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- a big square brick of about 100 compressed whole tires. Each bale is 5 ft. by 5 ft. by 2.5 ft. high and weighs about 2,000 lbs. (1 ton)-
http://www.tirebalehouse.com/
Wow, you got to be kidding. No way am I giving up the comforts of modern life. But good luck to you, I think the Unabomber's cabin may still be for sale. Hey, while you're still with us in the 21st century I'll nominate a theme song for you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOfZLb33uCg
I love that song.
It's up to every individual to decide what comfors of modern life he or she is willing to give up or not to give up, that is what I would like to hear.
As niche gardeners, a level of anonymity naturally comes with the territory. As as such, some, not all people, would rather opt out of society as much as possible because of various reasons such as:
- To reduce the level of garden compromise.
- Disgusted with the lack of community brotherhood in society.
- Disgusted with individual freedoms being stripped away to expand general government and law enforcement power.
I agree with Haps, you could not have a job and work a farm. I have trouble keeping up with my big veggie garden and grow op alone, farming for sustenance would push me right over the edge.
A few other suggestions you mentioned I take some issue with:
Just the food is quite a task, but distillation is illegal in most areas,
Not really, assuming enough for one or two people...and tobacco takes lots of space for drying and curing.
I live around people out here in the far-east that do live without electricity, cell-phones, internet, municipal water.....they get their food from working the land and fishing the sea.....their light is from the sun in the day, and maybe a candle at night...They build houses from bamboo, coco-lumber and matted coconut fronds for a roof.....
They farm with the use of water buffaloes and raise their families in this very natural environment......it's a very hard life where life expectancy is no where near as good as it is in the west primarily because if and when someone needs good medical attention it is not affordable or free......For a man and woman to support a family well they will have to find a way to earn money to be able to get the medicine they might need when someone gets sick......
That puts everything in a realistic, sobering perspective. There are billions of people around the world that have to live this way instead of making a simple of choice.
You can choose to live this way and not live like a pauper--it just takes work and lots of it! I am working on getting there now, and its going to take a couple years, but when I get there I will be way better of financially, and I will have a lot less stress. At least I hope I do!
That's the closest to how I feel right now. This may sound corny, but through cannabis consumption, I finally realized what was personally important to me, to live well. It's influenced what I wanted to study at my university. I used to be a Business IT major, and I changed it to Agriculture, specifically, to Horticulture.
I do have a goal. I want to live well, peaceful and content. And I have realized that making 75k or 100k a year, to live well, is an option. In my opinion, making less money means that you don't have the disposable income to buy the lastest whatever in stores, and that you probably cannot afford those huge McMansions or poorly and cheaply constructed condos and townhomes. And for me, having a limited income means giving up on material items and sticking with the basics, and that's fine for me.
And of course, another major influence is that, I don't have any children.