Category: Regenerative Enterprise Design
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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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#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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#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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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…
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Designing Land-Based Livelihoods that Actually Work with THISTLE
First a reminder of my background for those who don’t know me: I grew up in a conventional farming situation with acres in commodity crops, a market garden (which I helped run for a while,) agritourism ventures like pumpkins, corn mazes, and Christmas trees, a wood lot, and a general self-sufficiency lifestyle. I’ve gone on…
Growing FREE (Financially Resilient and Economically Empowered) 