SEEDS FROM PLOT 509
From: Plot509@marks.org
To: Greenyguy@growswell.org
Hi, I thought this might interest you: I've got a surplus of 20 heads of Romaine and half a dozen quarts of strawberries. I'm looking for some carrots, maybe 3-4 pounds, and a friend in my living unit wants half a dozen zukes.
From: Greenyguy@growswell.org
To: Plot509@marks.org
Got your text. I'm on my way back from a trade on the western slope, and I'm ready to acquire more stock. I will take all your Romaine, and I think I can split the strawberries with my sister. I need to e-mail my friend down the road about the zukes. I'll get back to you soon.
I envision a society where people would talk or communicate with each other either with e-mail or in person. We'd share our knowledge and our stories, hurts and gladness.
I imagine myself getting my Burley trailer loaded with the 20 heads of Romaine and the strawberries, too. I'd pedal maybe a couple or three miles to my friend's house. My friend would load his truck that runs on biodiesel with the produce.
My friend would offer a nice cold lemonade and a plate full of home made gingersnap cookies. I'd tell him about how I got the bird netting up just before the birds could take my bumper crop of berries. He would relate a story he had heard on a radio show about Midwesterner habits in Minnesota. We'd laugh and I would invite him to come eat dinner with my family next week. I'd think how the boys would love to go swimming with my friend at the community pool.
My friend and I would bid each other safe travel, and we'd look forward to the next meeting.
This story is an example of something I would like to see in our near future. There would be a need of several changes in our society - like the use of biodiesel, or an even better energy source, for vehicles transporting large quantities of produce or other things. Middlemen and corporate intervention would be reduced. Real people would interact and get to know each other. And the use of money would become almost non existent.
By Aspen Marks