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 [...]

Ten Benefits to Growing Your Own

1. Your own fruit and vegetables taste better than shop bought produce.

They really do! Maybe it’s because they are fresher, but I find my own produce has a  much “stronger” taste than the plastic wrapped produce from the shop, or even that sold at farmers markets.

2. Your home produced food has not [...]

Homeward Bound

Well it’s been a mad few weeks what with one thing another. We’ve entered the silly season at my day job, which has necessitated quite a bit of unexpected business travel. That’s pretty disruptive to everything else, including posting new articles, however I may have discovered a solution to that little challenge.

Exciting news! We’ve also [...]

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 [...]

Getting Started - Ten Practical Steps to becoming more Self Sufficient

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 [...]

Awakening

Photographs by clix.

Do you take the Blue Pill or the Red Pill?

If you’ve seen the movie “The Matrix” you’ll be familiar with this reference. For the very few of you who haven’t (where have you been?):

The film is set in a future where humans are kept alive in pods, connected to [...]

NEEDS versus WANTS

We’ve covered a variety of subjects with the posts so far and I wanted to begin to put some context around them for you so you can see where everything fits in. Let’s start with a “back to basics” question:

What do you really need to be self sufficient?

Shelter
Food
Water

That’s it! Self Sufficiency boils down to those [...]