Our keyboards have lived in fear as we have pounded them into submission with our frustrations, fears, and even hopes.  Still, year after year we click on and on to that unknown person, friend, or foe seeking some kind of cultural communal connection. 

But, to what end?

Maybe, just maybe its time to begin the gathering of our kith & kin.  Maybe we can begin to come together peacefully as a people who can claim our rightful place, even in this multicultural country called America. 
To come together without fear or scorn under the framework of an organization that can not only facilitate cultural cohesion but also without all the negative racist baggage.

If your interest is tweaked just a little please visit my blog below for more details on how we can begin the gathering of our people.

IMPORTANT:  We are not seeking just any individuals to fill the ranks, we are seeking people with a real sense of honor to their character.

http://unitedconfederateclanofthekeltoi.blogspot.com/

I’m in Connecticut and am a hobby farmer/agrarianist preparing for the economic downturn.  More specifically, I’m in the part of Connecticut near the borders of both Rhode Island and Massachusetts.  If you are near me, post here or PM me.  I have found a lot of good local resources for agrarians in this area, and I need more good White people in my social network here.

Kievsky,
Nice to hear of some interest.  I have listed our clan here in Kinisim because that really is where our clan is.  We are non-racist, non-political, and more of a heritage group that seeks a peaceful cultural separation from the mulitcultural securlar culture of America today.  Kind of like the Amish if you will.  Southern or Northern, you will still be welcome.

The reality most Kinsfolk don’t seem to grasp or try not to think about is that we as individuals really cannot make it on our own.  Yes some may have a small farm, maybe some livestock, but the isolation of most kinists makes leaves them unprepared and unready to face any real hardship situations that may befall them in an uncertain future. 

I really hate to even say this but the truth is sooner or later, folks like us will either come together for pure survival or we will perish in our once secure locations. 

Just do the math folks.

I quite agree Sherod.  As I see, I’m going to have to recruit people locally and educate them about what Kinism is.  I think that as the economic situation worsens, the taboo of association of European-Americans on the basis of race and/or heritage is going to fade.

It’s strange that you feel the need to say “non-racist.”  The term “racist” against which you are defining yourself is completely bogus, invented by a Communist mass murderer Leon Trotsky, and only Whites feel the need to assert that they are “non-racist.”

Anyway, I hope some people from New England wander onto this forum.

Hey Kievsky, I’m in your area and would enjoy corresponding with you and potentially arranging a meeting. You can use the Private Messages page to let me know if you’d like to do that, or you can email me at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Best,
John Marshall

Hey John,

I e-mailed you.  I read in the Kinist Review page that you are from Florida.  Did you move North?  I’m in Southern New England.

Anyway, I sure hope there are some kinists around here who want to get involved in local agriculture projects.

A thought that’s been clanking around in my head that is only now taking shape enough to articulate is this—namely that we need to Work towards our Liberation, much like the Puritans and the Amish believe.  The world is indeed a corrupting and degenerate place, and it needs to be resisted.  Some people believe in fighting resistance, but the traditions of working resistance have proved more successful and lasting.

My idea is that Resistance through Working (specifically through creative entrepreneurship) can effect a change in the culture.  Here’s how I see it playing out.

Food prices are rising sharply—right now at irritation levels, but soon to be PANIC levels.  The economy is tanking, people are out of work.  The Greater Depression is coming according to many mainstream economists.  (see http://www.dailyreckoning.com and http://www.urbansurvival.com/week.htm)

My idea is to put people back to work doing local agriculture—not just growing food, but also canning and dehydrating and pickling it for the winter, making cheese, making soap, maybe even tanning leather and crafting footwear and such.  I have feedstock sources for leather and soap (a family slaughterhouse).

Also, a lot of properties in my area would make excellent mini-farms—we just have to convince the homeowners to turn them into such, or to buy up foreclosed multi-acre properties and do it ourselves.  there’s a house across the street from me that’s been foreclosed.  It’s on 1.5 acres with a solid .75 acres ready to put under cultivation, as well as a lot of workshop space for metalwork, storage, canning, etc.  .75 acres is enough land to grow about 7000 pounds of food, or about enough for 7 people year round.

