Another one from The Netherlands

[degroenepionier]

I knew the site, but never saw the forum link! Thanks Berti for telling me that.
My name is Maria I am 38 years old and live with my 2 little girls (4,5 and 6) near The Hague, the Netherlands.

I try to be as selfsufficient as I can be. Just got about 13 litres of jam canned this week, made 6 litres of kombucha, lots of fruit butters and today I made apple vinegar. Keeps me off the streets

Still have a lot to learn but it is so much fun to be self sufficient. The only thing is that a lot of ppl think I am a bit weird, you can buy jam in the stores don't you

Nice to have found others who are into this kind of life!
Maria

[chadspad]

Hi Maria & welcome to a lovely site. Should that have read 3 girls if theyre aged 4,5 & 6? lol.

Whats Kombucha? Sounds like youre a busy bee!

[Jandra]

Great! That makes 3 of us now. Welcome!

Jandra (near Utrecht)

[red]

hoi and welcome

sounds like you have been very busy !

know what you mean about not kning there was a forum for ages.. I did the same thing..

[Millymollymandy]

Hi and welcome, the more Cloggies the better!

(That's what I call my Dutch friends, hope you don't mind!)

[degroenepionier]

Thank you all for your warm welcome!
Went to the market again today: got 14 kilo's of pears, 8 kilo's of apples, 3 kilo's of prunes and 8 boxes of mangoes for only 26 euro's.
Tomorrow we are going to pick elderberries and make all kind of jams and sirops.
I am going to dry the mangoes.

Oh, and cloggie, sounds fine by me. My daugthers (only 2 of them ) like to wear clogs all the time. The neighbour kids even make fun of it
But they don't care and walk on them anyway.

[Russian Doll]

hi hunny im a mum of two girls and two boys...just learning about self sufficency

[Berti]

hi maria

a very warm welcome! in the short time we have known each other, you have become a very dear friend to me already.
good to have you here, please share your passions, we all like to learn from each other.

big hug
berti