With the current economy the way that it is, have you been thinking about becoming more self-suffient?  Maybe having a garden, getting some chickens for the fresh eggs?  I know my family has.

Pretty much ever since we’ve been married, except for the 4 years we lived in the city, we’ve had a garden.  We always canned and or froze our produce because they just plain taste better.

This year though our garden will be slightly bigger with a few more varieties of vegetables.  And what we don’t grow ourselves we will be purchasing at the Amish Farm down the road.

With all the worry about salmonella and E-coli, we try to buy local.  We have our own chickens, so fresh eggs are always at hand.  We buy our potatoes from the farmer that plows the snow in our driveway in the winter. 

So that’s what we are doing little by little to become more self-suffient.  What if anything are you doing?