One thing to understand is that the kind of food you grow on a New England mini-farm is potatoes as the staple, and fruits and vegetables, which is far more nutritious than the grain-based, corn-based diet of modern man.  Most packaged food is based on partially hydrogenated corn syrup and high fructose corn syrup.  So a diet based on a New England mini-farm is much better for you—so much so that it’s worth the extra effort to do the canning/dehydrating/pickling/freezing to put up the harvest for the winter.  However, most people are not aware of this, and if you tell them, in my experience, they are too lazy (at this point) to do anything about it.

So we need to find people who care enough about thier children to make this effort.  I’ve met a few home-schooling stay at home mom Christian families here and there (one of them showed me where to get raw milk) who actually live this model of local agricutlure.  This is a healthy model in every way—physically, economically and spiritually healthy.

First we need at least a couple of families in an area doing this, and therefore showing that it can be done, and then we can spread the idea and create a real local trading economy.

Right now I grow enough for my family, and sell a small surplus at a swanky farmer’s market where I get highway robbery prices.  Rich people know the value of New England grown vegetables picked the same day.  However, I’d rather trade my surplus with a good Kinist Christian family in exchange for their doing canning/pickling etc.  Local agriculture right now is an economy of hobby farmers and rich people and it doesn’t extend to the winter.  It needs to become an economy of hard working regular folks who preserve the harvest for the winter.  If we accomplish this, then every yard, or nearly every yard, is converted from lawns to kitchen gardens.

When the local agriculture economy is put in place, the culture will change.  People will care more about reality.  There will be less time and less inclination to consume corrupting mass media products.  People will talk to one another more.  I think that people will naturally come to the Kinist way of thinking just as a result of living a local economy rather than the globalist economy.  So that’s my thinking in a nutshell.

I’m ready to implement, I have the resources in place, but at this point I’m an army of one.  A local economy requires at least 2 or 3 families.

Hey John,

I e-mailed you.  I read in the Kinist Review page that you are from Florida.  Did you move North?  I’m in Southern New England.

[Yes, we moved North. That’s a topic we should discuss privately, as I guard my physical location against equality zealots.]

Anyway, I sure hope there are some kinists around here who want to get involved in local agriculture projects.

A thought that’s been clanking around in my head that is only now taking shape enough to articulate is this—namely that we need to Work towards our Liberation, much like the Puritans and the Amish believe. 

[The Amish are secure because they are irrelevant to the world. They do not need an explicitly racialist social doctrine because their severe way of life and insular, endogamous practices keep outsiders and dabblers out. Still, I think Kinism embraces a less suspicious approach to technology. One of the reasons technology is such a danger is the uses it is put to. For example, there’s a great deal of cutting edge technology in the entertainment industry, but the ends to which that industry are put, and its very reason for being, are antithetical to Christian living, which is participatory by nature. On the other hand, I have no problem with hydroponics as long as it’s sustainable, non-industrial, non-threatening to the environment or other people’s property. When it’s used as a tool to liberate families from wage slavery, then it’s a positive force. One thing we must be wary of is stifling innovation out of a misplaced sense of “arcadianism”.] 

The world is indeed a corrupting and degenerate place, and it needs to be resisted.  Some people believe in fighting resistance, but the traditions of working resistance have proved more successful and lasting.

[Indeed. A hot war with the degenerate U.S. culture is a ticket to your maker. When dissidence and cultural secessionism is deemed “terrorism”, you are one FBI bullet and one CNN report from being a “cultist”. We fight the wars we can win, which is the cold war of cultural secessionism.]

My idea is that Resistance through Working (specifically through creative entrepreneurship) can effect a change in the culture.  Here’s how I see it playing out.

Food prices are rising sharply—right now at irritation levels, but soon to be PANIC levels.  The economy is tanking, people are out of work.  The Greater Depression is coming according to many mainstream economists.  (see http://www.dailyreckoning.com and http://www.urbansurvival.com/week.htm)

[I also read the Daily Reckoning. They’re bearish on U.S. Inc.]

My idea is to put people back to work doing local agriculture—not just growing food, but also canning and dehydrating and pickling it for the winter, making cheese, making soap, maybe even tanning leather and crafting footwear and such.  I have feedstock sources for leather and soap (a family slaughterhouse).

