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Is Self-Sufficiency Possible in the 21st Century?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Americans pride themselves on their ‘Yankee ingenuity’ – making do or doing without. You use your time gardening or tending animals, canning, plowing or digging wells and you aren’t going to have time to go to the higher paying job. Manual can opener. It is hard work living off the land.

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