4 Steps Toward Supermarket Independence...
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2022
- It's time to plant winter potatoes...and to have chat about what we do to seek independence from the supermarket system!
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"Supermarket independence"... profound and life changing statement. Life goals. 💖
Thank you SOOO much for your videos! I’m a total newby to self-sufficiency and hang on to every word you say. Blessings from the north east coast, Laya 🇦🇺
I couldn't agree, more!
Yay great to see an Aussie homesteader, sharing your advice on becoming self reliant! thanks for all your tips! From south Australia
Watching from Papua New Guinea.
Thanks John, I find your channel inspirational and informative. I have been thinking more and more about this topic given the current state of our world. I am planning to tackle one aspect at a time and gradually decrease my supermarket/supply chain reliance in favour of home grown, self-reliance and independence.
Good plan. Yes, hard to do all at once, that's why it's good to start now!
Thank you John! It's awesome to see another commonsense Aussie talking about our seasons and what's relevent to us in our climate 😁😁😁
Hey Nate just wanted to say I love your channel - very wise practical Aussie advice
Hi John and thanks for the inspiration. we've just moved to a small three quarters of an acre property in central western nsw to have a total change of lifestyle. we are aiming to be as self sufficient as possible and food production is high on the list of things to achieve. Your videos have given us lots of inspiration and helpful information. Thanks
Hey Richo good move...I'm out near to dubbo... unsure where u are but here I have 4seasons a year...😐
@@paulsoutbackgardenaustrali7674 we are in Yeoval. yeah there is definitely defined seasons here its ice cold at the moment and the dogs water has been frozen the last couple of days
Thanks
Thank You! Glad you found the video useful.
I'm on a suburban block, so no chance of supermarket independence, however, reduced reliance is something the majority of us can achieve.
I tend to concentrate on leafy greens, herbs and things like tomatoes and peppers in the summertime.
There's no way I'd be buying a sad-looking Iceberg lettuce for $9 like the supermarkets were offering a few weeks ago.
Most of us can grow at least some of our food at home with a little effort and thought.
If the whole supply chain failed for some reason we could still put something in our bellies.
We also swap excess produce with our neighbors. So recently they had a big crop of mandarins and we had lots of Gai Lan - win win.
Nice video John.
If you espalier & grow on vertical spaces you'd be surprised how much you can fit. Jackie French has a book called Backyard Self sufficiency which you might find helpful. 😊🌱
John Fantastic Video as you weren't talking Doom & Gloom just Honest sense. I have for over 7yrs- since starting my home garden- been canning excess produce & now can all my own stock / soups / jams / chutneys/ coleslaws everything.
I have a amazing downstairs pantry that is full even sweet chilli sauces & pesto are in there. You need to put more videos out as you have knowledge we all can use. Cheers Denise -Geebung Qld.
beauty. great video, we all need to building that resilience into our lives at this point i think with all the craziness going on here and around the world. great to see a homesteading channell with an aussie voice too!
I live in a unit and I grow quite a bit of my own produce , I dehydrate and preserve my excess after I share with my family . I have 4 raised beds , waist high , 5 knee high ones a s well as a miniature fruit trees ( apple , pear , apricot and peach ) I shop once a month unless I am cooking for a family function . I’am very interested in buying a vacuum sealer as I have just learnt how to make my own salami .
Great peptalk, evn 7 months later☺️
Nice one John! We have just moved onto our land in the last couple of months, and the possibilities have now opened up tremendously for us!
Thanks John, your videos are so helpful and inspiring. We’re in Tassie as well so having a local guide is great! We’re starting to move away from supermarkets and have found the barter system alive and well locally!
Greetings from Arizona growing zone 9b! Thanks for the information and great tips!
Very interested in your flour mill is it possible you could do a review on that , and some of the breads you make like you did the yoghurt maker?
Yes, plan to do that soon!
A most helpful video . Thank you for sharing 😊
Great work mate 👍
Hi John ive just found your channel thank you.
Another great video John. :0
Another great and interesting video John. You talk a lot of sense on everyday subjects. I like the idea of self reliance and watch quite a few youtubers who are striving in that direction. I do a little vegetable growing and enjoy it but my age, 76, obviously holds me back on any big projects.
Keep up the good work John.
Gidday from over the ditch. We have slightly different challenges but a very similar climate so I look forward to seeing more gardening from down under.
Another great video, never truer words spoken. Looking forward to taking similar steps in the near future. Thanks for the tips 👍
Hi John. You are so right in this video. I'm trying to escape the supermarkets too. Like you, I live in Hobart. I'm wondering where you are buying your wheat grain you use for your bread. Could you let us know? Somewhere local?
We buy our wheat from www.biodistributors.com.au/
Thank you
Thanks for sharing video. You are such an inspiration. I am north of Brisbane so our climate is very different. However your words of wisdom always do the trick!
I loved your comment about watching "The Good Life". That show was an inspiration to me.
I try to utilize all my space in the garden too.
Preservation of food is something people should consider. I use a dehydrator and a pressure canner.
I agree with being as independently as possible. I haven't bought sauces or jams for about ten years because I make them and stock them in my pantry.
Space is limited for me but I grow what I can and my husband and I are in the process of building a tunnel greenhouse so we can be more productive in the garden.
We vacuum seal too.
I love this video and your views on being independent from the supermarket! I'll subscribe and watch more of your videos.
