Hi Kathy,

I don't know what's going on in my community specifically, about transition.  However, many people around here do garden because they like to and/or that's the way their families have been doing it forever.

In my case my family has been around here and Logan (Well, the newcomers came in around 1870 or so. Hi Hi)  for a long time.  My greatgrandfathers on my mom's side fought in the Civil War and one of them helped build the house I grew up in before he went to the Civil War.I am an exception to the gardening crew though in that I swore I would never plant another garden after I escaped from the farm in 1966.  That was my intent untill I read James Howard Kunstler's book The Long Emergency about 5 years ago.  It took a while to retrieve those repressed farming memories Hi HI) but this year, even with all the rain I did get a garden in.  Some potatoes, corn and beans.    I planted some other stuff but it was just too late.  I picked a lousy year to start, but this is a trial year so I'll be better prepared next spring.

In the 5 years since I read JHK's book I've been informing myself about the predicaments our civilization has gotten itself into.  Predicaments are different than problems in that they have no easy, readily available solutions.  It took a lot to get me started but doing something is better than just fretting and complaining about it. 

As for the communication problems, at some point I would like to discuss those issues as I have some experience in discussing the issues we're talking about on amateur radio.

Also, if someone wants to discuss some of these issues about GCC, Peak Oil, water and such I would be interested.  One of the problems that I've ran into is that people just don't believe the next 20 years are going to be different than the last 20.

73s

Del