Deep Water Prompt #3286
We raise our cockatrices with care, but eat them before they get too big. As a child I was allowed to save just one, free to grow to it’s proper size, guard the farm and all of our lives.
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launching a zine I’ve been dying to make! Submission link: https://forms.gle/o1ZH7X9KQAyKE2Lx8
I STRONGLY encourage those who are disabled, BIPOC, LGBTQ, or members of other marginalized groups to submit! I hugely want to emphasize diverse backgrounds and the things that work for us as opposed to mainstream farm communities.
the finished zine will be available for free online, and - fingers crossed I can make it happen - physical copies will be available to purchase with all funds being donated to Saving Gray Fox Farm (link to GFM!)
Wanna help further? Have experience formatting zines or other documents? shoot me a message to volunteer to help with reviewing and formatting submissions!
Let me know if you have any questions!
[image text: The New Farm Journal Zine, Looking for Submissions
A modern answer to historical farm periodicals prioritizing community, responsible land stewardship, anti-colonialism, and anti-capitalism.
Seeking:
-Information articles & how-to’s / DIYs (the main focus!)
-Insightful anecdotes
-Illustrations (or other art)
Potential topic suggestions: Livestock, food crops, native wildlife, hunting / trapping / fishing, foraging, recipes, homesteading skills, urban farming, rural community building, local food systems (and so much more!)
Submissions due June 1.]
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Aside from needing a new roof, and being a fixer upper, my first thought was that this 2002 home in Berkeley, West Virginia, is the perfect witches house, but it's also a very unique home. There are 3 levels, but the description says 0 bds. It's so open that there are spaces for beds, but not actual rooms. It does have 2ba. and 7.40 acres of land for $325K. The rural property is on the Virginia border so apparently commuting there to work would be easy.
At the entrance, 2 large tree trunks hold up the roof and the path is paved with colorful tiles. The 2 front tiles say "Welcome."
As soon as you walk in, you can see the open concept. The ceiling spreads out from the center fireplace and the floorboards are in a square pattern surrounding it.
The main floor can be set up in many different ways.
It's quite spacious.
There's also a bath and walk-in closet.
This is the second level. It goes around and is open in the middle.
It's pretty big up here- there's a piano in the corner on the right.
A large deck goes around the house on the 2nd level.
Behind the fireplace on the main floor are stairs to a lower level.
The kitchen is down on this level.
This area with the shelving would make a nice bedroom or den.
The area next to it also looks like it could potentially be a bedroom, also.
Lots of space down here.
There's also a bathroom and laundry.
There's storage.
The description says "bring all the animals." Looks like a couple of kennels there.
Over 7 acres can certainly be a farm and are under the Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program.
There are 2 loafing sheds (a place for horses and other livestock to take shelter from harsh weather) that need repair.
There are also several fenced in areas.
Well, it's a large farm property with a most unusual farm house.
It certainly has character.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2822-Mauzy-Rd-Berkeley-Springs-WV-25411/2052987024_zpid/
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… …
… …tractor pirates?
TRACTOR PIRATES!!!
They have spent years making it so that farmers couldn't work on their own tractors. And had to take it to a John Deere certified factory technician. …it's a goddamn tractor for God's sake. How big do you bastards really think the profit margin is on a farm? Fuckers.
Yeah, I'm on the Prairie Pirates side on this one. Fuck Big Green.
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Diverse, well-integrated farms like coltura promiscua support significantly more native biodiversity than modern monocultures. Source: BUNDESAMT, F. U., & LANDSCHAFT, W. U. (1997). Umwelt in der Schweiz 1997. Berna, Buwal.
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Text: My mother hands me three cicada husks. Once buried, each will release a hundred ghosts, their terrible buzzing more than loud enough to drown out any noise about to come from our farm.
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Dairy Farms of Sonoma County, Northern California, 2017 - by Nathan Wirth (1966), American
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