Terra Nemorosa - The Vegan Land

As you might or might now know, this blog/homepage has been around for years, but maybe you're wondering who the blogger is (or in this case the bloggers are)?

Wonder no more. Hi! I'm Camilla, one of the people behind this blog. I'm vegan and have been or a number of years, before that I was ovo-lacto and before that pescatarian (though at the time I didn't know there was a name for it). As a child, of course, I was omni, but struggling with it, from the age of six, when I found out that there was no difference between the muscle tissue in my body and that in the bodies of animals. So that was why I started my path towards veganism. My love for animals. Soon I discovered all the other pros of being veg. Now I can't think of a single drawback.

For years I've also been concerned about the environment, ecology etc and human rights, feminism and so on.

For the future, I'm dreaming of a much greener lifestyle. A green, cruelty-free lifestyle to be exact. Some day I hope to live somewhere in the countryside, preferably in the woods somewhere, growing my own food, with solar panels on the roof and hopefully a mini wind power plant somewhere nearby. By then, I hope my family is a lot bigger than it is today. Right now it consists of only three humans and a number of non-human family members.

In fact, maybe we could start a vegan village! Maybe... Still, if you can dream it, you can do it, as someone once said (more or less).

I just read an article about surviving the end of civilization. It seemed to mix serious and joking advice. Personally I found a couple of the points either impossible to follow or simply ridiculous. So I added a few of my own, so my list would contain ten points too. My points are more serious, but I claim no expert knowledge. Take these points as they are, just general advice that should be useful even if society doesn't come to an end.

1. Collect supplies - food and more
2. Get crafty - no demand for bloggers, fashion gurus or celebrities
3. Build a greenhouse
4. Make a garden and grow vegetables, fruit, cereals and so on.
5. Collect rain water
6. Get solar and wind power
7. Move into the woods (or some other isolated spot) or gather your family, friends and relatives - so you'll have friendly neighbours
8. Get some environmentally friendly and low energy transportation - like bicycles?
9. Build a wall or grow a thick, thorny hedge
10. Collect valuables for trade - gold and so on.