Why Self-Sufficiency Is A Myth!
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Is Self Sufficiency A LIE? Can we really provide all of our own food ? Lets talk about it!. Breaking Down the Myth: Why Self-Sufficiency Isn't Real
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I completely agree regarding your title. It is about becoming MORE self-sufficient -- not completely self-sufficient. We do not grow cotton to make our own clothes, grow enough wheat to make the flour we use, make our own batteries for our flashlights, etc. However, I do a lot of canning and have learned over time what my family likes. We loved home canned soups and stew. However, we prefer fresh or frozen meat and vegetables if available.
I agree completely!
Love this video ❤❤
I grow things in my garden for a lot of reasons: Food, the great outdoors, pollinators, and just love of plants and soil. I want to eat food that comes from familiar, local soil in hopes it will lessen my allergies, too.
So far, I have met with only a little success. A lot of my cultivated plants never produce or don't even grow. BUT - there are SO MANY feral food plant "weeds" I have learned about, growing in my garden just as happy as can be. Chickweed, henbit, wild grape leaves, bittercress, wild garlic, violets, mache, dandelion. Good stuff!
Pokeweed is another plant that does well in my garden, both as food and medicine. I take a pokeberry, frozen and swallowed whole like a pill every day. It reversed the rheumatism in my hands. Been doing that for almost 5 years. And last year I finally tried cooking and eating the young greens - they are SO good.
Just found your channel when I searched for gluten free sourdough starter. I'm several zones south of you (Tennessee) but am grateful for you sharing your knowledge!
It is attainable, you will need to really on it likely sooner than later. So, be sure you have nutritional variety. We purchase local grass fed and finished beef; and, today we decided we've eaten so much burger that it will be a while before we have it again. When the time comes, having food at all will be a great blessing. And, knowing how to grow more and preserve will save your life. Also, thank you for exposing the liars that seem to have endless money telling us how we should homestead.
I'm not a homesteader, unfortunately. I live in a neighborhood and behind my privacy fence I just have 7 raised bed and 3 in ground garden areas. Why I do it - to learn, to suppliment, if just a little. We did grow enough tomatoes to make 3 canner loads of canned tomatos, salsa and sauces. We will eat it all over the next year. We get fruits from the local farmers market and can jam and sliced fruit, applesauce and apple butter. We are prepper minded/life style, but again, not homesteaders. I love to learn from homesteaders :)
So glad I decided to check out your channel! I love that you approach homesteading with open eyes and realistic expectations. Even in the "good old days" nobody was self-sufficient. People clustered into communities and specialized to support their communities.
I think we'd have to go back 10,000+ years to find truly self-sufficient families and I'm pretty sure that every single one of them would happily trade their lifestyle for an awful office job. ;)
Thank you 🙏
I feel it is great to strive for but, not reality for most. Those that have a fairy tale idea will see the page The End quicker than the book reads. Great video.
Thank you!
You are spot on and very beautiful ✨😍🦋💖
Thank you! 🤗
I just like gardening and the fruit of my labor. No way is the everyday person going to achieve it. Be happy healthy and free. To the best of your ability….
With canning, only grow and preserve or can what you love to eat! With real homesteading growing huge varieties of vegetables is a bad idea. When you are on solar power it means watering is using up your power bank also, never water unnecessary veggies!!! We are in WY which means the growing season is sick short as well. Fruit trees are so important along with any garden, they produce massive yields and with very little exercise, jelly, syrup, applesauce and vinegar are hugely important mostly to the kiddos. Since I got married 17 years ago I have always been a stay at home spouse so homesteading turns out to be totally possible for us. We are very trained on living from only one income. My husband works and that’s how he wanted it and I homeschool which means my tiny helpers are always there and I am too. We have learned to bake bread, tortillas and pasta noodles! We love to see how far we can get in being self sufficient. Our jersey cows are going to be our next fun food project! We do the “Ark” livestock style meaning 1 male and 1 female because it is true that it takes those two genders to reproduce! We keep and butcher, sheep and turkeys for the most part and we have chickens for eggs of course, and for meat sometimes…
I love that you are addressing reality and encouraging people to make the best choices for themselves.
Growing up on a rented portion of a farm was an amazing experience. Our family had many hands to pitch in and divide up the seasonal work it took to grow, harvest, and preserve. I miss it.
Fast forward to being a senior citizen - I still have the fantasy of being self-sustaining and looking -$exy in my denim shirt wiping my browsing and pushing stray hair back from my face. LOL!
Sometimes I am not careful and watch too many "homesteading" or "prepper" videos I feel like I am a doomed sinner going to hell because I live in town. Due to weather most of my patio crops failed this year.
Other channels, which I no longer watch, left me feeling like I must be "fat, sick, and completely stupid" because I don't live their life of being "self-sustaining" on my own land.
Salisha always pulls me out of the self-condemning slump that I've allowed my self to fall into. and then back to reality. I admire what she and her husband grow their own by working their butts off and enjoy it. My reality, tho is different and I realize that is OK. (Thanks Salisha.)
