How are you self sufficient?

[calicokat]

As of this summer we have:

fruit trees (Pears, Cherries, Apples, Peaches, & Plums)
Red & Black rasberries
Some herbs
Chickens for eggs
First year for meat chickens - to be butchered in a week or so (although not sure if I'll be involved in processing - I'm not THAT self reliant

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Big garden - we can/freeze what we don't eat fresh
Homemade detergent
Line dry some of our laundry - working on getting family on board more

& I'd still would like to try

Beekeeping
ham radio
more varieties of herbs
small greenhouse
make use of rainwater

 

[thefamilyflock]

We have a garden that will provide us with some of what we need. I am always looking for ways to expand it. This was the year of the chicken, 10 new hens and 2 babies in the brooder. Hopefully bees and maybe meaties next year. I do some sewing and baking. Long term plan for apple trees. I just started researching soap making. Pigs and turkeys have been discussed but not acted on. Step at a time.

 

[AngieChick]

large veggie garden
fruit trees
berries (several different types)
chickens 14
ducks 7
I bake, line dry, can etc.....
built a greenhouse last fall

wants:
2 dairy goats
more fruit trees

 

[joebryant]

I'm totally self-sufficient because my wife does all the bill paying, shopping, cooking, cleaning, clothes washing, etc. I don't need anything/anyone else.

 

[chickensducks&agoose]

We have large blackberry patch (and a 2 acre one on our neighbor's land that they let us pick from) 6 black raspberry patches, 5 or 6 old apple trees, 2 young apple trees, 1 young cherry tree, 17 chickens for eggs (5 adults, 12 pullets), lots of meat birds coming this week (50!!!), ducks for eggs, geese for protecting the ducks, I make bread from scratch, and pancakes, and waffles, and jam, and we have a 20x30 garden mostly filled with green beans and peas... some tomatoes, watermelon, pumpkin and a bunch of cukes... DH is handy and fixes the cars when they're broke, and we have a dug well behind our house, so if electricity went out, we could go out back with a bucket. Also have lots of lawn and bugs, and woods with leaves on the ground, to supplement the chicken/duck food. oh. and 3 turkeys: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and When Dad Gets Home.

 

[BarredBuff]

Next year I wanna try to sucessfully raise 15 cornish rocks xs for some really good fried chicken. If I get Turkeys I want some extremely fresh Thanksgiving turkey...by fresh I mean it was walking around yesterday.

 

[BarredBuff]

I am such a dumbbutt. I left the garden gate open last night....the chickens dug my carrots up and mutilated a pumpkin plant. Im MAD now.

 

[AngieChick]

Quote:

You crack me up, Joe. Brat.

 

[chickensducks&agoose]

you want your turkey to REST in the fridge for at least 2 days... so walking around 3 days before thanksgiving sounds good. I've got a date for mine with the processer on Nov. 23rd. I suppose it'd be more self sufficient to do it my self.. but...

 

[BarredBuff]

chickensducks&agoose :

you want your turkey to REST in the fridge for at least 2 days... so walking around 3 days before thanksgiving sounds good. I've got a date for mine with the processer on Nov. 23rd. I suppose it'd be more self sufficient to do it my self.. but...

Okay, thanks!​