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RE: My Very Own Garden Behind A Lake House For Self Sustainability, Vegan Lifestyle And Food Freedom
That looks really good! Even though you can never trust on full self sustainability even on food (as a bad year can do real damage), it is most usually helping in getting some good quality food almost for free + investing your time.
In best case, you'll be able to share food with others too, as not all food will last long enough if you get really good harvest :)
You are right, its not a sure thing, but in Serbia where job is not a sure thing this is a safer option. You only depend on the labour you put in, and the weather conditions which are 90% of the time in favour.
Sounds lucky enough :) We have a 100 square meter farming plot on the outskirts of our home town/city and last year, big pieces of our crop were damaged by plant diseases and way too chilly august.. but it's different when we are high up in the north :)
I wish all the best for your project.
Yeah our location has better weather conditions, and you can expect it. Thanks I don't know why people here are so passionate about gardening is it rare in your part of the world? In Serbia everyone was a house on the country side, or grandparents living in the Villages who have a small garden. There is no option to survive here with the minimum wage of around 260 euros that to produce your own food.
In Finland, wages are typically higher and even social care payments are way higher than that, but then.. our rents are high. In a small city, the rent for a single room apartment is typically over around 500 euros. We are lucky to have a moderate priced three room apartment for rent and it's a bit over 700 euros per month.
So even though we have more money, we have to pay more. Food is ok though, as nobody really has to starve and we can afford basic food (1 kilo potatoes ~0,49 euros)
But Finns are crazy about gardening, but not the useful kind of gardening usually. Planting flowers and such, spending big money on making the garden beautiful, typically having some berry bushes or an apple tree, not that much of vegetables to eat though :)
Take a look at my second entry about this topic
https://steemit.com/life/@drumsta/self-sustainability-and-food-freedom-101-one-year-potato-supply-for-10-euros-vlog
I guess the more scarce organic and healthy veges and plants become, the more people will value having there own garden.