It has been that long wow!
So I havent posted for over a year.
Since then I started a facebook group for portable saw mill operators it has grown to 6500 members. I have not been making much lumber because in August 2014 I started back to school, this time for a Masters in Social Work.
Why you may ask would a homesteader want that much education? And social work of all things? And how does that tie in to producing lumber?
Well, what it boils down to is being able to recognise and develop value where others overlook it.
A homesteader can find a ragged brushfilled hillside and see value as a possible pasture, vineyard or orchard. A homesteader can see dead and diseased trees in the woodland and recognise a source for valuable lumber to build barns and shed for the farm. A homesteader can see a wino on the corner and possibly recognize a potential employee or customer.
Social workers are professional people helpers - that is their job - to help people cope with their problems through empowerment, advocacy, and helping them linkup with available resources. A homesteader does the same for his livestock, neighbors, and,
to-an-extent his farm.
A social worker's ultimate goal is to fight social injustice. For some societies, social injustice includes consideration of advantages and disadvantages in society that make it unequal. For others, social injustice may repress a society to where living a self-sufficient lifestyle is difficult.
Homesteaders are all about self sufficient lifestyles.
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