Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Subsistence Living

Subsistence living is defined as living off of what you yourself can grow and make by taking only what you need from the land. Subsistence gardening and subsistence farming are ways that you can do this. By growing your own food you are no longer relying on the mass markets and vast retail networks of the world.

Some of the reasons for learning the art of living a subsistence lifestyle are similar to those scenarios so popular in modern disaster movies and books. The apocalyptic view portrayed in those describes what we are doing to ourselves. Through global warming or nuclear technology, we are tearing ourselves and our planet apart piece by piece. Continue...

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