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
We believe that many farm families, too, are going to raise more of their own food. They will forego some of their extreme specialization to develop a more rounded self-sufficiency.
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If homesteading, as we mean it here, really does become a trend in the post war years, it care itself create vast business and employment opportunities. It can furnish a pattern, an idea, an objective for the city, highway and industrial planning we hear so much about these days. It can contribute greatly to continuing security for all.
A friend once said to me, "Ed, why do you bother with other people? Why don't you settle down and just enjoy your own job and your "Have-More" Homestead? Why try to spread it all over the country?" I may sound silly trying to tell you why. But I feel, somehow, that in the years to come the U. S. is going to need all the help it can get toward happiness and peace and security. We aren't always going to have a boom going on. I've got a boy and I want to see him grow up in a good country, and if ten or twenty million American families can get set as well as we Robinsons are I don't think anything can hurt this nation.
Do you see what I mean? That's why I've worked so hard putting this Plan together. That's why I was so careful to be truthful and sensible in everything we put in it.
Anyway, Carolyn and I think this is a darn good idea and we hope you think it is a good idea - so good you'll want to get some of your friends to buy a copy of this book too.
Even at 3 1/2 our son Jackie likes to "help." Actually as yet, he isn't much help, but we try to encourage him. We want him to learn to do things - older children can be a real help on a homestead. And, more important, country living furnishes excellent opportunities for children to develop intelligent and responsible personalities.
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