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Self Sufficient Me is based on our small 3-acre property/homestead in SE Queensland Australia about 45kms north of Brisbane – the climate is subtropical (similar to Florida). I started Self Sufficient Me in 2011 as a blog website project where I document and write about backyard food growing, self-sufficiency, and urban farming in general. I love sharing my foodie and DIY adventures online so come along with me and let’s get into it! Cheers, Mark 🙂
Thanks for all your support everyone and also for your patience! Cheers 🙂
So sorry for the PC troubles. I've been through that and it's an awful feeling. :
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You have been busy! Lots of stuff going on! Hard drive crashes are the worst indeed! That is so cool that you are supporting young people getting into gardening, especially considering demographics of agriculture in the USA and Europe at least. I'm not sure about Aussie but here its tough to get started. Will you be doing any meet-ups on your USA trip? That would be awesome! I 'm looking forward to your new content and thanks for what you do!
Yay, love the direction your channel is taking. Hope you have a fabulous time in the US
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Good luck with the wicking bed! 🙂
You could do a video on,what you do with weeds
Don't stress mark you're a handsome devil
So happy to hear about the award mate. Couldn't happen to a nicer bloke. I only have one wicking bed and I water heavily through the top normally but heavily and infrequently. Works a treat.
Congratulations to winning the award Mark! Good on you 🙂 Cheers from Pacific Haven QLD!
Hi Mark, I suggest to look into "RAID" since it protects you against a single harddisk failure. You can go cheapish using RAID1 where you use two disks (one is an exact copy of the other) or more expensive buying a NAS with 2 or more disks.
Can you do a video of the stages of growing pineaples plz, I started growing 2 in June
When is your US trip planned, m8? You will be in LA. We are in Orange County, just down the road (read H/W I-5 or I-405 near the “Y”). Welcome to visit and we’ll take you on a tour!
great stuff as always, very interested in the wicking bed, as tho i did´nt know they had such systems available, i had seen so home made once and though it could a a great inner city, low maintenance system for turning old abandoned concrete plots, into raised bed market gardens with a completely automatic watering system. Looking forward to your feedback on that system. Keep up the great work.
Please look at this please make a video about black ginger and black turmeric what's the benefits and how is it grown please I can't find anything on YouTube about it
Great video, as usual. I wish you would have time to come to the Bay Area in Northern California during your trip to the United States. I’m in a town named Pleasanton that is truly charming with a blend of gardening, livestock, vineyards, and high tech. The population is extremely friendly and down-to-earth. I’m so excited for all the fantastic things happening in your life. Welcome to the US; enjoy your stay here.
As the old IT saying goes, any data you only have one copy of is data that is unimportant!
Definitely recommend a NAS (FreeNAS is great if you have spare computers, but Synology will get you up and running much faster). If you're really keen, you could put it in your garage so that if anything happens to your house (e.g. fire) you might still have a surviving copy of your data. Of course you could also just buy a second hard drive and use software RAID-1 which won't require any expense beyond the drive itself, and will protect against a disk failure too by saving everything into both drives at the same time. If one breaks, everything is available on the other drive. The real trick with this setup is noticing that there has been a failure, because if your computer keeps working normally it can be hard to notice that one of the hard drives has broken!
While it's a bit excessive for most people, I back up on to LTO tape (800GB per tape for the ones I use) and leave the tapes with family members so even my whole street could disappear and most of my data will survive. (Older LTO tape drives are quite cheap on eBay for anyone else so inclined, but you do need to be a bit of a tinkerer to get them working as they all connect via SCSI.)
Looking forward to your review and thoughts on the wicking bed, I am in Beerwah (Qld) and grow tomatoes in home made wicking beds. (for home made relish) I go away from time to time for work and the wife does not understand that the tomatoes in the middle of summer need watering every day, twice a day so I used to come home to cracked tomatoes from being allowed to dry out. A couple of plastic containers, a few pavers and some Chux cloths to use as wicks problem solved. So you will have no problem getting those wicking beds to work.
How exciting! LA has some amazing small urban farmers!
Been binge watching since I subscribed last month. After watching your show I've become really excited about self sufficiency / doing my bit for a more sustainable world. As a 20 something fan I'm looking forward to the series focused on growing in small spaces – I'm in Sydney so at best i can strive towards a small backyard (but currently have an apartment balcony)
As for backing up files, I place all of the ‘good stuff’ onto an external drive. I have four of them for different things. Any business should do this. If the computer breaks down then plug in the drive to another computer with the program and continue in almost no time at all, literally. It could help you with several problems. Just saying…
Greetings from NZ. The other group of people often have only a small area available is older people (such as myself). We often live in a flat, and are on a very tight budget. Small-space gardening is fantastic for us.
I have a surprising number of fruit trees in my small-space garden. Have you heard of Evergrow Bags? I think they were developed here in NZ. They enable people to have fruit trees, that stay dwarfed. There is no having to take the tree out to prune the roots (to keep it dwarfed), but the tree doesn't get rootbound. The trees can be kept above ground, or can be sunk into the ground in the Evergrow bag. Trees grown in these bags fruit quite heavily. In Oamaru, there is an entire cherry orchard planted in greenhouses this way. And if you have to move house, you can simply pick up your trees and move them too.
I thought I would tell you about these bags in case you might like to look at them for your small-space gardening series. Cheers.
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Mark, if you ever have any computer troubles in the future, I would be ever so happy to help you out as I am an IT Specialist and would love to help with anything IT, Pro Bono off course.
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