The beginning...

I know for a fact that most people aren't so keen on our ideas for off-grid living. They enjoy their comfortable lifestyle, living on grid and going to their every-day job and wondering when some "change" is going to happen like it's been advertised so lavishly. There's nothing wrong with that lifestyle and we respect it. Of course, we would like the same sort of treatment; being respected for the choices that we make, the lives we live and lead... What we want out of this is the basic foundation of American society... Freedom.

When you think of where you get your food, it's likely that you'll think of your local grocery store. When you think of the meat you eat, it's likely that you'll think of it in its little plastic wrapper on a refrigerated shelf. The vegetables you eat, so large and almost perfect... Farming isn't what it used to be, stuffing hundreds of chickens in a coop, never seeing the light of day, then to be reared and sprayed with chemicals and then wrapped in plastic and served to the good old general public. I'm all for feeding the hungry, but most people don't think of the actual chicken when they're eating chicken. I don't think most people even think of where their food comes from. Sure, more people are becoming food conscious these days, but honestly... Being able to provide good, honest, healthy organic produce is one of the most important things for being a healthy community. And being able to self-sustain yourself, I think, is a very wonderful and important thing for any individual.

What I'm getting at is, farming is very important. The earth is getting ever more polluted. Sooner than later, now, the earth isn't going to be able to produce anymore food without bio engineering the seeds. Organic farmers in Hawaii are unable to grow native fruit, like papaya, because there is an abnormal amount of aluminum and barium in their soil, while this occurrence is happening all over the world, not just in the United States. What we are hoping to do at Full Moon is to raise awareness in toxic metals via pollution, in whatever that may be... Jet aerosol, car exhaust...  And so the farm at Full Moon will be organic, and to protect against toxic metals we will be building greenhouses and composting. Being unable to grow your own food without buying corporation, bio-engineered seeds because of toxins in the soil is basically taking away our freedom. We want to still have the ability of farming fresh organics rather than buying mass produced edibles.

So...we have quested for land and have found a lot that suits our needs. For homes, we'll do earthbag domes. We will start a hostel for those who need a night's rest. We will build a venue for full moon parties.

Starting Tuesday we'll have put down money for the 20 acres in Pershing County. Hooray! Our first land, ever! Of course, we won't have it all paid off and are fervently looking for new ways to bring in some money to get it all paid off by June. If any of you are interested in gifting cash or any useful tools or even your own hard work by coming by the land when we get over there, please feel free to e-mail us at fullmoonranch@hotmail.com .

If all goes well, financially, we'll be able to move ourselves out to the land mid-summer. If not, it would have to be spring next year. We've gotten some useful tools; a new saw and a hoe over the weekend. Also picked up a second window for the first dome. We'll be roughing it out in tents for a while, but we won't be too far from town, so that's a plus. There are two streams going through the land, so we have a nearby water source. We're looking into DIY methods of water filtration, and if that fails then we'll be looking for a way to finance a five stage reverse osmosis filter.

I guess, for the end of this, I'll list the rules we'll be having:

Take only pictures
Leave only footsteps
Waste only time
No Violence
No Commercial Alcohol

We'll definitely be putting pictures up of our progress once we get out there!