grow my own food
Self-sufficiency

Well worth doing!

Start with the easy stuff – Tomatoes, Lettuce, Salad Greens, Chillis, Swiss Chard – but the real challenge is in getting self-sufficient in grains, legumes, onions, potatoes – the bulk stuff that really keeps us alive. And then on to the really hard stuff like Sunflowers for oil.

We have been self-sufficient for Beans for the past couple of years, but grains are a still-outstanding challenge. Self-sufficient in Onions the year before last, but last season our supplies were seriously depleted by a Baboon that ate most of the Onions while they were drying out on racks. :-O

The goal is to eat a Totally Self-Produces Pizza dinner – including the beer.

Http://mikro2nd.net/blog/planb/ is where I write about this stuff. Also should have a website up in a couple of weeks about our self-sufficiency project/permaculture/farm at http://mikro2nd.net/.



Comments:

Amazing

I can’t wait to read your blog/website. I’m very interested in learning more about how you achieve this goal. My goal is a complete self-sufficiency experiment, but the actual work time is a challenge PLUS the knowledge. It seems like you have accomplished a great deal! Good luck!


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