Hi all, I really got into self sufficiency by accident. When I left my last job I bought a yacht and we (Wife, 3 kids and a dog) moved onto it for around 6 months for some much needed down time. The previous owner had left a book on the boat called Sailing the Farm: a guide to Homesteading on the ocean. Reading that book was the first time I had heard about homesteading and self sufficiency and I was hooked! the feeling I got from catching and foraging food from the ocean for the family was..... it's hard to explain, it just felt right, it was Great!
Anyway long story short with 3 kids about to turn into 4 a house we had looked at purchasing a few years earlier came back up for sale and we bought it. We have a large saltwater river as our rear boundary from which we catch everything from Prawns and Mud crabs to Mangrove Jack and Sharks, so a lot of our food comes from there.
Some of the fruit tree's we have (Mostly young, a lot still in pots and some established) are, Mangosteen, Black and Yellow Sapote, Star fruit, banana, mango's, coconut palm, Acia palm, Blue Berry, Gac fruit, Mulberry, Jack fruit, Sour Sop, Jaboticaba, Panama berry, Lychee, Longan, Orange, Apple, Lime, Brazilian Cherry, Coffee, Guava, Miracle Fruit, Passion Fruit etc. We also keep chickens and quail and I'm about to build a few raised garden beds for vege's and herbs.
Looking forward to learning and getting to know all
Hi Mark, I've been watching and loving your videos for a while now, (I'm ex 6 RAR, got out due to injuries) and when I first started watching them, I thought "this bloke looks like he's Army" lol, then I saw the figure 11 and type D targets in the background Since then I've been trying to work out what rank you would have been, I guessed SGT though, as you are a hell of lot nicer than any of the WO's where I was
Love your work mate, I'm just about to start building raised garden beds, changed my plans after watching your 2nd last video(Thanks a lot)
Anyway long story short with 3 kids about to turn into 4 a house we had looked at purchasing a few years earlier came back up for sale and we bought it. We have a large saltwater river as our rear boundary from which we catch everything from Prawns and Mud crabs to Mangrove Jack and Sharks, so a lot of our food comes from there.
Some of the fruit tree's we have (Mostly young, a lot still in pots and some established) are, Mangosteen, Black and Yellow Sapote, Star fruit, banana, mango's, coconut palm, Acia palm, Blue Berry, Gac fruit, Mulberry, Jack fruit, Sour Sop, Jaboticaba, Panama berry, Lychee, Longan, Orange, Apple, Lime, Brazilian Cherry, Coffee, Guava, Miracle Fruit, Passion Fruit etc. We also keep chickens and quail and I'm about to build a few raised garden beds for vege's and herbs.
Looking forward to learning and getting to know all
Hi Mark, I've been watching and loving your videos for a while now, (I'm ex 6 RAR, got out due to injuries) and when I first started watching them, I thought "this bloke looks like he's Army" lol, then I saw the figure 11 and type D targets in the background Since then I've been trying to work out what rank you would have been, I guessed SGT though, as you are a hell of lot nicer than any of the WO's where I was
Love your work mate, I'm just about to start building raised garden beds, changed my plans after watching your 2nd last video(Thanks a lot)