When you produce 97 % of your own food, compost all
manure (human and animal), make your own clothing, shoes, diapers, wraps, menstrual pads, washable toilet paper, soaps, lanolin, and herbal tinctures, and grow your animals feed, make your house out of a recycled tobacco
barn with reclaimed building materials, have no electricity (even solar panels / wind generators leave a huge footprint from manufacture), water coming from your spring / creek, home school your children without fancy curriculum, make your living from your land and being a home birth midwife, etc... then you will see what real life could be.
From the road, the sprawling site looks like a typical concentrated animal feeding operation, or CAFO,
with nine elongated metal
barns housing nearly 9,000 hogs and an open lagoon that stores liquefied
manure.