Self Sufficiency Goals for 2011

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a great Christmas. If like me you had too much to each and drink, then I’m sure you’ve made a new years resolution to lose some weight, or get fitter.

I like to set myself goals each year, and break them down into monthly to do lists so [...]

Moving up a Gear: Ten MORE Practical Steps to increase your Self Sufficiency

Continuing our series on practical things you can do to increase your level of self sufficiency. I haven’t had the opportunity to write as much as I’d like over the last few weeks, however from your feedback I know you find the practical articles useful, so here goes with ten MORE practical steps. If you [...]

Keeping Chickens - Part 2 (Breeds)

So you’ve got your equipment, a hen house, and have fenced off an area for them. What now?

 As we said in part 1, cockerels are typically very noisy so unless you are going to get into breeding chickens, which is probably best left until you have more experience, I’d keep it an all female endeavour [...]

Keeping Chickens – Part 1 (Equipment)

If you have the space and the inclination you’ll be thinking about keeping livestock. If you have little space and/or little experience then Chickens are a great place to start! You can keep a small number of Chickens in most average sized gardens so Chickens are within the grasp of most people.

They’re relatively easy to [...]