Self Sufficiency

Overview

Ten lessons develop your understanding of self sufficiency, food and nutrition, and making the right decisions about changes in lifestyle; as well as showing you how to do a whole range of practical things such as mud brick building, making crafts, growing fruit, vegetables, herbs, and other crops; raising poultry, sheep & goats, extending the life of clothing, conserving energy, recycling, simple home medical care and first aid, and lots more. The Self Sufficiency course is offered at Warnborough College.

Course Aims

• Identify essential and non-essential services offered by society

• Identify services that one can be self sufficient with

• Identify self skills that can aid in self sufficiency

• Obtain skills that can be developed to assist in self sufficiency

• Identify needs, wants and likes; and the purpose of prioritising needs

• Identify items one can provide for oneself

• Develop cost efficient meals

• Identify purpose of fitness to self sufficiency

• Plan a food garden

• Identify crops plants most suited to a persons locality that assist in self sufficiency

• Explain the use of bees hives, poultry and other animals for self sufficiency

• Estimate carrying capacity of a piece of land for animal stocking

• Describe multipurpose animal stocking and their uses

• Consider energy alternative techniques such as wind, solar, water fire, etc.

• Reduce present energy usage

• Candle making

• Cloth and garment making processes

• Practice food preservation techniques

• Practice handicraft techniques

• Identify criteria when planning to set up a self sufficient lifestyle in a new location

• Identify criteria on how to improve self sufficiency in present location