Sunday, March 28, 2010

Self sufficiency in the city - possible or not? (UPDATED)

Update on post below:
My husband died 3 months after I started this blog, so as you might imagine, I had other things on my mind. Long story short: I now live with friends on a hobby farm with more opportunities :-)

However to replace the question I can only recommend, that no matter how much land you have available, if anything at all, there's always a lot of opportunities to do something the selfsufficient way. Even though you live on the fifth floor with no garden or balcony, theres for instance always a window with space for a plant like cherrytomatoes, peppers, chili, herbs or simular. The work with collection, use and storage of all fruits, nuts etc you can find in nature is available for everybody. Building up a pantry is always a good idea no matter where you live - by stuff when its cheap and store it for later use.

We started to collect all bills from shopping to analyze, what we bought the most and the price for it. Since we all have a lot of experience with gardening, we all knew, that it was better to grow a lot of what we use the most - or is very expensive to buy.

So what are we waiting for(?) Lets get on with self sufficiency, feel the joy of everything homemade we make, spare nature and none the least save ourselves some money.

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