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Materials For Composting For Free

Not everyone who wants to Compost has sufficient land to generate a good quantity of materials to Compost. Even many of those with enough land don’t have a sufficient mixture of material to make a decent and rich Compost. Hopefully you Compost Kitchen Scraps and anything else you can get your hands on. Here is a quick tip for those who wish they could make more Compost than they do now. Ask! When you drive past a Coffee Shop, Restaurant, Grocers etc, pop in and ask what they do with the waste. Many businesses have to pay to get their […]

Turning The Compost Heap? – Don’t Bother!

It is amazing how much controversy there is over Compost! There are so many different systems it is unbelievable. Anyone who reads about our Self Sufficient Life knows we like to keep things simple around here. There is enough work involved when trying to become more self sufficient without making life more difficult for yourself. I would like to take this opportunity to set a few Composting myths straight. Compost Heap Turning If you have looked around the Web you will find many people advocating the turning of the Compost Heap on a fairly regular basis. They claim that it […]

Chicken Nesting Boxes Made Simple

Anyone who follows this Self Sufficient site knows that we like to keep things as simple as possible. If we can do something cheaply or for free then that is what we will do. A big part of a Self Sufficient Life is getting the best quality food at the cheapest prices.  This is where keeping Chickens is so invaluable. Chicken nesting boxes or Chicken Laying boxes can be a simple affair if we wish. Hopefully you have read How To Build Chicken Houses For Free and are now on your way to the freshest Eggs imaginable. Here is a […]

How To Build A Compost Bin

As you know, I am all for making things for free if I can.  It is not for everyone but I thought I would give everyone the quick and easy way to learn how to build a Compost Bin at home. Searching the Web I am surprised that the Garden Composting Bin Plans that I could find all seemed so complicated to follow.  Well, I will be keeping it as simple as possible.  Compost Bin Plans should be so easy to follow that people will be inclined to build one themselves, not be put off by technicalities. We have built […]

Get Fruit For Free And Go Preserve Crazy!

This Sunday we were on a mission to get as much Fruit as we could for free. After our very successful day it got me to thinking. How can everyone, whatever the country they live in, get free Fruit? I will tell you about our day and it should answer that question in part. I will then give you some more ideas. Becoming more self sufficient is all about spending as little as you can and making the most of what you can get for little or no cost. The Fruit For Free Mission Our friends have a small Orange […]

Compost Toilet DIY

As everyone who follows this site knows, we are fairly fanatical about preserving water and composting anything that we can. Let me ask you a question. If you owned Chickens, or if you do, would you, or do you, compost their droppings? You would?  You do?  So why don’t you compost your own poo and pee? Urrghh!!  It’s nasty I hear you say!  Well, get over it.  Parents face much nastier things when they are bringing up children.  Quite a hands on approach to bodily wastes is involved.  So what is so nasty about simply emptying a sawdust covered, non […]