Ep. 125 - How to Build Local Community Through Local Food - with Little Pine Farmer

Thriving The Future Podcast

Scott the Little Pine Farmer on Twitter is back with me and we are talking about his bakery and how he favors

"Why don't you come down to this market or deliver to the boutique in the city? We want to feed our neighborhood first."

Scott the Little Pine Farmer

It's all about the goal:

"The overarching goal is to stay home, produce value, and have people bring us money."

Reaching that goal through:

• Bakery, focusing on sourdough.
• Making relationships with the animal shelter. Selling bread in the animal shelter parking lot, which is a schools bus drop off.
• Community compost program.
• Dog sitting service.
• Community pasture grazing - like Rent-a-Goat but in the neighborhood.

Be the Gray Man and Build Alternative Systems:

Choose the path of focusing on building new alternatives rather than fighting the behemoth. If you get to the point where you are driving tractors down to the state capitol - it is too late.

"I am of much more benefit to my community working here on the farm than sitting in a holding cell in the big city."

Spend your time building alternatives and be the Gray Man. Did you learn nothing from Covid? If you ignore them, fade into the background, and do your thing - it's most likely that they will not be paying attention to you.

Find the Remnant:

Go to dinner or drinks with people.

Build Local Community, Grow Local Food. be the Gray Man. Build alternative systems. Much more effective than protesting.

Episode website: https://ThrivingtheFuture.com/local-community-local-food

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