Trends For 2010

Trends For 2010 Worth Considering

Backyard Gardens and Mini-Farms

This trend has really started to kick in. If you are already doing it, great! (Also, please share your experiences and expertise here.) Our family started doing some small gardening with raised beds. We planted.... We've had lettuce and spinach up until almost Christmas. I'm convinced done right, you can garden 365 in our area of Virginia.

For more articles on Backyard Gardening and Farming go here.

For some great books on farming, please check out these books.

Joel Salatin Books

Even if you don't plan on farming, be sure to read "Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal." It is a must read!

Homesteading

This is our families long-term desire. Buy some land in a secure (not necessarily totally secluded) place, grow our own food (fruits, vegetables, milk, chicken, meat, honey, etc.) and sell our produce to others. But most importantly, set it up so our son can run it by the time he is 18-21 and we can put other homes on the property. Then as we age, our son and his family can take care of us. The benefit, our children end up with a home and land that is owned free and clear and they never have to pay for a mortgage or rent.

Checkout the Homestead Blessings from the West Ladies.

You may also want to check this book out:

Canning

This kind of goes with Homesteading, but you don't need a homestead to start canning. Grow your food or buy some local "organic" food and can it for the future. Better food this way, and it will save you money. Plus it is a great skill in the event you need it all of a sudden. Here are some helpful resources:

Sewing

Save money making your own high quality clothes.

Hunting

What a great thing to do to bond with your family or children and provide food for yourself and others.

Home Based Family Enterprises

Here's where the rubber really meets the road. There are so many ways that your family can start a small home based family enterprise. This is a great way to have multiple streams of income into your family. Please consider these resources:

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Be sure to check out the Venture Academy from Wade Myers. Below is his new DVD set from Franklin Springs.

You may also want to consider this conference coming up on Family Economics.

Safety, Security and Personal Privacy

If you don't think this is important and trend worth considering, please think again. This book is well worth reading.

For more articles on Safety & Security, please go here.

Christian Community Retreats

What I have in mind here is a place that a local body can go in the event of societal or economic disorder. While at the same time

More Intimate, More Biblical, New Testament Communities

I see this as a very significant and important trend, perhaps the most important. If and when a crisis occurs, societal or economic breakdown take place, persecution arises, I would much rather be part of a close knit, truly members of one another, intimate New Testament community as compared to some traditional church or mega church.

For more on New Testament Communities and Ekklesia, please go here.

Panning For Gold

This could become a great, fun, family hobby. Obviously if you live nowhere near a place where you are free to do that, then that might be difficult. Apparently panning for gold is still worthwhile. I think it is worth giving a try. If you find that it becomes a poor use of time, resources and money, then stop.

Acquiring Gold and Silver for Security...Not Profit

One of the fundamentals to creating true Biblical Wealth is to own physical gold and silver. Yes you can profit by buying and selling gold and silver and yes you can lose money by buying and selling gold and silver so I recommend you don't buy for profit, but you buy for security to protect your wealth...and to have on hand in the event our current currency becomes useless, which is a real possibility.

For more articles and reports about Gold and Silver, please go here.

Also, be sure to check out Franklin Sanders a.k.a. The MoneyChanger

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