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Environment & Energy

NickB79

(20,400 posts)

6. Yeah, I grew up watching "Little House on the Prairie" too

Reply to OKIsItJustMe (Reply #4)

Fri Sep 11, 2015, 09:27 PM

Sep 2015

And while I enjoy having a coop with a half-dozen chickens, and maybe I'll get a goat or two someday, I don't think I could feed and house a horse to pull a buggy like my great-grandfather had, on my 1.5 acres of land.

And if we seriously plan on re-ruralizing the countryside, those new farmers will need transportation to get their goods to market, and walking miles with bushels of produce, or biking through a foot of snow to get to work, probably won't cut it.