Free-Range Living

What is Free-Range Living?

'Freerange' living might perhaps be described as the individual(s) aiming to lead an 'independent' style of life, thinking and deciding for themselves, determining their own values, along with aiming to live life in a naturally self and socially responsible manner.

Entries for month: September 2013

'Neat and Tidy------'

September 09, 2013 ·

It's the 'untidy' time of year on the organic micro-holding here, with also the compost heap building, all the green waste just 'bunged on', a simple system unlike a rather more complicted compost-making system as recommended on TV.

End of summer/early fall bring plenty of jobs such as hedgecutting, door making, potato digging and creeper cutting back which will hopefully have the effect of tidying the place up, along with the 'de-caterpillarisation' process that has to be done if there's to be any greens over winter.

A flyer picked up for solar energy production seemed to be trying to be too generous, presumably in its efforts to catch people on its sales hook. With the plethora of adverts, cold-call phone calls to the home and such-like, consumers seem to be being considerably pressurised to buy and spend money, but maybe show some resistance by not too freely repeat buying - ? One firm local to here does not advertise and yet has customers queueing up, and it's not too hard to see why.

 

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