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A Food Forest Solution
I'd been a professional musician in the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra for 29 years, when in 2004 I read Richard Heinberg's Peak Oil book. With great difficulty, I persuaded my husband, (who still doesn't believe in PO) to sell our nice family home in order to buy some land to grow our own food on and become as self-sufficient as possible - a daunting prosect for a middle-aged woman city-born and bred with no practical skills or knowledge whatsoever; the idea uppermost in my mind at the time was to provide a safe-haven for my two children. I guess this is still a major priority with me, but living and working on the land, planting trees and restoring soil, meeting and working with wonderful neighbours and seeing my 'food forest' of 500 irrigated fruit and nut trees on 15 acres of warm-temperate climate on good Gippsland soil, evolve and grow, has been the most exciting and rewarding time of my life. I have never worked so hard or enjoyed myself so much.
I left the city permanently 2 years ago and could never return. I have read extensively and learnt so much about the things that really matter in life - community, values, collective work, ethics, the value of culture and tradition and the importance of belonging to a place, and much else besides. If life ends tomorrow I will be forever grateful that I had the opportunity to see just how good life can be - away from concrete prisons and the sickness of consumerism, greed, emptyness and loneliness that contemporary life has come to represent for millions of people world-wide.
I owe Richard and all like him a debt of gratitude and hope that someday, somewhere some little pockets of humanity will survive and live in harmony with the world around them.
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