#self sufficient

[christenhelm]

📸 The Seasonal Homestead

[elkerulomunicio]

From now on, this will be my holy scripture. This is what I’ll pray from and for every day.

Thanks a lot, Vinted!

[thebatinboots]

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Cheese making adventures pt 1 🧀

For fun (and maybe educational purposes?) I recorded my first time making cheese.

And anybody who knows me, if I was a dragon, my hoard would be cheese...

The first attempt is homemade cream cheese! Learn from my mistakes so you don't have to make them!!

Stick around for pt 2 where I make bullshit mozzarella!!!

[theantiquefairy]

🍂🐌🤎

[thatpollguy]

Do you grow your own fruit?

Yes, many different kinds of fruit

Yes, just one or two different kinds of fruit

No, but I used to grow my own fruit

No, I have never grown my own fruit

Voting ended onJan 14

[hypn0-deer]

[homeiswherethewitchcraftis]

If it wasn't obvious, I am really into self-sufficiency and homesteading. One criticism I keep coming across is that you can't be self-sufficient because you can't do every single thing that needs to be done. I feel like this is completely missing the point of working towards self-sufficient lifestyles and that is to do as much as YOU ARE ABLE for yourself that may look different than your neighbors or friends and that is OK.

It's also important to remember that self-sufficient does NOT mean isolated. Focusing on being more self-sufficient is a key part of building strong communities. If you and your friends and neighbors are all working on being more self-sufficient, that opens the door to form bartering relationships. For example say I need seeds for my garden and my neighbor has a wonderful garden and extra seeds but she wants chicks I can trade her my chick for her seeds now we both are more self-sufficient and have started to build a relationship that is beneficial to both of us.