Alex Rollin

We are all welcomed into the world of individual awareness as we grow in our development.  Some of us are called on to serve others in some capacity as aids to our brothers and sisters who are in the process of deepening their own awareness.

As a person who finds himself in such a place of being called on to aid my fellows I look at this as an opportunity to share my own experience and the opportunity before me.

What follows is a basic plan for the start-up of a small scale farm that utilizes sustainable and ecologically friendly practices, and is situated within and compatible with the network of other operations in the country and the world poised to continue innovation in farming with sustainible, ecologically friendly technology.

The goals of the farm are the following:

I just posted an entry to the Knight Foundation's News Challenge contest.

Here's the text of the entry.  You can leave comments here, and I'll update if they accept the entry.

Dreamhost is a wild and woolly webhost that doesn't follow with the big guys. They lead the field in creating a really usable custom administration panel, and they realy have worked hard to make it intuitive and fast.

That being said, the availability of Drupal, Version 5, is a really important step. I've been running Drupal on their servers for years, and I still have a number of clients who use Dreamhost for their Drupal hosting because of the low price of the overall package.

The best place to start for a description of Drupal is here on the Drupal.org website. You can also find a number of case studies there to review and to find our more about how others are using the software.

For beginners, Drupal is a complex Swiss-Army knife that is best used when you have run out of options. Unless you have some help, you will need to use a service like Bryght or Dreamhost, to have them install the software for you.