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Living FREEDOM! / Re: Got any advice for living the dream life?
« on: July 05, 2016, 01:23:11 AM »
Well, this is how my husband and I are living our developing "dream" life. It's not perfect, but we're getting better. We live in Georgia with 3 beautiful children. Currently, my husband is Active Duty Military (Army) set to retire this year after serving 20 years. Can't wait for him to be out! For the past 3 years, my husband and I have been traveling through the rabbit hole of an alternative lifestyle that (in my opinion) isn't all that different than how people used to live in this country. And I feel like we've been playing "catch up" the whole time. Like we should have known this a long time ago. We first began by asking ourselves a simple question: What is the difference between pasteurized and raw milk other than the obvious (pasteurization kills BAD bacteria (and everything else)). It was hard finding raw milk at that time. Then I learned about CAFOs and became vegetarian for awhile. I learned a lot and shared that information with my family. That question sparked a journey into food security. After that it lead us to buy a house (we were in government housing at the time with a small patch of grass that was regularly sprayed and mowed courtesy of the government), and we first started a garden, eventually threw in some hens, bred meat rabbits, meat chickens, and now have two piggies. We found out that we prefer rabbit and turtle over chicken! Who knew?!We have 1 1/2 acres and a lot can be done on just one acre of land. I would LOVE 10 or 15 acres, but 1 1/2 was all we could afford. We watched countless hours of youtube videos before we started doing any of this. Until we finally got the guts to DO IT. It was hard... like learning any new skill. Anyway, we are trying to learn how to grow/raise/hunt/gather our own food. Food security lead us to question laws that protect big business that regularly poison our food system that is very centralized (Big Ag, etc.). And when I read about the people in Denton, Tx that decided to ban fracking in their community and then the federal government put a ban on banning fracking... that's when I REALLY started to worry about my children's future when they become independent adults. What kind of crazy f*cking society are they going to live in? They are living in a pretty bizarre one now, but geesh.... 10-15 years from now?? So, I stumbled upon this website a few days ago and I listened to Freedom!. Before this website, it was Richard Grove ,from Tragedy and Hope, that opened my eyes to government corruption and revealed my indoctrination that I went through in public school (this discovery set me on the path to homeschool my children... what liberation and freedom!). And it was Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, that led me to question routine vaccinations. The discovery of Mike Adams led me to one of Adam's youtube videos. And wow! All the dots seem to be connecting. I can see a big narrative unfolding and it's exciting and scary for me. And I am so excited that I'm not crazy for doing the things my family and I now do. I have no idea where I am going with this... it's late, but anywho... my advice is that you start small, but most of all... just start.