[Right now, I think this needs to be undertaken on a family by family basis. I also should note that while it is Industrial Capitalism that Kinism opposes, the “market economy” of which industrial capitalism is just a particular historical manifestation appears to us the most sustainable. Our agrarianism is tempered by the realization that in any healthy economy trade, specialization, and to some extent speculation will be elements in due proportion. To suppress these and force the incompetent into agriculture would be to take the path of the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot, who led a million people to starvation. But when people are free of corporations (especially the publicly owned, multi-national variety), a more natural balance will return. This is why supplemental agriculture is so key, to begin with, since one of a families greatest expenses is food. Our unofficial economist is Wilhelm Ropke.]

Also, a lot of properties in my area would make excellent mini-farms—we just have to convince the homeowners to turn them into such, or to buy up foreclosed multi-acre properties and do it ourselves. 

[Nice plan. Just beware of creating “compounds” that attract too much notice, especially if you intend on keeping your guns.]

there’s a house across the street from me that’s been foreclosed.  It’s on 1.5 acres with a solid .75 acres ready to put under cultivation, as well as a lot of workshop space for metalwork, storage, canning, etc.  .75 acres is enough land to grow about 7000 pounds of food, or about enough for 7 people year round.

[Small farms can be very productive if you know what you are doing. You can also find markets for specialized, organic produce in the urban areas.]

One thing to understand is that the kind of food you grow on a New England mini-farm is potatoes as the staple, and fruits and vegetables, which is far more nutritious than the grain-based, corn-based diet of modern man. 

[I think that sensible nutritionists place the focus on avoiding overly processed foods. Fruits, vegetables, supplemented with protein seem to be best. Fish farming is also very possible, preferably small oily fish high in Omega fatty acids. But physical labor is a key component in longevity, and that is another advantage that farming has.]

Most packaged food is based on partially hydrogenated corn syrup and high fructose corn syrup.  So a diet based on a New England mini-farm is much better for you—so much so that it’s worth the extra effort to do the canning/dehydrating/pickling/freezing to put up the harvest for the winter.  However, most people are not aware of this, and if you tell them, in my experience, they are too lazy (at this point) to do anything about it.

[Yup. I’m not too lazy. I just have no land. On of my in-laws has pear trees that supply a tremendous amount of fresh, healthy fruit, but she “doesn’t like pears”. Another has a small vegetable garden that I’m envious of, and this Spring we’re going to expand it and help cultivate it and plant a few rows of our own. We grow lots of herbs at home. That can be done anywhere.]

So we need to find people who care enough about thier children to make this effort.  I’ve met a few home-schooling stay at home mom Christian families here and there (one of them showed me where to get raw milk) who actually live this model of local agricutlure.  This is a healthy model in every way—physically, economically and spiritually healthy.

[We’re homeschoolers, and we insist on it. As far as raw milk goes, the sale of it in some states is illegal. Imagine this: you can get brain-destroying aspartame sweeteners in every store in the country, but if you sell raw milk to willing customers, you can go to jail. What kind of a f’ed up country is that? We get ALL our milk from a local farm. It’s organic and half as much as the organic milk at the grocery store. And the taste is UNBELIEVABLE. ]

First we need at least a couple of families in an area doing this, and therefore showing that it can be done, and then we can spread the idea and create a real local trading economy.

[Well, we’re trying to get to a place where we can do something like that. It takes sacrifice and that’s what we’re attempting to do.]

Right now I grow enough for my family, and sell a small surplus at a swanky farmer’s market where I get highway robbery prices. 

[I’m genuinely impressed. I really am.]

Rich people know the value of New England grown vegetables picked the same day.  However, I’d rather trade my surplus with a good Kinist Christian family in exchange for their doing canning/pickling etc. 

[Any takers out there?]

Local agriculture right now is an economy of hobby farmers and rich people and it doesn’t extend to the winter.  It needs to become an economy of hard working regular folks who preserve the harvest for the winter.  If we accomplish this, then every yard, or nearly every yard, is converted from lawns to kitchen gardens.

