How are you self sufficient?

[Jess-W]

This is topic that my husband and I have been thinking about a lot lately. General interests have gotten us a small start and I can use this forum for additional ideas. I need to be careful that I take things slow and don't bite off more than I can chew (as I am apt to do)

So far we have:

3 German Shorthairs for a freezer of game birds
34 hens & 4 roos
1 nectarine tree
1 apple tree
1 plum tree
3 blackberry bushes from a nursery just planted this year but a multitude of wild bushes
3 raspberry bushes just planted this year
3 grape vines
my first veggie garden going to wreck and ruin because I broke my leg and can't get out to care for it
a small herb garden
I nursed 2 itty bitty almond trees that I got from the Arbor Day Foundation for the last 4 years and just found out 2 days ago that they have just produced the best tasting peaches ever.

I'd like to add a stocked pond
A lavender garden
really get some asparagus going
a nice watering system for both animals and the yard
in the back of my mind I have thought about goats or sheep (the idea of making cheese appeals to me) this has not been shared with the hubby

Sadly, money to make this happen is getting harder to come by especially with the addition of hospital bills

 

[BarredBuff]

I probably wont be able to do my other poultry...the turkeys would go and breed with the native turkeys and destroy the gene pool. While this happening the ducks would getting ate up by mud turtles down at the pond that very far from the house and isnt even mine.

 

[skeeter03]

Garden
a few fruit trees (which dont do to well cause neighbors refuse to take care of theirs and the disease and bugs spread to mine grrrr)
chickens (eggs and meat)
fishing
Rain barrels
line drying
wood stove
I can and process as much food as I can.

would love to become solar or wind powered.
more rain barrels as we live in semi-dessert conditions here.