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kerosene · 04-28-2005, 08:49 AM

Actually, I believe the movie was inspired by the book. There is another good book out there about simpler living called "Back to Basics". It was distributed by Readers Digest back in the early 80s. I have been using this book for ideas, since we moved out to Kansas to a remota area.

I don't think you have to do everything this way in order to live a "simpler" life, though (at least as far as food goes). If you want to break away from eating crap, raise your own chickens. They aren't too hard to take care of. Grow a little garden of the veggies you like. Start it as a project that over time, becomes more robust, so that way you are making progress and you can at least feel good about that.

There are a large number of pheasant farms out here, where the local farmers raise pheasants for hunting. Do you know what that means? We get many occasional stray pheasants hanging around our yard. I have never tried pheasant, but in operations like what exist around here, one can be sure unhealthy pheasants = unhappy pheasant hunters. I hear the meat is pretty good, though, so soon we will be trying it. Also, you can research other types of farms and buy an animal for slaughter. Maybe look up some organic farmers who have he ability to assure you their animals have not had hormone injections for generations...you can find out if they are grass fed or corn fed, too. I am sure there is some sort of organic license or something that is required in order to assure that. Get a friend with the same desire for natural meat and go in half and half on a cow. Get someone to slaughter it for you and store all the meat in a deep freeze. It is surprisingly inexpensive to do this with cattle farms, considering how much you pay for a pound of ground beef here and there. Think about all the money you save, by not going out to eat? You can do this with pork too. If you have a couple of acres, you can raise a cow or 2 of your own. Simpler living doesn't necessarily mean tireless work for the rest of your life. It just depends on what is important to you and how important you feel it is.

04-28-2005, 08:49 AM	#12
kerosene Touring the facilities Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: The plains of Colorado Posts: 3,476	Actually, I believe the movie was inspired by the book. There is another good book out there about simpler living called "Back to Basics". It was distributed by Readers Digest back in the early 80s. I have been using this book for ideas, since we moved out to Kansas to a remota area. I don't think you have to do everything this way in order to live a "simpler" life, though (at least as far as food goes). If you want to break away from eating crap, raise your own chickens. They aren't too hard to take care of. Grow a little garden of the veggies you like. Start it as a project that over time, becomes more robust, so that way you are making progress and you can at least feel good about that. There are a large number of pheasant farms out here, where the local farmers raise pheasants for hunting. Do you know what that means? We get many occasional stray pheasants hanging around our yard. I have never tried pheasant, but in operations like what exist around here, one can be sure unhealthy pheasants = unhappy pheasant hunters. I hear the meat is pretty good, though, so soon we will be trying it. Also, you can research other types of farms and buy an animal for slaughter. Maybe look up some organic farmers who have he ability to assure you their animals have not had hormone injections for generations...you can find out if they are grass fed or corn fed, too. I am sure there is some sort of organic license or something that is required in order to assure that. Get a friend with the same desire for natural meat and go in half and half on a cow. Get someone to slaughter it for you and store all the meat in a deep freeze. It is surprisingly inexpensive to do this with cattle farms, considering how much you pay for a pound of ground beef here and there. Think about all the money you save, by not going out to eat? You can do this with pork too. If you have a couple of acres, you can raise a cow or 2 of your own. Simpler living doesn't necessarily mean tireless work for the rest of your life. It just depends on what is important to you and how important you feel it is.

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