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#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..the place was tidy and clean and the house well cared for.  Some awareness of need for better foods but pretty 0187

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..minimal. Felt at home and quite at ease. Went to visit Leeson’s – half mile walk to large cleared area in 0188

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..midst of heavy woods. They lived in a large 40 ft. ferro-cement dome that leaked; 3 rooms in one end, with 0189

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..color TV, freezer, washer, refrigerator and various electrical appliances. No one home.  Also had a small dome 0190

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..with geese; a shed with horse stalls for their magnificent horses. No health foods at all. Place in extreme 0191

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..disarray. Spent last night near Port Lorne (Annapolis County), at Stephanie & Dan Parkers. Old run down house 0192

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..with a few livable rooms. No animals of their own (Dan’s wish) but Stephanie and another fellow, Alex, who 0193

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..wasn’t here, share chores for 10 cows (5 are calves to be sold), a work horse, chickens and goats, at the 0194

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..Celestial Circus, another run down house nearby, with a few livable rooms. Alex seems to be the only one left 0195

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..of that group but was away, taking a Dept. of Agriculture fruit tree course.  He’s weathered 3 separate groups 0196

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..of people, all of them Maharaji followers (14 year old guru from India). Their certainty about abstaining from 0197

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..meat was shaken when a male calf was born and they didn’t know what to do with it. Went with Stephanie to do 0198

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..chores and was appalled at the state of their barn. Calves bedded on 2 foot of wet manure and straw. Cows in 0199

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..stalls had very little bedding.  All of them had shit caked all over their bodies.  No one seemed to know much 0200

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..about handling the work horse. One fellow was tripping on LSD and got kicked in the head, breaking his jaw. He 0201

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..left and never came back. Stephanie said a lot of people who have stayed refused to assume responsibility for 0202

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..the animals, but gladly made use of their products. Their root cellar was full of ruined vegetables; most 0203

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..people passing through lacked any farm experience.  She said Alex, who is 18, wants to do orchard and make 0204

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..furniture.  He’s also dating a 12 year old girl in Port Lorne.  The one good thing about where they live is no 0205

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..black flies or mosquitoes in the summer, due to sea breezes. 0206

#3cccJournal2TwittBook SATURDAY FEB. 24: Went to visit people at Ashram near Beaconsfield but no one was there, at least not since the 0207

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..last snow. Went on to Max Bent’s. He’s an older organic farmer who specializes in strawberries. Received 0208

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..hostile vibes. He’s getting out of farming and into carpentry. Wouldn’t take time for an interview. We stopped 0209

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..at a farm a few miles up the road; bought apple cider, apples, carrots, cabbage. Man and wife whose children 0210

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..grew up, so they’re running the farm by themselves. The woman complained about all the hard work; husband was 0211

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..cutting pulp wood alone. Seems obvious to us that a few other families working the farm with them would make a 0212

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..hell of a difference in lightening their burden. Stopped in Annapolis Royal to visit EROTS health food store 0213

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..and look up a retired farmer, Russel Lent. He’s a pill head according to EROTS people but does his own small 0214

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..garden organically. Decided not to interview him. People at EROTS put out strange vibes – lots of complaints 0215

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..from one of the staff – and none of them seemed very healthy. According to Bryan in Bear River they smoke and 0216

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..eat hamburgers and French fries while running the store, even eating out of containers from other food stores 0217

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..with greasy hands, right in front of the clientelle. At Bryan’s last night. Invited to dinner at neighbor’s 0218

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..across the street. All food was healthy and very good. Our hosts were an old retired couple who stopped eating 0219

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..meat and are making sprouts. They threw out their white flour and sugar and are using the Ten Talents Cook 0220

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..Book. SUNDAY FEB. 25: Went to interview Jim & Gail Hulbert who have a 3 year old son, Ian. Ended up staying 0221

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..the night. Super fine people. Into spiritual awakening; taking Paramahansa Yogananda’s Self Realization 0222

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..Fellowship Course. They are vegetarian, moving towards an all raw foods diet. Want few or no animals because 0223

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..they are striving for simplicity. Jim astral travels, heavy into creating – photography, music, painting, 0224

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..poetry and children’s books. They are from New York state, near University of Buffalo, where they lived very 0225

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..well on GI grants and school loans. Bought their farm of 68 acres from an older woman for $500. Everyone said 0226

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..she wouldn’t sell. They didn’t have any money but figured if it was to be the money would come. The next day a 0227

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..relative sent a $500 check unsolicited. This is their first experience without running water and electricity. 0228

#3cccJournal2TwittBook Their family is traveling to the states in two weeks. They will stay till easter and return with a 14 year old 0229

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..sister who is pregnant, so she can have her baby here. 0230

#3cccJournal2TwittBook WEDNESDAY FEB. 28: Arrived in Halifax last night. Stayed in the bus at Earth Rider night before. After 0231

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..interviewing Jim & Gail in Bear River we all went to interview Don & Nancy at Andy & Vicky’s farm. Andy and 0232

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..Vicky were away in the states. Don’s not much into doing his best, said they were wondering whether to farm 0233

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..organically because it seemed like too much work.  Later he said they would probably use chemical fertilizers. 0234

#3cccJournal2TwittBook Don’s lack of concern for perfection showed in his work. Two years working at making jewelry and it was crappy 0235

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..stuff. Don said he didn’t think any of them would stay past next fall because they all wanted to travel. 0236

#3cccJournal2TwittBook After the Don & Nancy interview we dropped off Jim & Gail at their place and gave them a big hug. We felt like 0237

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..old friends.  Also interviewed Watson Peck the same day. He offered the use of some of his land 0238

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..for growing organic crops if others needed it. 0239

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