I love the thought of being as self-sufficient as possible, but in this day and age, that's a bit of a dream.Especially when you don't have a big backyard.
When I was a teenager, I used to buy 'Grass Roots' magazines from my local newsagent and dream of owning a small farm over the New South Wales border putting into practice what I had read, but that never happened. Recently someone donated two 'Grass Roots' magazines to the Op Shop, and I bought them and had a read through them for old time's sake. One was an August/September 2001 edition and the other was a February/March 2025 edition.
I remember thinking how good it would be to raise a family on a little farm like that and maybe even home school the children, but that might have turned out a disaster for them in hindsight:-) It's given me a sense of nostalgia reading through these two magazines, but I'm going to pass them on to a street library to inspire somebody else to live the dream, while I have to be content with lemons from my backyard lemon tree, while I make future plans for re-landscaping my backyard and wait for my lime tree to start giving me fruit.
Raising chickens is definitely out with neighbours living so close by. I would like to have a Sanity Saving Secret Garden once more, like I used to have before I ripped out all of my palm trees from my backyard in order to have my old crumbling fence and retaining wall rebuilt. But I want to be surrounded by trees that are more bird and butterfly friendly this time round.
We all like to dream I guess, so maybe I could aim for growing the biggest lemons in the world?-) But maybe I should build a rabbit proof fence first ... and hopefully by next St. Patrick's Day I'll have no more snakes in my backyard;-)
I remember thinking how good it would be to raise a family on a little farm like that and maybe even home school the children, but that might have turned out a disaster for them in hindsight:-)
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