{"id":842,"date":"2017-03-23T12:28:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T16:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harvestpartners.farm\/connect\/?p=842"},"modified":"2017-12-18T15:05:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T20:05:04","slug":"its-the-economy-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harvestpartners.farm\/connect\/2017\/03\/23\/its-the-economy-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s THE Economy, stupid!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Right. \u00a0THE Economy. \u00a0That one. \u00a0That monstrous, amorphous and difficult to control, yea difficult to\u00a0define<\/em>, entity within which we all live and move and, apparently, have our being. \u00a0Our fortunes, our very lives, if you listen to the news, depend upon IT. \u00a0If the economy is struggling, we’re ALL struggling and if the economy is growing, we’re all (it is supposed) doing just swell!<\/p>\n

Well, to be quite blunt, we’re tired of it. \u00a0We’d like to get out of it. \u00a0Now don’t misunderstand. \u00a0Like a person swimming in a mighty river, we’d just\u00a0like to find the stability of the shore. \u00a0Under different circumstances, we wouldn’t\u00a0mind taking a brief swim, or dipping our toe, or even finding occasional sustenance from that great river. \u00a0Just don’t make us swim there 24-7-365.<\/p>\n

In fact, we don’t mind living on the banks of that mighty river known as THE economy. \u00a0But we’d like to have our own<\/em> little creek to splash\u00a0in too. \u00a0We want our\u00a0own<\/em> economy! \u00a0And, we’d like to see many, many more people have\u00a0their<\/em> own economy too. \u00a0“Why?” you ask. \u00a0Let’s discuss that quality of the economy euphemistically called the “free market.” \u00a0We say “euphemistically” because when it comes to running your own business, in particular a farming business, there’s not much that’s “free” about the free market. \u00a0On a daily basis we’re confronted with restrictions regarding how many chickens we can butcher on the farm and who can eat them, where our meat must be processed and by whom it must be inspected, what table scraps we can feed to our pigs and whether our finished compost can be called “fertilizer” or simply a “soil conditioner.” \u00a0What do you do when something that is supposed to be a common benefit to all, becomes so entirely corrupt and so obviously rigged to benefit the few and the powerful? \u00a0What do you do when the river you’re being forced to swim in 24-7-365 is polluted with industrial strength sludge? \u00a0See?<\/p>\n

Did you know that this is the reason we established Harvest Partners? \u00a0We firmly believe the world will be a better place when many more people are OWNERS of the means of production, when many more people are OWNERS of their own means of sustenance and when many more people are OWNERS of the knowledge<\/em>\u00a0of what it takes to feed, house and cloth themselves.<\/p>\n

By establishing Harvest Partners as a full fledged legal partnership in which partners eat the livestock they own, we are increasing ownership\u00a0in the food system, in the environment and in the health of individuals, families and communities. \u00a0Our goal is to make the partnership successful and spawn new ones across the fruited plain. \u00a0Our aim is to subvert the corrupt economy and replace it with millions of tiny “off grid” economies. \u00a0Accordingly, every dollar we\u00a0spend into the industrial food system is a vote to keep us all treading water in the mighty river. \u00a0But spending into one of these tiny “off grid” economies makes a small,\u00a0but definite, wound in the system. \u00a0Think of that the next time you’re enjoying a delicious hamburger, or some slow cooked short ribs or a roasted chicken. \u00a0It’s YOUR economy, smarty pants!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Right. \u00a0THE Economy. \u00a0That one. \u00a0That monstrous, amorphous and difficult to control, yea difficult to\u00a0define, entity within which we all live and move and, apparently, have our being. \u00a0Our fortunes, our very lives, if you listen to the news, depend upon IT. \u00a0If the economy is struggling, we’re ALL struggling and if the economy is growing, we’re all (it is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,45,48,47,44,73,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agrarian-economy","category-agrarianism","category-decentralization","category-distributist-economy","category-economics","category-family","category-local-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harvestpartners.farm\/connect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harvestpartners.farm\/connect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harvestpartners.farm\/connect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harvestpartners.farm\/connect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harvestpartners.farm\/connect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/harvestpartners.farm\/connect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":851,"href":"https:\/\/harvestpartners.farm\/connect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harvestpartners.farm\/connect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harvestpartners.farm\/connect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harvestpartners.farm\/connect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}