LIVING A SELF-SUFFICIENT LIFESTYLE.
If you only have the space of a balcony and say you grow cherry tomatoes, did you know you can harvest between 100-200 tomatoes per plant per season? If you had 4 cherry tomato plants on your balcony, I’m sure you would have enough to preserve some for a future pasta sauce or two.
If you are lucky enough to have space to grow more fruits and vegetables or even have some chickens, ducks, or livestock then you may be in the position to share some of your surplus with friends or family members that don’t have that luxury.
AND HOMESTEADING IS?
Growing your own food crops
Preserving, pickling and fermenting food
Getting back to the basics
Simplified living
Acquiring new practical skills
Enjoying the simple pleasures
Crafting your own essential items
Connecting more with local community
Living more frugally
Living a lower-impact lifestyle
Creating home remedies
Herbal medicine knowledge
Reduce, reuse, recycle, repair
And ultimately living off-grid
HOMESTEADING NOWADAYS MOSTLY REFERS TO A LIFESTYLE CHOICE BASED ON SELF-SUFFICIENCY.
More and more people are understanding the fact that we can no longer rely on our supply chains for ongoing basic essentials.
As we become more informed and educated about the food we eat and the environment it is grown in, it has has become increasingly evident that we as a society are choosing to be more involved in our .
LAND SIZE DOESN’T MATTER
Whether you live in a city apartment (urban homesteading) or are lucky enough to have a big backyard or even some farmland, you can easily practise the art of becoming more self-sufficient, sustainable, and living a simpler, happier, healthier and lower impact lifestyle.
One of the primary Homesteading skills is growing and preserving your own food and this can be done from small-scale balcony gardens through to larger-scale garden beds or even a syntropic style mini-farm.
In a nutshell, whatever name you call it, Homesteading is about becoming self-sufficient even in the smallest ways, using less of the world’s resources, and sharing with others whether that be knowledge, skills, food or just a helping hand.