Small-scale sustainable organic farming and self sufficiency is a real hope for weathering changes ahead. Simple, frugal living can free you from the rat-race, and yield resources for setting up your self sufficient lifestyle with a holistic approach.
Regardless of how the future unfolds families downshifting to a simpler life can reap more authentic happiness with superior lifestyle, health, nutrition, social enjoyment, and security, while healing our ravaged planet.
With a little upcycling and creativity, we all can be environmentally friendly.
By making your own grocery bag you reduce the use of a one-time plastic bag and also save your old attire from taking up empty space in your closet or in a landfill!
They also make great gift bags, perhaps a cottage industry that could bring in extra cash.
You can make duvets, sleeping bags, doonas, pillows and padded vests that will last for decades. Using the following method of treating feathers and down. Down consists of clusters of filaments growing from a central quill point without a quill shaft. It looks much like a dandelion pod. Down is the light, fluffy undercoating that geese, ducks, and other waterfowl have to keep them warm. Land fowl such as chickens do not produce down.
Ever wondered what it’d be like to leave an extremely cushy job in the city and try to set up a small farm without any experience of rural life apart from a luxury weekend farmstay in 1992? Matthew Evans adjusts from being Australia’s most feared restaurant critic to learning exactly