self suffiency

[eroticartist]

Well here I am on my organic farm. I have gone back to the land. I have 5000 sq metres. Yesterday I dug the land using a plough, today a bit of hoeing. putting in the chicken run, have to wire the roof in because of EEC rules but it is still free range organic.
Tomorrow I have to prune the vines: onedoes this in February each year. The nights are cold but it often gets quite warm in the day and it is a late breakfast out on the veranda. We eat oranges from the gardeen and the marmelade I made from some the other day. Now I am off to pick some vegetables for dinner. They seem to growing all year round here.

I am going to instally solar panels for lighting. I also have two wells and another house on this land.
If anyone knows about self sufficiency please teach me.
Mike Freeman.

[Rude Boy]

"If anyone knows about self sufficiency please teach me."

Enough invested to take 5% as income, tax free and live off it. The fuckers can't touch you.

[BeestonBoy]

Hey Mike

Cant really give you any information apart from watch all the episodes of the good life that you can. But good luck with it all chap and i really mean that. I hope to do it me self one day. please let me know how you get on would love to see some pics and stuff if you want to E mail me off forum.

Enjoy the fruits of your labour chap

BB

[eroticartist]

Rude Boy,
I have enough vegetables here to feed an army and everything is still growing! The sunshine is warm and I am sitting on the veranda typing this. birdsong fills the air and no traffic noise!
The fruit trees are starting to flower and i am getting chickens soon. I can survice off the land and I will install solar panels soon. I have two wells for water.
Mike.

[Rude Boy]

"The sunshine is warm and I am sitting on the veranda typing this. birdsong fills the air and no traffic noise!"

That sounds pretty damned good to me!

[c.j.jaxxon]

Help with self suffiency? Seems to me you don't need no help!

[eroticartist]

Hi CJ,
Nice to here from you in the land of the free. I am learning a lot and living off the land.I can't see myself needing to buy vegetables or fruit ever again and fish is cheap. Wine will be free after the harvest. I stoked up the big outdoor pizza oven( I am in Puglia) and Linda cooked some big pizzas. They were crispy and delicious washed down with the local red wine at 2 Euros a litre. later she cooked some bread.

The kids love the freedom to run about the land and play at any time.
Mike.

[mike johnson]

Back In The Day, I would've recommended 'Mother Earth News', a magazine, but it has become commercialized. There was an excellent series of books called 'Foxfire' published between 1972 & 2004 about self-sufficiency in th Appalachians, w/ a lot of 'how to' instruction. It sorta grew out of the hippie 'back-to-the-country' movement.See the wikipedia article on this series; if you are interested, check out eBay/Amazon & that lot.

[Arnold Layne]

Post some pictures then Mike for us all to see, you know of the surroundings maybe...

[Jacques]

Indeed - 6" of snow yesterday!!!