Or for supporting profit - making ventures, which include promoting the use of commercially
manufactured curriculum materials, which may not support student learning as compared to research - based methods.
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.