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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory
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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (59052)4/22/2006 1:10:10 AM
From: RJA_  Read Replies (1) of 110194
 
>>I'm referring to subsistence levels, not "investment" levels per se. Enough to move to and grow crops for personal/family consumption.

Two acres makes a pretty darn big garden. We have 6 plots approx 8 x 12... its only the 3rd yr doing this and we are getting used to it. First year started with 1 plot. Have raised tomatoes, eggplant, squash 3 varieties, corn. Lots of cherry trees. Some other fruit -- planted last yr, will fruit down road a bit.

The garden dosent cover everything, but we can eat out of it most summer nights. At season end there is usually extra... one year lots of tomatoes, last year lots of squash. I think if I trippled the size and started canning we would be vegitarian self sufficient All this would, come to think of it, fit on much less than one acre.

I guess one of the tricks is -- is there good water? If municipal, is the supply reliable? Are you close enough to town to get stuff, but far away enough to avoid social unrest?

Or will it be better to be in a group (like the old walled towns) if there is social unrest?

Prefer it does not come to that.

>>Think of how the Amish live now, that's how everyone will live in 150 years, provided "we" don't nuke ourselves into oblivion by then....

Those skills will be good to have. It would be nice to learn them.
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