The early settlers were primarily subsistence farmers, though some grew onions as a cash crop, said Herb Day, a local historian.
Rural folk of all economic levels, black and white, were at least able to fall back on subsistence farming (though everyone was subject to being shaken down by commissaries collecting foodstuffs for the armies in the field).
The extinct fauna influenced subsistence complementarily, though it played an important role in the social and symbolic spheres.
Several local fisherman and whalers attended the film screening in order to defend the centuries-old cultural pastime, which the Faroese claim is still carried out for subsistence even though local scientists continue to warn of the serious risks of whale meat consumption.
Most people live by subsistence farming, though some women are also employed in local industries and may undertake craft activities such as embroidery and basket weaving to generate income.
In many rural third-world communities, women contribute substantial time and energy to subsistence farming, even though they are childbearing (Panter-Brick, 1989).
Though hardly a subsistence wage, it is far less than the stars pulled in the dotcom glory days.
European settlement in the 1800s took clamming to an industrial scale (though with a brief turn back to subsistence during the Great Depression of the 1930s when squatters lived on the beach in driftwood shacks, clamming to get by).
We spend our days working for a little bit of money, though never really enough, to provide for basic means of subsistence like shelter and low cost food, which our work requires.
There are generally fewer women in paid employment than men, though a large proportion of women in sub-Saharan countries are engaged in subsistence agriculture if only part of the time.
Though they started as subsistence farmers, they gradually acquired more land and built up big flocks of sheep on pasture cleared from forests of kahikatea and rata.
