[Womble]

OK, so this has been our first year of smallholding, and boy have we learned a load - mostly the hard way!  However, amongst all the mouldy courgettes, bolted lettuce, and endless cockerels, we did manage to produce a load of our own food this year. So, let's celebrate our successes - I'll start!......

This year, we have been self sufficient in:

• Eggs
• Garlic
• Strawberries
• French Beans
• Turkey 
• and very nearly chicken

your turn now!............... 

[lachlanandmarcus]

lamb
veggies (until Xmas) except for carrots as the Border Terrier liked to eat the home grown ones :-))
eggs until a couple of weeks ago

[little blue]

milk, until about November - waiting for kidding now
eggs (of course)
beans, cabbage/kale, onions,
pears, just cos I refuse to buy them - didn't get many off our little tree, but they were delicious.  Ditto apples
almost potatoes (well, not really - but they were so nice!)
chicken meat
pork - from the begining of December!
fodder beet, spinach beet, parsnips.

oh, and chicks! all our own-hatched stock, or a free gift of three hens and two cockerels who we've eaten!!

still had to suppliment:
cauliflower,
potatoes,
brussel sprouts,
carrots

[Rosemary]

Eggs, poultry meat, lamb, pork (thanks to Andrew), runner beans , rocket, herbs, garlic, blueberries, bananas, kale and cabbage, carrots, parsnips (I think). We'll never be self sufficient in potatoes unless we turn most of the garden over to spuds. We can buy a 25kg sack of main crop locally for £5, so that's good enough 

[Bionic]

Rosemary,
How do you get self sufficient in bananas?  I didn't think they would grow in the UK
Sally

[deepinthewoods]

eggs, chicken, (rabbit and pheasent and squirrel) new pots (not maincrop), salads, carrots, parsnips,strawberries, runners, french beans, mangetout, leeks, onions, shallots and garlic, sweetcorn mmmmm,
but most of all i learnt how to rely on myself

next year im growing my own tea, i bought an 'assam' camellia sinensis for my xmas pressy to me!!

[lachlanandmarcus]

All hail Rosemary the Banana Baroness?

[Anke]

Meat, eggs and dairy, raspberries, currants and goseberries, polytunnel veg and broad beans. carrot (tops) got eaten by squatting hare, so miniature ones only and potatoes got eaten by slugs (but again we are buying 25kg bags for 6 pounds), I also buy horse carrots (that feed the goats and us)..., cabbages and parsnips failed again

Lots of Shetland and some Gotland fleece for spinning and dyeing.

Need to do more vegetable gardening next summer.... and not sit and admire/play and chat with my goats...

[Lesley Silvester]

Raspberries.  Need to spend some more time getting the veggie beds more prolific.  Been self-sufficient in goat's milk for the last two weeks since the gannet was weaned.  Next year will be self sufficient in goat meat and milk and hopefully soft cheeswe and yoghurt.

[HappyHippy]

Just pork & firewood for me  Eggs most of the year and Xmas turkey 
Polytunnel cover got ditched in favour of more pigs  but I've got the cash set aside, so 2012's going to be the year I finally get growing on a grand scale (hopefully that is, if I get a minute, in between everything else  )
Ask me again next year  Or better still, leave it 3 ! 
Karen 

[Bright Raven]

Woooooohooo 2011 Self sufficient in
wine,
chicken, eggs, turkey, duck, roadkill pheasant and rabbit,
leeks, spuds, onions, carrots, parsnips, beans, chives, garlic, kale and sprouting beans,
apples, plumbs, raspberries and pears
pork - choritzo, salami, bacon, sausage, black puddin,
lamb (hoggart)
Here's to hoping 2021 brings new adventures in cheese, milk, butter and yogurt.
Also that the walnut and sweet chestnut trees that I have planted make progress and grow strong.     
Sending my best wishes and love to everyone for the new year. xxxxx

[SallyintNorth]

Self-sufficient in milk, butter, cream, soft cheese, curd cheese, cottage cheese, buttermilk... well, you get the picture! 

Hopefully self-sufficient in pork from hereon, just bought in one half-a-pig from a similar setup on a friend's farm this year.   Really need to get practicing so I can cure my own bacon, my one attempt so far was not a success (but the gammon ham was superb.) 

Eggs is a target; the divils will have to be penned, they find too many hidey places amongst the hay etc when they're allowed total free range.    (Thanks for the top-up jaykay - yours are yummy!  )

A neighbour's terrier has found a dead mink, so maybe I'll get Muscovy duck eggs and (drake) meat going again this year. 

Hopefully the wee moorits will gain condition and we'll like the meat, then we'll be s/s in hogget / mutton.   

Not growing country here, we had a total crop failure of turnips and cabbages again.      So I'll keep buying the veg box.

[plumseverywhere]

Soap! 

oh and potatoes
plums
wine
goats milk
eggs
runner beans
jam
chutney

[Castle Farm]

Mud.
Moles.
Crows.
Magpies.

[Sudanpan]

Pork, Ham, Sausages
Eggs - up until that dratted fox decimated all our girls 
Potatoes
Tomato chutney (!)
Chilis
Pickled onions

Oh and mud, rain, rocks......