Imagine growing cannabis, eating bacon and pork you raised, fresh eggs and rabbit meat, all the zucchini and fresh summer squash you could eat. And tomatoes, lots of them. Heat with wood, have bonfires whenever.

At one level it sounds like a lot of fun. But at the same time, it would mean I would give up a lot of my opportunity to travel and go places, camp out in the woods and spend most of my free time away from Albany. The thing is as it is, I can buy most of what I need, yet spend my weekends in the wilderness, burning shit and having fun. I do want to some day have a greater connection to the land, then my weekend adventures, but as things right now they are quite acceptable too in my mind.