We the Sheeple

“The truth is, you’re the weak, and I’m the tyranny of evil men. But I’m tryin’, Ringo. I’m trying real hard to be the shepherd.”
~ Jules Winnfield, Pulp Fiction.
WORDS: Bruce Ray Riggs, Kurt Kallenbach and Tommie Sassard.
Calling all sheep and shepherds. It may not have escaped your attention that a growing number of people in [...]

Windowfarm “DIY Hydro” Project Inspires Thousands

Hydroponics = expensive? Think again! Last year two Brooklyn-based urban gardeners, Britta Riley and Maya Nayak, created a blueprint for a vertical hydroponics system that costs just $30. The plants grow in recycled plastic bottles and the system uses just a few extra components.
Riley and Nayak were so happy with the results that they decided [...]

The International Plight Of Salmon – Our Collective Responsibility

When I was growing up my extended family used to spend Christmas at the house of my grandfather in northern England. It was a time when the whole clan would come together to eat, drink and generally catch up. As part of the get-together my grandfather always laid on a special treat — a smoked [...]

The Sky High Greenhouse Project

Manhattan parents, Manuela Zamora and Sidsel Robards, were deeply inspired when they visited the nearby Science Barge project—a floating urban farm that uses renewable energy and rainwater capture to grow tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, strawberries, eggplant, beans and herbs with zero net carbon emissions, zero chemical pesticides, and zero runoff. As a result they were determined [...]

Human Farming: The Story of Our Enslavement

As the old saying goes, the beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper names. We cannot substantially improve the world until we understand what the world actually is.
The world looks like a map of countries, governments and cultures, a jigsaw puzzle of various tribes in various states of development. There are better [...]

2011 – The Year of America’s Greatest Crisis: Food

Chocolate bar (1.55 oz) – $15.50
One ear of corn – $11.43
24 oz loaf of wheat bread – $23.05
32 oz sugar – $62.21
32 fl oz soy milk – $24.31
64 fl oz orange juice – $45.71

Learning about hyperinflation before it actually happens – priceless.

In 2011, many Americans could learn that, [...]

Monopoly Money

Money isn’t a bad thing. You’ve got to admit—it’s pretty damn useful stuff. Money was invented as a portable means of exchange and value. Fundamentally it helps us to overcome the limitations of direct barter. Put another way, money allows the butcher to do business with the knife seller, even if the latter is a [...]

A Brief History Of NOT Doing What You’re Told

WORDS: Veronica: of the Chapman family (as commonly called)
I wrote an essay explaining (to a greater or lesser extent) how we came to be Doing What We Are Told. A short summary of the points are:
1. Most of what We Are Told To Do stems either directly or indirectly from the machinations of PSYCHOPATHS.
2. This arrives in [...]

A Brief History Of Doing What You’re Told

Words: Veronica: of the Chapman family (as commonly called)
Hello. I’m Veronica. That’s not Me. It’s just what I’m ‘commonly called’. It’s the sound I respond to, when someone uses it to get my attention, or when I see it written. But I’m not a sound in the air, nor am I marks on a piece [...]

What Does Peak Oil Have To Do With Urban Gardening?

What does peak oil have to do with you or urban gardening? A whole lot, it turns out. And we’re not talking about the tomorrow that never comes. This is happening right now.
Take a look at this graph. It wasn’t drawn by “gloom-and-doomers.” Neither was it devised by Communists or Socialists or Nazis or employees [...]