Survival in Place is the same as making your life better

[Edgewise]

Hi everyone!
Im hoping to fill this area of the site out a bit. For me, long term survival means being prepared for anything that comes your way. This makes it more a lifestyle than a set of techniques. Long term survival is not just about what happens if society collapses or there is a long term food shortage. It is the same preparedness as "what if my we lose our job and can't afford the grocery store". The prep is the same. But its more even than that. It is about personal freedom. Freedom requires independence. We celebrate them on the same day for a reason. There is no freedom without independence and the more independence you have the more freedom you enjoy. This independence must also be supported by community. We are a social animal. Providing directly for your needs is a richer, simpler, more sustainable lifestyle when your independence is connected to many other folks who are on the path of independence as well.

I run three businesses. I am a micro-farmer. That business sells raw goods to my retail arm that value adds and sells finished products. That retail arm is the out reach for my education, consultation and design firm. This firm designs homesteads and farms to use things that are on site, usually waste streams, to help the site provide directly for the occupant's needs. This methods requires arranging the natural world for our benefit, rather than attacking the natural world for our benefit. Attacking the natural world is short term thinking. Nature always bats last. This was God's great design. We must learn to work with it if we are live moral and ethical lives.
My systems partner with life at every possible turn. I will be posting examples of these systems here in hopes that this will help someone else on their road of independence. A lifetime should suffice.