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Anti capitalistic methods of self reliance!
Everyday items:
Plastic bags can be replaced by cloth bags you can sew, without any prior knowledge of sewing, from any old shirt you were going to throw away
Toilet paper can partly or completely be replaced by 'Family cloth', which is a series of cloth napkins cut to the size you like, which are then washed after each use! There's no risk of disease if only used for number one, for number two they need to be submerged into peroxide liquid in order to be safely cleaned. Even if you only use them for number one to stay safe, being reusable and costing nothing they will save you a lot in not having to buy toilet paper
Paper towels can be replaced by little cut-out cloths you can easily wash after use, or a simple kitchen and bathroom cloth for cleaning
Paper tissues have originally been handkerchiefs, washable and reusable, zero waste option (and they can be very pretty too!)
Laundry detergent can be replaced by horse chestnuts, or conkers! If cut open and submerged in water, they will produce soapy water, which is equally good at cleaning as your laundry detergent, completely environmentally friendly and free if you foraged the chestnuts. They can be collected and dried to use for the entire year, and you can tie them up in a sock to put in your washing machine.
Cleaning products can be replaced by vinegar, and if you hate the smell you can change it by infusing citrus peels in it! It will smell like oranges and lemons after you leave them in there for a few weeks
Cleaning products can also be self-made, by fermenting food scraps, it's called 'enzyme cleaner' and it can clean most of things in a completely environmentally friendly way!
Shampoo can be self-made, or replaced with options like herbal teas, which will also ensure that your hair no longer gets greasy, as grease is the result of using shampoo
Menstrual pads can be sown from any discarded pieces of cloth, they only need to be submerged in cold water after use in order for blood to wash out. Additionally you can make washable menstrual panties, which make sure your pads don't move in there!
Simple medicine for aches like stomach cramps, headaches, anxiety, sore throat can be found in the basic knowledge of herbalism, and simply making teas from herbs that soothe these issues. They will not be able to cure a heavy disease, but are able to provide momentary relief from annoying aches!
Immunity booster syrup can be made out of elderberries, if you're careful about not getting any seeds or stems in!
if you're growing food, you can grow your own dish sponges, and washing sponges, the plant is called 'Loofah' and you can grow a whole lot in one season then use them for years
Reuse plastic items for as long as you can, to lessen the amount being thrown into landfills, and if you need new items, aim to get a not-plastic one
If you have lots of paper trash or newspapers, you can learn to make baskets from it.
Instead of throwing away food scraps, you can try setting up a simple composting bin and also get some valuable free soil, that is great for growing little plants and herbs in it
If you're composting on a big scale, the heat compost produces can be used to heat a room
getting into hobbies like soap making, pottery, woodcarving, sewing, knitting or weaving can also save you a lot of purchasing because you realize you can simply make that thing yourself, and in better quality than it would be available at the store
Saving water and energy:
Accumulating water in a big pot while you're washing dishes, then using that water to water your houseplants is safe, especially if you're not using a lot of detergent, and it saves a lot of water
To save energy when cooking in a pot in the stove, wait until your pot starts boiling, then take it off the stove, and wrap it in a cloth, then a towel, then a blanket, and leave it wrapped up. The layers of cloth are making it difficult for the heat to escape the pot, ensuring it will keep very high temperature for half an hour, cooking as if it was on the stove. If it needs to cook longer, you can just put in on the stove for a minute to get it back to boil. You can cook pasta, rice, beans, potatoes, soups, stews, risotto, pretty much anything with long cooking time like this.
If your water boiler is big, you don't need to leave it on at all times, I've reduced my electricity bills by a lot by turning it on only when I intend to use the hot water. In the summer, if you have access to a natural body of water, use that for washing!
If you own a property, watch where the water is naturally going and accumulating; you can collec t this water and set up a system to use it for gardening/any outdoor use
if you're building a structure, making sure that the sun hits the windows in the winter, and that the place is protected from the wind by growing trees as a wind shield, will save loads of energy in heating and cooling it, as well as making sure the structure is well insulated
Heat/cool only the parts of the structure/house that you're using, making it both environmentally friendly and ensuring you don't have a too big temperature difference when you go outside, making you healthier
Try an experiment were you go a day without electricity and see what you can use as alternative in this situation; it's okay if you fail, it will provide you with knowledge of how dependant you are on the energy, and the ideas of what you can possibly do when without!
Clothing:
If sewing clothing from scratch is something that appeals to you, that is ideal for self-reliance! It is likely that after just a bit of practice, you'll be able to sew more quality items than are sold, because current fashion items are made to fall apart, and you can make your clothing strong and durable.
