Learn how to:

• Find and buy good low-cost land
• Dig a well
• Put up a fence
• Keep and shear sheep
• Raise pigs
• Keep and milk a cow
• Train a horse or ox
• Save seeds
• Breed your own plant varieties
• Preserve fruits and vegetables
• Butcher your own meat
• Cure ham and bacon
• Make sausage, bread, cheese, butter, yogurt and ice cream
• Repair buildings
• Get rid of vermin
• Deal with human and animal wastes ecologically

and find contentment.