Deeper than a mud puddle

The following story is told from the point of view of a farmer living in an intentional community in a post-Peak Oil world several years from now. The details change as it continues to evolve in my mind, but in all its versions it sticks to one general assumption. The gap between energy demand and supply widens, and at some point in the future various aspects of our social and economic institutions begin to break down in earnest. Here is today


When I first started looking to settle somewhere, some places ranked higher on the list than others – arable land and rainfall versus desert, for example. But my search became based more on the