Steph asked me to add some detail photos showing the blocks from the quilt I bought in a charity shop, so here they are.This blog is supposed to be a journal describing the Rimmer family's journey to greater self-sufficiency. We dream one day of having a smallholding and giving up our full-time jobs. So far we have got an allotment and two chickens in the back yard.
It's a quiet time of year on the allotment. There are still some root vegetables in the ground - kohl rabi, beetroo
t, carrots and swedes. They can stay there safely until we need them as long as the ground doesn't freeze. And there are some onions slowly growing that will be ready next year. Even the chickens are laying less as the days get shorter, and I had to buy eggs from a shop last week as we had run out.
We're depending on the weekly organic veg box delivery and trips to the local shops. If we were really self sufficient we would have spent the summer preserving and storing the food we grew, and now we would be living on it.
2 comments:
Make that your target for expansion of the bean-sprouts empire for next year then. You can't do it all at once... I've had a look back at when you started and you've done LOADS!
Thinking of preserving and storage certainly puts a different complexion on autumn, as I said on self-sufficientish. There are a couple of good books out there; I've got Preserving Summer's Bounty from Rodale Press, which is sadly American but I preferred the look of it to the English one.
Cheeck out Allotment Lady's blog for some amazing self-suff stories: http://www.kooringa.com/
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