Author: Michael Hoag
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A Growing FREE PDC!
This is a package for those who want to join our Growing FREE Together program for building a regenerative livelihood, AND get their Permaculture Design Certificate while doing so. It includes: Your financial design and transformative adventures project will be your PDC project. You’ll end the course with a new financial roadmap, business plans if…
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The Top 5 WORST Ways to Build a Permaculture or FREE Life
So many of us out there simply want to spend our precious time here on earth doing something meaningful, regenerative, and positive for our communities. And—look around—this world sure needs us to do that work! And yet, that simple goal remains elusive for many of us, who end up stuck working for the same corporations…
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#5, Vegetable Farming—One of the 5 Worst Ways to Fund Your Permaculture or Homesteading Dreams
Well, there’s a good reason Permaculture founder Bill Mollison often said “the last thing any of us Permaculturists should be doing is any kind of farming!” Having grown up farming, spending most of my conscious 45 years around it, and working full time in the field over the last 20 years, I can say it…
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#4 – Livestock operations, the 4th worst way to fund your Permaculture or homesteading dreams
Again, this one can be a surprise, since recent years have seen small-scale livestock become a heavily promoted part of the “back to the land” lifestyle. But the reality is, looking at the numbers, livestock are virtually always an even worse economic decision than vegetable farming. Higher risk, greater opportunity costs, and even lower pay. …
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#3 – Landscaping businesses! The 3rd worst way to make a Permaculture living
Like farming, landscaping businesses come with some major barriers to overcome. First, the whole landscaping industry and all of its tools and services evolved specifically to use exploited labor and unsustainable materials to fight against healthy ecosystem development. To be blunt, landscaping is war on nature, and the only way it has ever made money…
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#2 – Online Courses on Permaculture, Gardening, and Farming are the #2 Worst Way to Make a Living with Permaculture
Most people will NOT make a living teaching Permaculture design courses, or other online courses for farming or gardening. But first, the truth is there HAVE been a few high-profile success stories. But virtually all the people who make a lot of money off of courses started by already being famous. Yes, there have been…
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#1 – Influencer businesses – trying to be an influencer or Youtube star is the #1 worst possible way to try to make a Permaculture or homesteading livelihood!
Since many of us start with these other top 5 ways to fail and end up in trouble, I understand why so many would fall for the get-rich-quick pitches of influencer businesses. I mean, a whole industry has developed around selling courses, books, and tools to help you get RICH RICH RICH as a sexy…
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Let’s build a DIY Green New Deal to support right livelihoods for a just and sustainable economy
Look around. Look at your community, look at the world… There’s so much good work we KNOW needs to be done. And there are so many good people who want to do it. And yet, most goes undone, because the system is rigged against people doing this regenerative work. Instead, our system is set up…
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FAQ: Can you Grow FREE without Money or Land?
In Growing FREE we lay out strategies for becoming Financially Resilient and Economically Empowered (FREE) that don’t require having $200K (or more) in the stock market or large family estate to live off of. Because these strategies don’t require big investments, they don’t require big incomes to be realistic. And the truth is, it doesn’t…
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Can You Make $50k/Year Doing Intensive Micro Vegetable Farming (SPIN?)
Make $50,000 on half an acre doing Small Plot INtensive farming? That’s the promise of SPIN farming, a microfarming business plan that’s become very popular in an economy that increasingly fails to provide good jobs, and a culture that’s failing to feed us good food and a healthy, happy lifestyle. And so many hope that SPIN…
Growing FREE (Financially Resilient and Economically Empowered) 