A Guide To Self Sufficient Living

If your wish is to provide your own livelihood then self sufficient living is something you should consider. You will be capable of providing your own daily needs like clothing, shelter and food yourself. The cost of living is so high and often the quality of service is so bad that this way of life is attracting many people.

This lifestyle will be less taxing on natural resources and this will benefit our environment. Choosing this way of life is easy if you happen to live on a farm. There will be sufficient land and you will have natural resources available to you.

One of the things you could do is to start a vegetable garden. You can buy chickens and other types of poultry so that you can get eggs as well as meat. Sell the eggs as well as the poultry to gain income. Start growing fruit and sell the excess fruit that you produce. You could expand your fruit business to the point where you will be able to start exporting.

You can start a nursery business on your land. Use all the leaves from your plantations and the garden as fertilizer. If there is a cow on your land, the use of dung for bio-fuel will save you a lot of money on electricity as well as gas.

It is not only those who live on farms who can choose this lifestyle. If you live in the city, you can also start doing this, but on a much smaller scale. Install solar energy to provide your household with all its energy requirements. You can build a barrel in order to trap rain water for irrigation use.

Start growing vegetables and herbs. If you have adequate space, plant some fruit trees. If you live in an apartment, start growing your vegetables and herbs in pot plants. Place these on your balcony or on your window sills. You should walk or cycle to work or to go shopping. Get your kids to do the same to school. Learn a craft like sewing or knitting. This will enable you to create or repair your own clothing. Install sky lights to provide natural light as well as heat in your home. Recycle as much as you possibly can.

It may not be easy to do this at first as people have been spoilt by being able to get a third party to do everything for them. Start small and build up to the point where you feel that you are adequately self-sufficient. The decrease in wastage and minimal usage of natural resources should spur you on.

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