SELF SUFFICIENCY

The ability to supply one's own needs without external assistance.
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• MEAT/EGGS/DAIRY
• VEGETABLES/FRUIT
• FORAGING/TREES
• ELECTRIC/WATER/HEAT
• OTHER

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Ways to provide meat for your family:

• Hunting
• Fishing
• Raising 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!)

• Know how to slaughter, cut, and preserve all your meat, eggs, milk, etc.

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

• Permaculture Garden - low maintenance
• Food Forrest - Filled with tons of perennials!
• Greenhouse - to keep growing throughout the cold season!
• Know how to save and preserve all your vegetables!​
• Plant an orchard and grow and/or harvest from nut trees
• Propagate berries, grapes, and more!
• Foraging - there are plenty of fruits and nuts around that just grow wild!
• Know how to preserve and save all your fruits and nuts.

Knowing the trees and plants located on our land and their uses with respect to lumber, edibility, medicinal value etc.

• Trees
• Edible Landscaping
• Foraging

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

• Providing clean and plentiful drinking water
• Providing hot water for cleanliness
  
• Heating the home and keeping it cool in the summer
• Providing electricity so you can enjoy some of life's simple pleasures!

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
• DIY repairs for home and vehicle maintenance
• ​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, trees and what they can provide, etc.)
• Having the proper cookware to go from the stove, to the oven, to the top of the woodstove, and outside to the campfire allows you to be able to prepare a meal for your family under any circumstances!

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