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Sometimes, one needs to have a break. So I climb into my hammock, with the chicken coop and garden beds for company, and relax. I feel guilty after a while, especially if Mr O-GF is busy, but he doesn’t mind. At night the solar fairy lights come on, and apart from the odd bug, I’ve started a little book where I weigh the veg I collect each day. So for example 500g of green beans, 3 chicken eggs and 1kg of pumpkin. At the end of each week I am going to tally the total weight and cost it out, as if I was buying it from the supermarket. This way I can get a rough estimate of how much in weight and dollars we are producing. Since we still buy some things from the supermarket and our aim is to be 100 percent non-reliant, this will be a big incentive regarding how much we are saving and still spending, and also where we are still spending at the big retailers. Hello there, thanks for stopping by. Welcome to new followers, I can't tell you how happy it makes me to know someone, somewhere is Here is an example of our vegetables in the (for the freezer) packaging. I picked the beans and blanched them, then bagged them up in recycled plastic and elastic bands. I don't believe in throwing anything out that will be used again in the way of bags etc, this way we don't need to re-buy anything. This was just a small harvesting as the hot house was so hot, I lost focus in the heat after a small We needed a table for between our two (second-hand) recliners. Mr O-GF made one from wood he had salvaged for free, that was being thrown out. The stain was also free, as were the wooden mats, also home made. Isn't the grain lovely? It's sturdy, and runs rings round I had an old pair of stinky rubber gloves that needed chucking, so I cut them across ways in order to create rubber bands for future bagging. We have a small container that all the useful bits are put in, so there's no worries if we ever need to find something like a A lovely reader asked what a tallow tree is from a previous post. Considered a weed in many places, a tallow tree is a tree that