Hello Mr. Wolf, won't you please sit down?

[JWFITZ]

A grant is hardly necessary. It's pretty easy to demonstrate that a stand of guava used or charcoal could cut one's need for fertilizer/compost by half. I'd hardly stand around and wait for a grant anyway. It will take three solid years to get a farmstead up and profitable. I'm 18 months into the whole thing at this point and happy to report solidly on track. I should food self sufficient at some standard of living in 4 months, food and fuel self sufficient in 9--food fuel and revenue self sufficient in 16.

Hell yes, I'm an optimist! There is a lot of opportunity in this new world once one resigns oneself to the notion that the old world isn't coming back.