self-sufficiency
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The Farm That Needs Nothing: A Field Guide for Keeping Ourselves Alive When the Machines Stop
This is not a doomsday sermon, and I am not building a bunker. It's something quieter and, I think, nobler: a plan to keep alive the oldest and most important knowledge our species ever had — how to feed ourselves without a factory, a fuel tank, or anyone's permission. The honest science of the horse, the goat, the rabbit, and the seed; the real history of what happens to farms when the world goes to war; and why the most hopeful thing you can do about a frightening future is not to hoard, but to teach.
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How Much Land Do You Actually Need Per Goat? An Honest Answer (From a Man Currently Hunting for the Land Himself)
Everyone dreaming of goats asks the same question, and the internet answers it badly — with a single confident number that falls apart the moment a real goat, a real climate, and a real fence enter the picture. So here is the honest version: the real space per goat, the pasture math nobody explains, the fencing lesson everyone learns the hard way, and how much land it actually takes to milk a family. Written by someone who needs this answer as badly as you do.