Safe Living in Your Community
There are many advantages to living safely in your own community, especially if that community has people living there who are holistic practitioners. These can be people that know the nutritional and medicinal plants or practice massage. However, to learn this you have to get out and actually meet and talk with your neighbors. You can also encourage and support healers and craftsmen to your community with low-cost construction loans that make it possible when existing housing isn't an option.
These types of intentional communities are cropping up all over the country as more people find the advantages of gathering people of all backgrounds and skills. This promotes bartering, building a local economy, and provides security as everyone watches out for their neighbor's well-being. There is no greater security than to know that when you aren't home, your house is being watched, or when your children are out playing in the courtyard of multifamily housing you and a few other parents are keeping the whole group safe and secure.