IS SELF-SUFFICIENCY A MYTH?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- Many think if you start homesteading, you can be totally self-sufficient. Is that feasible or is it a myth?
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I feel Cindy that what you are achieving is a more sustainable life not only in terms of your environment but also your well-being. We can’t return to the pastoral life of a hundred years ago, however, homesteaders like yourself and many more now in Portugal, through agricultural research, help from fellow farmers and common sense, you are attaining a very admirable degree of self-sufficiency. I take my hat off to you❤.
Thanks Lisa!
Alone is very difficult. And getting older makes it more difficult. You are are impressive. You are putting so much hard work. Keep going. Get help if you need. Be careful and be realistic.The idea of selfsuficiency IS wrong. We need community to progress.
Totally agree!
Love your glass bottle wall. Also I saw some straw bales... If you want a straw bale structure or house I can do some voluntary work on that, since I build a straw bale house in Norway. It is super insulated from the cold or heat, are sustainable and fire proof. 🙂
Thanks for the offer but I'll be using cordwood next with the bottles.
Good insight Regarding the farm and self sufficiency. Another aspect is how farms traditionally had sometimes three generations of family members living on the farm and helping with different tasks. It is very different today. Thanks for the reality check!
Yep, it;s very different when you homestead alone!
Prayers for you to have a long healthy life on your farm and that you can work to sustain your lifestyle. You are such an interesting lady with many talents. Great video.❤
Thanks Rachel!
Yum! Beetroot Pickled. Recipe?
In my recipe book!
You are totally right on building the infrastructure on an abandoned property and having money to fix it. We have a small terraced farm in the Algarve that was abandoned for more than 10 years. While the house is mostly ok with renovations, the garage leaks badly with a rusty roof, the bore hole has no electricity, and with the heavy storms one of the main rock walls has collapsed. We just take one project at a time, and enjoy the process. I love the cat trying to play with the 🐽 🐽 piglets!!
That cat follows me everywhere!
I agree with you about self sufficiency. It's an interesting experience to live it & come to the age-old wisdom that a community of like minded people are necessary to live well. I admire you for sharing the creativity necessary to keep it all rolling forward.
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A little tip for peeling the beets! When they are still warm I use rubber gloves and the peel just rub off!!
Love the piggies
I think off grid and self- sufficiency is not as easy as people think, near impossible nowadays
Your doing an amazing job on your farm
Be well ❤️😁
Yes! Thank you!
When you are alone it takes much longer to be self sufficient...you just can't be everywhere and do everything...It's not some kind of competition...Do and appreciate what you can!
very true
Thank you for sharing your experiemces! ❤❤
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Vey philosophical today Cindy. I appreciate your insight and honesty.
Thank you!
My grandparents were pretty well self sufficient. But the family worked as a team. They grew crops and had a barter thing with the neighbors, exchanging veg and/or surplus items like sugar, salt, etc for meat. But it was a different time and the property was in the family for 3 or 4 generations. The neighbors also were ready to help as needed. My grand father worked as a road grader when jobs came up and my grandmother ran a tea room and accommodated people on vacation from the city. You are right. It takes alot of money to refurbish and get your homestead up and running. I live in a fairly rural town. I have 1/2 acre. I do grow things like onions, sweet peppers, garlic, herbs, tomatoes. There are farm markets close by so I can get stuff there. I as well, can't bear to kill a creature. I prefer to hit the grocery store. That way I can have my detachment, and save on psychiatric treatment. 😀👍👍🇨🇦
I think when you live alone it's harder to be self-sufficient as you can't do everything or make everything by yourself!
@@CindyVine absolutely. I do find i have learned a lot of things. i wish i knew more about engines. I have had the @$#%^mower out for repair 4 times and it still isn't right. if i had a neighbour like Nick, this wouldn't be happening.🤐
Great food for my thoughts! Thanks Cindy!
You are so welcome!
So true! Had the same idea and although the first year I had a great veggie garden, it's been a struggle to maintain that, and I'm a ways away from being less dependent on shops. You've done incredibly and at some point things will even out, I hope! x
I was better at gardening when I lived in an apartment in Norway and grew everything in pots!
@@CindyVine But in Norway you didn't have to worry about the 1. the animals not one or two but a whole bunch, 2. you didn't have land clearing to do. 3. You didn't have Fences to erect and maintain. 4. You didn't have olives to harvest. and most importantly 5. you didn't have a house to build. so yes you had time for gardening, but you have also made time here to make a garden and get some produce from it so to me that is a big win. love your video's keep safe keep sane and enjoy all you do.
