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Projects at Porter Farm

Objective: Learn to adroitly manage a profitable, multi-million dollar operation
 with at least ten employees. Don’t go broke.
 

HANDS-ON LEARNING

Sustainable forestry
  Timber harvesting
  Replanting
  Fertilizing and mulching
  Stump removal and debris chipping
  Utilization of ground under trees

Sawmill
  Operation and maintenance
  Lumber production, grading, and storage
  Kiln for drying lumber

Carpentry
  Design and construction of buildings

Greenhouses
  Study the various types of greenhouses
  Construction and operation for four-season growing
  Sales and delivery
  Study soils and organic growing methods

Emerald green (Thuja)
  Propagation and sales

Vegetables
  Grow, harvest, preserve, and sales
  Three good ones: broccoli, spinach, and kale
  One bad one: radish

Fruit
  Grow, harvest, preserve, and sales
  Three good ones: blueberry, strawberry, apple
  One bad one: sugar from sugar beets

Apiary (beekeeping)
  Operation and maintenance
  Pollination of crops
  Honey sales

Vermiculture (raising worms)
  Fertilizer, animal food, waste reduction, sales

Chickens
  Construction of coops
  Operation and maintenance
  Eggs and meat

Rabbits
  Construction of hutches
  Operation and maintenance
  Breeding stock, meat, manure, pelts, sales

Rainbow trout
  Construction of ponds
  Operation and maintenance
  Meat, manure, sales

Food/meat processing facility
  Operation and maintenance
  Butchering technique and packaging

We are going to study energy:
  Solar
  Hydroelectric
  Water
  Steam
  Air has energy
  Atomic
  Wind
  Ocean waves & tides
  Earth’s motion 1000 mph
  Coal
  Muscle power
  Brain energy
  Animal power
  Natural gas
  Deep in earth oil
  ...and other new types of energy.

Other projects to include:
  First aid clinic
  Library

ACADEMIC STUDY

  Four hours per day of video tape study
  Psychosynthesis – emphasis on high self-esteem
  Discover your passion, “calling,” or “power factor”
  Think BIG. Read “The Magic of Thinking Big”
  Emphasis on math, science, and public speaking
  Become a fast, thorough reader.
  Become an excellent writer and speaker.
  Become a logical thinker.

DAILY HABITS

  Exercise
  Drink water. No alcohol. AND NO SMOKING.
  Eat no pork, white flour, or beet sugar, very little saturated fat, only a little salt.
  Adequate sleep
  Reduce stress
  Live the Golden Rule
 

ITEMS ALL INTERNS MUST HAVE AT PORTER FARM

  Social Security card
  Personal transportation
  Drivers license, current registration, insurance
  Health/accident insurance
  Contact information in case of emergency
  Personal living quarters (RV, van, camper)
  Computer with internet access
  VCR/DVD player and monitor
  Cell phone
  All-weather clothing and gear (rain gear, boots, gloves, backpack, etc.)
  Personal safety gear (safety glasses, hearing protection, dust mask, reflective vest, hard hat, etc.)
  Food supply
  A safe or security locker
  Alarm clock

WILLIAM C. PORTER’S MESSAGES TO THE INTERNS:

Interns should learn very well and treat others as they would want to be treated. Make a list! Know all the good integrity points. Make your own list and give a copy to me.

I like all 500 religions, and I want all integrity terms to be given to me in writing.

Why don’t all people continue their education to get one of a 1000 Doctorate degrees?

Interns will learn world government, biology, reading, writing, math, chemistry, physics, psychology, fire prevention, manners and etiquette, stress reduction, marketing and sales, and more.

All humans, animals and birds have a brain and senses. Only humans have a huge capacity to learn beyond self-survival.

Here is a list of things your brain can do:

Your brain has two eyes and your eyes are connected to only your brain. If there was no brain in the newborn baby, then its eyes would be absolutely worthless. Thank goodness very few babies are born with no brains.

A newborn baby can only cry and suck a breast for food and have bowel movements. These things come from Mother Nature. The eyes are perfect but a baby’s mind has not experienced or been trained to respond so his eyes just see a strange change so the baby responds by crying or going to sleep.

The above is also true of hearing (two ears), smelling (one nose) and touching (skin). So, you see, without education you are close to worthless. The brain has ability to see danger and to see far-off stars and planets and to see better with field glasses and to see minute things like germs with a microscope.

To turn off a motor, your brain needs three things: 1. Brain (knowledge); 2. Eyes to see the key; and 3. A finger to turn it off. To learn, one must repeat to make a good impression on the brain. In grade school, you learned 9 x 8 = 72 by repeating it dozens of times. You hurt your finger severely and learn not hit it harder because you will not have a finger. That is why we have two layers of heavy bone around our brains to protect this very vital and most important part of our body.

Why do we need to be hurt to learn?

Why do we need to be cold to buy a coat or turn up the heat?

Why do we drink whiskey, wine and beer, and do drugs, when we know this will negatively alter the mind?

Why do we drop out of school and stop learning? Hard work. Painful work. Negative psychology. Lower self-concept because we fall behind. No fun? Not reaching my power factor (enjoy). Not enough to do?

Why do we lie, cheat and steal? Kill, hurt, abuse, or harm people including doing this to ourselves? Lack of integrity? Is it intentional? Is it unintentional? Is it lack of education? Is it lack of training? Is it low self-concept?

Why don’t we want to: exercise, eat good food, sleep properly, be stupid and not learn to continue to study and go to college, not earn and save enough dollars, use self-abuse against one’s self and others, and do only easy things? Do your essentials the fun way!

Teach students how to think. Example: making the atomic bomb vs. dropping it. Dropping it was the greater achievement, because of the lives saved, overall.

Porter Farm wants to emphasize an education in farm management.

Women are also heavily involved in farming and agriculture.

We need scientists and mathematicians, but especially people with common sense and integrity.

In the history of American legislation, the greatest has to be the Homestead Act of 1862, enacted by Abraham Lincoln. It was pure common sense. It caused the settling of the whole country with farmers and industry.

A SAMPLING OF BOOK TITLES YOU WILL LEARN FROM AT PORTER FARM:

Root Cellaring – Natural Cold Storage of Fruits and Vegetables
Landscaping with Fruit
Green Home Improvement
How to Build an Underground House
Power from the Sun – Achieving Energy Independence
Got Sun? Go Solar

SEVEN STRATEGIES TO PERSONAL PROFITABILITY – AND PEACE OF MIND

1. Get in touch with a better reality (education)

2. Work on a step ladder plan for you

3. Focus on the first step (study)

4. Don’t be guided by fear

5. Put down the boob tube and study

6. Don’t just keep score, think of options and study

7. Simplify: step ladder your financial life