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7-1-1965 Youth Rally Initiates Old Mill; 60 Travel to Big Weekend Mildred Loomis

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Volume 3, Number 7 July, 1965 25e per copy, $3 per year Kern Writes And Homesteads Lord Love A Bug- _P e sfs Are A Part Of Your Garden; Have You Learned To Love Them? By Hal Porter• pests bother his garden. He en­ of love for your fellow men is gages in relentless warfare. considered square or corney. A A homestead without a garden statement that we should love is no homestead at all; and the But his campaign of hate is self-limiting. The more he poi­ our garden pests is likely to brin' -1 success of the garden depends sons, the more insects he has. He on derisive laughter. Yet it is, to a great extent on mental and very practical attitude. And, � emotional attitudes. Of course kills all the natural enemies of "" the bugs and worms with his poi­ the punch line of an ancient joke a good case may be made that goes, "We must love him, but we our success in living depends on sons. But the nests become im­ mune, and with nothing to stop don't have to like the S.O.B." the same thing, but for the pur­ Really it isn't so difficult if we pose of this article we are mainly them they breed unchecked. The poison sprays pollute his soil to think of it in the proper manner. concerned with the raising of If we have a pet dog and we love fruits and vegetables. And, even the point where his plants be­ come more and more sickly. To him and he burys his bone in the more specifically, we are con­ petunia bed, we don't decide to cerned with our attitudes toward cure this he puts on more and more chemical fertilizer. This dock his tail right back of his all things which, creep, crawl, ears. We don't call for the ex­ or fly; and eat, chew, suck, or also poisons the soil until even­ tually his garden spot becomes terminator when little junior's dig up the things we have grow­ football finds its way into the � ing. a weed-spotted plot of ground where nothing will grow and he lettuce bed, with resulting dam- Any student of living who con­ buys all his fruits and vegetables age to small plants. Because we templates the establishment of and consoles himself with the be­ operate from an attitude of love, a garden is faced with the prob­ lief that after all it is cheaper the mischief of our pets or our lem of what to do about the pests. to buy than to grow. children is accepted as annoy- What he does depends on his atti­ ance but a necessary part of life. tude. Suppose he is one of those So an attitude of hate will not The same way of looking at the persons who sayJJ, "I hate bugs. make for a successful garden. depredations of the insect world I hate snakes, lizards, toads, and But neither will an attitude can make them no more of an ir­ all those creepy, crawly things." of indifference. No gardener ritation. This person will immediately worthy of his vine-ripened to­ matoes can go out in the morning If we believe that there is a start a war of eradication, by divine plan for the universe and poison spray and powder, the and find that a hornworm has eaten up half his choice vines all that lies therein, there must minute something eats a tiny be a reason and a place in the hole in one of his plants. If squir­ and just shrug his shoulders and say "So what." Such a don't care world for aII these garden pests, rels molest his corn he either big and small. This even includes shoots them or puts out poison; attitude is a real impossibility. Anyone who hold to such the neighbor who comes over to the same birds if they "7 with the could inspect the garden an..d.. passes .� peck at his berries or fruit. He would nevez:� {o have a garden in the first pta-ce. A solution must over �the luxurious growth of the tak.:;(; it as « petsona1 affront corn and sweet potatoes and only when either insect or animal be found because otherwise the VolUine 1.V, the final one, of for cooking, living, and sleeping gardener will become a prey to sees where the cut-leaf worm is eating up the beans. This same 'The Owner-BuiU Home will deal is analyzed in relation to its func­ *Mr. Porter, a former news­ the destructive emotions of an­ with the Design and Structure of tion in design and structure. ger, hate, resentment and fear. neighbor, if you offer him a mess paper man, is a Port Orange, of your mustard greens, will Building. The research has been A special Homestead Planning Fla., homesteader. He is now He grows things both for his completed, the material is all Section will appear in the con­ mental and physical health. The probably point to a small hole in writing a novel centered around a leaf and remark that bugs have gathered and outlined, and the cluding chapters. The complete health and homesteading.