Can you survive if you have a piece of land and some tools?

I see no problem with living off the land and only having what you alone can provide for yourself. If it comes to it in the world, I could and would enjoy it. However, I work and so does my family, so we don't have to till the land and read by candle light. I have recently planted a small box of herbs, I sow what I can to fix clothes and make things. It is my own why of recycling things we don't use or can't use. If I was given the land, a small house, and items needed to start a life (such as seeds, a few candles, some cloth and a watering can) I could make it work without any problems. I have done that before at a family property. But I would much rather be given the chance the make it with what I have today. A home, a needle and threat, basic food and electricity. That doesn't seem like much for today's society, but can you think of many people who could live like that with nothing else. No internet, no phones, no TV, no computers? Society has screwed us all by making technology so accessible and cheap.

I was just about to start a topic about robinson crusoe. have you read his story in child hood. he was left on an uninhabited island and he lived there for years. made his own calender. he made his cottage. protected himself from wild animals. he made tools. and he finally returned to his home town. when he saw some ships coming, but the time he lived there was 12 years. I can't even imagine of doing this. but if i am in such condition then i will definitely make some tricks. currently i am not on that island i am in my room so i am happy. but i prefer i would go there if any girl comes with me :-) do you like to come and live with me at such a place? :-)

For one ,i could live off the land.i love to hunt for wild greens and other plants that you can eat,if you know what to look for.I think if more people would raise their own food we would be better of.That what wrong now we just give up how we were raise.we ate better not so much junk foods.kids wasn't so lazy back then either.yes i could survive .

Some people are gifted with the talent to till the land and yield some very rich harvests and sell their produce to the market. In these times of crises, we need farmers who dedicate themselves to produce for a hungry population, myself included. I am not born to garden nor to produce a bountiful harvest, but I admire these people because without them, we would not all survive. But with a good knowledge on agriculture and maybe organic farming, some may thrive and support a population. But if there's no other recourse to survive, I guess I'd learn the "trick of the trade" and be good at it by learning how to do farming chores like milking the cow, growing vegetables, chickens, etc.

Hi, Ice! ABSOLUTELY! I've actually planned just such a life and even the smallest of details about sustainability. Now and then, society gets to be a bit much, and I'd love to be off somewhere alone. Interaction with others could be virtually eliminated if I could work out all I needed on my own. Of course, reality hits and the dream goes away, but it is something I like to think about when I'm overwhelmed by demands and such.

Twenty years ago I could have but I am 70 now and not in good enough physical shape to do the work necessary to survive. However I have a big strong Son-in-law that lives with me that could sure do it with my help. I would love nothing better than to have my entire family living on a piece of good land supporting their own needs. That's the good life for a family. You learn to love, respect and depend on each other. This builds a closeness in a family you can't get any other way. There was 6 of us kids and this is the way we were raised. 3 boys to help Dad and 3 girls to help Mom. About 40 acres of good land with at least 10 acres tillable, a good team of mules or horses, a few simple plow tools for the team to pull and a family working together can raise all the feed needed for the animals on the farm plus feed the family and a couple of neighbors. If you can produce the veggies and the meat then the other stuff just requires a little smarts. You can produce just about everything you will need to survive. It's isn't a bad life either. It's a lot of work but it's the kind of work you can enjoy doing with other family members. The big problem now is there isn't many of us old coots left that know how to survive on that small farm. If most people couldn't go into a super market and buy their food they just wouldn't be able to survive. The men wouldn't even know how to put the harness on a mule or how to use a plow behind them. The women don't know how to can and preserve food to last through the winter. A lot of them don't have anyone they could even ask how to do it. Art

I would love a chance to have my own land and house. I am very handy with tools, and fixing things around the house. I do have vegatable gardens every year. It would be nice if I had ground enough for a huge garden instead of growing in pots. A clothes line would be nice too. Love the smell of fresh air dried clothes. Eat what you grow. Eat what you raise.

Why not. My great grandparents were landlords and did not have degrees to enter the job market. Initially they only have few plots of land where they planted rice, vegetables, and fruit trees. They reared animals for consumption and for the market. They did barter trading from their farms with consumable items. They did this throughout their lives and along the way they accumulated a lot of cash and in return bought many pieces of land. When they passed away my mom inherited all the properties which I have now become one of the beneficiary. If you are a hardworking person and believes in simple life, having a piece of land can see you through life and may benefit your next generations.

I don't think I could survive with just a piece of land and some tools. I would need to be given a couple of more things. I think technology has totally wasted my abilities to do any actual hard work.

