Is "Living Off the Land" Really for you?

Is "living off the land" of interest to you? Great! But DO plan for the long term impact on your life as you age. Here, I try to make the case for some serious "think long term before you act" analysis.

[@hugedog4063]

Preach!

[@rockystanaitis2908]

When we bought the first 40 I recall that the reason was to have a "bug out" place if society would collapse. We were preppers before preppeing was cool.

[@Jerseyhighlander]

I think you've hit on a fact of why farmers and country people in general always used to have large families/lots of kids and then grandkids. At least before Hollywood and corporate America started programming everyone that the kids should all aim to grow up and move away, get to the big city and "make something of yourself".
Surviving the country into infirmity depended on the kids starting to take over the heavy lifting at some point.
Learning something about nutrition/herbal medicine and learning to stay away from the pill doctors can be a huge difference too. My father in law is in better shape now at 90 than he was 15 years ago.

[@justtalking4279]

Folks have that romantic image but farming that's always been hard, demanding work. Live's been short and days long for those fellas, bending their back all day, always short on everything except hunger. If they would read some accounts like grapes of wrath or of plimoth plantation they'd gonna think twice