Add these up: supply line interruptions, most fertilizer and 30% of world’s wheat no longer coming from Russia, plus massive inflation affecting food and transport of food, and what do you have?

Well, for one thing, we have fewer processed, glyphosated, pesticided, GMO foods, i.e., fewer fake foods produced through Big Ag that render us sullen, addicted, and obese: three big plusses.

And actually, what we have, once we stop complaining and hoarding and instead get our very souls activated, is a revolution in our way of life. We know what it is already; it’s been coming for years: support local food 100%. This includes supporting local farmers through CSA’s and farmers’ markets, a new focus on organics, permaculture, seed and tool sharing, farm-to-table restaurants, local food co-ops, gardens replacing lawns for both homes and institutions, even parks, school yards, and . . . dearest to my heart, something we’re demonstrating as a tiny template in Green Acres Permaculture Village, this, already practiced elsewhere . . .

And, if you have no place to grow food except an apartment or condo patio, see how my inventor son Colin’s Garden Tower Project can help. Medical intuitive, astrologer, and blogger Laura Bruno, who also sports a wondrous “green thumb,” in this post on her garden, shows how she utilizes her Garden Tower in a beautiful, delicious manner, despite pesky critters trying to get in.

Just imagine: meeting with all your nearby neighbors, to decide which foods of your mutually envisioned cornucopia each of you will grow, and exchange with others — and, when necessary, calling upon each others’ helpful skills and/or tools. For example here, each year we give one of our garden beds to a neighbor across the street, as well as share with them our roomy street front for chip drop loads. Another neighbor is going to give us space to grow our tomatoes in the back of their yard. I’ve been handing them produce for years, and they’ve been handing me delicious Armenian borscht, among other delectables. Last year, our greenhouse (which used to be a garage) was utilized by other urban farmers in town to start their seeds, since our greenhouse has  enough room for them, too.

Get the picture? This could be a good time, as we learn to live, as far as possible, below money.

Money does not make the world go round. Nor is money the “bottom line.”

The bottom line is NATURE and that includes our own precious bodies, each a quivering antenna linking Earth below to Heavens above.

Our “all-too-human” energy, pulled in from both Above and Below to circulate through and radiate from our willing, open hearts, when expressed productively and cooperatively, makes our beautiful planet grow round.

See the last five weekly (Sunday) posts on our Green Acres Permaculture Village site, where through photos we indicate how we get our garden going each spring, starting with cleaning, sharpening, oiling tools, disinfecting walls, trays and pots, then only then mixing substances needed for soil to start seeds.

We’re also on facebook and Instagram.

And see our site in the Foundation for Intentional Communities website for the larger context. The ic.org site might give YOU ideas as to how to begin your own intentional community right where you live, at your own home with neighbors. It’s a lot more fun when we grow food together.

Here we are, back in January, cleaning, sharpening, and oiling tools.

Seedlings as of this afternoon, March 12, an unusually cold day for this time of year. Tomorrow temps much warmer.