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The Question - Is (or can) self sufficiency be ecologically sustainable in the modern world ? That is indeed the $7,000,000,000 question. I get upset when people tell me that there is not a problem with food supply, that it is just a problem of distribution. They say that "green revolution" techniq...

http://www.dulcemelos.ca/test/FallColours.jpg Our maple trees are changing colour. It has been a warm, very dry summer, and that trend is continuing into the fall. Normally this weekend (Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada) is the peak of the fall colours, but everything is late this year. The tree...

Green Aura wrote:It might be worth working out why it's externally wired, before embarking on ambitious projects. There may be a good reason.

The installer was probably too lazy to hide them. It's a bit of a pain when retrofitting wires, especially if the run is over a long distance.

I have just finished building a new woodshed. The old one was too far away from the house to haul wood in a storm, too small, and too airtight, despite being rickety. Our objectives for the new one were: 1. close to the back door, with no intervening gates; 2. not too far from the driveway for deliv...

Sorry 'bout that. I guess it could be seen as alarming. I am actually more alive than ever.

Kathy

Thanks everyone. :)

Green Aura wrote: (I was going to say keep us up to date but I'm not sure if that's right or not, but you can if you want).

Well, keeping you all totally up to date might be TMI. But I plan to stick around here and discuss anything ish-y in my life.

Kathy

Hi, all. I would like to draw your attention to my re-introduction thread here: http://selfsufficientish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=29507 . Yep, some major changes in my life! :iconbiggrin: It could be a bit confusing on the forum. I see that the admin magic that changed my username (thanks, Ods...

I am not new here, but I have a new identity. You have known me as KeithBC. As you can guess from my new username, I am making a major change in my life. I have (finally!) figured out that I am transgender, and am in the process of becoming the woman that I always should have been. Trust me, it is a...

I'm a bit late to the party, having just noticed this thread. I've been vegetarian for so long (about 35 years) that I don't even remember what it was like to give up meat. I followed the recommendations in "Diet For a Small Planet" about combining foods to get "complete" proteins. The author has si...

I come here to try to stay in touch with some of my core values. It doesn't necessarily mean that I always live by those values, but I don't want to abandon them altogether. I prefer to live frugally. I joined one forum that claimed to be about frugal living. I quit when I saw one member's definitio...

We had our first harvest of the year: some asparagus was up. We missed harvesting it last year with moving, but this year we were ready. We got about 8 spears, enough for a small side dish each. Yum! It's a pretty pathetic bed, and needs some rejuvenation. We are hoping that the shoots we harvested ...

I've never heard of everbearing strawberries. Have you got any more info - size, variety etc? I'm wondering if they're what I'd know as alpine strawberries. These ones are a variety called 'Seascape'. We grew 'Alpine' berries that last place we were at. They are also everbearing. I have no idea wha...

A couple of days ago, I finished building three strawberry boxes. My wife and I filled them with a layer of sand topped by lots of topsoil and planted 52 strawberry plants in them. They are everbearing berries, so, after a couple of months picking off the blossoms to help them get established, we sh...

Well, the solar heating system has been operational for a couple of weeks. It is providing all the hot water we can use, at a higher temperature than the boiler provides. The more hot water we use, the more efficient it is, since unused hot water is kept hot by burning oil, whereas used hot water is...

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