Urban Aviculture and Agriculture...

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4. This is the original "American Way", local food, sharing, real community.

TPTB oppose these things because they impact the "bottom line" of big businesses.

When we had surplus, we could take it with us into town and the local grocer would trade with us.

Black-eyed peas, as I recall, were among the thing we grew in an uncultivated strip of land next to our rural home.

My grandfather grew asparagus but died early, we lived on as other ranchers ran their businesses on the same acreage.

We got by with filtered river water running through the house and one tap in the kitchen for drinking water that was gravity fed from a 40 gallon former aircraft fuel tank in a tower.

Good times, really!