-MJL growing is soothing to the emo­ first chapter will appear next Volume IV will be printed tions and good for the soul. The been on them and that he won't month. (monthly) in Green Revolution. home-grown vegetables help his eat anything that a bug or worm Some totally new concepts of The Kerns have now com­ Come Michigan physical well-being. Now, of has chewed a hole in. We can contemporary space organization pleted a beautiful and functional To course, he doesn't need to take always answer that the bug only will be presented, including a homestead near Oakhurst, Calif. Mrs. Joy Valsko writes of the it out on the bugs, he could take ate a little bit. There's plenty free-form building constructed But they are eager to try yet many attractions for vacationing a pill, as advertised on television, left for us. The neighbor will re­ in Europe. This includes a bi­ other new and experimental and learning in northern Michi­ except that continued dosage ply that bugs carry germs, little nuclear court garden and other ideas, and will soon begin an­ gan, and encourages people to with drugs can cause annoying realizing that there are good and bio-technic design features dis­ other homestead at the opposite come for the sessions planned on and dangerous side-effects. bad germs and that if it wasn't cussed in complet� detail. Space end of their 25 acres. her country property near Trav­ So what to do? adopt an atti­ for the germs there would be no erse City for School of Living tude of love. In this day and age other life. people, the weekend of Aug. 21- among the sophisticates the idea (to be continued) California Homestead Sites Evaluated 22. She says she has already re­ ceived notes from several who By Bill Peavy* foothills (4000 ft.), northeast of want to be part of the meeting. 77 S, P St., Merced, Calif, Fresno, bought 30 acres four She hopes a mutually satis­ You�h Rally Initiates Old Mill; years ago for $4000. Today they factory use can be planned for In California, getting title to can sell for $30,000. Not very land is becoming increasingly the land and several buildings 60 Travel To Big Weekend rich or well-watered hill land, which are in various stages of difficult. In Los Angeles County but who can say what it will be completion. She will welcome The Youth Rally, June 11-14, was the first of what we hope will and in the San Francisco Bay worth five years from now?" be a recurring series of "educational" activities at the Old Mill on Area, people are packed like sar­ any who can come early to assist dines; many want to get into Mariposa County in making the buildings as com­ Anacker Acres, Heathcote Community, Freeland, Md. Here the old and new combined. The three-story, stone mill, standing since 1850, the country; land is in great de­ Forty miles east of Merced, fortable and usable as possible mand, and selling at fantastic also in the foothills (2000 to for our August sessions. the result of the sturdy, hardworking independence of an earlier day, prices. 4000 ft.), rainfall 25 to 40 in., na­ "We have swimming at a nat­ offered space and shelter but no convenience and little comfort. The ural beach on our place," she Friends of ours in the Sierra tive Ponderosa pine, is a thriv­ participants were, for the most part, young and independent thinkers, writes, "and 100 acres of woods not concerned with the amenities but with free expression and ac­ ing subdivision business and for roaming (with 50,000 planted *Bill Peavy, teacher of horti­ realtor's paradise. One acre goes tion on vital personal and public issues. culture in the Merced, Calif., pines). Two improved beaches for $1000; 10 acres for $5000; are nearby: every known sport is The Rally began a few months ago as a suggestion that School High School, offers some data in 30 to 50 acres at about $300 an of Living young people gather to discuss and help prepare the place response to letters published in within driving distance; there are acre. One could buy 10 acres for for summer use. Gradually notices and promotional materials em­ past issues of The Green Revo­ $5000, divide it in half, sell for many arts and crafts shops. Inter­ lochen Arts Academy and Music phasized pacifist-anarchist goals. A few inquiries came; no registra­ fion.-Editor $5000, get all his money back Camp give a festival here in tions. A crew arrived early to begin the work. Among them were and still have 5 acres to boot. August. This is not bad homestead coun­ the vigorous septugenarian Smith brothers, Pennsylvania farmers, Colorado Meeting try, but about the only people "I am finishing a guest house; who were in the garden each day at dawn, a party from Lane's End, able to afford it are retirees who can accommodate trailers and and the Dee Hamilton family who have been residents since early Robert and Grace Wade, Box -tents, with outdoor facilities and 6, Walden, Colo., are inviting do­ have money coming in from the May. By Thursday peopie began arriving by one, two and threes­ outside. Making a cash income electric connections. And an­ it-yourselfers, homesteaders and other building-if someone could including two fro!'