If it is the question of just surviving,i would say that yes i can survive,but only if my family is there with me.secondly i would not be happy as we have seen so many advancements in technology,we use.We already have so many comforts,so it would not make me lead a happy life.I would miss my life with so many comforts where I had glass of milk to drink,not the cow.I am a pure vegetarian,so chicken would not work for me.I cannot survive only on fruits.For me salt is as necessary as water,so it would be very difficult to live without salt.I think there is a difference between survive & live.so I can survive i guess but can't live.

i was raised on a small farm and we lived on what we grew and we raised our meat.i know how to live off the land but i don't want to do that now .it is lot of hard work.i could not kill anything to eat either like my parents did.i milked cows to not any fun believe me.

i could survive with all of that on a piece of land but i would have to be awful hungar for me to kill and clean a chicken to eat.my mother used to and i could not watch her.I was raised on a farm so yes i could survive very well with all the things you have mentioned.

of course i can. i am proud to say that i have a green thumb and i love eating vegetables. it is harder to produce meat so i prefer to survive barely on fruits and vegetables.

Yes and I bet anybody can do it. This is something humans have been doing for centuries. If they can do it then they can do it now!!! I want to have a farm house (this is my dream) with huge gardens and chickens, cows, goats and u forgot to mention ducks and horses will also do. It would be so amazing...

Sure. I grew up on a farm, I'm farming this year. I'm pretty decent at scavenging, and I've walked all up and down the roads around my house...I know where food grows wild along the side of the roads too, so if I have to I know where to go. There's fish in the streams, as well. I'm pretty sure I can survive.

it may be possible to still survive but it will be such a miserable experience to start from that kind of life. i think that if there is good soil to plant vegetables and fruits and trees. for me to survive . but as i say it is quite hard and takes a lot of knowledge and learning to survive

With those you mentioned, I believe and think that it's even possible to happen. why? I have relatives in the province who actually does that sort of thing. there farmers but they don't have technology that we have today, and still they are able to provide food and clean water for their kids.they taught me how once when i had a vacation for a month, and i was so excited that i didn't think too much of the time. when i heard that i am leaving, i thought, it was like yesterday to me.

This is the kind of thing that interests me. I've always wanted to homestead and live off the land. I also want to try to live off the grid. The Amish lifestyle certainly holds an appeal to me, but maybe not that extreme. Anyway, if circumstances force it, I'm sure I can do it. It has been done before after all.

Hello Ice..:)...I would love to have my own house and a small piece of land...the problem would be to survive only from it...I don't think so..I'm a city girl and i've been raised so but i like the idea..i like eating fresh vegetables from the garden ..I don't know how to plant them though..:)...Maybe under any circumstances if i'll have to probably i will learn how to do it to not go hungry ...:)

You could stay alive if you set your mind to it but you most likely wouldn't be living well at least by today's standards. It is no wonder that people used to die as young as they did. Life would be tough. Even a lot of the Amish no longer can make it and have manufacturing jobs now. It would make a difference where your land was located. I live in a rural East Texas area that would throw a lot of diversity into the mix. We have a LOT of insects so it takes expensive insecticide at some point in the growing season to grow good vegetables here. You can try "green environmentally friendly methods" but I have yet to find one that really works. I don't know anyone who has had any luck with green methods working around here. My tomato plants look good now but soon their troubles will start as the temperatures head above 100 degrees. The "green methods" of fungicide also have never worked for me. You are going to need gasoline to keep the farm/yard equipment going. Also comes filters, oil, etc. to go with that. Now if you forgo the tractor for a horse and walking an old-fashioned till, you'd still have to contend with the health/food needs of the horse (think vet bills!). If your garden is so small that you don't need all of that, you won't have enough food to live off of all year either. As for a few chickens for meat, you'd need a lot of chickens. Once you've killed the chicken, that will only feed your family a day or two. Now you could keep the chicken alive and keep eating the eggs (as long as your chickens have enough to eat and stay healthy). YOu can only hunt for game in certain places and times of the year. Trees only bear fruit for a short time here. You could can the fruit for all year (but you'll need to buy pectin and a lot of sugar). Some years the weather hits fruit trees wrong and wipes out your crop. (Last year, I didn't get any plums). I'm not saying that it isn't a good thing to work the land. I grow some vegetables, have some fruit trees...but to live completely off of it would be an extremely tough existence. Sometimes I have trouble keeping up with the mowing!