In this video, I give you 5 ways to QUICKLY become more self-sufficient!
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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 🙂
I've been trying to get my garden of eden postage stamp backyard for decades and fail year after year. Cherry trees? The birds peck each one on the tree and they spoil. Dwarf peach trees? Oppossums and squirrels grab them all a week before they're ripe. Mulberries? Full of worms…… Raspberries? hardly any. Blueberries, planted a couple one year and the next the bushes didn't produce any. Paw Paws? They died.
I dump more money into this, may as well just spend it at the grocery store……
Microgreens, sprouts
Thanks, I have no building skills, but I do it anyway.
Awesome video, thank you!
i wish i had a garden
Get out of here with that all seeing eye logo. Trickery for the masses. Move!
Thank you so much for sharing with us!
Hi! I would love something like this catered to people who do not own property. obviously full self-sufficiency is not possible in this kind of environment, but i would love to get started and get used to it for the day i can own my own home.
Even though this video isn't recent, it's super great encouragement.
Yes G´day its easy in New Zealand. I have some potatoes and apples growing in Finland but season is short.
Love it … so Australian … who gives a s**? Love how you keep it real … no bells and whistles, but lots of 'daddy jokes' (smiles). I don't care what the others say … real is real is real … let's see what happens when the s** hits the fan?!
Thanks for a wonderfully helpful video! I've subscribed.
Your regs r stupid. Fuck em. Do it
Thanks for sharing.
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Very encouraging vid. Thank you sir
As always excellent video Mark
I'm a 70 yr old retired journeyman carpenter, self employed for most of my 50 year career…I've worked alongside all types of carpenters and you, my friend, I would put into the "Popeye Carpentry" category…Brutus would run down to the dock with Olive Oyl over the shoulder and jump onto a ship and sail away…Popeye comes running down onto the dock and, since there is no other boat available, Popeye whips out a hand saw from his hip pocket and cuts out the shape of a sailboat from the dock surface, tilts it upright and sails after Brutus…I admire the ability of anyone to "make it work", regardless of materials, skills, or training…Your post extension is a beauty and I am reminded of the welders who've told me many times over 50 years: "Metal is better than wood cuz if you cut it short, you canalways add a piece to lengthen it"…My response has been: Scarf joints, "sistered boards", strapping, etc…You've got it figured out, man…I've always admired the Popeye Carpenter (in the proper environment), though it doesn't work well with what most people want or expect…I have a library full of books about primitive building techniques and we both know that building as you do, we have been able to sustain this planet for thousands of years….Indigenous people have built with very little ateration to the environment and it's only been since the industrial age that we've managed to pollute pretty much every square foot of this planet…Growing our food for sustainability is the first step, but building and maintaining sustainable is step 2…Thank you for setting a good example.
Thank you!!! That has motivated me to learn how to ferment my purple cabbage … Learn something new every day 🙂
How do u pickle eggs
This 71 years young enjoys your videos. I'm a prepper-but it started in my youth from living with relatives that survived the Great Depression in Oklahoma.
Everything you say in your videos is spot on. Thanks.
I really needed to hear that about cobbling things together that work and are cheap. I´m growing raspberries for the first time in my yard here in the southern hemisphere and they're doing well. I expect some berries in a few weeks or so but starting to worry about the birds I've been seeing hovering around. They know the berries are coming too. So I´m actually thinking ahead and know I need to use some old chicken wire and some bamboo posts I found to protect my raspberries from those birds. Thanks to the video, I don't feel so foolish. I hope I can at least achieve my purpose and not have the area look trashy. Just made some onion and garlic skin "tea" to drive away insect critters. We have leaf cutter ants here that can really strip a tree in a short amount of time. Thanks for this view of how you're surviving. I´ll bet you're really glad you started when you did. Of course starting at all is an achievement for those of us who have always had everything handed to them ready made. Great video.
Just like how I grow up with everything surrounding me no hunger no fancy things,cash with less meaning . Going shoping once in a while being self sufficient indeed. Miss those days. Thank you
I come here for the corny jokes lol
Thank you uncle
lol-I had to laugh.."at whats logical". that seems to be too much brain power for alot of people these days. anyways finally after waiting for outbuildings and yard construction to get done over the years-I finally have my Hoophouse/greenhouse built this summer! We built it by me watching numerous you tube videos and choosing which applications we wanted to do. Hubby is a DYI carpenter,it took us a month to build it and cost $650.00. Then we moved onto the 4×6 chicken house,in the spring we will build the nest boxes, put in the door and give them a large fenced area & get the chicks. We eat eggs every day.Then we put together the 4 big round raised hugelkulter beds and created the outdoor garden area. In between splitting up all the wood for our furnace,about 7 cords. We're always dreaming up something.I'm watching all the video's for good pointers to improve what we have going on! Keep up the good work, I enjoy them!
Given your PM's response to covid, I'm not surprised by the amount of regulations on self-sufficiency