Homesteading (-)101
In response to this ask but it got hella away from me and didn’t fit the tone anymore so I split it up! I put too much googling into this to not post it.
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I'm having a stressful time at work and I’m compensating by overdoing it with amateur speculation about food production on fake!homesteads. I’m about to go Deeper than I probably should, and I have only the barest bones of an idea of what I’m talking about, so if that's not what you're here for, Get Out Now. Save Yourself. Do Not Click Below The Link.
#clonecumber rereads repcomm#I GUESS?#ps. you think kal's vast underestimation of exactly how much work and planning goes into these places landed square on ilippi when he tried#to start this up way back when with her?#he admitted he was barely ever there so#it wouldn't have been to this same scale but still - who was going to help her?#kal just turns up with cash and things are mostly working so he just assumes it's all fine#maybe he fells a tree and splits some wood or something#then he leaves again#just her her small children and a whole-ass family to feed and wood to chop and animals to care for and a garden to manage#having to handle every single logistical problem that arised#from broken tools to figuring out how to process their animals when it came time#figuring out how to can and what to pay and what needed to be bought and what didn't#children to care for#patching up the house and maintaining fuel stores and learning to fix machines and WHAT if she got sick?#and finding the TIME?#all alone in a community she couldn't quite make herself comfortable in#and she did it!#for at least eight years!#until kal wanted to take her boy to war#kal doesn't give ilippi anywhere near enough credit damn#repcomm