1. What state/province/country are you in and what is your climate like? Michigan, crazy!
2. How many people are in your family? Marital status? Divorced, 2 sons
3. How would you define self sufficiency? Partial.
4. What would you do with your spare time if you had any resources you needed? Build more garden boxes
5. Have you ever built a house , or other types of building? Do you want to? I built my first chicken coop, and winter run. I have never built anything
6. Can you weld? Steel, aluminum, MiG, TiG, stick, Oxy-Acet? No
7. Who or what inspired you to become more self sufficient? I just want to.
8 Cloth or paper? Cloth, or air.
9. In what ways are you self sufficient now and in what ways would you like to learn more? Starting to grow my own food. Chickens. I would to grow more and raise meat chickens, maybe rabbits starting this year.
10. In what way(s) will you never choose to become self sufficient? Wood furnace.
11. Are you interested in stocking up for future needs? We have started stocking beans and freeze dried foods.
12. Where do you end up when you sink into yourself, away from the outside world? A book
13. Can you drive a farm tractor or a semi? If I needed to, I could figure it out.
14. Do you make crafts or useful items? Would you want to teach others how to do these? I can do simple crochet
15. Can you have legally livestock where you are at? Do you have any? What kinds? Chickens and goats and rabbits
16. Can you operate a lathe? Metal, wood? No
17. Do you like to garden? If so, what do you enjoy growing? Love gardening. Fruits veggies and flowers
18. Do you fish? Bait or explosives? Can, bait. I even know how to clean then.
19. How much space/land do you have or rent? City? Country? Own, 1 acre plus... Country-ish
20. Are you a Novice, Technician, General, Advanced? ARRL? No
21. What is your self sufficient specialty? Or what one would you like to learn? I'd like to learn it all.
22. If you could create a degree and curriculum, what would you major in and what classes would you take? Homesteading
23. Do you do wood work? framing, finish, cabinet? No
24. Are you interested in herbal medicine? YES! Firm believer in Mother Earth's ability to provide everything we need to heal
25. If you could live any place you chose, where would it be? An island with out commercialism.
26. Do you use a wood stove for heating or cooking? If I had to.
27. What would your ideal super hero/villain be?
28. Are your family or friends also interested in self sufficiency? Some are, most are not
29. Do you like to cook? Are you interested in whole foods and natural foods? raw milk? farm fresh eggs? Yes. Natural, none processed foods
30. What was your MOS? ? Huh?
31. Do you forage or hunt for part of your food needs? Not yet
32. What skills do you have that help you be more self sufficient? Imagination.
33. In which fictional universe would you most like to live?
34. Do you have solar panels? Plans to use solar energy? I am saving to get solar panels
35 What is the mass/weight ratio of a European swallow carrying a coconut from the tropics to England? I don't know, and don't care.
36. Have you ever lived completely off grid? Would you like to? No, yes
37. In what do you trust? Myself and God
38. Do you make things yourself to save money? Yes. Re-use
39. Has trying to be more self-sufficient changed your attitude or habits about money/spending yes
Well, that's a bit about me. Nothing deep. Lol.
2. How many people are in your family? Marital status? Divorced, 2 sons
3. How would you define self sufficiency? Partial.
4. What would you do with your spare time if you had any resources you needed? Build more garden boxes
5. Have you ever built a house , or other types of building? Do you want to? I built my first chicken coop, and winter run. I have never built anything
6. Can you weld? Steel, aluminum, MiG, TiG, stick, Oxy-Acet? No
7. Who or what inspired you to become more self sufficient? I just want to.
8 Cloth or paper? Cloth, or air.
9. In what ways are you self sufficient now and in what ways would you like to learn more? Starting to grow my own food. Chickens. I would to grow more and raise meat chickens, maybe rabbits starting this year.
10. In what way(s) will you never choose to become self sufficient? Wood furnace.
11. Are you interested in stocking up for future needs? We have started stocking beans and freeze dried foods.
12. Where do you end up when you sink into yourself, away from the outside world? A book
13. Can you drive a farm tractor or a semi? If I needed to, I could figure it out.
14. Do you make crafts or useful items? Would you want to teach others how to do these? I can do simple crochet
15. Can you have legally livestock where you are at? Do you have any? What kinds? Chickens and goats and rabbits
16. Can you operate a lathe? Metal, wood? No
17. Do you like to garden? If so, what do you enjoy growing? Love gardening. Fruits veggies and flowers
18. Do you fish? Bait or explosives? Can, bait. I even know how to clean then.
19. How much space/land do you have or rent? City? Country? Own, 1 acre plus... Country-ish
20. Are you a Novice, Technician, General, Advanced? ARRL? No
21. What is your self sufficient specialty? Or what one would you like to learn? I'd like to learn it all.
22. If you could create a degree and curriculum, what would you major in and what classes would you take? Homesteading
23. Do you do wood work? framing, finish, cabinet? No
24. Are you interested in herbal medicine? YES! Firm believer in Mother Earth's ability to provide everything we need to heal
25. If you could live any place you chose, where would it be? An island with out commercialism.
26. Do you use a wood stove for heating or cooking? If I had to.
27. What would your ideal super hero/villain be?
28. Are your family or friends also interested in self sufficiency? Some are, most are not
29. Do you like to cook? Are you interested in whole foods and natural foods? raw milk? farm fresh eggs? Yes. Natural, none processed foods
30. What was your MOS? ? Huh?
31. Do you forage or hunt for part of your food needs? Not yet
32. What skills do you have that help you be more self sufficient? Imagination.
33. In which fictional universe would you most like to live?
34. Do you have solar panels? Plans to use solar energy? I am saving to get solar panels
35 What is the mass/weight ratio of a European swallow carrying a coconut from the tropics to England? I don't know, and don't care.
36. Have you ever lived completely off grid? Would you like to? No, yes
37. In what do you trust? Myself and God
38. Do you make things yourself to save money? Yes. Re-use
39. Has trying to be more self-sufficient changed your attitude or habits about money/spending yes
Well, that's a bit about me. Nothing deep. Lol.
from South Jersey. Don't have time to read all your answers, I'll have to do that later.
