What I'm comparing that to are the plans to raise sheep, or asparagus, or
garlic and pay the mortgage, health insurance, vehicle and expenses, television,
computer, wind generator, etc. Not only do I not see any examples of that
happening, I don't see any historical examples either ... moder lifestyle on a
cottager's basis.
Homesteading, so I have found, is a marvelous basis for a personal (family,
small group) economics. But it is a most lousy small business. I work to
dispell the myth that being fully a homesteader means being nothing else.
Homesteading for us is to enable us to do other things, to exclude them.
And I've some reason to hope. I notice at least a 200% increase in the plots
of land plowed up for gardens, and it's still early here by the conventional
wisdom,
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