Presenting a discussion guide for an exercise in subsistence living, this article is based upon a site in Muskegon County, Michigan but could be adapted. Consideration is given to physiography, plants, mammals, birds, other vertebrates, invertebrates, food sources, habitat management, agriculture, shelter, clothing, medicine, population, education…

To determine what adjustments the rural family will be making in the next 15 years, this study, a part of Project '80, examines past trends and future projections for the Michigan rural family. The first section on rural family living gives rural family characteristics which include information on transportation, communications, clothing, food,…