[Hermit]

Milk, some cheese
All veg
Eggs
Lamb
Turkey,s chooks, geese and duck
Beef as a barter for grazing
Fuel , we dig three peat banks and collect wood . This gives us heat, water and cooking power.
Preserves
Fish
Hay and of course fertiliser!

[MAK]

Cider ( just 15 litres left)
Onions,shallots,garlic,leeks
Salad,peppers,toms ( Cues were pants)
Sprouts,spinnach,cabbage,cauliflowers
Early and main crops spuds still in cellar
Butternut Squash by the barrow loads - pigs still get one a day!!!!
Swede,parsnips,turnips ( pigs get the turnips as I can'yt stand em)
Duck ( 1 male muscovey gives us 3 meals).
Rasperries ( soddin freezer full)
Kiwi, Apples,Cherries,pears and apples and apples and apples
plums ditto apples
Eggs and Coqs for pot
Jam jars!!! They cost a fortune but we filled all we had with chutney,pickles and jams and did not buy any.
Should start on the pork in March and we are itching to cure and smoke what we can ( like others above).
Firewood - I used a hand saw and axe to cut vertical dead wood then dragged it home- fatigue got me in mid August but I still have my own wood for about another week.
Exhausted thinkung about summer fruit and veg but like everyone else we are enjoying gathering winter veg and the relative rest.
I bet nobody opts to take things off their list for 2012 !!
 

[Lesley Silvester]

Forgot the manure.  More than self sufficient in manure. 

[mab]

Gosh; you lot make me feel very inadequate - I've just about been self sufficient in:-

eggs ('til they went off-lay last month),
heating,
and about 80% of my electricity - so not yet self sufficient.

m

Oh, and an abundance of horse poo

[MAK]

Just wish we could supply all our own water ( grey waste water goes into the garden and we have a septic tank)! Although it seems to have rained for 2 weeks non stop the summer was a challenge.
Most mornings from early April I would use 2 buckets to collect water from our stream - I planted the squash and courgettes nearby but the rest of the garden was some walk from the stream. It dried up in July !!
I am reluctant to pay for metered water and have large tanks for roof run off.
Apparently we have a well below an ancient hot water tank in a cellar ( some walk from the house). Unfortunately I bought the wrong pump as it needs to be primed with water. When I work out how to prime (fill with water) a 20 feet vertical tube dipped into a well I will let you all know !!

[Plantoid]

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
• French Beans
• Turkey 
• and very nearly chicken

your turn now!............... 

 Cut old pallets up to give you  a small platform and grow your cucumbers , melons & marrows on these to keep them off the ground and aired, add a bit of clean straw for packing if you feel like it.

[Hermit]

So jealous of your fruit supplies folks, Shetland Spring winds dont allow blossom! I do have a meagre supply of blackcurrants, raspberries, rosehips and gooseberries but only if conditions allow.

We also have a well ,apparently a barter the last occupier made  was that if the waterboard  built the pumphouse they wanted on the land they had to build a solid track, cattlegrid and block out his spring into a well.  It is still there but a bit crumbled in places. We bought the pumphouse off them for £50.00 when it was redundant so we got a good deal in the end from them when all done.

[robert waddell]

was that including the pump hermit

[Rosemary]

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

It was just a joke 

[plumseverywhere]

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

It was just a joke 

Owwwwwwwww!! I was really hoping that you did and that you could tell me how to - we love bananas!!! Naughty Rosemary LOL!!! 

[deepinthewoods]

theyve successfully grown bananas at the eden project, i believe. and pineapples at heligan, the manure pits are quite amazing considering its 100yr old technology.

[northfifeduckling]

oh, do I feel inadequate now ....but I have an excuse for the last year, a desk job 
so only eggs, lettuce, rocket, kale, currants (black and red),, brambles due to untidy garden, sloes for X-mas 2012, potatoes, chicken and duck manure, some electricity....

[Hermit]

Hi Robert, no it did not include the pump but the turkeys had a good leccy supply and a telephone point!

[Bright Raven]

I bet you could grow bananas if you installed a rocket mass heater in your polytunnel. Anyone interested in super efficient heating might be interested in this. Ohhh what about growing Theobroma cacao ( chocolate ) mmmmmm.

 12 rocket stove mass heaters - efficient wood heat

[VSS]

Milk, butter, cottage cheese, yogurt, ice cream, cream.
Pork, sausages, ham, chicken, duck, pheasant, mutton, lamb.
Raspberries, gooseberries, black currants, loganberries, rhubarb
All veg bar onions
Hay and silage
Muck