If the I want to live in the mountains and still provide for your family, then it would be best to not go alone, but go with more people, so the I them can work together. The I them can make some kind of product, even from what the I can gather in your surroundings, and sell it to the people of the villages and cities around. Some places are easier to live than others for people who want to live in the hills. Some places have plenty of food and other places don't. Also, vegetarians have to be even more picky where they decide to live, because it is harder to live in the wilderness if a person is vegetarian.
I have never lived in the hills but will speak of an Idren of mine who Lived in the hills of Barbados for several years. Him and other RasTafarI set up a small community in the hills. They performed duties to gather food, build shelter and other things they needed, but they lived free without the bounds of Babylon. He enjoyed the life he was living. He told I this one story where the same hurricane that was destruction to the city and village dwellers, was a blessing for them in the Hills, because a lot of fruit fell from the trees in the storm and provided them with food, it was like Jah brought them a feast. They lived a natural life in the Hills, and it was a strength to them.
He told I that they would try to always keep a fire going and protect it from rain, but if he needed to start a fire, but didn't have anything dry to start it and it was after a rainfall. He would go around to the different trees and pick the very thinnest branches, the short thinnest branches (from one inch to a few inches long) at the end of dry, dead branches. He demonstrated once, he broke them so they were one to three inches long and stacked the branches in a way that might be hard to describe without showing, but I will try.
Most of the I them are probably familiar with how people lean branches on each other like a tee-pee when they are starting a fire. So the little branches would be leaned not so much like a tee-pee, but leaned on each other so that there is plenty of air in between and so they make an almost dome like pile. It doesn't have to be a giant pile, just enough to get the fire started. While picking the tiny thin branches, other dry branches of various sizes and still attached to trees, should be gathered. The reason it is grabbed from the trees is because they don't get as wet as what is on the ground, and they also dry much quicker. When he demonstrated it to I he just used a lighter to start it, it lit very easily and the fire spread without even blowing on it. He would then pile some of the thicker branches, still leaving air and not crushing the pile underneath. As those branches lit he would build it up thicker branches until he had a good fire. I tried the technique on my own several times and it never failed to work. It was more reliable then using paper to start a fire, because the branches don't burn away so quick as paper does.
I will come again to Reason more about the experiences he shared with I.
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