Sharing clothing you no longer want to wear, and letting others know they can offer their unwanted pieces to you can provide you not only with practical clothing, but you can use all fabric, buttons, zippers and other materials to sew! You can, again with minimal practice and even by hand-sewing, make your own bags, tablecloths, placemats, pillows, blankets, decorations, hats and scarfs
Visible mending, embroidering, adding details or creating your own little alterations on clothing will not only provide a sense of accomplishment, but enrich your life in the way of skill development and being able to make and mend things with little resources
Learning about history of textiles and what fast fashion is doing to the environment provides appreciation and love for sewing and creating textiles, and could inspire you to try and see how it feels to do!
Any piece of clothing that is no longer fit to be remade into something new, can still be cut into pieces and used for cleaning, as a paper towel replacement, for wiping the floor or wiping your shoes, and if it's soft, for pillow filling!
For extra clothing or furniture, you can join online groups named 'buy nothing' and 'sharing is caring', where people will often gift extra clothes and furniture for free, sometime appliances and electronics too
Food:
If any outside space is available, learning to garden is an excellent investment in food security
Seeds can be harvested from plants you already have, gifted from neighbour or friend gardeners, and some can even be taken out of store-bought produce
Soil can be taken from the forest ground which has composted leaves as topsoil, dig under a tree for best results
If no outside space is availabe, dwarf plants, herbs, and greens can be grown in containers, clean your air while they also provide food
Learning to forage for wild edible plants will provide both entertainment and free food! Any wild plant you find is likely to be more rich in nutrients than a cultivated plant, making your diet well rounded and healthy
Learning to grow trees and care for them will provide free food not only for you, but for generations to come, as well as offset the damage from the climate change. Knowing how trees work and how to prune and nourish them is powerful knowledge.
Preserving food:
Ways of preserving your food long-term are curing (for onions, potatoes, garlic, pumpkins), canning (tomatoes, peppers, fruit), fermenting (cabbage, hot peppers, turnips), dehydrating and sun-drying (tomatoes, fruit, herbs, hot peppers, mushrooms)
Growing and collecting food during warm months and then saving them for winter was done by people for centuries and it provides a safe and reliable access to food all year round
Buying cheap produce when it's in-season and preserving it can save you a lot of money and bring you far in self-reliance
Making your own recipes and then getting to eat them later in the season bring a sense of accomplishment and pride, as well as providing a zero waste food option
Cooking food from scratch is made easier by having some of your food preserved, because a lot of the time you've already prepaired most of your ingredients, and only have to place them in the pot
If you already know to make your own bread, you can also try making your own yeast, by mixing flour and water, and letting it ferment while adding more flour and water every day. It can last forever.
If you're interested in knowing more about gardening, herbalism, tree care, and foraging, check the 'Homesteading Survival Knowledge' masterlist, filled with links on these specific topics!
These are not ideas that anyone should quickly or immediately integrate in their life; instead, trying whatever seems interesting and appealing, slowly learning about it and trying one thing at the time is more encouraging and sustainable! I myself have spent years learning and integrating these, enabling me to feel happy and confident doing any and all of this. If this is overwhelming, pick whatever feels appealing and do only that! Forget the rest until it feels easy and fun thing to try out.
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I planned on leaving these peas to mature as seeds for next year, but when I visited the garden for the first time in 3 days this morning, I noticed that all the plants pushed out new flowers. I guess we're eating peas tonight.
13-Aug-2023
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I love the old lady on the corner who gave me a bag of cooking apples and used to hand out dog treats.
I have joy for the blackberries that grew over from the neighbours yard, and the wild strawberries that grew in plant pots from seeds birds dropped.
I have hope for the kids that asked to wash my car for £2 a few weeks ago, and a different two that were selling homemade lemonade outside the co-op yesterday.
I look forward to doing up our garden into something my Dad is proud of, and to all the future cosplays I make.
I can't wait for my alone time when my parents go away in November for a few weeks, and I can't wait to see my friends in October.
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We need to make food production hyper local agian.
Grow and raise your own food, buy local and barter with neighbors.
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I want to grow my own food (and can't)
Let me talk about one little thing... I know I will go on and on about how Solarpunk is not just an aesthetic and feel-good self-grown food thing...
But I really want to grow my on food. At least some of it. Some vegetables and maybe some berries. But... I life in a city. In an apartment. So my options to grow food are limited. Especially this year, as our apartment got a new balcony, meaning I was not able to use the balcony for most of the summer.
Sure enough, now the balcony is bigger... So maybe next year (when I can start in the growing season) I can properly grow my own food. But so far... It was not a possibility.
