Starting February 15, 2022, we will no longer purchase or eat any food from the grocery store (except salt & baking powder). Instead, we are choosing to experience what it is like to raise and forage for all of our food. This means EVERYTHING: flour, oil, honey, spices, cheese, fruits, nuts - Follow our journey and learn about feeding yourselves
Starting February 15, 2022, we will no longer purchase or eat any food from the grocery store (except salt & baking powder). Instead, we are choosing to experience what it is like to raise and forage for all of our food.
This means EVERYTHING: flour, oil, honey, spices, cheese, fruits, nuts - you get the picture. We hope you follow our journey to find out how we do, and maybe get inspired. While we don't expect anyone else to want to try homesteading to this degree, we will share what we learn along the way so others can incorporate the parts that speak to them.
We are starting with roughly a 6 month supply to feed two adults, which we raised & foraged in 2021. We will continue to farm and forage to produce what we need for the second half of the year. Here is what we are starting the year with, arranged by food group:
Instead of wheat and oats comprising 90% of our starch, this area of our diet.
100 lbs. ground meat (beef, goat, pork, venison 35 lbs. stew meat (beef, goat, pork).
In addition to what is and will be in the field, green house, and cold.
We have blueberry bushes, raspberries and strawberries in the garden. We collect wild blackberries on.
No more sugar or brown sugar! We have two bee hives, but haven't harvested any.
Here's another area of drastic change. Before this year we used a LOT of olive.
Goats milk from 3-4 nanny goats when goats are in production Yogurt from goats milk.
sweet clover extract (vanilla substitute) 4 gallons apple cider vinegar 2 gallons red vinegar 32.
Starting February 15, 2022, we will no longer purchase or eat any food from the grocery store (except salt & baking powder). Instead, we are choosing to experience what it is like to raise and forage for all of our food. This means EVERYTHING: flour, oil, honey, spices, cheese, fruits, nuts - Follow our journey and learn about feeding yourselves