Many people who are looking to start enjoying their crop early begin to plant seeds in early spring. This allows the plant to grow quite a bit inside and later to be transplanted to a garden outdoors. This early jumpstart takes out the usual time where most people need to wait for the ground to no longer be frozen and the weather to improve before they can plant seeds. When you start indoors you do not have those worries as you can control the environment in which they grow.

All you need to start early is soil that drains well, small containers, an area that gets good sun indoors and some water. Nothing special and no different than what you would be doing outside when you go to plant seeds except by starting them inside in small containers you get that extra jumpstart and can shave weeks off of your first harvest. You can grow inside for many weeks before you transplant your plants outside into the garden. This will also help you ensure you have enough plants growing for what you need in the upcoming season by knowing how many seeds planted have started to grow you get more confidence in there survival when moved outside.

If you use peat pods they are very small and take very little room to store in a house. You can place them in a window sill and as soon as you see the first leaf unfold transplant them to a larger container. As soon as the soil is no longer frozen and the climate is ready for planting seeds you can transplant your already few weeks old plants outside.

When most of us think about what we eat in any given day it can range from some vegetables, some fruits, some bread and pastas and probably some kind of meat generally chicken or steak for dinner potentially eggs for breakfast. We wash this down with some milk and maybe some wine maybe even some Orange juice. Lets think about this for a second. Could you provide all of that for yourself. Maybe, maybe not of course depending on where you live. Bottom line is that you can provide most of that for yourself right now I bet.

For breakfast you had eggs, some bacon and orange juice. If you want to live self sufficient try to think about your eating and how it can be made self sufficient. Eggs. Build a chicken coup out back and get some chickens. You can spend a few dollars for chickens and have years worth of eggs for next to nothing. Orange juice. Do you live in a climate that would support oranges? If not still no worries. Buy oranges themselves not orange juice. Making your own orange juice from fresh oranges is much better for you and helps you take one more step to living self sufficiently. Now if you have room, get some pigs. Once a year have one slaughtered and have some bacon provided. Don’t have room for pigs? Go to a butcher shop and buy half a pig and have it cut up the way you want it. This will be much fresher and cheaper than buying at the grocery store.

The same concept I just applied to breakfast can be applied to any of your meals. If you want to eat self sufficiently you need to break down what you eat in any given today and think about where it comes from. Think if you could provide the entire thing yourself and if not, figure out how you can get closer to the root of anything. Keep trying to cut out the middle man and get to the source until you are able to create the source yourself.