A Road To Self Sufficiency

Welcome to our blog.

All this blogging stuff, forum making and website editing is new to us but we feel so strongly about the trouble that the planet is in that we want to put our thoughts up into the WWW in the hope that the people who read it can take some helpful thoughts and infomation in order to help heal the environment. In many cases we as people will also save some money and that can't be a bad thing can it ?

Is it possible to be self sufficient in the 21st century??

This seems a daft question and it's only become possible to ask it, and maybe go some way to answering it as we have been looking into the formation of the bselfsufficient website.

The idea of being self sufficient was a thought, a dream, an ideal that we have had for a few years now following a few monumental changes in our life. Mainly these changes were the closure of our candle making business, re emergence of a disabillity and a major issue of burgeoning debt.

These three issues made us look at our priorities and re asses where we were and where we were going. Part of the thought that came out of this angst was the ideal of being able to provide one's basic needs of food, shelter and security.

So, Is it possible to be self sufficient in the 21st century?? The short answer is no but only if you take it to the nth degree.

Wikipedia says:

Self-sufficiency refers to the state of not requiring any outside aid, support, or interaction, for survival; it is therefore a type of personal or collective autonomy.

The term self-sufficiency is usually applied to varieties of sustainable living in which nothing is consumed outside of what is produced by the self-sufficient individuals.

Therefore to be totally self sufficient you will need to be able to build your shelter, grow / rear your own food and be able to defend these. So can you build your own house and rear all youre own livestock, grow your own food, find and purify your own water ? for many I think the answer would be no.

If the answer is no then that need not be the end of the dream. In days of yore people were probably self sufficient but on a village aspect. You would have your baker who may have bought / traded flour from the farmer along with a butcher, brewer and candlestick maker. So in terms of self suficiency you could achieve it on a village or settlement basis but as we have "progressed" into the now 21st century we have lost that inter relliance on each other... unless of course you include the supermarkets and our inter relliance on them.

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