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Farmer Roy's Random Thoughts - I never said it was easy.
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<blockquote data-quote="New Puritan" data-source="post: 5300138" data-attributes="member: 39018"><p>On a similar note, and especially with reference to [USER=19130]@unlacedgecko[/USER] 's comment, has anyone read "<a href="http://www.makingsmallfarmswork.info/#" target="_blank">Making Small Farms Work</a>" by Richard Perkins? It's an interesting read but there are a few things which don't quite add up to me, along the lines of how does he find time for everything? I suspect he gets a fair bit of free labour coming in too.</p><p></p><p>I've been interested in permaculture for a long time, but the one thing that has always struck me about it is that it appears to be a pyramid scheme, with the only people ever making a living out of it doing so by teaching others how to make a living out of it. If you combine that with a working farm, you get loads of your labour done for free (or you actually get paid by people to do it) while you teach them. In some ways its clever, but I wouldn't say it was properly sustainable if it needs huge quantities of unpaid work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="New Puritan, post: 5300138, member: 39018"] On a similar note, and especially with reference to [USER=19130]@unlacedgecko[/USER] 's comment, has anyone read "[URL='http://www.makingsmallfarmswork.info/#']Making Small Farms Work[/URL]" by Richard Perkins? It's an interesting read but there are a few things which don't quite add up to me, along the lines of how does he find time for everything? I suspect he gets a fair bit of free labour coming in too. I've been interested in permaculture for a long time, but the one thing that has always struck me about it is that it appears to be a pyramid scheme, with the only people ever making a living out of it doing so by teaching others how to make a living out of it. If you combine that with a working farm, you get loads of your labour done for free (or you actually get paid by people to do it) while you teach them. In some ways its clever, but I wouldn't say it was properly sustainable if it needs huge quantities of unpaid work. [/QUOTE]
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