Rural North Florida Efficiency

Reader Contribution by The Mother Earth News Editors
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This story is from Elizabeth Hollingsworth, submitted as part of our Wisdom From Our Elders collection of self-sufficient tales from yesteryear.

I grew up and still live in rural north Florida. Growing up, we butchered our own hogs, using the fat for lard and cooking “cracklins” in a big, black cast iron pot outside on the fire.

Our men hunted and butchered deer themselves, we had a huge garden, canned everything, and my grandparents stored redskin potatoes in the sand underneath their off-the-ground house. The potatoes lasted for a long, long time, and we kids enjoyed crawling under the house to get them.

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