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Article: The thrills and chills of caretaking.
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- Countryside & Small Stock Journal
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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COUNTRYSIDE: My wife and I have been leading a homesteading lifestyle for many years. First in Montana, and when the cost of living went past the moon picking up speed, we were talked into coming down to Missouri by some friends. Being burglarized and losing $20,000 worth of property helped me to decide.
The first four years we were care takers on 40 acres for an absentee landlord. It was like having our own place. We heated and cooked with wood, carried water from the well just outside the door, had a flock of chickens and a large garden. None of the neighbors could understand why we wanted to live like that when we could get all the government help with welfare ...