And that kinda is a shitty thing, right? Because I am not the only person like that. People living in a city often do not have the ability to grow food. Because they do not have a garden and even the balcony is not guaranteed. Especially a balcony that - when it comes to both orientation and size - actually gives us the ability to grow food.
And... Call me crazy. I think it is actually good for humans to themselves grow some of the food that we consume. Because it is kinda what we are meant to do. It connects us to our food. And it is this connection to our food that has kinda gotten lost with the industrialization.
It is the reason why I love the idea of food forests and community gardens. Not only would they give us that connection towards the food, but also a sense of community.
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June garden update
Omg, so many things have changed since May, but I try to do my best to summarize:
- Planted tomatoes, paprikas, eggplants and cucubers. They are looking pretty good now!
- Created a raised bed, I used the hugelkultur method
- Lettuce, tomatoes, zucchinis, and sunflowers are getting HUGE
- Ruccola is not growing very well, I might have to find a less sunny spot for them
- Coreopsis just started blooming
- I got hooked on growing microgreens, I will post a separate little article about it later
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So I had this pepper plant randomly grow on my balcony, I'm not sure if I even planted that, sometimes edible plants will grow without my intervention because seeds get lost in the soil. Anyway I didn't pay any attention to it, because it's too late to transplant it to the garden, it was growing in the middle of the summer, and I just put it next to my other plants so it would get watered.
I noticed the other day that the plant was starting to grow little fruit on it! It had tiny little peppers! They were adorable, and quite admirable because that plant had only tiny bit of soil to grow in, it was ambitious to go and try growing peppers from basically no nutrition.
Peppers can actually survive the winter if you grow them in a pot and put them inside, you can have them next spring producing peppers again! They're not gonna produce in winter when there's not enough hours of sunlight, but they can be a nice ornamental plant. So I decided, this would be the destiny of my little volounteer pepper. I moved it into a bigger pot that happened to be empty, and took off all of the tiny peppers, so the plant would focus on producing bigger roots instead. Once a plant produces seed she can call it a day and die because she fulfilled her purpose. If you take seeds/fruits away, she will re-evaluate her situation and try growing bigger. That's what I want!
See this little grey plastic pot I'm holding, that's where the plant managed to grow to this size and grow fruit. I think that shows a level of stubbornness and resilience I'm looking for in a plant. This is going to be my pet pepper growing in my kitchen during the winter and hopefully, possibly, she might give me peppers early in the spring.
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Hello, tomatillos! It's so hard to believe that the tiny plants I started from seeds and transplanted way too early got so big. I seriously did not expect anything from these plants, hence the lack of posts about them. But here they are, putting out so much fruit. Growing up in the Philippines, these plants were everywhere and were considered weeds. Nobody ate them, and I did not know that you could actually eat them until a couple of years ago, when I started watching garden YouTubers. I'm excited to make salsa out of them.
5-Aug-2023
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Roselle Hibiscus from local food forest ❣️
recently have been learning more about growing edible and medicinal plants and actually started lots of seedlings with my husband like beets, sugar magnolia snap peas, dill and catnip to name a few. It feels good to have started them instead of anxiously putting it off!! Hoping for some sort of harvest 🤞🏼
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3/6/24 ~ starting 3 trays today! Mostly peppers and tomatoes - but a few extra things thrown in too 🍅🌶️
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Lettuce and cucumbers growing beautifully <3 I’m so proud of these, know they’re going to taste great
Be sure to heal you inner child at least once a day. This is my first ever garden that I’ve started after I moved out, I always wanted to grow my own food but never really had a chance to. And how wonderful it is to put my hands in the ground!!
-Anna (unicorn)
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I'm proud to say that my first impulse purchase of the new year was a plant! I took this little cutie home yesterday :> I decided on the name Spyro because it's a dragon fruit plant! If anyone has any tips for caring for it throughout the winter, pls share!! Right now I'm doing my own research but any information helps.
Yay I'm a plant mom :')
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Loquat is an evergreen, small fruit tree that can grow about 25 feet tall.
The fruits are so tasty when peeled and are best eaten fresh from the tree, making this tree an excellent choice for small yards and tight spaces. Today, the loquat plant continues to be grown and enjoyed in many parts of the world. Its history reflects its significance as both a tasty fruit and a cultural icon in various countries, particularly in China and Japan.
Read: Growing And Caring For A Loquat Plant
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A couple more baby cucumbers I’m really hoping fill out before it gets too cold! I will say this little rainy cold snap we’ve had has done great things for my peas!
September 11, 2023
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