!l the Maryland Intelligence Service to check the School of Living people to a (continued on page 4) arrive early to help clean it up-­ nature of the meeting, to be able to give adequate assistance should weekend picnic get-together at would do for bunk room; wood any '·trouble" develop. (None did.) That the attendance totaled 60 their homestead Aug. 6, 7, and 8. *The Bay Area in the 1800s and electric stoves; water trans­ (highly vocal, intelligent persons from New York, Chicago, Ohio, In­ They welcome any Coloradoans was the scene of Henry George's ported. We can use large rooms diana, Baltimore and Virginia) was a surprise to us and an indication or others from surrounding experiences and reflections that and lavvns of another building of the ferment, the searching and concern today. Ideas flowed freely, states. Bring surplus from your resulted in his famous book, for meetings. There are several vigorous and hearty discussion ensued, adequate meals appeared at gardens, and campers, trailers, Progress and Poverty (now in baths and one-half baths in one regular intervals at very low cost, some real physical work got done, tents, for which there is ade­ nearly every library and for sale, building. quate space on their homestead at $1.50, from Henry George "Plans for this School of Liv­ recreational intervals enjoyed. or nearby. Come to Walden and School, 50 E. 69th St., New York ing meeting have inspired me Spontaneity Predominated call the Wades, 723-4560. Activi- City). Henry George's, and other, and renewed my hope that we - ties, discussions and projects solutions to the problem of land can do something useful and con­ The program was open to change and the needs of the group. will be developed among those and taxes are discussed in our structive. I'm looking forward to Two students of Adelphi University presented a list of proposals for who come. The Wades would ap­ companion journal, A Way Out it. Ask any questions."-Mrs. Joy "Education For A Revolutionary Age" which included self-search preciate a note or card from (particularly in February and Valsko, 516 W. 7th, Traverse by students, with teachers only as guides; no grades or degrees; more those who plan to be there. May issues).-Editor City, Mich. (continued on page 2)

�----��,����� 2-THE GREEN REVOLUTION, July, 1965 Youth Rally, cont'd Letters to the Editor The Green Revolution Ozark Land tion, we must hold out something Second class mailing privilege au­ nature and craft experience; communication along art and emotional dynamically new and intriguing, thorized at Brookville, Ohio 45309. lines instead of mere study and indoctrination; orientation toward And Mobile Homes like, for instance, the new second Published monthly by The School of peace instead language, globaqo .... Living. Lane's End Homestead, Brook­ of war; etc. Some persons welcomed this as essential; To the Editor: world rille, Ohio 45309. to one it was inadequate, "making the education we have a little We own 20 acres in Ozark An initial phase could be glo­ Mildred J. Loomis. more palatable, but not sufficiently radical nor capable of producing County, Mo.; Gainesville is the baqo folksinging. I now have the Editor: melody truly free individuals." county seat; gas station, How­ first globaqo ballad and Subscription rates: The Green Rno­ In my untrained voice /ufion, $3 a year; The Green Re.olu­ Ben Zablocki, a young graduate student of Johns Hopkins Uni­ ard's Ridge three miles away; on tape. fion with School of Uving member­ completely it brings happy response from ship. SS a year; The Green Revolution versity, Dept. of Social Relations, led a session on community. He vacant land with snd bimonthly A Way Ouf, $6 a year. mostly oak and other indigenous those who hear it. 11 we could described in some detail two religiously oriented communities. In get several "beatle"-like bands Telephone: TE 8-4522 (New Lebanon, vegetation. Any decentralist or Ohio). the Bruderhof members give up all personal property to the group Green Revolutioner is welcome going strong with globaqo lyrics on entering; decisions are made by the group as a whole and action to use the place with no charge, we might drench the countryside taken only when consensus is achieved. In the Vale Community both providing no permanent build­ with nature- and love-songs, gyp­ Christian and Buddhist values operate side by side, with the two ings. This would change the legal sy lullabys, freefolk swing-along ing a reality-a sort of revival of groups fearing the pain and difficulty of examining differences. To aspects, including the tax rate, chanties ...