"...talks with your farmer friend gotten any further?"
He's wrenching away at heavy equipment in a desperate race with Spring. After that he's got a lot of dirt to move, a lot of amendments to apply, and a lot of seeds to sow. We talked about alternatives to cattle for meat, to chickens for eggs, and livestock able to be managed under a roof rather than exposed to overflights by drones and fallout from chemtrails. However, he needs to tend to first things first.
"Nurture the people, protect the land, preserve old-world talents and promote specialisation of expertise within a community."
I have learned that fundamental principles are of critical import from the beginning. Ensuring the primary values we set out to attain are the primary products of our endeavors is necessary to prevent financialization from taking over, which it will if it can. If acquisition of money isn't our primary goal, we need to exclude it and keep it to aspects where it is necessary, which it always finds a way to be in any endeavor. Keeping cattle for a PMA is such an endeavor that requires money, but that money needs to not be potential to divert the purpose of the PMA. To prevent that the expenses for feed, maintenance, butchering, packaging, and shipping must be contributed by PMA members as needed, and not by the farmer, because then the farmer doesn't need to recover them at the harvest by pricing meat, for example. That prevents the farmer from becoming a for profit business selling meat disguised as a PMA, which will draw unwanted attention eventually, and convert the farmer from a member of a community to a parasitic financial enterprise.