Fans, Garden and Making Do

Is Self-Sufficiency Possible in the 21st Century?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

DECEMBER 22, 2016

They had a cow for milk, chickens for eggs and a garden for vegetables. Americans pride themselves on their ‘Yankee ingenuity’ – making do or doing without. You can’t have much of a garden in a high rise apartment. I used to garden. Wood was there for the taking.

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Bee Stung Butts, Freeze Dried Diapers and Other Hilarious Happenings of Poverty

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MAY 1, 2014

Mom had a vegetable garden and grew sweet corn. When the ears were full and ripe she would pull one down and let me make a doll – using the cob for the body, the silk for the hair and the husk for the clothing. Plus, it can be really inconvenient to “make do or do without!” Poverty aids the imagination.

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