Why We Moved to the Country and What We Set Out to
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March/April 1970
By the Mother Earth News editors
This plan is the story of our place, of my family and me. It's the true story of how we have built our homestead. I hope you will be able to get some new ideas from it.
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We call our plan - the "Have-More" Plan because that is the way it worked for us. Our plan shows how you can have a lovely home of your own on a piece of land that will furnish your family with food, recreation and health. Yes, and extra income too.
If you'll follow our Plan Here's how you'll be situated:
You too can have a good home and an acre or more of land within a few miles of where you work. Your place will pay for itself as you go along - you will eventually own it free and clear. Think what that means - no more rent to pay!
You'll have far smaller weekly grocery, meat, and milk bills. With the small scale, modern, labor-saving methods we'll show you, you can raise up to 75% of all your family's food - perhaps do it all in spare time - and find real pleasure in doing it.
You and your family can become truly self-reliant. You will be able to keep your own home in shape, even improve your house and land. You can be healthier and happier. You can be sure that the food you eat is rich in vitamins and minerals. You need never worry very much about losing your job. You can retire years sooner, if you want to, and if you'll put away enough to be assured of just a small regular income.
Best of all, you can do as much or as little of our "Have-More" Plan as you like. You can fit it to your own pocketbook and spare time. If you are in earnest it makes no difference whether you start with just a few dollars or five thousand.
If You Have a Full-time Job:
You can easily work out the "Have-More" Plan in spare time. If you work long hours and don't have a chance to do the whole plan at present, you can do part of it in as little as 15 or 30 minutes a day. Even so you can have all the health, happiness, and security of this kind of living. You can have a fine garden, beautiful flowers, get your fruit trees and berries, asparagus and rhubarb started, and perhaps have a few chickens.
This way of living is especially good for children. You can get your place all paid for and have that wonderful sense of security and independence knowing that you and your family have your place to fall back on - knowing that you could get by with very little cash income if you ever had to.
If You Have a Part-Time Job:
If you work short hours, such as 40 hours a week or less, you can get all the more benefit out of the Plan. Perhaps in your work you have several days a week free or maybe several weeks or months a year free. Perhaps there's an extra member in your household who'd like to help. If you have a place like ours, you can make your spare time worth money by developing a paying hobby right on your own place.
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