Earning Money In The Country
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March/April 1970
By the Mother Earth News editors
If you're in one of the many service industries in the city, is there a need for your particular service in the country? Listed below is a group of services already being supplied by people in a town of 13,188. These are not imagined businesses. They're taken right out of the classified phone book for the town of Emporia, Kansas.
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If you want to live in a smaller town and you find that the population is so small that the region can't support a full-time taxi service, maybe you can combine a taxi with a car rental, delivery service and ambulance. Or you might put together a bookstore, newsstand, stationery store, mimeograph service, house rental agency and travel bureau. Just as a country store supplies everything from shoes to meat - you can add up services until you're making the cash income you need.
While you're riding through the country looking for the perfect homestead, keep your eyes open for all the road signs put up by people operating little businesses of their own.
Of course you're aware of the tourist camps, motels, wayside markets, filling stations and real estate agencies. But also notice the less conspicuous signs: The country lawyer, doctor, sign painter, tailor, radio and TV repair man, beauty shop, plumber, upholsterer, photographer. The small manufacturing plants, the craftsmen - and so on.
Often these people operate right from their own homesand their places have enough land so they can really live. Enough so they can have a garden, fruits, berries, chickens . . . maybe a family cow.
There are millions of folks in the country who've found out how to combine a cash income with the home production of food.
Suggested Reading: How To Live in the Country Without Farming - $2.50.
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