Is it possible in this modern day, to be totality ' self sufficient' ?
We ( I say we because we live together as a Clan , my mum & dad, two sisters and their two boy friends and my 3 year old niece)
We live a 'self sufficient life' growing are own veg,fruit and meat for the table. Mum and I make the family clothes hand spun & hand knitted from are animal fleeces and furs. The idea being to not make money but not to spend money. You ask your self do I really need this item? Can I not use somthing else, can I make it ?
But there always seems to be somthing you need but can not make.
So I ask the Q can you be totality self sufficient ? Like going into the wood and making a house, log cabin ( no caves around here) with no modern tools, and make tools from the land you're standing on and not getting the metal or flit from somwhere else ( no flit here either ). How much land would 6 + people need to hunt and forage? We have about 100 acres of wood and pature, and there is not enough wild animals to keep us in meat for the year because they are heavily hunted by the French. (we live in France)
Just to give you somthing to think about ,look around you in your house and think, if I was in the wild wood with no electric ect, mean's no tv ( we don't have one) computer ect the liste could go on for ever.
But this is what we are striving to do ( totality mad I know).
People think stone age primitve people as thick animals but I take my hat off to them, If they were here now they'd be the one's having a laugh, on how dependant on the modern world we have become.
Just thought I'd put this post on, to see what you people out there think to total sufficency.
We ( I say we because we live together as a Clan , my mum & dad, two sisters and their two boy friends and my 3 year old niece)
We live a 'self sufficient life' growing are own veg,fruit and meat for the table. Mum and I make the family clothes hand spun & hand knitted from are animal fleeces and furs. The idea being to not make money but not to spend money. You ask your self do I really need this item? Can I not use somthing else, can I make it ?
But there always seems to be somthing you need but can not make.
So I ask the Q can you be totality self sufficient ? Like going into the wood and making a house, log cabin ( no caves around here) with no modern tools, and make tools from the land you're standing on and not getting the metal or flit from somwhere else ( no flit here either ). How much land would 6 + people need to hunt and forage? We have about 100 acres of wood and pature, and there is not enough wild animals to keep us in meat for the year because they are heavily hunted by the French. (we live in France)
Just to give you somthing to think about ,look around you in your house and think, if I was in the wild wood with no electric ect, mean's no tv ( we don't have one) computer ect the liste could go on for ever.
But this is what we are striving to do ( totality mad I know).
People think stone age primitve people as thick animals but I take my hat off to them, If they were here now they'd be the one's having a laugh, on how dependant on the modern world we have become.
Just thought I'd put this post on, to see what you people out there think to total sufficency.