Who is the most self sustaining person on here?

Wolf mom · #21 07/06/09, 08:39 AM

Everyone here has something to offer and/or to learn. Manytimes both.

No one person is better or worse than another. We all are where we are.

I really hate ranking like this.

Reminds me of a hgh school "most popular" contest.

michiganfarmer · #22 07/06/09, 08:49 AM

Dunno. Interesting question though. Sure isnt me.

Melissa sounds like a pretty good candidate.

I dont know if it is possible to live a totally subsistance lifestyle. For one thing, a person has to earn SOME money to pay property taxes, even if they are able to produce all their own building supplies, feed for their critters, and barter for the few things they cant produce...thing like nails, hand saws. food containers...

ronbre · #23 07/06/09, 10:19 AM

copying my answer to Knuckledraggers post :
I keep hearing this word self sufficient today..and I really don't like that word..words..

I feel that trusting in God, to meet our needs is more important in my life than trusting in my self to meet my needs..sure we do try to limit our use of commercial sources..that are unnecessary..but SELF sufficient sounds a little hermity to me..I help out some of my friends that have sources I prefer not to have on my property..i buy eggs from a farmer who wants to raise chickens..my husband doesn't want chickens..so i help his sufficiency..buying his eggs..Also we have friends that run a truck farm, they raise things of different varieties than I do..i purchase those things from them..to bless them and help them to make a living.
We barter, share, do for others..etc..I never want to depend on my SELF..I don't want to be SELF sufficient ! Period

Qvrfullmidwife · #24 07/08/09, 07:23 PM

definition?

We built and run a successful dairy. We raise the animals, milk them, bottle and sell the milk and cheese. We don't garden, we didn't build our house with our own hands. What we do is work our tushies off with the goats and sell our product at the farmers market. We eat lots of home grown produce and grassfed beef and farm eggs and raw honey and bread baked with hand milled flour and covered with homemade jam...not produced by ourselves but either bartered for with our milk or bought with the funds from the sale of our milk. To us we are self sufficient, no man is paying us a salary, we are reaping the fruits of our labor even if those fruits aren't, well, fruit!

wyld thang · #25 07/08/09, 07:31 PM

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Originally Posted by TurnerHill

I hear ya, DJ. You also do all of that within the borders of a country strong enough to keep most of the world's true vermin away from your door.

your really good point is not lost on me