Self-Sufficiency Strategy; Protecting Your Food Security
Oliver Ross
Oliver is the founder of Liberty Lives, a consultancy, which helps Canadians to understand how to protect their privacy, their assets, their food security and education for their children. Oliver Ross joins us to share how best to prepare for food shortages and being more self-sufficient.
On assessing your situation…
The first step is you look at what you have, what you can realistically do. You might only want to start with something that you probably can’t screw up. Maybe just herbs. It’s not a lot, but at the same time, you’re going to start to get a feel. And that’s what’s really important. First step is getting a feel for what you’re dealing with.
On the self-sufficiency mindset…
You’re going to learn some valuable lessons there. You’re going to just start yourself down that road. Okay. I can do this. I’m not as disconnected from my food as I once thought. And then you could build up from there. Let’s say you’re in an apartment and you can rent the roofs. I know there’s people who’ve done that before.
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Originally posted 2022-06-22 15:13:04.
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a good start for beginner growing things like leaf lettuce, green beans, spinach, kale, cucumbers & Tomatoes as some grow quickly, you can find dwarf breeds like Tiny Tim tomatoes & provider beans you can grow in 2 gallon food grade containers pots or grow bags if space is limited & can also do well in grow tents or small hydroponics setups for winter growing as the plants get to between 2ft & 2.5 ft high
the lettuce spinach & such you pick leaf by leaf as it grows with “pairs Island lettuce” being one of my favorite for indoor & outdoor growing as they can be grown in 2L pop bottles or ice cream containers with some holes drilled in the bottom.
you are going to be far from self sufficient but its a good & relativity cheap way of getting into it & helps hedge against inflation as everything you can provide for your self, allows you more money to spend on the things you can not produce.