Plans

Spring is the time of new beginnings, fresh starts, everything seesm to come alive again in spring, everything is green, and it is perfect time to start thinking about plant. Yesterday I got a few wild edibles books from he library and went looking on the hill behind my house for some edibles, I didn't find anything, but this is a new start. For so long, my support of foraging and producing your own food has been purely theoretical and almost hypocritical, but know I can finally start to explore what is out there.

I've also started working on a garden in my back yard, nothing big this year, but I hope I can get a few good veggies to supplement my diet at the very least. Right now, half the yard is still grass, but that's on my list today, and I have got to finish planning where I am going to put everything. This year it's going to be a pretty ordinary vegetable garden, but this summer I want to learn about the native wild edibles here, and more about permaculture so I can do some really neat stuff next year.

So, this is the start, and I will probably be pretty post heavy this weekend, and I know probably know one is too interested to hear about all this, but I have to keep this record for myself, more or less.

My Journey so Far

Before I post what I am doing now, I should probably tell where I have came from. Last spring, a friend gave me the book Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, it's a great book, and it led me to read My Ishmael, the Story of B, and Beyond Civilization, also by Quinn. Those books were really the starting points for my journey, from there I found the Tribe of Anthropik and Jeff Vail's Theory of Power, those were my introductions to the anti-civ, simplicity blog-sphere. From there, I've read Radical Simplicity, which was a good practical guide, but David Abram's Spell of the Sensuous changed my viewpoint far more, I've learned a little bit about permaculture, and have started to explore the blog-sphere and have most recently begun to post on Ishthink. Recently, I have read Derrick Jensen's A Culture of Make Believe, which is a great book, if a bit long (about 600 pages), David Suziki's A Sacred Balance, and Coming Back to Life by Joanna Macy. Currently I have turned to more practical areas and am reading The Post Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook.

On the present, this blog is going to document my journey, and hopefully, help others you are in the same place.