Author: Sean O'Regan

I recently just received the Sony Ericsson c905a Cybershot from the fedex lady click here and was calling my girlfriend as was 30 minutes away from my house. I accidently hit the close browser button and the last 400 words I typed in here got lost in cyberspace. Boy I guess I am technically challenged.

I am using my Blackberry Bold To Keep Track of the 70 Day Old Chickens Growing in My Bath Tub

I am what you call an accidental farmer. I grew up in Singapore and Hong Kong. But I fell in love with my wife and the small town 1 year ago. I use to be a DJ and had to get up with my Blackberry waking me up at 4:00am every morning. My night shift DJ had to call me on the land line just to make sure I did not hit the snooze button 1 time too many. My wife had a blackberry too. We both lived in a 2 bedroom apartment. Our Blackberry drove us. A normal sit down dinner would mean the movie channel is playing. Either her blackberry or mine would ring asking us to do one more thing we had to fit in our schedule. I love having a personal assistant a mobile assistant that is. I often proclaim to my wife we will never move. We lived in the main core of our city and walked everywhere. Weekends we would walk to a cafe called Sweet Scooter where french fresh goodies were served, we bought our food at the local food co-op as well as the saturday farmers market. Then my wife gave birth to 3 kids and our whole life changed.

With our 401ks plummeting, I needed to find a weekend get away place for my family. We still had our blackberry running our life. Yes we set up a wifi network. Gone are the days of digging up old reciped books, we just watch a video on our Macbook to whip up a great meal. My wifi laptop lets me do instant messaging without eating my text messaging or anytime minutes cell phone plan.

the bottom line is I traded in my 2 bedroom crowded apartment for a farm with 60 day old chicks sleeping in our bath tubs. My family was welcomed in the community with astonishing generosity-total strangers were ready go help us garden or teach us how to compost. We have a neighbor who owns 200 acres of land where he crows corn and genetically modifed crop. He tells us he has to go home and spray round up which will kill anything living.

I can not even begin to tell you how amazing it is that we eat like royality. I can eat butterball potatoes, white carrots, grape tomatoes, beets of yellow color. I tell you I took so many pictures of my vegetable patch with my blackberry bold that my wife commenting on you took more pictures of our food then our 1st born. There is nothing like eating an entire meal that grew from our garden. Working 14 hour days and sitting with your family to enjoy the sunset and home grown organic food beats dinning at 5 star restaurants in Bejing. I also use to be a food critic for a high end asian magazine. We has salads with 30 different varieties of vegetables. I won't admit that spending 500 hours to grow $500 dollars worth of vegetables will not make me rich.

But since both my wife and I have thrown away our blackberry and have traded then in for real blueberries. We have never been happier. While so many people are starving, we have a bountiful of food to feed my family and my community.

So if you are a new parent encourage your child to be a farmer and teach them to grow food instead of getting an MBA to be an accountant, lawyer or cell phone engineer designing even more smaller devices, they would live a richer life and be immune to the ups and downs of stock market. In fact, Barbara Handclow once said a few years ago at a lecture held in Bellingham that 20 years from now 50% of the people will be in some way contributing to growing food. Hence, start now, Get your GPS enabled cell phone out. Start to look for local farmer markets near by. Start by buying chickens in their co-op and buy fresh grown organic vegetables grown within 100 miles radius of where you live. Stop supporting the major chains where so much oil is consumed in producing the food, radiating the food and trucking the food in from 3000 miles away.