Living for the Long Haul in Rural Minnesota: What might a rural self-sufficient community look like?

Living for the Long Haul in Rural Minnesota: What might a rural self-sufficient community look like?

PINE RIVER — In previous columns, we introduced the concept of local self-sufficient and sustainable communities, defined some terms and discussed community relationships that may be essential in building them. Here we begin to discuss what a self-sufficient community in north-central Minnesota might actually look like. Fortunately, some of us have firsthand experience with self-sufficient communities having grown up in them right here in north-…