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How Much Should You Plant To Provide A Year’s Worth of Food

By Repost|2020-07-13T16:03:09+00:00July 14th, 2020|Blog, Food Production, Our Uncertain Future|

Homesteading was once a way of life; gardening wasn’t a hobby, it was how you fed yourself and your family throughout the year. Your survival rested on your ability to grow crops, save seeds and preserve the harvest. The choices you made regarding which crops you grew and how many of them you planted

Design a Permaculture Garden: The 12 Principles To Follow

By Repost|2020-06-02T13:07:11+00:00June 3rd, 2020|Blog, Food Production, Our Uncertain Future|

[I'm learning about Permaculture as I embrace the good life - I found this to be a very good summary. Trevor] Gardening will never go out of fashion. Anyone with a green thumb and a penchant for growing nutritious food will attest to that. However, conventional ways of farming can fall to the wayside when

Upgrading a PowerBanx Home Battery Storage System

By Trevor Larkum|2020-06-08T13:02:42+00:00June 2nd, 2020|Battery Storage, Blog, Energy and Climate Change, Home Battery, Home Energy Storage, Our Uncertain Future, Power Generation, PowerBanx, Pylontech, Solar and Battery, Victron|

I've had a PowerBanx home battery system for just over 2 years and it's worked well, but I always wanted to increase its capacity as one of the advantages of a PowerBanx system is you can add additional batteries to the core system at your convenience. Two years ago I wrote about how I

24 Ways the Virus May Change Your Next Home

By Repost|2020-05-26T11:11:10+00:00May 27th, 2020|Blog, Coronavirus, Food Production, Our Uncertain Future|

[I found this article really interesting. Naturally I expected it to highlight the importance of growing your own food, plus pantries and freezers, but I thought the other ideas were also well considered. Trevor] Lockdown lessons shaping the future of housing As we find ourselves locked down amid coronavirus, there’s more demand on our

Of Raised Beds and Planters – Part 3

By Trevor Larkum|2020-05-26T22:53:09+00:00May 26th, 2020|Blog, Food Production, Our Uncertain Future|

The best bit about growing vegetables, of course, is the harvesting and eating. Having set up our raised bed, planter and mini greenhouse by May, we didn't have long to wait for the first results. In June we picked our first cucumbers from the mini greenhouse. Our first cucumbers (Image: T. Larkum) In

How To Grow A Survival Garden – Do You Have What It Takes?

By Repost|2020-05-11T11:32:52+00:00May 12th, 2020|Blog, Food Production, Our Uncertain Future|

[This article is a good summary of why I'm getting into the Good Life. Trevor] Make no mistake, a survival garden is not just any kind of beautiful backyard garden. A survival garden is one that is carefully designed to yield enough crops for you and your family to live off of in times

2020 – WHEN THE GREAT DISRUPTION BEGAN

By Repost|2020-05-04T20:12:21+00:00May 7th, 2020|Blog, Coronavirus, Energy and Climate Change, Opinion, Our Uncertain Future, Prepping and Collapse|

[This article caught my eye as it has parallels with my own views, see here. Trevor] It was always going to come to this. Whether it was a pandemic triggering a shutdown, a climate emergency bursting the carbon bubble, a populist backlash against inequality, wars over water or countless other possible triggers, this moment

The Self Sufficiency Surge

By Repost|2020-04-27T19:38:14+00:00May 1st, 2020|Blog, News, Opinion, Our Uncertain Future|

[Some very encouraging developments! And about time...] In the days leading up to the restrictions (and ever since), there has been a sheer frenzy of interest in fruit and vegetable growing as people seek to turn over their back gardens, patios, windowsills (and indeed any available space) to home food production. The seed companies

Of Raised Beds and Planters – Part 2

By Trevor Larkum|2020-05-26T22:56:34+00:00April 29th, 2020|Blog, Food Production, Our Uncertain Future|

A few weeks after constructing the raised bed and planter, in April, I prepared them for planting. For the planter it was a case of lining it, to help protect the wood a little from moisture, and then adding a layer of old cardboard to provide some water retention. Raised planter with cardboard (Image:

Of Raised Beds and Planters

By Trevor Larkum|2020-04-28T16:14:18+00:00April 28th, 2020|Blog, Food Production, Our Uncertain Future|

Our Uncertain Future Blog - All Posts While my first attempts at growing food were not hugely impressive they were encouraging enough that the following year (2016) I made a more determined effort to produce food for the family. Since we had just a small suburban garden, with very little space, I started by

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