I think it is also illegal to ask these question in regards to housing.
To be considered for the property please share three paragraphs about
1) your experience and interest in construction
2) your interest and experience in agriculture
3) your thoughts about climate insecurity and your ideas to build resilience.
1. I have experience through going to art school and building my own frames for screen printing with a wood shop. I have experience with plumbing and car mechanics through growing up poor and needing to figure things out. I am mechanically inclined though I honestly lack on sight construction skills I do not know how to construct or read blueprints. I have hung doors and helped put in some water pipes into friend’s houses. I am not a contractor or a construction worker, but I am a problem solver I also think it is fun to build things. I have assembled and rehabbed many old looms that are most built with Ash a hardwood. I know a little bit and have a lot of room for growth.
2. I grew up in southern Illinois with a garden that my Mom planted every year. As a children we would go a pick the vegetable for dinner. So I have always know that a pickle is a cucumber because my family fermented, juice and canned. My parents bought a plot of land with a small house on it and created their catholic hippy utopia. All 11 of us were vegetarian for a while and we all knew about alternative medicine and health practices. I was not raised with health insurance. My dad sought out local honey and the same juicer on your counter in the house I also own. (Champion)
My knowledge is based more in gardening than agriculture. Small scale. I have no idea how a tractor works nor do I think mono-cropping is a good idea. I know people that have farms in the Midwest both organic urban farm and crazy dairy farms for corporate. The human experience is a hard one and people try the best they can at good in the ways they know how. My friends husband the Dairy farmer still worries about his cows and loves them but I think the practice is wrong and the supply and demand chains have a gross corporate structure. The structure is gross not the individual.
I can plant and grow things and I can fail and try again the next year in a different spot with more or less sun.
As an adult I have gardened for the past 5 years as access to land has only been available at that time. I planted two fruit trees a sour cherry and an apricot from dwarf trees. I planted carrots, turnips, tomatoes of all sorts, radishes, zucchini, okra, greens of all sorts my favorite being mustard.I can plant and grow things and I can fail and try again the next year in a different spot with more or less sun. I can figure out which plants like each other and which one deter witch bugs from eating them. I know there are smarter better ways to plant and grow food that is both sustainable and beautiful. I love the idea of an edible landscape. Because blueberry bushes are very attractive plants.
I will attempt to address my ideas or climate change and food insecurity: Climate change is directed and exactly cause by humans on this planet. Climate change make many things horrible. Weather patterns have become more unpredictable hence more forest fires in southern OR/Northern CA. More tornadoes in the midwest Joplin MO. More scary Hurricanes for anyone living by an ocean and the earth is about 75% water.. It doesn’t matter where you live climate change affects everyone by changing food grow seasons which impacts markets and humans food needs as well as their pocket books. It is all fantastically connected.
I don't know what the global solution looks like though global action is what is needed. China is going through their industrial revolution which equals tons of pollution. The United states did the same nasty thing. There is a trash dump on fire just north of St. Louis that is heading towards Nuclear waste. People that bought houses there were not told about the nuclear waste that is being spread via waterways and I think is most likely in the MIssissippi. Also, I have notice that the worst climate crime are always made where the poorest people live. it is a big socio-economic puzzle that leads to me concluding that much of the worlds problems were instinctually formed through greed.
Well, that is about all the doom and gloom I care to share on that subject: Fixing the problem is beyond me as an individual. I do not have enough idealism to believe that I personally will make much of a difference to the earth or humanity as a whole. But I do believe in small community and creating your own personal paradise and fighting for what is right. I have been to so many protest on the streets of St. Louis I could not even count them all. Ashland is a much different place than I am used to but I would love to continue to preserve the fights that have already been won for agriculture in this area. Climate insecurity is something of our generation We will need to be ever adaptive in order to cope with the on going changes.
PS Sorry for the novel. I clearly have too much time on my hands
Bridget
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