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40 Acres Not Necessary Utahns are Homesteading in Urban Backyards By Nicole Anderson
U
tahns are known for their food storage
lifetime, others simply continued on,
and preparedness methods, and have
knowing that no matter what happened,
been encouraged for years to acquire food
they would be fine. In April of 2020, a poll
storage and a 72-hour kit in case of an
posted at “@UtahPolicy, indicated 37% of
earthquake or other emergency. For those
households feel they are very prepared,
who did, that storage came in handy during
and 56% feel somewhat prepared” to
last year’s woes.
withstand the coronavirus pandemic.”
While many of us had a difficult
With the closure of businesses, mask
time believing that we were, in fact,
mandates, and quarantine orders, 2020
experiencing a pandemic during our
felt like the apocalypse. Thousands of
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