AN ENERGY ANALYSIS OF THE DAN TAYLOR FAMILY'S OZARK FARM

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March/April 1978
By the Mother Earth News editors 
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Some of the animal products, in turn, are eaten right on the homestead. Most are exchanged for tools, equipment, and other things which are better produced off the homestead. (Most of the equipment purchased by the Taylors is used to augment and direct the farm's natural energy flows.) And finally, the recycling of their animals' manure by the family completes a loop that is vital in nature but often neglected in modern industrial societies.

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In short, by directing interaction of their farm's natural energies with purchased fossil fuel-derived inputs (fuels, tools, etc.), the Taylors are able to live in a nearly self-sufficient manner. And, as they realize more of their goals in the years ahead, the family's energy umbilical cord will become even thinner than it is now.

We might all do well to emulate the Taylors. As rising fuel costs and increasing fossil fuel scarcities disrupt more and more lives in the coming years ... the Taylors' lives will hardly be affected at all.

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