Response 2020

Reader responses appear in bold. The most current comments tend toward the bottom of the page.

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Months 1-3, 2020

Months 4-6, 2020

4/21/20 Comment on Let's Chat, 5/1/13

It's impressive that you are getting ideas from this article as well as from our discussion made here.
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Comment on Simpler Living Nudge

4/15/20

Jerry Iverson et al !! Can't keep a good man down! They named the die hard battery after you and your wonderful life mission of Simple Living ministries and messages. Thank you for keeping the hope alive for us all to never let go of trying to live more simply so others can simply live.

What a history making time we are now living in if only we had listened to the prophets of the last decades. I still have some really old, 10-20 year old news letters and sales fliers. You and your charming wife stayed with me in Raleigh about 15 years ago, right at the time you two were making a tour when someone in your family died as I remember.

Stay in Stay healthy, you are loved and a blessing to us in many ways.
Stephen Mayberry and Missty Rose, long passed Golden Girl

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4/21/20

Gerald: Good you are continuing all your great teaching on Voluntary and INvoluntary Simplicity!

Feel free to use any part of my 'Lessons Looking Back from 2050' (at www.ethicalmarkets.com)

I'm hanging in there holding the fort alone past four weeks in this usually busy place !

Cheers,
Hazel
Hazel Henderson @ethicalmarkets.com

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ELCA-FaceBook 6/9/20 for SLW! Podcast Ep.0620

I am very fortunate to live in a rural area where we have access to farmers who sell meat and poultry directly to the public. One of our farmer friends has a little meat shop set up in a shed on premises... it's filled with freezers and has an honor box for payment. Another has similar arrangements, but you call for an appointment to shop. These farmers use smaller regional processors. So we have avoided the problems many consumers are experiencing buying protein, and our farmer friends have not had the issues of Big Ag farms killing livestock they couldn't sell...in fact, they can barely keep up with demand, and have gained a lot of new customers who didn't even know they existed even though they live in the same communities.

I know not everyone has the right logistics or financial freedom to do this, but... supporting local agriculture / small farmers when you can helps 'fight the power.' It's one of those things where there is very little that my household can do to change the character of the agricultural-industrial complex... but I can buy my food from my farmer neighbors when I can. It's a win-win. We also try to patronize markets that sell locally sourced / processed produce and artisanal foods. We don't do this perfectly, but we are pretty consistent. I would say that well over half of our groceries are local or regional; even more so during the growing season. About the only 'industrial food' we buy is processed food we can't get from local sources, and snacks/ convenience foods. Not a brag, but an encouragement. In Michigan, there is a handy booklet, also online reference, called Taste the Local Difference, that lists both farmers selling directly to. consumers, and retailers and restaurants that sell local foods. If you're in our state, Google it. Local Harvest is a nationwide listing of local food providers.

Ellen Polzien