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Is Self-Sufficiency Possible in the 21st Century?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

They had a cow for milk, chickens for eggs and a garden for vegetables. You can’t have much of a garden in a high rise apartment. 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. I used to garden. Sewing kit.

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