tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189530924198240172.post2000006295634833565..comments2023-07-26T01:58:47.843-07:00Comments on Mort Mather's Happy Blog: Is there a link between money and happiness?Scott Supakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04529312586679833360noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189530924198240172.post-2585675156335597002009-02-12T10:54:00.000-08:002009-02-12T10:54:00.000-08:00I couldn't agree with you more! I came across ...I couldn't agree with you more! I came across your website thru a family friend who suggested I share with you the joys of my Portable Eco-Farm.<BR/><BR/>It's helping the average American & Restaurants become self sustaining while remaining 100% ORGANIC. It's also educationg children, providing therapy for the elderly and feeding orphans in Haiti. <BR/><BR/>On a personal level, I've been growing my own organic FISH, vegetables, herbs, berries at al. in my backyard with my "Portable Eco-Farm". <BR/><BR/>The system uses some kind of new aquaponic tech. that filters the mineral laden water from the fish tank to my vegetable grow trays, the veggies clean the water and then pass the purified water back to my Tilapia.<BR/><BR/>I also opted to use Solar Panels on my greenhouse which means I'm saving energy as well. My unit is small but they can be as big as you want to meet your production needs.<BR/>They came to my house, built my Portable Eco-Farm and taught me how to care for it. IT ONLY TAKES ME 5 MINUTES A DAY, and my 12 year old daughter likes to do it for us. The system is pretty cheap for what you get and with my farm my ROI is approx. 19 months (unless I switch to growing coy fish for retail or decide to sell my organic homegrown fare!)<BR/><BR/>If anyone is interested check out there site. I met with Chris, the owner, and he dialed me in completely, evening customizing my own greenhouse! These guys are really knowledgeable and easy to work with. Check them out: www.portableecofarms.com<BR/><BR/>OrganicLover, SDOrganicLoverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09993126176081529261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189530924198240172.post-7047615243209524622009-02-04T09:23:00.000-08:002009-02-04T09:23:00.000-08:00You are still focusing on money. You currently pay...You are still focusing on money. You currently pay for electricity to pump water but that is not the only way to get water. When our power was out for 5 days we hauled water in buckets from someone who had a generator. In my plan to survive if the power grid goes down is to haul drinking water from a spring I’ve located and to get water for other purposes from the stream half a mile away using buckets and a hand pulled cart. Inconvenient? To say the least but what we are really paying for to have running water in the house is convenience, not water. Convenience is not a necessity.<BR/><BR/>My book, Gardening for Independence, was born from the thought that our society could collapse and I wanted to be able to survive any collapse. I was living in New York City at the time and I fantasized walking to Maine after such a collapse and how I would meet my needs. I am in much better shape to meet my family’s needs now after years of looking at ways to meet them without outside help if necessary. We have enough wheat berries on hand to take us through the winter incase food supplies are cut off. The electric grinder we use to turn them into flour has a hand crank if needed. Flour and water can be turned into bread which we can bake in our wood stove.<BR/><BR/>There are people right now in this country in cold climates living without houses and without money. It’s not the way anyone would choose to live but when we are talking about survival there are ways, some better than others. <BR/>When we focus on money, we shut out a lot of other possibilities.Morthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216972050112626988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189530924198240172.post-50235796079335325382009-01-08T08:21:00.000-08:002009-01-08T08:21:00.000-08:00"...what we need is air, water, food and shelter, ..."...what we need is air, water, food and shelter, not money."<BR/><BR/>Well, three of those cost money. I have to have electricity to run my pump, and that costs. I have to pay the rent to have the plumbing, and that costs. The shelter itself is pretty expensive, especially when there's so little work.<BR/><BR/>The other thing we need, which I often heard when I was more healthy, is that we need our health. And that costs big time when it goes wrong. Especially if you don't have insurance.<BR/><BR/>So, money is just the medium we use to get the things you say we need to be happy. The basic things. If we don't have those basic things, then we're unhappy. If we're in danger of losing those basic things, then we're unhappy. If we're responsible for giving these basic things to others, like our children, and we can't, then we're profoundly unhappy.Scott Supakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04529312586679833360noreply@blogger.com