Cindy one of my cats saw himself in the big mirror one day and sat down and literally had long conversations with himself in there. His name was Whacko and he used to come every day and have a chat with himself in that mirror... Lol☺
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you are doing what you like all good
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Getting the right infrastructure in is a geat deal more expensive than you would think and for the first time in 3 years we are eating a majority of our own food but there is also access to amazing quality products from other farmers and a second or third source of income is even more essential than it has ever been. The community due to this fact is far stronger than those we tend to see elsewhere. Even if we are not self sufficient, although fairly close our community is a very happy one and after all would you want to be isolated and self sufficient?
I love the sense of community so isolation is not for me!
Beautiful lovely video
Cindy get another large dog for protection and company for urself and other lovely dog
Maybe in the future.
I like what you did with the tiles very nice 😊. Maybe try citrus peels for where the cats are digging, it’s worked for me, they don’t seem to like the smell.
Thanks for the tip!
Hello Cindy, I’ve been watching your channel since the beginning and I enjoy your videos with a cup of coffee sometimes 3 o’clock in the morning. Those are beautiful tiles you’ve inspired me. Homesteading is not easy work but sometimes enjoyable to see what you’ve been able to do for yourself. Also community would be something that you would want to think about. I think keep the videos coming in the hello to all your animals.😊
Thank you so much!
No need to use a knife to peel boiled beets you just take the skin off with your hands. it comes off easily and dont cut off half the veg. Also cook the beet wole, do not cut it up before cooking.
Usually I just rub off the skin but I wanted the peel for the pigs!
Hello Cindy, is it maybe basil? It looks like it. But then you should smell it right away. Greetings from us 😘
Could be, pigs love it though!
Eat basil raw with sliced tomato and mozzarella. Don't let the pigs eat it!
it look like Origanum
Salpichroa origanifolia (Lam.) Baill.- Lily of the valley vine or chickweed maybe Cindy?
Could be chickweed.
It's hard to be self sufficient.....you are a trooper!
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The reality of your dream is impossible without money. I don't think anyone can achieve self sufficienty any more in this world. Not unless you want a very humble life, No Internet, no car etc.
exactly
Beautiful sunset.
It really is!
Lots of work
You're doing a 👍 great job
Thanks 👍
Beautiful animals
thanks
It depends on what you mean by "self-sufficiency" I guess?? LOL!! Self-sufficient/off grid!! Either way you are still supporting yourself something!! We as humans before technology times have been doing it for thousands of years!! And its funny now how we are reverting back too old school ways!! Have you ever watched a movie called "Ever After"?? In the movie in the opening scene the camera pans down on a great big medieval castle and the main character walking into a very well set up garden where they do a lot of tendering and farming there!! Your homestead sort of reminds me of that!! Just a 600 year old difference!! LOL!! Cheers!!
😂 But in medieval times they had a whole team, not just a solo old lady 😂😂😂
@@CindyVine I did think that!! LOL!!
But, homesteading is a nice lifestyle!
It definitely is!
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Doctor cindy checking on ruby
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Growing fruit and veg takes a lot of time. It is a full time job watering, fertilising, treating bugs and nurturing them. When you are away so often you will not achieve a great result. I know I am into organic gardening and it’s a tremendous amount of work.
too true
East/ west, home is the best! Get knitting, lambkins going to be very cold!! Mother's hormones went weird...dont sheep lamb in Spring? Those kitties, always curious and up for fun. Lots of grass now for them all and del oranges for Marmelade!!😊
Oranges were for the pigs! I still have jars of marmalade left from last year!
And the fact of the matter is cindy u r incredible and we love u and pigs and sheep❤
Thanks so much!
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I tried to id that plant in the garden with my picture this app; common chick weed. Considered a weed by gardiners. 😂 is there someone there who can confirm?🙂👍🇨🇦
I am very adept at growing weeds lol
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Well there is a lot of mouths to feed,, and some is not adding much,, maybe consider selling some off to people, with a green card to freezerland 🙂 and please start with the noizy goats...
I don't have any goats!
@@CindyVine ahh my mistake,, sheep!
Cinds seeing all oranges r u making marmalade😊
Not at this time, oranges are for the pigs!
I'm sure that you get joy with your animals. Back in the old days, animals we for food not pets. You might want to prioritize. I'm sure you could be more self-sufficient.
I will still need to buy things like dishwash, toilet paper, toothpaste, cleaning products etc
Get moth balls were you don't want the cats to use as a toilet.
Won't my dog eat them?
Coffee grounds are good fertilizer for plants, but cats find it disgusting. I hope for you that these are cats too, maybe they are other animals in cat skin, hahahaha! Just like the wolf in sheep's clothing
Thanks for the tip!
What happened with Peaches?
She ate her babies.
@@CindyVine omg, oh well, at least you know for sure . She’s not the mothering type is she she.