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Yeah, I just had to cram in that whole explanation<\/a> about inflation and employment, because I do think it is a very important thing to understand about the economic system we have today.<\/p>\n The book Sophie is referring to is (if I’m not mistaken) The Self-Sufficient Gardener<\/a><\/em> by John Seymour. The first edition came out in the 70’s, and since then he has made a thoroughly revised new edition, so now I’m a bit confused if it really was that book. But it can’t really have been any other one …<\/p>\n In any case, at a young age I was deeply impressed by that book along with two others by John Seymour — Forgotten Household Crafts<\/a> <\/em>and, especially,\u00a0The Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency<\/a>, all of which I\u00a0kept borrowing over and over at the local library. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s very common in this area for people to have allotment gardens where they actually grow food for their families. But growing food on the street side is of course rather unusual … Yeah, I just had to cram in that whole explanation about inflation and employment, because I do think it is a very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driftwood-chapter-9","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2158,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions\/2158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}