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Article: At 59, the homesteading dream hasn't faded.(Country conversation & feedback)
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- Countryside & Small Stock Journal
- Article date:
- November 1, 2008
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COUNTRYSIDE: I just finished reading the September/October issue and loved every word of it. This month it didn't take me a week to get through it, like it usually does. I got it from the mailbox, came home, sat in my chair and began to lose myself between the pages. I'm a 59-year-old widow, with a 30 year unrealized dream of living the country life, so when my magazine comes, it allows me to vicariously enter that world. I'm sure I'm not the only reader who can't get there, but everyone can do something to feel they're getting out of the mold in some area of life, and for me it was our food supply.
My children were young when I began to take steps to improve our ...