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Molpet said:
Yeah I thought that until I attempted to grow almost all of my food..... some years I don't have to go to the store all summer. But some years I would have starved if a store wasn't available. I try really have to hand it to people on the frontier that survived with no stores
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There was rarely a lone pioneer out in the west surviving alone! It was all about being a society, working together and helping each other to survive and prosper. People cared much more about each other in these times because they had to.
 
duluthralphie said:
But hunting seasons were a lot longer... so it was easier to fill the freezers then
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LOL the freezer only worked in the winter back then. Another thing I admire in the frontier folks. Putting up food in season with out electric
Actually I can raise or trade for most of my protein needs. I trade turkey eggs for beef and pork. I do buy can salmon
 
duluthralphie said:
But hunting seasons were a lot longer... so it was easier to fill the freezers then
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Freezer? What freezer? - Pioneers were happy if they had enough animal fat to burn in their stinky lamps to read in the bible after sunset. Meat was preserved by drying, smoking or salting - if salt was available locally.
 
WannaBeHillBilly said:
Freezer? What freezer? - Pioneers were happy if they had enough animal fat to burn in their stinky lamps to read in the bible after sunset. Meat was preserved by drying, smoking or salting - if salt was available locally.
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I would be an advanced pioneer and have the important things.
 
WannaBeHillBilly said:
Would love too, but seriously: Have you ever eaten something with kale, beans and duck-eggs? Duck eggs are really bad when they come back out, but eating those together with beans or kale is a gross violation of the Geneva Contracts…
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Lol. Maybe consider probiotics?
 
WannaBeHillBilly said:
There was rarely a lone pioneer out in the west surviving alone! It was all about being a society, working together and helping each other to survive and prosper. People cared much more about each other in these times because they had to.
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I actually grew up without running water or electricity. Our only heat was a wood stove and we had to haul water. We didn't have lights, we used one candle after dark. We had an outhouse for a toilet, and in the -40F winter the inside of your nose froze when you went outside. Even then we were pampered by comparison, but it was a taste.

One winter we ran out of fire wood in the middle of the week and our neighbors from a few miles away hauled some over for us on a sled. I don't know what we would have done, since we didn't have money to buy food we certainly couldn't buy wood. The next weekend, when it was light my dad could go cut down more wood.

So, yes... You definitely depend on others.

Edit: btw, this was about 30 years ago!
 
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