Hay & Straw Exchange (Buy it, sell it and trade it.)
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My one line of advice for for those who find themselves in trouble during this current economic pit is - "Don't hunt a job, make one..."

 I was channel surfing early this morning when I hit a kids show, Sesame
Street I think. What caught my attention was the young lady talking
about pumpernickel bread, one of my favorites... A young teacher was
doing something with her class that my sister (first grade teacher,
retiring this year) has done for some years with hers. They were
planting a little patch of wheat. I didn't really notice the size of the
plot but it may have been 100 square feet or less. They tilled the spot
up (hoes) and stirred in some manure then seeded the patch. They
trampled in the seed with their feet and watched it grow over the
winter. I don't know where it was but they had sandy soil. The wheat was
not great looking and the heads were tiny compared to the soft red
winter wheat we grow here but it did grow and did produce. They cut it
when ripe and tied it into small bundles and stacked it up. They then
spread it on a sheet and flailed it out with sticks and winnowed it
clean. They fed it through a hand crank grinder and baked some thin
bread from it and each student ate a little piece of it. I don't suppose
 many of the kids that saw that segment of that show this morning will
long remember what was done (but some will) but I'll bet that every kid
in that class will always remember where bread comes from...    :-) 
 We need a whole lot more of that in our schools... Not only will most
of their parents never expose them to that kind of knowledge, most of
their parents don't even have that knowledge... The system just wants to
teach them to pass test and to prepare them to become fodder for the
corporate machine...
 "Entrepreneurial thinking" should be a required subject every year from
K through 12. If our economy was based more on a zillion small
businesses instead of a handful of greedy giants it would be far more
stable and flexible.