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named Megan Paska. Together they
launched a community-supported
agriculture business in New Jersey,
with dairy goats, chickens, ducks,
vegetables-the works.
Michael began learning how to
live with less and decided to take
his message on the road. He moved
back to his native South Florida
and began spreading what he calls
"young farm energy" there. He saw
that people in the Northeast were
grabbing hold of concepts like sustainability and self-sufficiency, so
he carried those ideas south. This
month, he and a couple of childhood
friends will begin work on an urban
farm right in their hometown of
Stuart, Florida, with plans to launch
this fall. "We're building out a small
commercial vegetable market garden,
as well as planting native fruits and
medicinal herbs for added-value
products," he says. "And we'll be
hosting events-classes, films, and
workshops-to help educate and
inspire our community around food
and agriculture."
Occasionally, he misses the money, but he doesn't miss the stuff. The
lessons Michael learned as a farmer
were ones he brought home-particularly a mindfulness about consumer waste, the perils of worshipping
the dollar, and trust in a safety net.
"Honestly, everything that happened
after the economic collapse of '08
was an affront to the values we were
raised with," he says. "You would go
to school, and you go and you go and
you go. You're told you won't have
to worry. Then we saw the collapse,
and you learn that the system isn't as
friendly as we were led to believe."
Michael finds farming, and his
work as a farming educator, challenging-financially, emotionally,
and physically. But he wouldn't
change it. "It's the one way, with
a career, that I can address all the
things I feel passionate about. I can
sleep at night."
VER IN PIKE, New
Hampshire, sleep
wasn't exactly what
Karen Charbono was
going for in 2003. In
fact, with a newborn, it was largely
out of the question. Karen had
always been artsy-for Christmas
and housewarming gifts, she would
turn grain sacks into gorgeous handpainted table runners-but had
never tried to make money from her
passion. Now, she was attempting to
do just that by selling her runners in
local shops. But the Charbonos live
in a small town, and those shops had
very little foot traffic. On top of that,
the grain sacks she depended on
were becoming increasingly expensive and hard to find. Two years after
the birth of her daughter, her handcraft business still wasn't going well,
so she returned to secretarial work.
A couple of discoveries changed
her fortune: first, burlap, which
made an affordable and plentiful
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Spirit Magazine - March 2014
Spirit Magazine - March 2014
Contents
Gary’s Greeting
Gary’s Greeting en Español
Star of the Month
Freedom Story
From the Editor
Your Words
Your Pictures
Media Center
Eat Drink Sleep
Wise Guide
Numbers
Business
The New American Dream
Your Adventure In New York City
Calendar
Fun!
Spotlight
Community Outreach
Products & Services
Flight Service
Terminal Maps
Information
Rapid Rewards and A+ Rewards Partners
Route Map
The “If” List
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