Jamaican Till I Die!

Dillsbury Avenue was one of my favorite Avenues to walk on. Apart from the fact that it provided quick access to Millsbrough Avenue, it was always a scenic and pleasant road to be on. That was because most of the single-family homes on Dillsbury were uniquely designed and sat on very large, green, and well fruited land spaces. I remember one of those yards also had horses grazing in the front. There were times during my morning walks, I would see mongoose and various wildlife’s running across the streets or in people’s yard. Dillsbury was a green Avenue full of nature with a thriving ecological system. Today, my Dillsbury Avenue is no more, destroyed in the name of simple minded, one-dimensional and generic, so-called progress due to greed. The ecological system wiped out, where nature and green spaces are removed and replaced by so-suh concrete. Dillsbury Avenue is now overpopulated and congested with back-to-back multi-family Gated Community Compounds and continues to suffer from...

This document was for my eyes only, putting my ideas on paper. Outlining my plans for the future, the retirement years. But I decided to share it. Several of my friends and I discussed the possibility of forming a living cooperative alliance in the form of an Isolated, Secure, Remote, and Sustainable Homestead. This is a work in progress and will change over time. I started this document when a real estate agent asked me to write down what I was looking for, where and why, so she could finetune her search parameters. My friends also needed a better understanding of my intentions, to decide if this lifestyle was something they wanted to get involved with. One objective of Permaculture is to design labour out of the process of farming and if we can design labour out of farming then conceptually, we can also design the need for money out of living. A closed loop sustainable system and a change in lifestyle, redefining what makes us happy and content, should allow us to achieve objective...