Have you been following the Self Reliance Challenge blogs? For the month of May I joined up with a dynamic group of bloggers in the May 2018 ~ Self Reliance Challenge! 31 Days To A More Self-Reliant Life. We challenged ourselves to live a more self-reliant lifestyle for the entire month of May! In case you missed the list of bloggers here it is:
AnnMarie – 15 Acre Homestead
Kathi – Oak Hill Homestead
Robin – A Life in the Wild
Candy – Candy’s Farm House Pantry
Farmgal – Just another Day on the Farm
Ashley – Practical Self Reliance
ShawnaLee – Homegrown Self Reliance
Frank – My Green Terra
Maria – Maria Zannini
Lisa Lynn – The Self Sufficient HomeAcre
Nancy – Nancy On The Homefront (that’s me!)
For me the challenge was living a self-reliant lifestyle while having our house on the market. Real estate sales are slow in Vermont and we were told when the house first went on the market that it could take several years!
Ever since we moved to Vermont over twenty years ago we have strived to live a self-reliant lifestyle. This included having a large vegetable garden, raising chickens for both eggs and meat and having a well-stocked pantry.
During this month of May my challenge has been to take a look at our current lifestyle and see where we can be more self-reliant.
I am still baking the majority of our bread, usually I have a couple of loaves in the freezer, as we don’t eat as much bread as we used to.
I still do a little searching in the woods for wild garlic leeks and fiddleheads.
Although we could have an offer on our home at any time I still plant a vegetable garden. Not as large as we used to but enough to supply us with fresh herbs and vegetables.
Our rhubarb patch is just about ready to harvest and although I am not doing as much caning as I used to I will be making our favorite Rhubarbeque Sauce.
Are you living a self-reliant lifestyle? How are you challenging yourself to become more self-reliant?
Nancy on the Home Front 
Thanks for letting me know about the self-sufficiency challenge. For the last two months I have been writing weekly posts about how I approach self-sufficiency while living in a float cabin on Powell Lake in Coastal BC. Here is the link to the start of the series. So far there are eight posts including what it is like living on the water, heating, off-the-grid power sources, and now I’m telling my readers about telecommunications from a remote location. I’m about half way through. Too bad I didn’t discover this challenge earlier. I would have loved to participate. If you would like to take a look at my series here is a link. http://powellriverbooks.blogspot.com/2007/04/float-cabin-living.html – Margy
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Thanks MArgy,
I’ve been enjoying your posts!
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