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Tips for self sufficiency

In this section you will find links to all of our tips for self sufficency. This has been further sub catagorised into four sections. Tips for the home, Garden, flats and rented accomodation and miscallaneous tips. We cover many aspects we hope that there is something for everyone here from the die hard survivalist, stay at home mumshome steaders, people with large and small gardens, people with not much time in short we hope there is something here for you.

Gardening Tips

Along with the advice that we offer for growing selected herbs and vegetables (see left for links) we have also put together some article about more general gardening.

This includes getting rid of the most pesky problem of slugs and other pests, organic growing advice, making a seed raising mix and much more.

If you need more specific advice and can't find it in any of our articles then please register with our forum. It is a very friendly place that welcomes new 'faces'.

Tips for the Home

This is a growing archive of articles that can help you to cut down on your dependance on the earths resources. We have included advice on using grey water and rain water, food storage there are even articles for the more ambitous of you that wish to do away totally with your fridge or oven.

If you wish to add your own articles to this section, or any other, then you are more than welcome to submit them to our wiki site over at selfsufficientish.org - in fact we could do with some more.

If you can't find what you are looking for here there is a search facility in the top right hand corner that will help you with your quest. 

If you still can't find what you are looking for then please do consider looking at our busy forum. There is normally a friendly person around.

Tips for Flat and Rented House Dwellers

One of the heart-felt beliefs of self sufficient ish is that the good life should be open to all, even if you live in a tiny rented bedsit in Wigan.  Myself (Andy Hamilton) and Dave Hamilton, the founders of this site, both live in rented houses. When the site was first set up I lived in a tiny shoebox of a first floor flat in the middle of a city.

All you need is a small area of earth to garden in - this could even be a yougurt pot on a windowsil. To the left you will see articles that have been written specifically with people like you in mind.

Miscallaneous Tips

All those tips that don't fit anywhere else will be found here, much of the tips are to do with aspects of self sufficiency that you won't first associate. This is because it is our take on self sufficency. Quitting smoking is a prime example you don't smoke you lessen the dependance on someone else growing for you. Also herbals and natural remidies can be found here, in time they might have a space of there own.