Design Systems For Liberty; Using The System To Build a Resilient Future

As a libertarian and a permaculturist in a totalitarian system I stand at a crossroads. My beliefs tell me to be self reliant and to avoid government interaction whenever possible. On the other side of the street we have agroforestry grant money and some government agencies that are at least receptive to the idea of intensive natural farming methods and the implementation of full scale farms using the permaculture model. We all know that in todays society all growth relies upon capital, and most of us would be hard pressed to come up with the funding for even a homestead sized agroforestry system.
Sometimes you have to swallow your pride and use the available programs to your advantage, after all you are still paying an unprecedented amount of tax on the goods, services and income that you aquire. The problem is the solution.
In a recent interview on the Permaculture Voices Podcast, Versaland founder Grant Schultz touches on this subject. You can listen to the interview here, www.permaculturevoices.com. I found it very informative and he brings up a few great points as to how we can utilize these programs to help us get started.
I have only started to research the available programs in BC, but my initial impression is a good one. I will have to do some more groundwork and will try to get a blog post together in the near future to get all of the appropriate links to the available programs in one place.