Hi Sarah, I do a lot of what you are suggesting here in your article. I grow my own produce that I produce with the only mechanized device that I use is my grass catching lawnmower, I sell my books (a few about gardening and other related subjects) and I sell cookies that I bake from scratch and use eggs from my own free range chickens in them at farmers market! I also sell a lot of my books as eBooks so there's not the issue of print wastes (most people already have devices that can accommodate eBooks). I , of course, write. I have had my laptop for 4 years and recently instead of purchasing a new one, I had the keyboard replaced.