Subsistence living examples from some of you older ones in days gone by

[Arthur_Frain]

25. I still do much of this.

Hand pump on the well out in the garden.

Come July, the produce section in the store is eclipsed by the garden, it will be a sad day when I finally succumb to buying veggies from the store again that year.

I’ve baked my own bread now for nearly 30 years. Turns out when you have a high stress job like I did, kneading bread by hand after a rough day at work helps calm you right down. It works wonders these days too, I bake a ton of bread.

We are partly solar, and moving more in that direction all the time. By the end of this year, I’d like to have my remote property 100% solar.

Currently if any type of real “lockdown” were to seem like it might be a reality, it would be the remote property anyway. Outhouse. Wood heat. Hand pump. It’s almost like I’ve been working up to this, practicing for the last 15 years or so.

All of the garden is with heirloom quality seeds. I’m on my 4th generation of Alaska peas now. I haven’t done a ton of preserving, but I’ve got the equipment (acquired at yard sales over the years) and the resources to learn how to use it.