Frugal and Energy Efficient Living

entirely decorative, but for years I invested a lot of time and hard work in it and, like you, it was all really worth it.

You reminded me of the book "Five Acres and independence" and the back to the land movement of the 1970s. I never learned how that turned out for most who really tried a life of genuine subsistence farming (no internet then), but I imagine many who went that direction for love -- as a way of life, not subsistence -- are still happily at it.

Here in the semirural deep south, where we moved from urban Southern California, the words "garden," 'gardening, and "garden patch" are still assumed to refer to growing food.