Yes. Subsistence farming (or more practically, hunting/gathering) SHOULD be the bottom line fallback in case of extremely oppressive employment - NOT an ideal way to live. The problem with industrial Britain was that oppressed workers had nowhere to do it (farming/hunting/gathering). All the land was owned by aristocrats. This drove the attraction to socialism (replacing oppressive capitalists with oppressive government, which somehow never goes away on its own as promised by Marx).

In the hey day of America, there was some positive shakeup of Britain when American millionaires (billionaires in today's money) would buy land in Britain from bankrupt aristocrats, and sell/rent it cheap to those willing to use it productively. Sort of an early "Habitat for Humanity". (Many gave it away, but this was not effective - go figure. )

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It's a very hard life. Only one hailstorm or long drought away from dying.

In the US, we have hundreds who pull it off by living in National Parks. In addition to hunting and gathering, they must constantly evade efforts by Park Rangers to evict them. (Tourists do far more damage to the park with litter, etc.) Ironically, squatting in city/suburban homes is encouraged by current Democrat local governments.

Well, they saved the money on title/rent.

If I had it to do over. I would never live in an apartment full time before buying a house as a single man or women. I would live at least 6 months out of the year in a van, and put the rest into Bitcoin savings.

I used to throw my paycheck in a drawer. Sometimes I would forget it. So my employer forced me to accept direct deposit lol. Sweet of them..😊

Also, effective farming/hunting/gathering requires decades of experience. It's one thing when you grow up learning the habits and uses of local plants and animals from your parents. When forced to relocate to a completely different ecosystem (as was done to the Cherokee in the US), you have to start over from scratch. I did learn some gathering from my mother (we went on "picnics" bringing no food, but gathering with her supervision instead). My very modest goal is to add one cultivated crop each year. I started with butternut squash - now an old friend. Added beets, tomatoes, and blueberries last year. We already have wild friend in the yard - blackberries, lemon balm, purple deadnettle, dandelion, peppermint, lambs quarters,plantain. I'm wondering how we can use the onion grass. Thistle is just too hard to utilize - it gets yanked (with gloves!). Yard has been pesticide free for 35 years (except what blows from neighbors).

We have 2 apple trees, a cherry tree, a linden tree, a gigantic walnut tree we have to cut down next fall 😢, gooseberries, Russian blueberries, red currants, rhubarb, wild strawberries, a vegetable patch with raised beds, herb garden, calendula borders, and we want to try potatoes.

I keep forgetting the grapes. We grow grapes. 😂

But I wouldn't want to be too dependent upon any of it. We have had years with no cherries because of a frost, for example. And soon, no nuts.

Get some cuttings and grow another one or two..😊