self sufficancy

Here are the things i am learning about & hope to put into practise on my farm.... 

• Replace processed foods with home made versions
• Homemade vinegar
• home grown mushrooms [started this already]
• Home made cheeses 
• Growing our own chickens for both eggs and meat [started this already but need to increase flock]
• getting enough excess eggs to sell as well as selling chicks
• build a root cellar
• Canning, freezing and pickling own produce as well as jams & relishes etc
• Building a Smokehouse & Smoking foods [this is actually something Frank is interested in trying!!]
• building a dam and stocking with fish/yabbies 
• Keeping an intensive orchard [just started this]
• Beekeeping for pollination & honey
• Growing own groceries
• Herb gardening [started but wish to add to the variety]
• Growing berries – raspberry, strawberry, blueberry [started]
• Goats milk and herb soap making [waiting for goat to arrive and kid]
• Eating seasonally by our own hands
• Sprouting and soaking grains and legumes 
• Buy Calves & fatten them up for freezer and sale
• extensive vegie garden to feed us and enough left over to sell [started this]
• get the hill paddock sown with feed for stock
• raise sheep for sale & freeze
• ducks for egg sale & meat sale
• pigs for meat & piglet sale
• farm tours and homestay
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and sooooo much more as my dreams are BIG & i am not afraid to try & fail xo