I buy canned goods to stock up for when I can't get fresh from the store. I save time, money, and energy that I need due to my age and circumstances. And that is OK. I'll probably sell my canner. ) I can't handle the heat in the kitchen.
I have to say that I am grateful for my parents giving me a great start on my healthy body foundation by raising us out in the country during my grade school years. I used the skills I learned for decades.
I would not be the strong, senior citizen I am today who looks 10 to 15 years younger than I am had my parents not cared enough to grow as much of our own food as we could. And they gave us a lot of earth to run and around on and plenty of sunshine and fresh air.
Now, it is time for me to read and read rather than working my fingers to the bone.
Thanks, Salisha for your wisdom.
I love to hear your history of living on the farm and the work it takes. That same hard work builds character and strength. Thank you!
This is such a great video. Thanks so much for all of your honesty about what has worked and not worked for you and perspective into many of the 'buzz words' people sling about without the thoughtfulness about what they actually mean in their 'quest' to be self-sufficient. Taking one step at a time, becoming less dependent on big box stores for what we buy and need is a great first step and can be done no matter where we live. The more we give up our dependency on "things" and conveniences the better we can define how self-sufficient we want to be. Again, thanks so much. Susan
Thank you! 🙏
you make some good points. One thing that is a game changer on to can or not to can for our household was about only canning things that fit certain criteria. they have to taste good, be something that we like well enough that they will be eaten during the first year, and be something we can work on canning and growing together as a family.
Yes great point
Love this channel and the real talk.
Thank you 🙏
I would call it a win if I could even get to 50 percent self sufficient food wise. Working on it but I really suck at gardening lol😂
Same here but I just do what I can and try not to stress over it as I used to
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I'd rather wear myself thin on my farm.
We can tomato sauce, spaghetti sauce, tons of different types of soup, stewed tomatoes, jams, broths, asparagus, potatoes, pickles, and pickled okra. Most everything else we freeze. We prefer our meats, green beans, zucchini, yellow squash, peas, eggplant, chopped peppers, chopped okra, stuffed peppers all frozen. We have a high tunnel we raise our spinach, kale, lettuce, bok choy, arugula, and kamatsuna in over winter. I would rather raise, and make my own, as I feel it's better for me, and gives me security, but it is a ton more work. It's all a labor of love. We do purchase flour, sugar, coffee, milk, butter, cheese, wine, beer, spices (although I do raise various herbs during the summer), condiments, olive oil, vinegars, and occasional snacks off farm. We do make our own sourdough, and yeast breads, but if I'm strapped for time, I'll buy those off farm as well.
Love that you do so much! I love to freeze my veggies as well. Thank you 🙏
Freezing is the best! We also save potatoes, turnips, rutabagas, parsnips, and carrots in damp play sand in plastic totes for over winter. They keep fairly well if we keep the room cooler that they're in. Obviously we also store onions, garlic, and winter squash in that room as well.@@HillsideHomesteading
Like you said 100% is not realistic, just like being off grid is not 100% realistic. I grow what is more "rare" or expensive from the store and when i do purchase its in bulk. I do alot more canning and preserving for full meals instead of just ingredients. Like i will can up full on spaghetti sauce instead of just the whole tomatoes. Alot of my meat is wild, hunting and fishing is my biggest contribution to being self sufficient.
I agree! What you are doing sounds great. I love how you can fill meals.
It is possible to be a sustenance farmer and self sustained completely. But living like a pioneer requires sacrificing all comfort you now are used to. So it all comes down to the reason you are homesteading. If you arent wiling to live off of only deer meat and kale ( just for example), then of course its impossible for one family alone to do everything required to maintain the lifestyle you are used to now. Many pioneers lived like that and were content with their lives. It can be done, and it is being done, just not by people who spew their lives over youtube.
Idk why I didn’t think about buying from other farms. Don’t worry I just enjoy watching this type of content and could never actually do this. 😂😂😂
Merry Christmas! I started with pickles and jalapenos 30 years now doing meats. Nice with frequent power outages. I just have quail. Fast turnaround. They want permits and inspections for chickens with a new city council. So grow a lot. I can't afford to restore my well and septic. Flippers ruined the house. Tore out hardwood floors and put in cheapo that was popping up and tripping on it so had to replace it. I do save a lot with a woodstove. It's work but worth it and on disability to do much. Wood is cheap a few miles away and load up a trailer, take a break and unload when the weather breaks. Incubating eggs is easy. Half hour and need a break when working outside. Winter I hibernate 😂 and just can if a good sale. Perennials like asparagus, Egyptian walking onions and garlic I don't have to buy. Eat fruits I grow seasonally and juice the extras and preserve. I won't pay 5 dollars for a tiny container of raspberries. Got a lot of those and they spread. II don't make jam, we don't use it. Sure can't do it all. Solar would a great backup but expensive. It was a lot of work starting a garden at yet another house but mostly raised beds, used to have compost trucked in but now make my own and better yeilds too. Save there. Rebuying berry bushes and fruit trees. Hope this is my last house. Health is harder to start over. The hard part is done.