[Wouldn’t that be fantastic. One of the saddest sites in the world is the hectares and hectares of arable but uncultivated land in N.E. Some of the old timers grow winter corn, but corn should not be a staple.]

When the local agriculture economy is put in place, the culture will change. 

[Yes it will, but it’s a calling. An ELECTION to a seceded way of life. I think you realize that most people will not even think about it until it’s too late. Their solution will be to raid the farms of people who thought ahead. This is one of the arguments for Kinist “settlements”. There are people in this movement that I feel a genuine bond with, but they’re nowhere near me and can’t move.]

People will care more about reality.  There will be less time and less inclination to consume corrupting mass media products.  People will talk to one another more.  I think that people will naturally come to the Kinist way of thinking just as a result of living a local economy rather than the globalist economy.  So that’s my thinking in a nutshell.

[I think you may be giving the average American too much credit. But I like that you are hopeful.]

I’m ready to implement, I have the resources in place, but at this point I’m an army of one.  A local economy requires at least 2 or 3 families.

[We’ll talk more about what we can do to make it happen. But first things first, it’s necessary for me to settle my situation more. Also, don’t discount the need to have a bond of friendship with the people you do this with. Right?]

Hey John,

I PM’d or e-mailed you (don’t remember which) but didn’t hear back from you.  Are you here in the Northeast?

You are right that the current generation would simply raid those who thought ahead.  It’s going to take a generation of culling and hard living to re-create a generation of people who think past next week.  The culture won’t change overnight.  Between here and there will be a LOT of spilled blood and guts, unfortunately.  Especially since those spilled blood and guts highly likely will include my own.  People don’t realize how at risk we all really are.

We are alive, therefore it is incumbent upon us to try our best, just as the pilot of a crippled, flaming, graveyard spiraling airplane has a duty to try to keep flying his plane until he crashes.

Nice to hear a cheery voice, Kievsky!

(just kidding!)

God bless,
Laurel

Kievsky - 12 February 2008 10:42 PM

Hey John,

I PM’d or e-mailed you (don’t remember which) but didn’t hear back from you.  Are you here in the Northeast?

You are right that the current generation would simply raid those who thought ahead.  It’s going to take a generation of culling and hard living to re-create a generation of people who think past next week.  The culture won’t change overnight.  Between here and there will be a LOT of spilled blood and guts, unfortunately.  Especially since those spilled blood and guts highly likely will include my own.  People don’t realize how at risk we all really are.

We are alive, therefore it is incumbent upon us to try our best, just as the pilot of a crippled, flaming, graveyard spiraling airplane has a duty to try to keep flying his plane until he crashes.

Hey Kievsky,

I did receive your email and I will try to reply to it today at some point, though it may be as late as tomorrow. Blessings.

A local “better-than-organic” vegetable farming couple (so called because they do not pay the bribe to the USDA to be certified “USDA ORGANIC” for marketing purposes to gain permission to use the word “organic” and use APPROVED harmful chemicals on their farm) and I had that canning arrangement at one time: they provided surplus produce and jars, I prepped and processed huge quantities, and we each took half. A service to both of us in our given circumstances. If folks seek out a key person in their communities, who can link them up with various farmers providing different goods, we can at least start to get a sense of working community going as we learn who and what is out there, even if we can’t have our own “homestead” yet.

A good point, Kinswoman. Practical working partnerships are a way to build community and a steppingstone to the dreamed-of homestead.

Me, I told an acquaintance that I would help her with her canning this year (after the fruit comes in) in exchange for learning the art and getting a few jars of canned goodies.

Kind of scary for me, first time canning, but this is a low-risk way of learning how.

Nice seeing you around here, Kinswoman! It’s been a while.

God bless,
Laurel

Laurel Loflund - 17 February 2008 09:25 PM

Me, I told an acquaintance that I would help her with her canning this year (after the fruit comes in) in exchange for learning the art and getting a few jars of canned goodies.

Kind of scary for me, first time canning, but this is a low-risk way of learning how.

