If these skills were taught in school - and land allocated, instead of given over to housing invaders - there would be much less stealing of the fruits of others labors either directly, or indirectly... but then, so many have been acclimatized to doing just that, via welfare purchased by taxation - that it is no longer considered stealing... workers become the slaves of non workers.

They have inverted everything.

We purchased 2 acres 7 years ago, and now have a decent plot worked (soil is terrible, rocks and clayso raised beds and sifting), thanks to the chicken and horse contribitions we are now starting to see produce we can store for winter. Last year tomatoes, onions, beans, peppers, potatoes, carrots, melon, strawberries squash.

But it has taken all that time to get it to function half way decently - grasshopper invasions, plagues of beetles, rabbits, mice, gophers, torrential rain, high winds, late frosts, early frosts, been through the mill.

It is a process.