Are there signs of a bit of a revival to self-reliant 'good life' living in these times of astringency and 'commercial pressures' - ? Good times here on the eco organic micro-holding (small smallholding) in the form of harvesting a variety of produce, help to cushion any cost-increasing trends, as does the building of a new rustic porch , re-cycled out of wood and materials lying about, accumulated over the years.
A recent UK TV programme looked at traditional ways of animal keeping - in this case dairy cows -against a modern trend of keeping large numbers of them under cover, then not being able to practice their natural grazing behaviours. Such an 'industrialised' system of animal keeping would though, seem to be trying to reverse a 'de-industrialised' trend seen, for instance, in the newer 'freerange' ways of keeping laying hens, which seem to have had considerable consumer support - ?
According to some newer 'top bosses', commercial practice has become too one-dimesionally focused on aggressively chasing high profits and needs to focus more on operating in a way more 'balanced' with other culture priorities such as social and evnvironmental priorities, although some of the latest business practices, such as 'zero hour' contracts, don't appear to particularly fit with such sentiments - ?
