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Living The Good Life: How One Family Changed Their World From Their Own Backyard

Over half a year, Linda Cockburn and her household set out to live without buying their way through life. They raised or traded for their meals, produced their own electricity, caught and stored rain for water, and tried to go without spending money at all. Their aim was to test whether a family could really support itself at home in today's world. The account follows the experiment through the author's day-by-day journal entries, offering a personal view of the trials, small victories and practical lessons of the project.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 304 pages

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