How to Farm

Information gathered from: Hannah the door greeter at Walmart
Thanks Hannah!

Okay so here's something fun to think about. Hannah used to live on a farm as a little girl back in the 50's and she was more than happy to tell me how everything worked at her farm because she loved those days so much. An interesting tidbit was that they never had to lock their doors back then. Remember this is how they did it and there are probably different ways that use less energy or cost less.

But anyways here's a list of how to do things.

Veggies/fruits: Freeze strawberries, freeze most vegetables, zuccini freeze sometimes and you can make zuccini bread, water melons are not freezable but unknown if they last. Tomatoes were grown on a tree branch in the ground with a string wrapped all the way up and around the twig and stem.
How to grow: They had a garden about the size of a football field which is about an acre. All they did was weed it(I would think a weed auger would work) and the soil in Pennsylvania is moist so they rarely watered it. And they never had to worry about bugs(maybe the bugs had enough to eat and couldn't eat it all)
Canning: For spagetti sauce they would make a canning jar of it uncooked and then put them all into an over sized pressure cooker for 30 minutes submerged in water with the surface of the water right below the cap of the jar. Then when done it would automatically be vacuum sealed and tap the button to see for sure. These could be stored on the shelf without refrigeration.
Jars of jelly: They would cook down the fruit and corn syrup and then when done they would pour melted wax over the top to seal it (wax sticks were purchased) and then put the lid on and these could be stored on the shelf without refrigeration.
Butter: They would churn their own butter which is just made of 100% cream and then you add a yellow butter making ball(She didn't know the exact name of it but it might have been bacteria). Then churn it(she said a blender would possibly work) Then separate the buttermilk off of the top and this butter is the best tasting kind ever and people will come to buy it from all around.
Pies: They have lots of blueberries up in Pennsylvania so she would make blue berry pies all the time and enjoyed that a lot. And blueberries you can freeze or make jam out of also.
Pets: She would have more fun with pets than anyone and had guinea pigs that would eat any vegetables. Not to mention her pig and many other animals.
Horses: They would bale hay for the horses while the grass was green, and they would store it in the barn for the winter, and all the horses need to survive is a trough of water and salt cubes and hay.
Cows: They would let the cows go out to pasture at night and feed themselves and would milk them at 3 in the morning and at another time of day also. She would take her horse out at night to find the cows and milk them. They also had lots of head of cattle so had all of the cow meat they could eat and it takes a lot of work to butcher it.
Pigs: They had only a few pigs that when they got fat enough they would eat them. And she kept one of the pigs as a pet which would wait for her when she got off the bus from school, but in the end her father killed the pig for food and she didn't eat pig for the longest time because she was so upset. All the pigs eat is table scraps. An interesting bit of info is that in Hawaii they used to have luau's every Sunday and have a roast pig.
Chickens: They had hundreds of chickens which would lay about 3 eggs a day each, and they would buy chicken feed from the store to make sure that the chickens would get fed because they always sold the eggs. The chicken feed was just corn and seeds. You also need one male rooster for them to produce eggs.
Ducks: Duck eggs are well known to be tastier than chicken eggs. All they did was have a pond and feed the ducks and the ducks would know that it was home and would never leave. The ducks would only lay about 3-4 eggs/week if you were lucky, but they were gathered by knowing where the eggs were by going out at night and seeing where the ducks were sleeping. They also bought a special breed of duck that produces more eggs.
Deer meat: They would go out hunting once a year with a group of 12 people or more and they would butcher the meat at home themselves, and cut down to the bone for no bones in the meat, and would get the best cuts of meat their own way, because the butchers would do a bad job of it. And they would put it all into the freezer. But she also said that smoking could be done but they never did that. Free deer meat, other than labor involved in butchering it and hunting.

This was back when life was good and the world was full of opportunity and hopefully those days aren't totally gone. I'm going to go out and try to buy some land now!

Rules

Being dependent on others means that you have to follow any rules that they make. Independence is always a good thing but may be looked on as craziness in modern society. People have started living in cities and forgetting how to provide for themselves.
Animals are completely independent so they don't need to follow any rules. If they kill there offspring, nobody cares, or even if they kill and eat their own species nobody cares.
Some democratic and capitalist societies are better than the chaotic anarchy that animals live in.
But in other socialist, and dictating, and communist societies, are worse off than living as an animal because there is absolutely no freedom or independence whatsoever. Look to a previous post on this subject that was done better: "Control"

There are good rules and bad rules. You should never rob others or kill others are good rules to follow. But these rules should be a given and you shouldn't have to be reminded to follow them. But some bad rules are ones like making responsible gun ownership illegal. In other words no more right to bear arms.

