For the past dozen years I have lived in a theme from Groundhog day. Pretty much the same thing on a daily basis. My health has declined in that time. The past few years since my layoff I have been trying to change the direction my life has been going. I started a non profit and started teaching people about the food system and gardening/growing food. I am heavily vested in my community here but that is not returned in a manner that I can continue to remain here. I love volunteering and gardening and educating people about the toxic food system and what is really going on. I just can no longer afford it and the pressure and stress are worsening my health.
Today none of what mattered 5 or 10 years ago to me really matters that much anymore. I am close to 50 and I just do not see many job and career options that can take me into retirement and why do I need to continue to make so much money as I age? Just so that I have a roof over my heads into my elder years? The city and state I live in is already in a rent crisis. People are being pushed out of their homes to make way for new housing that the locals can no longer afford to remain in. Homelessness is the Los Angeles county has gone up 23% since last year alone. A large section of Latinos are now being forced out as gentrification sweeps thru all of LA city.
What really matters today is our food system, safe drinking water, non toxic air to breathe and some work that makes a difference. Sitting here in this bubble all I can see is the negative impacts government is having on our planet and our society. We have lost our connection with mother earth and nature itself. Kids cannot even identify vegetables in their raw form. We have food injustices all across the inner cities. Our health has been in decline since chemical companies have taken control of our food supply. And I can’t even keep up with all the lies being told to us in the food industry by those companies creating the issues.
The time to make a change is now. I will be showing you what life is really like when you leave the city and go out into the big mean world and re engage with nature, eat off the land and meet amazing like minded people. This journey will take you onto small organic farms to see how rewarding they can be, go into intentional communities that are living wonderful lives without monetary means. Together we will visit towns that are dying and how we can breath new life into them. I will also be documenting the changes in my health as I take this journey and the tricks to living a rewarding life, breaking the chain from the enslavement to money. We will be relying on farming work trade for a place to park, plug in and eat.
Today I have started on my journey to raise the necessary funds to trade in everything for an RV and begin the 2 year VLOG experience. I have a donate button on this page to donate straight away and we have an affiliate program in which you can purchase some wonderful leggings from a small business run by a stay at home mom.
More to come …