Thread: Getting back to living off the land.....

Originally Posted by Chelsea

Thanks all. I’m actually in the process of making the challenge that I have to make, hunt or raise everything we eat. So I should hopefully only need to buy the basics such as flour, sugar and some dried herbs etc.
we have got the chooks in the garden at the moment letting them destroy the lot because the potato seeds from a few years ago took off and smothered a lot of the stuff we grew. We are in south Waikato and it gets pretty frosty here so we can’t plant much until closer to spring. We will spray it out and run The rotary hoe through it later in winter. I might get some seeds started that I can get using indoors like herbs and maybe a couple of lettuces. We have a few broken troughs out the back I might fill with soil and plant some vine plants in those when the times right.

If you are starting with a clean slate vege wise, the ultimate system I have seen is to fence an area twice the size needed and have chooks on one half one year and the other half or side the next. Breaks the cycle of any plant diseases and the chooks eat the scraps and dung the soil. The chook house is in the centre at one end and has a door to each side of the garden