One of the underlying principles when aiming for a self sufficient life is not to waste resources. One of our most important resources is food, so please do NOT waste any, ever, at all! That’s the shouty bit over for now… I know there are always exceptions, but, as a general principle, we should all be aiming to ensure we waste no food. I won’t bore you with the figures – we all know a massive volume of food goes to landfill which is completely unforgivable. However you get your food; hunt it, buy it, grow it, find it, please […]
Crease-free Laundry the Easy Way
This is either a post giving you the okay to be lazy OR it is a post about saving time, electricity and helping you be self sufficient, you decide. I have never liked to iron or press my laundry but I did always do it. Until that is, we ended up without any electricity for six months when we first arrived here. It turns out you can get perfectly smooth clothes and linen without the need to burn huge amounts of fossil fuel or giving over whole days to the task. Simply follow these steps to a crease-free future: never […]
John Seymour – The ‘Dirty Boots’ Gang’s Hero.
We gardened before we’d heard of John Seymour but once we had got hold of a few of his books our gardening really took off. He had small-holdings and lived a relatively self sufficient life with his family in Suffolk and then Wales for many years. In Wales he even created a school in the arts of self sufficiency. His books share some of his huge wealth of knowledge, personally gained and researched – he remained clued up on the cutting edge of self sustainability thinking. Most importantly though he was an excellent teacher. I wish we’d had the chance […]