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Self Sufficiency On The Homestead

As I've stated, I've put off eliminating or cutting back on items that needed to be
manufactured outside of my homestead and community. As a result I am still on the grid and
could not be considered completely self-sufficient. I've also taken steps to begin to cut back
on those items outside of my community and homestead's influence. Of course, it is
unreasonable to expect that you will not procure anything not manufactured by yourself on
your own homestead. You may provide yourself with most of your own food fairly easily, but
you may need to buy chicken feed. You may grow your own chicken feed if you own enough
land, but it is very doubtful that you'll work the entire operation by hand. You can use
horses, mules or oxen, but you'll need to provide feed for them as well. A tractor will make
a world of difference, but do you have enough land to produce your own bio-diesel or alcohol
for fuel. What about oil for lubricant, or transmission fluid? Spare parts? Self-sufficiency can
take on a whole new meaning when you think about everything that will need to be
manufactured by yourself with resources from your own homestead. It's a self feeding loop.
Horses, chickens and cows need feed. Tractors need fuel and parts and bureaucrats need
taxes that must be provided in the form of fedral reserve notes.

In the old days it was much simpler. You purchased a piece of land and with a little muscle
power and an axe you cleared it and planted a crop. If you worked hard and the Good Lord
smiled on your labor you would be able to provision yourself and sell off a little extra to build
a nest egg. Today's modern world is much more complicated. Today, you no longer own
your own property. Pay those ever rising property taxes or the County bureaucrats who no
longer represent you will take your home and land. It's funny how the property taxes kept
going up when the real estate bubble kept inflating. Now that the real estate bubble has
burst the property taxes still continue to rise. Don't forget to pay your federal income taxes,
state income taxes and socialist security taxes and all those myriad of taxes that turn your
gross paycheck into your net paycheck.

All of these bureaucracies and taxes mean that you have to have federal reserve notes as
this is the only species of payment that these parasites will accept. When was the last time
you attempted to pay a bill from the doctor, handyman or local bureaucrat with a chicken or
basket of vegetables? (Not that I am counting doctors and handymen as parasites.)  It won't
go over well unless those veggies and chickens are gift wrapped in federal reserve notes.
What this boils down to is: Before you set out to build your homestead and become
self-sufficient, don't quit your day job. Everything you do from the time you purchase your
property will require federal reserve notes. Federal reserve notes are what makes the
system go 'round and if you aren't passing federal reserve notes 'round in the right hands
the system will take away everything you think you own.

So, a new definition for self sufficiency must be considered. A portion of your homestead's
land and resources must be devoted toward generating a source of federal reserve notes.
Whether it's a cash crop, raw resources or a craft and trade, your homestead will need to
make a profit that will at least pay your property taxes, plus utilities and any extras like
livestock feed and fuel used working the homestead. Hopefully, a homestead's profits will
bring in much more and the homesteader be capable of making a living entirely from the
homestead.

I am journeying toward this goal now. I will be posting here my progress and methods.
Perhaps the reader will use the advise and methods herein to accomplish his or her own
dreams. Also check out products made at my homestead or community at http://northwoodstraders.ecrater.com/