I don't think I will be good at saving money... not really. I had enough, and only bought 99-cent books, one was only 49-cents! :-) The documentaries were the overspend, but they were only $1.99 each. :-(
URBAN FARMERS was the first one I wanted to watch. Rural people have more options than big city people, especially the poor. This film was about New York City's food issues... food deserts, no land for farming, farmer's markets, CSA's, and whatever else they have there. One thing I discovered in watching the film is the distance they have to go for farm products. The CSA speaker said they get food from a 250-mile radius. I was trying to decide how to apply that information to Oregon, and remembering Los Angeles issues.
Someone was smart enough to save the last piece of farmland relatively close to the main city. I think that was Queens County Farm. It's 47 whole acres. Since it's a county property now, they do school field trips and more.
One other really interesting part for me was the online site Cornell University put together to connect the farmers and the people who want their products. I still have to find it online and see what it is doing these days, but the idea sounded wonderful. I am all for LOCAL emphasis. I have been trying to advocate for emergency planning to know what food sources are around their region so they know where to go for food in a crisis. That kind of website would be really good for everyone to think about establishing.
I thought they would have some roof gardens because the main movie photo shows green on top of roofs, but they didn't show any. The CSA's are helping provide a lot of good food for the city people and helping the farmer's survive. The Farmer's Markets are growing. One neighborhood farm project was on temporary space, I think. That is a real problem in developing food sources in places that are just not able to be developed at the time. They work so hard and then they get destroyed by the owner of the properties.
A SIMPLER WAY was filmed by someone I support (slightly) at PATREON right now... I think. I haven't found out for sure yet because he hasn't answered my messages. I suppose he must be busy if he's doing films like the two I have seen, this one and one called LIVING THE CHANGE, also set in Australia. I have decided he must live there. His name is Jordan Osmond. I wonder if he will be able to build a Patreon page like a Kickstarter page... this will be interesting to watch, for now.
I checked for the website and found a link to watch it free (as of tonight...). See what you think of young people trying to make a community from not much.
Here's my Earth Day offering for this post. I didn't make a new post. On social media I shared the three graphics I have on Earth Day issues. I still remember my previous effort to share a Canva creation here... it was way too big. I will have to do more of the size above... right?!
I spent a lot of time today looking through some of the Kindle books I bought. Some classics like As A Man Thinketh and The Greatest Secret. Ones on publishing books, social media marketing, building email lists, selling, etc. I am trying to decide what kind of books I want to publish, and how to do it... with my current situation. One comment in a book I was browsing today was that no one has time to read anymore... so the online books seem to be very short. He has a formula. :-) I am still checking it out. Amazon has a "short reads" section and the limit is 100 pages I think. That was my first book goal... to do a short read.
I think I am done for tonight.
Until next time,
May GOD help us all to be better people,
and to reach the goals He has put in our hearts to accomplish.
May He protect us from harms we cannot overcome,
and help us to find our way through the valleys we must go through.
In Christ,
Deb Martin
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