RE: What Percentage of Food Do We Grow Ourselves and What Crops Do We Grow | Earth Centered Living Vlog #1 (DTube)
In the Summer here I am always excited by the amount of my food intake I can grow in my small veg garden/soft fruit garden. My leaving off carbs and focusing on a mainly veg based (with meat/egg protein in small amounts) has also made me realize how much more I can get from self grow.
I am hoping one day we can do solar here. We are lucky to have a flat roof that faces an open bit of the sea so no shadow obstruction that literally gets sun all day, so it just needs to get done. It is on the list.
I love keeping animals (quail/chickens) and growing my own. But, in many ways, it truly does seem like a spring summer time thing for me. I would like to see it stretch out into the other seasons for me.
This is such a great look into you guys, you are doing great things and it looks like you're having a blast doing it! Keep on homesteading and also keep on Steemin! :)
Thanks for the encouragement dear! Your place sounds like somewhere I would love to visit someday and like you have an ideal place for solar... all in good timing.
Yes, we actually just killed all of our chickens. Next year I think we'll be caught up in building a house and the chickens don't really lay well except as you say in spring/summer. One day I would love a flock to range around and self replicate ;) but until then, I am afraid we'll have to start buying eggs from our friend.. Not afraid of that haha, but I do love having animals around, but we can't do it all!
It IS amazing what we can grow ourselves, quite easily, and that it takes care of a lot of our diet. We're also quite happy with it, and growing your own 1,000,000x out competes what can be bought in the store... Much love!