Independence in living is a great joy and everyone wants to celebrate it. Although we live in an independent world and establishing an independent and self sufficient living is a blessing. It gives you more pleasure if it is more sustainable. Humankind lived a most self-sufficient and sustainable living by utilizing the efficient resources while hunting, gathering food, growing their younger, building shelter and making clothing and other tools & equipment for routine purposes.

Living a self-sufficient life means practically developing skills which will help to serve you for lifetime. When you build such skills then you’ll be less dependent on outsources which will help you save huge amount of money.

You will feel self-empowered, rewarding personally and find yourself contributing to the environment in a positive manner. You can develop a closed loop system and grow things by yourself like:

Grow your food

You can utilize free space of your garden, kitchen outdoor, balcony and terrace area. You can grow and produce fresh & organic herbs, fruits, vegetables etc. If you have more space then you can grow whole grains, pulses, and spices too. You can also learn indoor growing, kitchen herb gardening, fungi culture, backyard orchards, edible flowers and more.

Animal husbandry and bee keeping

You can fulfill all your dairy and meat needs by keeping animals in your farms. You can raise chickens for meat and eggs, goats for nutritious milk, cheese, yoghurt and fiber, sheep for wool & meat, and bees for bee wax, honey as well as contribute in saving bee species.

Homesteading

When you grow and develop everything by yourself then keep in mind that nothing goes to waste. For this you have to process & store the food through different methods like water canning, pressure canning, pickling, hydrating, producing homemade wines, sewing, kneading, crocheting, use & reuse, natural remedies and more.

Essential life skills

When you begin with self sufficient things then you should learn essential life skills that are a part of your regular life. For example, water purification technique, basic first aid in case of emergency, fire building, cooking, swimming, and self-defense moves.

Off the grid

Everything will lack processing due to unavailability of energy resources. So, you should establish efficient energy resources for your farm or house to develop all self-sufficient and sustainable resources. These can be solar, wind, and hydropower energy grids, rainwater harvesting, recycling, waste composting etc.

You can develop such skills and build a self-sufficient and sustainable space around you.