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Article: World events & homesteading.(Homestead finances)
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- Countryside & Small Stock Journal
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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Commentary on many homesteading websites reflects a lack of direction and understanding of our current world condition. That commentary can be boiled down to "Why should I homestead?" Let me distill down some of my thinking relevant to world events and try to put some perspective on them. Perhaps this will suggest directions for some.
Ever since humans came out of the bush and began to settle down to an agricultural existence, many good things have happened. And some not so good things, as well. In short, agriculture permitted man to settle down and stop roaming. Largely this settled existence was likely imposed on him by a growing population and increasing ...