means of Propagation, grafting can give you five different varities on one
apple tree & stretch out your season.
Youtube & garden sites like this one are great, I do not need a lot of books .
The last book I bought was"Polyface Designs" byJoel Salatin, it is a guide for scalable farming infrastructure.
Joel is a man of his word, he will not ship foods across country, he says find someone like him in your area, shop local.
They do deliver with in an eight hour round trip, but he has told people how to for free when they visit the farm, he also has classes & intermships.
We have a problem with the lost of
native insect pollinators, yet on Polyfave farms, all eight native bumble
bees are on his 400 plus acres.
They all are not found on the neighboring farms, the other farms
spray for pest & kill the
bees too.