Stop the madness of easy, couch potato homesteading, and dreaming about a little house on the prairie, where you can live the same way you did in the city, getting fatter, lazier, less healthy and then handicapped. The Homesteaders life style is all about the opposite. Making your dream of little house on the prairie come true, and though your dream tricking you and your loved ones into better health , caring for All - each other - your live stock - your grandparents - your neighbors - your county - your country - the Earth... It's about living on less and making more of what you need and when you do need to buy some thing , buy it locally- or nationally-made , that's caring , caring that your neighbors or countrymen and women have a job.
OXEN are better for your homestead. You can get 2 at a dairy or action for about $110. Bottle feed the calves, and if you don't have milk goats to feed them your own milk, 2 bags of milk replacer will cost you about $130. In a year you will be doing light work with them. The fun you and your family will have raising them and training them , will last a lifetime in all your minds. For less then 500 dollars you can plow your garden and pull fire wood from the forest. A tractor is $20,000. Go to YouTube look up oxen plowing. Google oxen; there are books, videos and classes on doing it. And ask yourself how many carrots or what ever will you have to grow to pay off that $20,000 for a tractor. Ask, do you wish to keep being a slave to the bank, tractor repair and the gas station?
What comes out the back end of an ox will grow some great veggies, but what comes out of the exhaust pipe of the tractor will not.
If you are actually doing these things you will definitely be able to survive the coming hard times and still not feel the pinch.
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