Deb this sounds like a great idea but one question...Where do you put it all? I have a mobile home and with 10 of us living in it storage is a premium. One thing I did do is redo the front door. We built a large enclosed yard for our dogs (had trouble with a neighbor in the past and I want them (the dogs not the neighbor!) safe. Anyway we do not really use the front door and with the new 'dog pen' we had some extra space. I lined the area with some of those heavy duty metal shelves that hold a lot of weight and lined them with 1/4 in plywood. My new pantry! I would like doors on it but it works well and things are easy to get to. It is not far from the kitchen either. I just cannot not imagine storing as much as you do. Where do you find the space?
Another thing I did when we moved here about 10 years ago is plant trees. We had no shade and in Florida that is unbearable. So we planted fruit trees for shade. And as a bonus we also get some fruit as well (LOL)We have a nectarine tree that is towering over our house. No one believes that we planted it and it was just a stick. Our chickens roost on it at night and they are fertilizing the tree so it has really grown over the years! I need to do so much more but it is a start. It needs work but it is a start.
Nancy from Florida
--- In Homesteadingfamily@yahoogroups.com, "Deb" <debsbread@...> wrote:
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> I have been asked by several members off list, how I got us to where we are, to not have to go to a grocery store weekly or at a minimum of bi-weekly. I go MONTHLY. And for my family of three with three large dogs and 5 cats, our grocery budget is an amazing $250.00 per MONTH.
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