MOTHER HAS HER LAND!
Yep! After nearly seven years of talking about it,
MOTHER finally has a piece of land that’s big enough and
diverse enough to do her Research Center/Eco-Village
concept proud.
What it is is 622.4 acres of beautiful mountains and
valleys and streams and lakes and woods and open clearings
located just about 10 minutes’ drive from MOTHER’s
Hendersonville, North Carolina offices. The property
contains lots of lovely nooks and crannies for:
underground, passively solar-heated homes . . . research
labs . . . solar and water and wind and other alternative
energy experiments . . . wholistic gardens and greenhouses
. . . wild food seminars . . . and all the many other
activities that MOTHER intends to conduct in her
environmentally planned community.
And–NO!–the property will not be open to the
public this summer, fall, or winter. But, starting next
spring , we do expect to be set up to receive visitors
and start holding MOTHER’s first seminar and work/study
programs on her nearly one full square mile of land.
If all goes well, we’ll have some photographs of the
property to show you in the very next issue of this
magazine.
SPEAKING OF SEMINARS
One of the talented new people who’ve recently joined
MOTHER’s staff is a fellow by the name of John Doyle. And
John, as it just so happens, has only written
somewhat more than 150 home study courses for the biggest
companies in the home study field.
Which is exactly why MOTHER has John the Doyle traveling
the country right at this moment . . . putting
together a definitive course of instructions for a seminar
and work/study program on underground housing. Yep! That’s
probably going to be the subject of the very first seminar
and work/study program that MOTHER holds next spring . . .
and, so far at least, it appears that MOTHER’s course is
only going to be the best thing that anyone anywhere has
ever done on the design, construction, financing, passive
solar heating, etc., of low-cost, do-it-yourself
underground dwellings.
And that’s just the first of the many programs
MOTHER has planned for the future. Stay tuned for more
exciting news about MOTHER’s seminars!
MOTHER’S RADIO SERIES IS HERE!
Along about here in MOTHER’s last issue, we mentioned that
we would soon be mailing a big promotional
package/announcement about MOTHER’s new series of 65
three-minute radio programs out to the program directors of
all the AM and FM stations in the United States.
Well, we’ve done it. And favorable response is already
starting to pour in. But we still need your help to really
put MOTHER’s good words about wholistic gardening, low-cost
housing, alternative energy, home businesses, and all the
rest of her great subjects back on the air.
CALL THE PROGRAM DIRECTOR OF YOUR FAVORITE AM OR FM
STATION. NOW! Tell him or her how much you like the
magazine and just how much you’d love to hear THE MOTHER
EARTH NEWS” regularly on his or her station. Point out the
fact that the program costs the station absolutely nothing
. . . and that the station has full rights to sell
commercials which air before, in the middle of, and after
MOTHER’s three-minute public service message. Emphasize
that the first installment of the series (released seven
years ago) was good enough to play on almost 300 stations
around the country . . . and that this new package of 65
programs (Remember: they’re free to any legitimate radio
station!) is even better. And stress that another 65
programs is already in the works and 65 more after that and
so on . . . because, this time when MOTHER goes on the air,
she’s going on to stay.
That’s all you’ve got to do . . . but do it! We wanna make
sure MOTHER’s messages play in your area, so that you can
hear ’em too!
AND THERE’S MORE!
That’s just the beginning of all the new projects which
MOTHER now has underway . . . and which, for the most part,
will be announced more fully as time goes on. For now,
though, it’s enough to say that there are a whole lot of
new people, new concepts, new ideas, and new vitality
bustin’ at your of MOTHER’s seams. As a result, you can
expect better and more lively issues of THE MOTHER EARTH
NEWS ® in the future . . . and a whole lotta things
that you can’t even imagine yet. So if your subscription
isn’t paid up for the next two or three years, you’d be
smart to get your renewal in the mail right now. ‘Cause you
ain’t gonna want to miss a single one of MOTHER’s next
dozen or 18 exciting issues!
