If I had to pick a place that this began for me I would point to the Athens Tour De Farm. It helped in changing my perspective on food growing and sustainable living. One farmer suggested that whoever controls your food supply can control you. Which seems to make sense. If I want to take more control of my life then, it would seem a good place to start would be by taking control of my food supply.
After reading Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply By Vandana Shiva I was awakened to the reality that large corporations are trying to take control of the food we eat. As an activist I knew that something had to be done, but what does one person do to alter the course of this juggernaut of corporate control? Well, after talking with folks like Dr. Robert Rhoades, and Susannah Chapman of the Southern Seed Legacy and the Agrarian Connections Farm I realized that saving the biodiversity of plant life from being taken over and homogenized by the likes of Monsanto starts with saving seeds. So I attended the Southern seed Legacy's Old Time Seed Swap, planted some seeds, and will try my hand at preserving some heirloom plant varieties and thus strike a blow to the corporations in their attempt to takeover my food supply.
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Hi James. I've been without internet for several weeks and am finally back online. I appreciated your blog visit and comment and wanted to visit you back.
I read through your posts, very interesting. I agree wholeheartedly with your motives. Getting started certainly has its ups and downs though! Congratulations on making a beginning.
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