THANKS FOR NOTHING MONTH – Two generations living without money in rural Ohio and France during January 2012

Annie and Jay Warmke at Blue Rock Station Green Living Farm and former intern, Nans Thomassey (who lives in the Rhone-French Alps with his partner Fanny Gonnet) will be seeing what is involved in living with no money or resources (or as few as possible) for a month.  By next spring they hope to have co-written a book about their experiences.

"We will be using electricity during the day because we can't run our business (Blue Rock Station) without it, but once it is dark we'll be using solar lighting, candles, and an early bedtime as our solution to dealing with darkness."  They also plan to keep their vehicles in the driveway - if they need to go somewhere it will have to be an emergency or driving to Jay's twice-a-week teaching job at Central Ohio Technical College in Newark.

One of their first planning strategies was a menu for 31 days.  Annie is used to generating menus for one or two weeks but she says it was a bit more of a challenge to generate three meals a day for such a long period of time, and include variety, healthy food, and know that it all needs to exist prior to the beginning of the menu.

People from around the world are currently following the build-up to the big month, where Annie says, "We hope folks will come for tea, bring us grass-fed cow or goat milk (our goats have dried up just in time for Jan.), and a good humor."   Follow their adventures through the THANKS FOR NOTHING DIARIES at the Blue Rock Station blog.

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