Some of the 'girls' with calves aged around 2 weeks. We keep around 30 chooks whose eggs we eat. Sheep in the hay paddock. Ragwort, the bane of my life. We are slowly travelling along the path of self-sufficiency.
Self sufficiency is a term that means many things to many people.
I still haven't really worked out what it will mean to us. All of our water supply is from our dams, with drinking water being collected off the roof into a concrete tank. At present our power supply is from the mains grid, but I have thoughts of wind generated power in the future. Our heating is wood fired, with plentiful supplies of fuel at our doorstep. I imagine that turnips or swedes will probably be the way to go.