I'd like to think I qualify. Mouch of my homesteading occurs in my mind though. I live on a quarter acre in the capital city but manage to make my own wine and beer, cheese, pickles, bread and other such. I grow heirloom tomatoes and beans and this year I have a swop thing going on with friends and neighbours so I can have access to basil plants (which will not grow for me, little bastards) etc. I have seven apple trees, a crab apple so there's lots of cider and enough fruit spare to give to the local food bank (900lbs of apples and 200 of pears last year). I work in an office for the gubmint and I manage to find time for all the other stuff. And music. I like nothing better than sitting in the sun on the deck reading lark Rise to Candleford. Last week I re-read for the dozenth time John Seymour's 'Fat of the Land.' He started 'back to the land' for many people. Last I heard he was 90 and setting fire to Monsanto canola crops in Ireland. Anyone know him?