Share the Wealth

Our hay fields yielded more than we could use this year. We thought about selling the excess, but decided to send it to a friend. There is an immediate benefit in that our friend has the food his cattle needed. However, there is also a goodie there for us. We expect to buy cattle from him. Since they have been eating food from our place, they will have already established a "rumen population" that thrives on what we grow.

How do you place a price on beauty?

We left the "salts" from some recent construction outside for a while because the butterflies really enjoyed them. We soon had hundreds hanging around.

Why Sharing Works

1). It opens your heart so that the issues of greed, possession and permanence are kept in perspective.

2).It turns the "karma wheel" so that at some point you have a goody "coming your way".

3). It builds the fabric of community. It may be the one time when "co-dependency" is not a bad thing.

4). It teaches you to respect what others have. Just wait until someone returns "your stuff" in less than a pristine manner to see this one.

5). It expands your horizons. We are introducing our friends to "red okra" this year. We had never had it before and were excited about the flavor and size.