Rules only work if they are enforceable. You can always forge the purchase price of a new car that you're buying on the title, to pay less taxes. You can fake your income by having under the table cash payment. You can put your money in a safe deposit box before you die, in order to not pay a death tax and for your kids to get all of it. And they will never check your house under your pillow every night to know if you actually do have a loaded firearm for your own protection(if a new gun law was enacted).
Just about any law that law enforcement doesn't have evidence of you breaking is an unenforceable law.

The burning man movement that takes place every year is all about trading stuff through bardering, under the table, to not have to pay taxes.

In Canada they started taxing cigarettes to make more revenue, and it worked. So they started taxing it some more and they made more revenue. And since they were even greedier they started taxing it some more, but then the revenue started going down. "How could the revenue be going down?" They asked. Well it turned out that people started buying and selling cigarettes on the black market.
And the Fuzzy Philosophical equations are:
Personal Interpretation = Rules²
Enforceable Rules = (+)Evidence
Bad Evidence = Forged/Lost
Good/ Bad = Human Invention
Bad x Created = Exists
Bad x Not Created = Doesn't Exist
Certainty = Death + Taxes(joke:')
Dependence = rules
Independence = no rules

Do Wild Animals Live A Better Life Than You?

Never allow the life you lead to be less enjoyable or trouble free than an animals life is. In other words always lead a better life than an animal leads.

• When it comes to food, animals always have food unless it's the dry season in Africa. As shown by the fact that they are alive.
  
• When it comes to water, animals always have some, as shown by the fact that they are alive. And that there is infinite, free, clean, water from the sky.
  
• When it comes to work, animals only have to feed themselves and there offspring and clean themselves. That's it.
  
• When it comes to shelter, animals have none, unless they live in caves, or other dry places. But I doubt that they mind the weather because their bodies have been adapted for rain protection and cold protection. And I guess since animals don't have clothes, that being in the rain for them, is like being in the shower for us. And it may even be fun to live out in the real world's weather instead of in the same old boring living room watching reruns every day. The house that we live in, which is only shelter, and warmth, and a place to hoard all of our worthless collectibles, and a place for indoor bathrooms, is one of the highest monthly costs that you will ever pay. Does it really make sense to pay this much, when you can meet all of these necessities on any piece of land with no investment capital all in 1 weeks worth of research and preparation and work. It's just the judgment of other people that we fear. Because if there are so many people living the way that modern society does, then they can't possibly all be wrong. But from a different point of view, there are just as many animals out there that don't live the same way that society does, and they seem to be happy, and doing just fine.
  
• When it comes to modern conveniences, ask yourself if they are actually conveniences. If this so called modern convenience requires a monthly bill, ask yourself if the inconvenience of a monthly bill outweighs the convenience of what you're paying the monthly bill for.
• For entertainment, the TV is always just reruns and fictional stories that have no meaning in reality. Cable has to be paid for every month. And to keep the company growing they plan on increasing the monthly bill, one way or another.
  
• As for clothes, animals have none but with modern technology clothes are cheap, so this isn't hard to acquire.

A good animal to try to beat when it comes to quality of lifestyle, is the giraffe. They live one of the calmest easiest and most rewarding lives. They get all the food that they want from the tops of trees, that no other animal can reach, and even eat prickly plants. They hardly ever need to worry about predators because they can run fast and can kill a lion with one swing of their hoof. They get most of the water that they need from the plant life that they eat, but have been known to drink water if they happen upon a water source. They don't require very much sleep at all, but do sleep standing up. And they live in a fun area where the rain is enjoyable to be in when it comes once a year in the rainy season. There is never war in their world, and one giraffe killing another is so rare that it would be like winning the lottery. And even if you want to let out some emotion there is no other people judging you, or doing things to you. Animal arguments never have any legal consequences afterwards. But mostly there is no reason to be angry or complain about anything when you're a giraffe. The only end to happiness is at the end of their life, but until then there is nothing to worry about and no obligations to speak of. Also there are no appointments to keep. So no need for a watch at all (What?!?!? Is that even possible?)(YES!)
If you can beat this carefree of a lifestyle, then you would now be one of the happiest people on earth.