“The business of procuring the necessities of life has been shifted from the wood lot, the garden, the kitchen and the family to the factory and the large-scale enterprise. In our case, we moved our center back to the land.” – Helen Nearing, The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing’s Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living
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I have not read Nearings book, but, according to some in the comments at Amazon, they were Communists who were trying to impose their viewpoints on their neighbors. Just an observation.
Eat the fish and spit out the bones 😉