If you ask a person to answer the question for you, they’ll be giving you a fish. If you ask them detailed and thoughtful questions, you’ll learn how to fish.

#AskThoughtfulQuestions #SelfSufficiency #PersonalGrowth #KnowledgeIsPower #Curiosity #CriticalThinking #Mindset #NeverStopLearning #quote

First of the purple sprouting broccoli for this season. It's been 9 months since we last ate any PSB and it was delicious. #gardening #vegetablegarden #homegrownfood #foodsecurity #Selfsufficiency #selfsufficient #allotment

#ViewingJasperMountain is quite outdated, climate-wise, and perhaps a bit naive. It consists of "blog" posts from the late 90s, mostly. But as it's largely about someone's thoughts while #homesteading and taking a stab at #SelfSufficiency, maybe some of those thoughts will be useful to others.

Of course, we do tend to get what we pay for. 😉

2/ #ViewingJasperMountain

“How many of us lobby for green energy or protected lands, but don't engage with the local bounty to lay by for tomorrow's unseasonal reality? That we tend to not even think about this as a foundation for solutions in our food systems shows how quickly we want other people to solve these issues.”

~ Joel Salatin

#SimpleLiving #RadicalChange #Food #SelfSufficiency

"There are many more ways we can adapt. For example, instead of using up our energies harping about big farmers.......buy your own little patch of land to turn into an oasis of food and wildlife abundance. More and more people are doing this rather than standing around wringing their hands about global warming. Your little sanctuary will not be prone to disappear when the inevitable financial crises hit the big commercial farms."

~ Gene Logsdon

#SimpleLiving #RadicalChange #SelfSufficiency

"No matter where you are you can grow something to eat. Shift your thinking and you'd be surprised at the places your food can be grown! Window sill, fire escape and rooftop gardens have the same potential to provide impressive harvests as backyard gardens, greenhouses and community spaces."

~Greg Peterson

#SelfSufficiency #RadicalChange #UrbanHomestead #Gardening

SevenThings You Need to Do in Your Vegetable Garden
https://www.sunset.com/home-garden/garden-basics/winter-vegetable-garden-maintenance

#Gardening #SelfSufficiency #Homesteading #SimpleLiving

How To Create A No Till Raised Row Garden - Garden Easy!
https://oldworldgardenfarms.com/2023/01/15/create-no-till-raised-row-garden/

#Gardening #SelfSufficiency #Homesteading

Permaculture Garden To-Do List (By Season)

https://practicalselfreliance.com/permaculture-garden-seasons/

#SimpleLiving #RadicalChange #Permaculture #Gardening #SelfSufficiency

I normally plant something New years day .But frozen ground and snow trashed that plan so I ordered more seeds the most interesting are the Squashes .if you want cheap temporary exotic looking ground cover and a constant supply of summer and a winter veg a summer and winter Squash are the way to go .I bought Tromebetta for summer ,I found a great blog post about them,though this far north mine will be under
#veganfood #gardening #allotment .#SelfSufficiency
https://gracegritsgarden.com/2020/08/trombetta-squash.html

#SheepOfMastodon #Sheep #Snow #Winter .Happy Christmas and thank you :) to all those who work on the land and keep livestock ,who will have been up at dawn today and every day ,to care for them and out in all weathers to make sure they are safe and warm and fed .Forgotten Heroes and unseen animal friends :) #Crofting #Farming #Farmers #SmallHolding #SelfSufficiency

#Cooking #Homestead #dairy #Butter #SelfSufficiency
Making butter is really easy ,you just get double cream add a bit of salt and use a whisk until it turns into butter and buttermilk ,it is ready when it starts to seperate into chunks of scambled egg coloured butter and a liquid thaty looks like watery milk, scoop the butter into a cloth and drain it squeeze and then store it somewhere.The liquid buttermilk ,you can use the buttermilk in soda bread which is also fast and easy.

#Cooking #Homestead #dairy #Butter #SelfSufficiency
Making butter is really easy ,you just get double cream add a bit of salt and use a whisk until it turns into butter and buttermilk ,it is ready when it starts to seperate into chunks of scambled egg coloured butter and a liquid thaty looks like watery milk, scoop the butter into a cloth and drain it squeeze and then store it somewhere.The liquid buttermilk ,you can use the buttermilk in soda bread which is also fast and easy.

#Gardening #Potatoes #growiYourOwn #Allotment #Vegetables #VegetableGardening #SelfSufficiency
I usually grow some coloured potatoes each year,mostly because I like coloured mixes of chips and Roast Potatoes but Blue ones are also much better for you .Salad Blues def stay blue when cooked though I think some varieties dont Theres also red fleshed varieties ,though my best crops here are from shop bought tatties I leave to sprout

"The tragic reality is that very few sustainable systems are designed or applied by those who hold power, and the reason for this is obvious and simple: to let people arrange their own food, energy and shelter is to lose economic and political control over them. We should cease to look to power structures, hierarchical systems, or governments to help us, and devise ways to help ourselves.”
~ Bill Mollison

#SimpleLiving #RadicalChange #SelfSufficiency

Books that have had a huge influence on my simple life. (No links to seller sites, just honest recommendations.)

https://radicalsimpleliving.blogspot.com/2022/09/books-that-influence-my-simple-life.html

#SimpleLiving #RadicalChange #GreenSolutions #books #SelfSufficiency

“At this point in history, our society tends to elevate and reward the specialist...This concentrated focus has brought some benefits...It may also be a modern malady. Specialization, when taken too far and allowed to define who and what we are, becomes limiting. It robs us of our wholeness and our self-sufficiency. It misses the big picture and confines us to a narrow zoom. And it leaves us at the mercy of experts.”

~ Keith Stewart

#SimpleLiving #RadicalChange #SelfSufficiency
#GreenLiving

Much more about what I post here can be found at the Radical Simple Living #podcast. All episodes are available on Apple, Google, Audible, Spotify and all other podcast providers. Please listen, like, and subscribe! Thank you!
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/raylovegrove​

#SimpleLiving #RadicalChange #GreenLiving #PlanetEarth #SelfSufficiency​

#FoodWaste #FreeFood #VegetableGardening #veganfood #vegetarian #SelfSufficiency #Gardening
I grow plants from my kitchen vegetable waste ,if you put the ends of carrots,swede, cabbage ,celery in water they will sprout ,you can eat the greenery instead of micro greens ,though I dont and plant them up ,they will flower ,carrots produce cow parsley type flowers ,Swedes and cabbage yellow flowers that are good cut flowers .I reuse plastic ,tins and cardboard for plant pots ,seed trays etc

#Poultry #Chickens #Eggs #SelfSufficiency #HomeSteading
A range of eggs its possible to get from keeping an assortment of chickens ,the Brown is a cuckoo Marans (copper Marans eggs are even darker) the blue and pale green are a mix of Crested Cream Legbars and Auracuana .The pale olive I bred from an Ayam Cemani and Blue laying breed cockeral ,the pink are from my Pekin x the white from Hamburg's,the darker green is a blue laying hen crossed with brown laying breed cockeral