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The Rural Voice, 2003-05, Page 6Glen Osprey Farm Salers R.R.#6, Shelburne, Ontario LON 1 S9 PERFORMANCE TEST 2003 24 Polled Salers Bulls 38 Salers heifers Bred heifers and cows available for sale. For further information, contact David Pease (519) 925-6412 or check our web page www.salerscattle.com Custom Farm Services We have a complete line of equipment from Air Drills to Combines that can provide Fast and Efficient Service. Custom Spraying with a Rogator. Combine these services with seeds supplied by 007.3i Syngenta Seeds Also ask about our new line of DRY BALED HAY PRESERVATIVES and ADDITIVES for HAYLAGE and CORN SILAGE Call Kristen or Pete for details 519-233-3218 TM HILL & HILL FARMS Varna, Ontario 2 THE RURAL VOICE Feedback Generating `people power' Thank you for bringing the refreshing and inspiring report "As free as the wind" by Andrew Epplett into your April issue! Clean, safe renewable energy generation from wind and sun is truly the invention of what I call "People Power". Putting Nature's power to use in small distributed generating applications could save our children and grandchildren from walking around wearing oxygen masks. The technology is there, and as Epplett writes, "investing in a system that has a 20 -year warranty (for PV -panels,) one that could pay for itself in Tess than half that time, is a pretty attractive incentive to any home or business owner". I have not paid any hydro bills for my farm for nine years now as I cut Ontario Hydro off in 1994 when my little solar/wind hybrid generation plant started working for me — and has worked with nature's help ever since. Sure I have learned along the way, but when the sun isn't shining the wind usually blows, and you never waste any electricity. On the prompting of organic farmers I founded and incorporated Citizens For Renewable Energy (CFRE) to help others to become more independent of sometimes -not - too reliable power supplies. Three of our board members live off the grid and a number of our members do, too. We have workshops like the one on May 25, to help others with information and instruction. We need to realize that the age of "the Great Energy Revolution" has arrived.0 — S. (Ziggy) Kleinau RR 4, Lion's Head, ON NOH 1 WO 519-795-7725.