Raising chickens

We have gardens, trees, mushrooms, and animals for food. Our water comes from several home-made cisterns filled from rain catchment, and our electricity from the sun and wind. We are constantly making gadgets, tools and toys, often out of junk. Abe will read about something online, we’ll research every angle of it and then we’ll try it out. Our experiments are not always successful, but the ones that are always benefit our lives in some way. The failures can be pretty helpful too, mostly in knowing what not to do again.

As we move towards our goal, we try and document things as fully as possible, both in how-to guides and articles, so that others like us can benefit from our experiences. We have also started a series of books called Food Web. These revolve around the integration of different species and their waste streams to provide a sustainable, local and happy food production system.

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