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  • To our tale of thrift and self-reliance on a journey to a self-sufficient lifestyle.

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Experiences for 2009

  • Build an igloo - done 6/2/09
  • Build an outdoor oven
  • Build a dry stone wall
  • Prepare a rabbit to make rabbit stew
  • Turn a raw fleece into spun wool
  • Grow 50% of our vegetables this year - 6/11 more like 20%
  • Make my own clothes - 27/10 does a pair of gloves count???
  • Whittle a set of wooden spoons for the kitchen
  • Catch a crab off a pier and prepare it
  • Make 52 pots of jam - 33/52
  • Oak smoke a fish fillet in my chimney
  • Make a batch of butter
  • Hand dye wool using garden plants
  • Set up a solar array to charge small devices
  • Make elderflower champange
  • Butcher a pig carcass
  • Cure a pork joint
  • Process a beehive frame to honey
  • Make a round of cheese
  • Milk a cow by hand
  • Catch a fish for dinner
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