I don't have much time to write lately, as the pigs have been very challenging to keep contained, and with a 2 month old baby, you can imagine our hands are full. I thought today, as I'm feeling frustrated, I would try to measure how far along we are in our self suffiency. Following are things we don't have to buy now (if we don't want to), that we either harvest, grow, raise, or make ourselves:
Eggs
Milk & cheese (goat)
Bread
Soap
Laundry detergent
Dishwasher detergent
Jams & Jellies
Spaghetti sauce
Produce (for now, from our garden)
Pickles
Diapers
Wipes
Mustard
Soon, we will have meats (rabbit, pork, goat), and if fate allows, we would love to have a mini-jersey cow to make butter and cheeses and have cow milk (the kids don't care much for goat milk). Hopefully, next year, we will have apples (this year's crop was killed by a late frost), pears, cherries, and peaches.
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