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A Year (and a bit) in the Self Sufficient Life

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Okay, Mrs Dirty Boots here, Madam of this Self Sufficient homestead.  Yep, I know I have been missing in action from this site.  Rest assured I have been doing my bit though (just ran out of words to ramble about it all really!).  Any-hoo, it suddenly dawned on me (over a bowl of barely simmering lemon curd no less) that a whole year (and a bit) had gone by since we started writing here about all things Self Sufficientish and Frugal. How time flies!  We’ve lived off various home-grown veggies, fruits and home-reared (killed) chickens.  Eaten vast quantities of homemade […]

Self Sufficiency Resources

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This is not something that I do very often but as this site has grown and we have now got a few hundred regular readers and an awful lot of people come here every day via the search engines I thought it was about time to share the Self Sufficiency Love. We read a number of other self sufficient websites and blogs and although we don’t comment on them as often as we used to (sorry Guys) you can rest assured that the ones we like we keep up to date with in our Reader. What I would like to […]

Introduction

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Welcome to A Self Sufficient Life. Four years ago we sold our house in the UK and bought a run down, derelict farmhouse in the Catalan countryside. Now, years later we have become quite self sufficient in many aspects of our life. We grow a ton of vegetables, keep Chickens for eggs (as well as sporadically raising Chickens for meat), live completely off grid and live as frugally as possible. Our lifestyle is “back to basics”. We have learnt a lot in the past four years and hopefully with this Blog we will be passing on a lot of the […]