Self Sufficiency II

Overview

Learn to be self sufficient with your food. You learn about nutrition and how to balance your diet, as well as how to produce, process, store, and use different types of food with this Self Sufficiency II course from Warnborough College. This includes berries, nuts, milk, cheese, eggs, bread making, preserves, & dried food. Cooking, freezing, drying, bottling, making bread, planning a vegetable garden to give produce all year round, and lots more are covered during the ten lessons.

Course Aims

• Write down what you eat on a typical day….and at what time of day you eat each of these things…and what quantities of each thing that you eat.

• Visit a local nursery and inspect the food plants which are available in your locality. Talk to the nurseryman and find out what types of food plants will become available at other times of the year.

• Make a list of food plants which can be grown in your locality.

• Build a compost bin and send in a photo of the finished bin

• Draw a plan of your garden, as it now exists. Now plan how you would like to change it to produce a garden which supplies you with a significant amount of your food needs. b) Draw a second plan showing how your garden could become more productive.

• Take a photograph of your soil. Name the type of soil using the chart `Naming the Soil’ in the Accompanying Notes.

• Design a crop rotation system for the vegetable garden you planned in question 3b. Send in your design and explain why you have designed it this way.

• Contact the Department of Agriculture in your state and discover how they can assist you with your vegetable growing. Collect any leaflets (or other information) which you can.

• List those vegetables which you consider would be easiest to grow and give the best production for the effort you would need to put in.

• Contact your nearest Department of Agriculture office again. This time, obtain any information you can on fruit growing.

• Prepare a list of fruit which you would grow to provide an adequate year round supply for the needs of a family consisting of two adults and two children.

• Choose 5 fruiting plants and explain how you would propagate them.

• Bottle something which you have never bottled before. Explain step by step the procedure you have followed. Indicate the equipment you have used in your bottling. Take a photograph of your finished product and send this along with your answer to this question.

• Make a preserve of your choice, send in the recipe, ask your family and friends to appraise it. Send in a report on their comments