Laurel

Laurel,

Canning does not need to be scary.  I’ll give you the relevant facts.  I took a microbiology class and I peppered the professor with questions about the dangers of canning and food poisoning, and also talked to a Cooperative Extension.  Here are the facts:

Botulism is the danger of canning.  Botulism is a toxin that is produced by the bacteria Clostridium botulinum.  Clostridium botulinum is an obligate anaerobe, which means it can only germinate and create colonies in a culture medium that is free of oxygen—such as a sealed jar.  A few Clostridium Botulinum spores hanging around in nature aren’t going to hurt you.  For Botulim to be a problem, C. botulinum has to produce colonies of billions of organisms pumping out enough of the botulism toxin to hurt you.

C. botulinum cannot germinate in an acidic environment.  They cannot germinate in food that is pickled in vinegar, because vinegar is acetic acid and therefore acidic.  Vinegar is a weak acid but generally considered acidic enough to be a hostile environment for C. botulinum.  However if you want to be really sure add a tablespoon of lemon juice So if you can something acidic you are safe.  Tomato products such as juices and sauces are naturally acidic, though I recommend to add a tablespoon of lemon juice and shake it up or mix it in to make sure it diffuses and the whole thing is acidic.  A tablespoon of Lemon juice will not hurt the taste of anything, but it will massively lower the pH (make it more acidic).  So Lemon Juice is your best defense against botulism.  Even stuff pickled in vinegar—add some lemon juice just to lower the pH even more, it will taste fine and your mind can rest.

Anything that KNOW is acidic can be safely boil water canned.  A ball jar or mason jar has a two part lid—the screw on cap, and the pop top lid.  The screw on cap can be re-used, the pop top lid cannot be re-used.

The jars, caps and lids need to be sterilized while the tomato sauce boils.  Pickles and other vegetables that you plan to can just sit there raw.  First thing you want to do is sterilize the jars, caps and lids, and the tongs that you use to pick them all up.  You can pressure can the stuff to kill all spores, or just put it all in an iodine solution.  I’m a beer brewer and I know that putting something in an iodine solution for 15 minutes kills EVERYTHING.  You can get medical iodine at any pharmacy or beer brewing supply shop.

Then your sterilized jars are taken out of the iodine solution with the sterilized tongs and put in the boiling water pot.  Pour some vinegar in so it stands up straight, or just pour in your tomato sauce.  Put the sterilized pop top cap on with the sterilized tongs, then put the screw on cap on with the tongs, then you can use your unsterile hands to screw on the cap because its OUTSIDE and ISOLATED from the contents.  Repeat with all the jars you can fit in the boiling water bath.  Then boil according to the directions in the book.  Then when you take them out and they cool, the pop top caps will get sucked in and they’ll be like a dimple, and it will be a pretty strong seal.  You can unscrew the screw on cap and the pop top lid will stay on tight, and only come off with some serious prying with your fingernails.

Of course if you want to can things that are not in an acidic medium, you have to pressure can at 240 degrees Fahrenheit for 6 minutes to be sure to kill all C. botulinum spores.  This is a big pain in the butt and may destroy nutrients.  You have to make sure your pressure canner gauge is properly calibrated.  THe local COoperative extension will do this for you.  Get a high end pressure canner that screws down closed, because the twist ones are a bad design (trust me on this).

But honestly, as long as vinegar is cheap and available, I pickle EVERYTHING that I can.  It preserves nutrients because you don’t need to superheat the stuff.  I also like dehydrating and freezing.  The taste of your garden food may not be great in mid-January, but it will be nutritious and that’s what’s truly important.  Your better off eating defrosted, soggy squash and spinach than anything made out of refined flour and partially hydrogenated corn syrup!

Speaking of which—preserving spinach/kale/mustard greens.  First a word on greens.  Grow dark green greens that self seed.  Spinach kale and mustard will “bolt” and thus reseeed and grow back next year.  Gardening books claim that “bolting” is bad.  Bolting means flowering.  Bolting is GOOD when we’re talking the better greens.  Mustard/kale/spinach are better than lettuce.  They are more nutritious and stronger tasting.  When mustard bolts it gets hot as hell!  And that’s a good thing!  It’s sets your head on fire when you eat it, but it is very anti-oxidant.  Mustard/kale/spinach bolt and they come back like gangbusters the next year.  They are not scientifically perennial, but they are functionally perennial.  Encourage this—let them flower!  DOn’t pull the whole plant, just pick off leaves.