My goal is to become 70/: self-sustaining in the next five years but I don’t know how realistic that it…. just being off-fri-ish, homeschooling & working from home parttime is SO time consuming!! I’m think the business of summer is gonna kick my butt so I don’t know if I’ll get to where I want to be??? Oh and finances to get there!!! 😅
It takes hard work and dedication but keep your goals small and realistic. Don’t overwhelm yourself. Good luck 🙏
Store what you eat and eat what you store. Jack Spirko has a few great podcasts on this subject. Self sufficiency is an unrealistic idea. The amount of inputs will end up running us down! 🤣 building community is the best way in my opinion. Build local relationships.
I agree
I've had this discussion with others before... it would be difficult for the average person to be 100% self sustained. Most don't have the land to grow their own corn and wheat and other things we would use.... and what about all the feed for our animals? With just a few people, you wouldn't be enough time, manpower to do it all. Then there's fuel, tools, etc that would be impossible for the average person to make. There's just some things we would need to purchase somewhere...
When I first started preserving seriously I wanted to do it all... but I discovered a lot I didn't like. We did find some things we really loved. Now we try to only preserve what we like... if we try preserving something new, we do a smaller batch, see how we like it and go from there. If we don't like it we're out less than of we did a humongous batch and wasted our time and resources.
We grow a lot of our own, we purchase from farm markets and grocery stores. Having full shelves with things you will use is what matters.
It won't mater where it came from when you need it. I think sometimes some homesteaders shame those who don't do it all from scratch.... others are embarrassed that they don't do it all. We all have some limitations. All we can do is the best we can do. Don't set yourself up for defeat because you can't do it all.
Great points, do your best but don’t overwhelm yourself 🙏
I agree 100%!!! We can do more to ensure our systems are more sustainable and learning lost skills has value, but the goal of complete self sufficiency is a myth that no civilization has ever attained. There are always inputs from somewhere. So many of us in the homesteading community are burnt out trying to do everything ourselves. I think much of it is pride and unhealthy. We can't be great or even good at everything. Nothing like a fresh homegrown tomato but for real, Wally makes a decent tomato basil pasta sauce. I have made my peace with it. Now I am more protective of what I focus my limited time on.
Absolutely! Burnout is very much a real thing. We do what we can and let the rest go, nothing wrong with that. Thank you 🙏
Yes it is possible the fact is that we have become so spoiled we can live on a lot less then what we are a custom to
Spoiled? That’s rich. Very boomerish of the older generation to assume everyone younger is spoiled and lazy. You were young once too, remember?
@@HillsideHomesteading the point is if we can't learn how to live without the system then we will die it's that simple...
Yes it is 100% possible and I think negative Nancy here is discouraging people...
A lot of steaders can food in case of power outages... What happens if something happens to someone's solar system and they froze all their food?
@@EJOV2 exactly we should use thing like salt, vinegar, smoking, and many other's.
These videos of city slickers that ran out to the countryside, because they watched one too many homestead videos during covid are the best. Go back to the city were you belong. Your path to being a celerity is not pretending to be something you are not.
Listen sir you don’t know who I am or anything about me. It’s rich of you to assume I’m a “city slicker” who moved during Covid, very ignorant of you. I’ve been farming for over 10 years so you can take your self righteousness elsewhere. We don’t need people like you in the homesteading community. You probably don’t even own a farm. Also, I commend those who moved and tried to do more for themselves especially after Covid. I’m glad people woke up and decided to leave the city. They don’t need your permission either. The more the merrier! It’s so condescending of people like you to say who belongs where and who doesn’t. This life is for anyone who wants to be more self reliant. You can go now. And if I or anyone else wants to be a celebrity then who are you to say anything? Get off that high horse, jealousy is not a good look.
To be 100% self sufficient in all aspects would be difficult. To be as self sufficient as possible, that's more obtainable.
Something I've noticed is that homesteading, off grid life and things of the sort on here in some cases are romanticized, fantasized, sexualized and given the appearance to be this wonderful utopia of life with ease. Some off grid channels, it's like every thumbnail is the woman in a bikini. That's what they use to get people to watch. When you have to rely on bikinis to get people to watch your off grid/homesteading content??....you're doing something wrong. Now...don't get me wrong...I like bikinis as much as the next guy, but c'mon.
Some channels as you say have those lush bulging stocked pantries that are pretty. I agree. Is that for show?
Some channels seem to have an endless budget for their off grid/homesteading lifestyle. Lots of assets...ATV's, nice clothes, nice vehicles, plenty of dough to spend it seems. Other channels seem to be the dirt of the earth and real deal.
My family members and me are working on developing land in to a homestead. It's taken time, money, work, backaches etc to make things happen. We do it all ourselves. A little at a time.
It’s definitely romanticized!