…a funny thing happened on the way to the bar
So I’ve talked about food production – gardening, berry patch, chickens. As a larger part of our goals of living light on the land and self-sufficiency, we chose to pay a higher price to have our energy come from wind (an option with our electricity). Our eventual goal is to be not off-grid, but maybe grid-adjacent?
To that end, we want to produce more of our our own food. Increase the size of our garden, start growing some wheat and barley. And hops, because we like beer. We have an herb garden for most of our needs. We have the chickens, which produce eggs, and eventually, meat. Next year we are going to add honey, and more chickens. Once we have that settled, then it’s on to goats. We already have sourced local lambs, and have a good butcher for local beef/venison/pork.
The hope is to sell the excess of our bounty and use that money to purchase groceries we cannot make ourselves.
Once we have money under control, we will start adding renewable energy to further decrease our footprint.