So you pick your mustard/kale/spinach.  Blanch them by steaming or boiling them for 2 minutes, then spin them in a salad spinner, then put them in freezer bags and throw them in your freezer.  you’ll get all your vitamins in January.

The point of gardening is to prevent diseases that result from vitamin/mineral deficiencies.  Don’t worry about taste.  Don’t live on wheat or corn products—that’s proletarian food.  That’s food designed to keep you alive long enough to make a profit for the corporations.  Your garden food will keep you HEALTHY!  It’s worth the effort and the investment.  Look in the classifieds for a chest freezer.  Chest freezers are great!  It’s the best way to preserve the harvest, and stock up on locally raised meat.  I got a 26 cubic foot Westinghouse upright chest freezer for 25 bucks last summer.  It was a real steal.  Those old Westinghouses will never die, much better than anything manufactured nowadays.  They thought it wasn’t worth much because it was old.

Anyone ever wants to talk survivalism/farming/food preservation with me PM me and I’ll give you my phone #.  I just don’t want to put it on the internet.

Rob

OK, a word on beans.  I grow LOTS of beans.  I like lima beans especially, but I grow everything.  I sell at a farmer’s market.  So whatever beans I pick I eat and/or sell, but I miss a lot of beans until the end of the seasons.  Beans dry quite nicely on the vine.  You don’t have to grow pole beans either.  Bush beans and half runners are also very productive.  And you can do a second season of them as high as Connecticut.  Replant some of your pods in July and you’ll get more.

In October I pick off the vine dried beans and seal them in a vaccuum sealer thing I got from Sears.  Of course this won’t be sustainable post peak oil, though the tupperware type vaccuum seal containers will still work so long as there is electricity.  So I got vaccuum sealed dried beans.  I will replant them next year unless I am starving and need to eat them.

And a word on compost.  Do your neighbors leave bags of leaves they raked on the side of the road every October?  Mine do.  I go around picking them up.  I bring them home and pour out the bags and use the leaves to kill grass/weeds where I want to create a garden, then I go to a local horse farm and put horse manure on top of the leaves.  This kills the wild vegetation and colonizes the land for a garden without any digging at all!

Of course if you have stuff like multiflora rosa you have to dig that stuff out and/or hit it with Roundup.  Invasives, and especially thorny invasives like multiflora rosa require aggressive destruction.  Dig them out at the root and hit them with Roundup in the summer when they come up.

But if you are just dealing with grass and ordinary old weeds, then leaves will put them down, and horse manure will keep the leaves from blowing away.  The leaves/horse manure will decompose into rich soil.  Instant garden with no spading/tilling/ploughing.  And don’t rototill or plough.  That destroys the soil web and dries out the soil.  I have worked simultaneously my non-mechanized soil, and the tilled market farm of a friend, and I can tell you, non-mechanized soil is happier, healtheir and tilthier.  The mechanized soil felt like partially dried cement to me.  Sure it produced OK, but it had a crust on the top.  It wasn’t as alive as my moist and fluffy sponge cake type garden.

The only time I’m ever truly happy is when I am doing hand tool gardening on my own plot.  I’m kind of looking forward to the collapse because I’ll be justified to be a full time farmer.  My wife won’t look at me as a whacko any more, but rather someone with great foresight and wisdom.  the knowledge I’ve accumulated will become relevant.

By the way, I purchased a Waterwise non-electric water distiller and I recommend anyone reading this get themselves one.  They are a cool 300 but well worth it.  Boiling water distilling kills pathogens and distills off chemicals in one fell swoop.  THe one thing is you have to store the water in glass containers.  You should hoard glass containers.  I told the local liquor stores to ask their regular customers to return their liquor bottles and hold them for me, which they do.  So I’m saving glass bottles with caps.  Distilled water quickly picks up the flavor of the container, so you have to use glass.  Glass doesn’t leach into water, it’s a clean material for containers, whereas plastic and metal will leach into distilled water.

Canning ..............uh…....... it was much easier watching that Virginia granny do it, Kievsky. :p