Ep. 125 – How to Build Local Community Through Local Food – with Little Pine Farmer

Scott the Little Pine Farmer on Twitter is back with me and we are talking about his bakery and how he favors

“Why don’t you come down to this market or deliver to the boutique in the city? We want to feed our neighborhood first.”
Scott the Little Pine Farmer

It’s all about the goal:

“The overarching goal is to stay home, produce value, and have people bring us money.”

Reaching that goal through:

Bakery, focusing on sourdough.
Making relationships with the animal shelter. Selling bread in the animal shelter parking lot, which is a schools bus drop off.
Community compost program.
Dog sitting service.
Community pasture grazing – like Rent-a-Goat but in the neighborhood.

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Be the Gray Man and Build Alternative Systems

Choose the path of focusing on building new alternatives rather than fighting the behemoth. If you get to the point where you are driving tractors down to the state capitol – it is too late.

“I am of much more benefit to my community working here on the farm than sitting in a holding cell in the big city.”

Did you learn nothing from Covid?? Build alternative systems. Make alliances.

Grow Local. Sell Local.

Don’t ask for permission.

Be the Gray Man. If you ignore them, fade into the background, and do your thing – it’s most likely that they will not be paying attention to you.

Find the Remnant:

Go to dinner or drinks with people. Build local community.

Check out the Companion Planting Guide on All Garden Advice. Grow Your own Food. We can help you start. With tips and ideas on gardening, food forests, and permaculture.

GrowNutTrees.com

Elderberry cuttings are still available but Hurry before they come out of dormancy. Now have pecan seedlings and red mulberry seedlings. Order now at GrowNutTrees.com.

Buying from our Kansas homestead, with nut trees grown and adapted to the Midwest, will make them much more likely to be successful on your homestead or in your yard.

Highly recommend Joseph Lofthouse’s Landrace Gardening book:

Gear that I use and recommend: Meadow Creature Broadfork 14. I have used this to turn over sod for new Milpa garden beds, and even hand dug swales with it. Bulletproof.

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What I really liked:

The Backyard Forest Garden e-book
Agroforestry
Restoration Agriculture: Designing Your Perennial Farm presentation from Permaculture Voices by Mark Shepard
Permaculture Thorns, A Book About Trying to Build Permaculture Community, by Paul Wheaton.
Plus 2 books by Nicole Sauce.