We have a lot of personal and professional goals for 2010. It's a major wind change for us this year and it will take a lot of plotting, writing of lists and week by week planning to get there. We are still excited and working towards living the lifestyle we have always dreamt of...
One of our goals is to be as self-sufficient as possible. As you know we are lovers of all things old fashioned and vintage. We love the 'vintage lifestyle'. The slow days. The making of the bread. The churning of the butter. We are in a township with 8,000 people and kind of in suburbia. But kind of not. We see houses when we step outside but we know farms surround us...
So, one of my charges this year is to work out what we can replace things with and what we can provide ourselves with. This is very much a No Impact Man strategy but instead of following in his wonderful footsteps we are working our own way towards a simple lifestyle...
So - in readiness for a mid-year 'live simply lifestyle' we are now starting to prepare and think about where our food comes from. We have a large backyard and neither of us could care less about a pretty garden. We more err on the 'use the land to provide' European style of thinking so we have always had something growing and on the go...
Instead of going to Bunnings or our local nursery and buying more herbs we are starting afresh. We are buying organic seeds and sowing them ourselves. We have been saving our egg cartons for months, knowing that this was in our future. We have a little glass greenhouse and our compost heap to help us along - but starting from scratch with organic seeds is exciting. I just can't come past the 'buy one garlic bulb in a pot for $4' when I can order organic seeds for $3.50 for 50 bulbs.
Self sufficiency is a 2010 goal. If you're interested, keep in touch! Also, have a read of this wonderful article by Jackie French - it definitely inspires!
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