Freedom and Self-sufficiency

I want to give the floor to every sovereign who, in everyday life, strives to bring freedom into the lives of those who live around them.

Life has led many Sovereign to live personal and work experiences in search for freedom, true freedom. The kind of freedom that is not without rules but can also be experienced without rules, that becomes freedom when it is linked to self-sufficiency.

Do you feel free?

Unfortunately not. I continually face the system of corruption with no accountability, conditionings and rules that imprison me. And I realise it even more after feeling free for a few days.

I Would like to tell you how I do feel free?

I could wake up and get up whenever I wanted. I would eat when I got hungry ..

I would read in the shade of beautiful trees and a few meter distance from the creek. I let go of all the thoughts I had on my shoulders and forgot everything. I felt free. Free from any conditioning. Free from anything I had to do. Free from thoughts. A clarity of thoughts rarely experienced before.

What a wonderful experience! Now I have a strong desire to be in the same situation. This is my journey to freedom. I know many of you want the same or searching for your dream is to create a self-sufficient farm. Do you think that once self-sufficient you will be able to experience the same freedom?

Before answering you, let me just say what self-sufficiency means for me.

I could say that self-sufficiency is synonymous with freedom, so much so that the opposite of “self-sufficiency” is “dependence” and if we depend on something, we are hardly free.

I think we should all roll up our sleeves and try to no longer be dependent on the corporations for water, energy, food and health. Unfortunately, we rarely think about these aspects, so we don’t ask ourselves who we depend on for living. Most of the so-called developed countries have left their lives in the hands of a small group of corporations of multinational companies whose main objective is to enrich themselves endlessly, without regard to our health and the environment, since they always come after profit.

There is only one way to get rid of this world oligarchy and it’s stopping buying their products. For example, if we decide to buy what is possible locally, we already take a big step, we are helping our community, we are limiting the power of multinationals, we weave relationships. But we can take a further and even more noble step which is self-sufficiency.

Usually self-sufficiency is also resilience. In the book “One Second After” by William R. Forstchen, the author makes a realistic reconstruction of what would happen to humanity in case of an unexpected catastrophic event, which blasts electricity for a prolonged period of time. Those who depend on hospitals and drugs would be hopeless. Those who do not have food and depend on the supermarket would be fasting. Those who receive water through long pipes fed by pumps would remain dry. Those who can rely on their own spring water or water collected by fall, their own vegetable garden, their own wood to keep warm, who can produce their own energy, and don’t need chemical drugs… they have a much better chance of remaining unharmed in case of a catastrophe and adapting to a new way of life.

I think we should all roll up our sleeves and try to no longer be dependent on the corporations for water, energy, food and health. Unfortunately, we rarely think about these aspects, so we don’t ask ourselves who we depend on for living.

Ultimately, what is the answer? To me a sovereign is free when he/she does not depend on corporations and on the many constraints they induce. Then, it he/she is free also in a broader sense, that I cannot say. Maybe he/she becomes a slave to the vegetable garden and her animals, but at least it’s under his/her control.

At what stage is your dream of self-sufficiency?

The farm we have is already real, even if actually it’s not 100% self-sufficient yet, as I would like it to be. The water we use comes from our well and the springs, partly shared with other farmers, our neighbors, through a consortium that we created together. The wood stove obviously works with the wood from our forest.

The fields are mulched with our wood chips and straw.

Our gardens are fertilized organically. We try to self-produce the seeds and in some months of the year we arrive at about 80% of self-produced food. We do not use chemicals in the fields, as well as we don’t take drugs or antibiotics in our bodies. We still have work to do from the energy point of view, but there are improvements every year.

In these years in the search for self-sufficiency, I have made a huge amount of mistakes that luckily I could afford. Maybe in the future I won’t be able to afford making mistakes and all the ones I’ve made so far will be useful to me.

The path to freedom starts with you.