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Hi All, Just a quick post to wish you a very Merry Christmas, and thank you all for reading our articles in this our first year! It’s been a sporadic process in getting Self Sufficiency World up and running, and then beginning to create useful content, but I can promise that 2011 will bring a wealth of [...] So you’ve got your garden up and running, and you’ve got produce to sustain you. Perhaps you give some away to friends and neighbours, but even the most organised gardeners suffer from the “glut” and end up with a surplus. What do you do? You preserve it for future use. You may choose to make preserves like [...] After a relatively straightforward house move, the trials of rural UK broadband took a while to overcome, followed by some unplanned time spent fixing a variety of computer issues. Happily, everything is now resolved, and after a longer than planned break, we are back. While we’ve been gone we’ve seen a government spending review and it [...] I owe you all an apology for being absent for a few weeks. Well, I’m back (briefly, to check in), but regular publishing will resume in early September. In the meantime, there are a few things that demand further thought… Anyone who has been consuming mainstream media in whatever form over the last few weeks, cannot [...] The weather has been pretty hot this week, and if the weather-guesser is halfway accurate it’s set to get hotter through the weekend. It’s great to be outside and in the countryside with weather like this, but as I look at the vegetable garden, it does rather focus the mind on water. All living things need [...] So we’ve talked about how debt is bad and it needs to be killed off. We’ve highlighted the need to minimise your Tax footprint, and we’ve provoked a bit of thought about where we spend our hard earned cash. So let’s say for the sake of argument that we’ve cleared all our debt (or at least [...] Today we conclude our series on practical things you can do to increase your level of self sufficiency. As before, work through from the beginning and build slowly. The important thing is to review your vision of what self sufficiency looks like for you, and to build a cohesive plan to take you there. At the [...] I thought it was time for a series of articles that give you some practical things you can do to increase your level of self sufficiency. Remember, when we talk about Self Sufficiency we are talking about a change of mindset, taking responsibility for our own, and our family’s needs. To that end here are [...] In a previous article on Food Self Sufficiency we talked about the concept of a “deep larder”. I like to think of it as your own private grocery store that has 24×7 access. In an ideal world it would contain food you have produced and preserved yourself, however as we’ve said previously, total self sufficiency [...] If you’re going to be self sufficient there are many areas where you need to invest time, and initially finances to achieve the level of self sufficiency you are aiming for. If you prioritise by focusing on what you “need” rather than what you “want”, one of the top priorities, if not the number one [...] |
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