Self-Sufficiency Made Simple
Self-Sufficiency Made Simple podcast is here to share practical tips and hacks helping you overcome confusion about how to grow your own yummy food, keep healthy and happy chickens and even venture into the world of bees. And, do it all in your own backyard. Your host Jo Flintham from SoH Farmlet is all about making things simple, fun and easy in the garden. With many years of food growing experience and lessons, Jo shares how to start where you are with what you have to create your own self-sufficient source of food in any space and enjoy an endless source of homegrown goodness.
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Appologies in advance for the audio quality. We had some tech challenges and we just ran with it. That's just life sometimes.
This week I am working on my goals for 2023. We have some big plans for SoH Farmlet including starting a fortnightly food swap where it’s a bring what you can take what you need no money food swap.
A produce swap where people can come and have a cuppa, cake, conversation...
It's the 5th Dec so that means ‘ Happy World Soil Day!! Today is the day you get a pass to totally nerd out on your friends and talk all day about soil. Fun facts to share around with your non gardening friends.
There is more living organisms in a tablespoon of healthy soil that there are human...
None of us go out and plant something we know to be invasive in our area but our good intentions aren’t going to be good enough to stop a willey plant from taking hold somewhere we don’t want it.
Why is it an issue if...
This episode is for you if you are a beginner gardener just starting out on your edible growing journey. If you aren’t sure what is good to grow and are procrastinating on getting started I have you covered.
And, if you are a green thumb who has been growing your fave for years, take this as an opportunity to add s...
I want to help you make sense of what is needed, why and when and keep it simple.
Dig the way we kicked off season 2?
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I was flat out working out how to keep a few pots of herb alive let alone applying 12 principles to my gardening. I mean, come on!! Who has time for that?
What I came to realise is that we all do. Permaculture is something we can all use to help guide our fo...
The cucumber vine died back almost overnight even though we hadn’t had a frost. The cherry tomatoes plants are covered in green tomatoes but they are starting to get attacked by bugs...
Seed saving is something that was a given for our great grandparents but is a practice that has petered out over the last few generations. Why?
Rachelle Winter from Two Muddy Boots blog joined me and we had an amazing conversation. We went down some cool rabbit holes together, talked about the fun stuff, talked about the hard stuff and touched on some home truths.
We talked about:
🌼 Connecting with nature
🌽 Growing food
🌿 Imperfect gardens
🐛 Soil health and co...
If you are a more rationalist type person who doesn’t believe in anything woo woo then this episode may be a bit challenging for you. I want to share with you that I am all about the woo and anyone who knows me understands that I make decisions and take...
Many of the common herbs that we use for flavours in teas and food have medicinal qualities that many of us aren’t aware of.
Herbal medicin...
Annuals are different from perennials in many different ways. They are very vigorous growers going through a full life cycle in under a year meaning they grow from seed to a plant that produces seeds for the next cycle. Annuals are shal...
Apart from the cooling conditions and the abundance from the summer harvests still being picked it’s a great time for some regrouping and preparation as well all getting those cool weather plants in.
There are...
One sentiment that came up was I wish I knew about different methods. It sparked a lot o...
There are so many beneficial reasons why keeping a few backyard chickens is something I think everyone should do.
Like us, plants have different preferences. Some love being in the full blast of the summer sun every day and others are a little more tender and can suffer from sunburn, drying out or heat stress.
Knowing your food plants preferences means you can cater to their needs a...
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