@eyo
co-opted by an insurgency. Not that they wee all that great, but they were replaced by the New Democrats, proud, unashamed Reaganites who bragged about taking over and replacing the old party goals and values with Ronnie's.

#4 NOPE. California’s next presidential primary will be earlier

California last sought to correct its lack of impact in the primaries by shifting its vote to February in 2008.

Hillary Clinton beat Barack Obama in California, but he outlasted Clinton by peeling off a string of states. Still, it helped boost turnout among registered voters here to nearly 58 percent.

"When I say Democrat, you say Bernie." Don't say coat tails for DNC money, that would be bad/sad. Say money buys power for money instead, better?

Among the potential beneficiaries of the earlier primary are U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, rising Democratic stars who are often discussed as possible presidential candidates. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders has been active in the state early.

Can someone parse that for me? Active early for who? The millionaires? While you're at it, don't say super-delegates either. "There are so many things we could have done."

Stolen Democracy: How the Democratic Party Lost the Election and Lost its Soul

good luck

@riverlover
that would make 15,000.00 dollar per acre. So I guess, Hawaii land is 20 times as expensive in Upstate NY. You have some fruit trees on your land? I might come visit... one day...

Hope you heal and get better one day at a time.

#6 although I have yet to look at real estate prices. Our summer-of-no-summer has passed and the heat wave of a few days seems to have broken.

Back to real estate: this place might go for $0.5 Million, but probably in the $300's. And you never visited from closer!

I hope you and son are doing well. Shock is a normal response. So we adapt.

@studentofearth
I spent the last two hours sitting on piece of land that has three structures on it. My son and his girlfriend rent the ground level one bedroom of the second structure for 1650.00 a month. Even if they split the rent, it's two much. So there is a piece of land adjacent to this lot that was never built on or used for agricultural purposes. It's full of banana trees, palm trees, coconuts, papaya and avocado trees all mingled up with man-height grass.

So I watched the guy with his kubota excavator, this little thingy in the middle:
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmYeJ-oq3Qw]
As I don't expect the c99p readers right now jump on the occasion and buy this piece of equipment, I dare to post this promotional video, as I couldn't find at the moment another image.
The kubots gets out trees, stumps, digs, moves earth etc. So getting all the brush out of a piece of land like this

You can't see all the banana trees and palm trees, they are higher than the plants on the image. The land is in a tropical climate area of the island of Maui.

Anyhow, right besides me are the little pots and plants my son tries to grow some herbs and vegetables in on a shady little patio area. Of course to pay rent you work hard at very low hourly wages to do the landscape work for the rich folks' mansions of which are many around here, while the little people never can own the land to do their own farming.

Lots here are a long time on the market, if they don't have water meters. The waiting lists to get water meters is way over 1000. Sometimes people wait for ten years and more to get their water. As soon as land has a water meter the prices increase 30 to 40 percent. Some land is reserved for local, native Hawaiians. I think this is a bitter necessity for them, with all the celebrities and IT and banker guys buying out the land. One guy - CEO Larry Ellison just bought a whole island. Oprah has bought land like crazy here and hides in the jungle. Of course she doesn't grow the salads herself. I think Dr. Phil has to give her a stern lecture to get real and not be fake it. Clint Eastwood had land and a house here on which my son helped with construction work. He made millions selling it.

Willie Nelson at least made his restaurant "Charley's" a hang-out for music lovers. He and his sons

It's a lifestyle, yes, but not for many little people, who dream of farming their land.

So nothing against all your arguments, I do understand all of them and like them a lot. There came a guy here and did something like a TED talk, explaining to the listeners that here the land will always be expensive. Ok. I just wondered how much he got paid for that speech to tell us THAT. I think my son should get into the TED talk business...

#6
One just starts with where you are at at this place in time, it will never get easier. Regenerative agriculture is a process and approach of using what is around you to improve the soil and grow plants to harvest. Not continually buying stuff to maximize production. Learning the local climate, existing micro climates on a property and creating new micro climates. It can start with a few pots by a window, a suburban lot or an acreage. Done all three.

The farmer in the video has enough land to use livestock to assist with soil management and harvest grass, shrubs and trees. There are many places in the US livestock are fed using rotational grazing in pastures, including my small place. I do not have to run the lawn mower to keep the grass short.

How long does it take, forever it is a lifestyle not a finite goal. How long to grow a crop - depends on the crop. Salad vegetables a few weeks, fruit & nut trees a few years, livestock varies with the type and the condition of the feed source. Initial crops harvested might not be your favorite foods. Water is always an issue. The other variables include the condition of the land, experience of the person and how much help is available. More dollars means one can afford more help, also more likely to try non-necessary expensive solutions.

One can find the places all over the world. The cheapest acreages are generally run down farms, have small or old housing structures and are not close to the most desirable places to live. The place I am living now had been on the market for 12 month with no offers it looked so undesirable, dried up and ugly.

The original plan was to sell, move back to a suburban lot when the folks passed and the extra space was no longer needed. But have decided I like it here, now working on changes to make it my age in place residence when my physical strength makes it more challenging to do the outside work.

Finding methods to share is harder than rehabilitating and running the place. Most people I have run into have wanted to be entertained, given part of the harvest or need transportation. I do not have the extra time at this stage of my life, maybe in the future.