Before the Shelves Go Empty

We are standing at a point in history I hoped we would never get to, but we have slept walked that long and that deep that its hard to know when it started or indeed how we are going to get out.

If you have picked up this book there is a good chance you already feel it something is wrong. Not one thing you can point to and fix but a whole way of living that feels like a trap even when you are doing everything you have been told to do. You are working, paying your bills, feeding your kids, trying to keep it all together and yet there is this gnawing feeling that the ground beneath you is not as solid as everyone keeps pretending it is. Maybe you have started growing a few things in the garden. Maybe you have quietly stopped trusting supermarkets to give you what your family actually needs. Maybe you have looked at your finances and thought there has to be another way to live that does not leave me this exhausted and this afraid. You are not imagining it. The system we have all been living under was not built to serve you. It was built to keep you dependent and too busy to notice.

This book is for you if you are a woman, a mother, a family who knows something has to change and wants to start building a different kind of life but has no idea where to begin. It is for you if the idea of land, community, growing and producing real food stirs something in your spirit even though you cannot yet see how it would work. It is also for farmers and landowners who are drowning in debt and red tape and have been told for so long that the government will look after them that they have forgotten God already gave them everything they need right under their feet. This book is not for anyone who wants to stay asleep. It is not for anyone looking for a comfortable read that tells them everything is fine and someone else will sort it out. If you want that, put this down now because I will not lie to you.