Fernand Braudel once commented that the second occupation of every villager was hauling. As the hideous supermarkets will no longer be needed, windows, shelves, cabinets, wood, brick, and innumerable materials can likewise be salvaged. Local traders will re-establish the High Street shops, and the property developers will disappear. Horses will come into their own. Wild birds can be snared by nets, pigeons encouraged by dovecots, ducks by decoy ponds, and rabbits caught without shotguns.
Eels abound in the ancient drainage ditches, known locally as rhynes.
Snails or 'wall fish' provide a tasty meal when cooked on the back of a hot shovel. Lanolin from sheep is as good as the most expensive face creams' Geese thrive on the wet moorland, their feathers useful for bedding and their quills for pens. Ink is easy to make. Pigs supply tallow into which rushes are dipped to light houses and inns. Sheep's wool can be woven on domestic looms, washed in the tucking mill, dried on tenterhooks, and napped by teazles which grow in many gardens.