-Russel Jaque, Star the old Fellowship of Intentional test the ability of those present to face differences, he asked what which currently is less than $5 Rte, Box 32, Tecate, Calif. Communities Newsletter, but we hope oriented toward a younger the group planned to do with the rule of "No Smoking at Heathcote." a year. I would suggest tents or Followed mobile homes, which is what I'm readership. It will print news of exposure and claims of Smokers on the one side, and Non­ Individual Above the State existing !Cs, letters from and smokers on the going to turn to when I make my other. One person left the room in protest; two later To the Editor: news about prospective commu­ left in relaxed break with Suburbia. Why not fashion to smoke. The result was the compromise, give this aspect more support? nitarians, etc. We would like to "OK to smoke Nothing like taking issue with outside, but not in buildings." Most small" families can be quite the disciples of Parson Malthus have permission to quote rele­ vant parts of School of Living Government and Economics comfortable in the new models. . . . Before suggesting either Taxes are held down and if one China or India as representative publications.-Ben Zablocki, c/o Saturday morning Jackson MacLow presented Anarchism in doesn't like the area, can easily of overpopulation, it would do Social Relations, Johns Hopkins terms of thirty points, which was a difficult assignment to handle. move on. I am a building trades- well to see the statistics for the University, Washington, D. C. ln general the concept of voluntary action without the interference man, but I have no intention of more prosperous European coun­ of c�rcion by others (and l)articularly by the l)Olitical state), con­ erecting anything more than tries. After which let's ask why Extra Dividends stitutes the concept of modern-day anarchism. Individual initiative, work sheds. Should a colony get the prosperity there and not in following one' s own purpose and goals where they do not harm going, we would naturally need the Far East? Henry George To the Editor: Let me tell you how much we others, and taking the conseq_uences of one's actions are the basic a meeting and recreation hall, covered the subject well in Prog­ could be designed and con­ appreciate Green Revolution. principles. One young coul)le exeml)lified this-bringing their own which ress and Poverty. Wars will built when the need arises.- tinue so long as the general opin­ The inspiration, the examples of food and prel)aring it on their own small caml) fire for each meal. J ohn W. Coursell, 7 S. Maple, ion fails to hold the individual independent, resourceful living, Some thought they were disadvantaged by not joining in group Mt. Prospect, Ill. above the state. - J. E. Work, the philosophy, the "spirit" of it meals. Framingham. lVIass. all! And particularly we like the Saturday afternoon Mildred Loomis presented by graph form people-the fellowship. We read - the underlying concepts of libertarian economics. She pointed out Woman's Fulfillment every letter and comment sev­ that as the political state regulates an economic system that system To the Editor: Successful eral times, trying to picture and has "broken down" so far as our freedom is concerned. At two cru­ In your May editorial, Women Young Homesteaders make real the persons writing cial points the political state enters the picture to distort a free flow Working, you spoke for many of To the Editor: or mentioned. We who have set of production back to producers. These are the legalizing of rent of us Green Revolutioners who ourselves athwart the main­ have developed a sense of what We are in our twentys, and stream of culture need this sense land and interest on money. Out of these, a third "leak" away from is really worthwhile in life. What left the city two years ago to buy of relatedness with persons of producers develops in exchanging goods, through "profit." greater fulfillment could a wom­ 10 acres with an old .house. Nei­ similar values. We of course Th ese concepts seemed unfamiliar and therefore difficult to an have than creative living on ther of us had had any experi­ value the specific how-to-do-it many. The discussion tended toward the in tricacies of our present her family's homestead ? ...I ence in homesteading skills. But items but the other seekers we Federal Reserve System. This constituted a diversion from the think Go Ahead and Live! by now we milk two cows and a seem to be in touch with are the goat, have chickens, rabbits. pigs somewhat simplified, but basic assumptions of a new, non-govern­ School of Living counsellors is dividends which mean most to and a We large mental frame of reference. Possible solutions and of organiz­ great! Send me some flyers de­ pony. grow a us. -Ann & Carl Adams, Wyan­ ways vegetable garden organically and ing a free economic system, either in an intentional community or scribing it so I can help get this dotte, Mich. book known to young couples.­ have started yo1mg fruit trees world-wide, were not examined. Etc. and grape vines. We also keep Saturday evening was spent in discussing health and forming Jean Peavy, 77 S. P St., Merced, Calif. bees. We get a great deal oi satis­ Booster Shots For Children? an agenda for the remaining two days. Some resistance developed (We welcome this cooperation. faction out of providing for our­ To the Editor: around voting, but even'milly evicle:n.ce u,clicated need for discuss- Brochures and testimonials on selves and being independent. While we don't find too much t\\\il �\\ "t�'l"