SELF SUFFICIENCY

The ability to supply one's own needs without external assistance.

• MEAT
• VEGETABLES
• FRUIT
• DAIRY
• OTHER

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Ways to provide meat for your family:

• Hunting
• Fishing
• Raising your own​
• Know how to slaughter, cut, and preserve all your meat!

Grow and/or find your own! Learn more about our gardens here!

• Permaculture Garden - low maintenance
• Food Forrest - Filled with tons of perennials!
• Greenhouse - to keep growing throughout the cold season!
• Foraging - finding edible plants in your surrounding area that grow naturally!
• Know how to save and preserve all your vegetables!

Grow and/or find your own: Learn more about our fruits here!

• Plant an Orchard
• Propagate berries, grapes, and more!
• Foraging - there are plenty of fruits around that just grow wild!
• Know how to preserve and save all your fruits!
  

Raise your own!

• Chickens for fresh eggs! Learn more about our chickens here!
• Cows, Sheep, or Goats for milk! (and yes, there are some breeds of sheep that can be milked!)

Self Sufficiency isn't only about feeding yourself. It's also about being able to take care of oneself as far as:

• Health and wellness (essential oils, clean water, homeopathic remedies, cleaner recipes, and more)​
• Providing and maintaining ones home as simply and affordably as possible
• Heating the home in the winter (wood)
• Providing clothing for your family (wool from sheep, skins from animals, etc.)
• Using and reusing everything that you can - in other words wasting nothing!
• Knowing what resources are available near your home and how to use them in emergencies (alternative sources of water, shelter, heating, lighting, communication, food, etc.)