The Ooooby Story

The Ooooby story really started about 17 years ago when my mother Karen launched a quarterly publication called the National Barter Directory of Goods & Services. The Barter Directory was an A4 book which displayed a list of goods and services that people were willing to barter with. The directory was a great success as it gave many people hope and ways to trade value without needing money.

The basic premise behind the Barter Directory is that we are capable of living joyful and fulfilled lives without being dependent on systems that rely on the current monetary economy. This is the basic premise behind Ooooby as well.

Ooooby has come about as a result of a series of realisations that I have had in the course of daily life.

1. We are currently depending on a centralised global food system to keep food in our bellies.
2. This food system is entirely dependent on the current monetary economy.
3. The current monetary economy is showing signs of distress and food availability is already on the decline.
4. The global monetary system recently had a serious cardiac arrest which was only revived after a massive $700bn+ defribulation.
5. The problem for the current monetary system is a chronic disease which no amount of money can fix.
6. It is likely that the current monetary system will soon go the way of all civil systems in history, and that is to break down and make way for new systems.
7. The breakdown of a financial system is slow to begin with but it accelerates over time to an alarming and blind siding rate.
8. If we don't start growing food now so that we can at least cover say 50% of our current diet, then by the time the realisation hits that we don't have enough food in the supermarkets to keep us fed, we will be in a very sorry state indeed.

So, Ooooby is all about getting as many people as possible growing food as quickly and effectively as possible. It is all about living out of our own back yards.

To get started, go to www.ooooby.org

Also go to You Tube and start watching instructional videos on how to grow food. It's a fast and fun way to learn.