What are we trying to achieve

These days self sufficiency means a lot of things and I think there are many different areas and levels of self sufficiency. For example you could be self sufficient in terms of your water and waste by using a tank and onsite septic system. I think at the outset of our journey it is important to break our journey into steps and define our initial goal for "Self Sufficiency".

Our short term goal is to grow and live off most of our own vegetables, salad greens and herbs. We hope to only have to buy veges, salad greens and herbs that won't grow in our climate/garden. This will mean that our garden will feed us (Hester, Myself and our baby-to-be) and that we will feed our garden using resources from our garden (chook poo, kitchen scraps, lawn clippings, prunings, spent plants ... etc).

In order to achieve our goal we will be using many different ideas from "Organic Gardening" and "Permaculture". I hope that this journal/blog will be a place for people to get ideas and see that eating fresh and healthy food is achievable  even for the every day person. I am hopeful that we will reach our goal so keep an eye on our progress and if give some of the ideas a go yourself.

Our heirloom lettuces from a spring harvest