G'day.

[Shidifen]

G'day everyone. I'm a forager from Queensland, Australia. I love being able to find a meal while I'm just bushwalking or going for a stroll along the coast. I'm just starting to raise snails for food and I'm experimenting with wind power so I can safely set up the kids' cubbyhouse with 12 volt power.

I own a few acres beside a creek and I'm slowly planting it out with fruit trees and other food plants that can look after themselves with minimal help from me. I get black frosts in the little valley I'm in so it's a matter of planting and hoping to get more than a year out of a plant. So far citrus seems like a safe bet. I'm interested in seeing how others solve problems and getting ideas for new ways to stay off the grid and be more self sufficient.

[Brewtrog]

Hello, welcome to ish

[Odsox]

Hi there Shidifen, welcome to our little forum.

[Green Aura]

Hi Shidifen, welcome to Ish,

[Shidifen]

Thanks everyone!

[ina]

Hiya!

My one memory of Queensland is hot, hot, hot...

[Weedo]

Boomer! - another Aussie!

[Shidifen]

G'day Weedo!

Hi ina. We just had a record breaking Summer over here. The hottest AND driest. Even all the weeds in my yard died! I use Cats-ears as a coffee substitute and my crop shriveled to nothing. My wife and I were thinking seriously about moving to Tasmania when I saw CCTV footage of people wearing jumpers in Hobart at Christmas time.

[Weedo]

Same in the Riverina, Very hot & dry - I am dry sowing in the hope of enough rain to germinate the seed. Hobart has a great climate, warmer, drier and sunnier than Melbourne (which means sunnier than Sydney)

IF you rally want a "secure" climate, try King Island - never recorded a drought or frost

[happyhippy]

Boomer! - another Aussie!

I'm one too!