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This is the driest continent on earth, according to the stat's and because people keep trying to farm like Europeans (not insulting Europeans, I am half European) they are making our desert area's expand. I figured, it's learn to live how we are supposed to, here, or die out. The way things are goin...

Not unless someone wants to give me $100,000. Because of the price of housing here, I have been forced into an area with high unemployment. This means that the house that I currently have, has little value and leaves me little choice but to move somewhere where rainfall is low or to a place in Tasm...

Water is soooo scarce, that they have to bring it in to fill water tanks lol. So grey water, may not always be an option lol. I have even used bath water (and a bucket full of water, just for washing hands) to wash clothes (then dry in the sun). Then the water might be too soapy for the garden?? I w...

I have seen how Aborigines cook animals. With Echidna's they just chuck them on a fire, that is mostly hot coals. It's the same with all animals, actually. They go on the fire (hot coals) fur and all. Then they just cut it open and eat it. In Central Australia, some aboriginal women went "out ...

Apart from spearing things, I am wanting more knowledge on arid and/or desert area food plants. People live on it, in parts of the globe, without modern technology and some how get by. Due to the high price of housing here, I am will most likely have to move to a drier part of this country. :? This ...

Hello just joined, What makes me self-sufficient-ish? I grow a lot of my own food. I live in suburbia, so I am not as self-sufficient as I would like to be. What I have to buy, I buy in bulk to cut down on spending and packaging. I re-cycle or re-use a lot of things. I can make a lot of things from ...