There is a book called a metre x a metre to help people get the most out of a square metre, I also know of an asian lady in L'ton who only has a square metre of garden , and have been told the amount of food she gets out of it is astounding, she is always harvesting something, but it all helps especially if you can service your own cars, get your chainsaw chains from Agfest way cheaper than the dealerships etc, I brought a lamb off a local Farmer, I know your vegetarian but have a look at the price of it when you walk past it at Woolies next time
Thanks for the video, important topic in these crazy times.
am only halfway through & love this video! Very inspirational! Cheers!!Was that yogurt you were freezing in ice cube trays?
Yes it was.
Hi John; thanks for this video. Wondering if you made the flour mill yourself? If not, could you please give me the info of where I might track one down? Also, when's the best time to prune the rambunctious kiwi fruit? Cheers.
The grain mill we have is a Survival Ark Mill that I have motorized - these are available from grainmills.com.au/shop/grain-mills/manual-domestic/survival-ark-mil-stone-and-burrs-wonder-mill-de-luxe/. I generally prune kiwis twice, once in summer after fruit set, again after I have picked the fruit in winter.
Extremely helpful tips, thanks! 🍎🍞🥔👍
I totally love your content, very inspiring and informative.
This video is excellent, i really like independence
Hi John, I'm curious to learn what you put into the soil to pre the potato bed. Was it Blood & Bone? Thanks, Sam.
Yes, that's correct.
Great video. I am also in Tassie and have started growing and preserving food. My main question is what time of year I should be planting what type of vegetables? A 12 months calendar with "do this now" type details would be vert helpful.
what i do is write a list of what I want to grow, then once I have my list I find out when the best time of the year its grown in and fill my list out. that gives me a list of what month I need to start growing this or that.
Depends where you live in Tassie - it has a few "sub-climates" so best to ask your neighbours! But I do have video about when I plant which may help you - especially if you are on the North West coast - ruclips.net/video/gJZ6k8wAv3w/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/gJZ6k8wAv3w/видео.html&ab_channel=HomesteadingDownUnder
@@homesteading Im in the Hobart area, so maybe a bit warmer?
You can buy a copy of "Growing Vegetables South of Australia" by Steve Solomon, former owner of Territorial Seeds in the USA, now longtime gardener here in Tassie. Excellent local advice.
If you can find the late Peter Cundall's videos and writings, that is another brilliant source of local organic gardening wisdom.
We buy flour in bulk and store it in a freezer.
That's an option...but personally I don't really trust freezers. Still if it works for you, it gains you some buffer against supply chain shortages.
Yes, I store flour, bread mix, rice and other grains in my freezer for at least a month as it ensures that any weevil eggs or the like are totally dead and won’t ruin the quality of products. I’ve been told that weevils etc are in every form of grain unless it has been sprayed with copious amounts of insecticide.
I use a Sunbeam Foodsaver to vacuum seal a lot of our homegrown produce and a Fowlers Vacola outfit to bottle a lot more.
I make preserves and seal them in sterilised reusable jars. We also do a lot of food swaps with family, friends and neighbours...eggs for potatoes, apples for artisan bread, etc, etc
My goal is to go to the supermarket once a year to pick up the things I can’t grow or make myself. I might need a trailer for that trip 😂😂
Where do you buy your bulk wheat/seeds? I’m in Vic but am looking for suppliers.
I’m looking for my 5ish acres in the country to get started. I will have either a cow or a couple of goats for milk and will make my cheese too. I seem to have very similar ideas to you. Make/grow as much as I can, but I’m happy to utilise modern appliances to get the work done. It’s only me so I’ll need appliances or I won’t manage it all.
See if you can find a jam/canning funnel. Makes it so much easier to fill jars and stops spills getting on the rim. I got mine at a kitchenware shop but they’re on eBay and Amazon too. It’s the second best gadget I ever bought (the best was a $2 silicone cone lid opener which I bought in 99!).
Can't really comment on where you buy bulk supplies in Vic. Here in TAS we buy from www.biodistributors.com.au. Yes, we have a wide mouth funnel now. Best wishes with your endeavours.
@@homesteading thank you! Obviously they won’t be practical for everything, but they might be handy if I’m after something specific that I can’t find in Vic. Much appreciated 😊
Hi John, from Rosebery! I’m still a new Tasmanian, and I’ve been binging on your videos since my first pademelon attack (it could have been possums- they remain a challenge). Im getting in my fruit trees now- one question would be- would possums destroy fruit trees anytime- or when they are blossoming? Or only when fruits are ripening? Im also still learning about protecting against cabbage butterflies- when to net, and what to net (and for how long…?).
Glad the videos have been helpful. Possums love the young shoots and of course the fruit. So from what I have seen the major damage happens early in the spring when the new growth comes - and food is short in the bush. They can set a tree back years in just one night...especially if it is a large possum that will break branches!
Possums are a plague 365/7! They climb trees for fun and break branches, they claw bark to shreds, they eat young leaves and denude your trees overnight, they eat the blossoms, and if you ever get to the stage where you say "I will pick all that fruit tomorrow", they will have a midnight feast and leave nothing but a few pips on the ground.
Do what you must to defeat possums.
morning, I have just started a small vegie garden (9 beds) in a rental property. very poor soil sand, forest on the fence and no sun virtually blocked all day.. so struggling but having a go... its been very expensive setting up no where to compost , bought a worm farm and trying to dig in scraps into sand to try and improve a small area... I am plant based eater and have been flooded out several times this year (nsw) northern. could not find any vegetables for over 2 weeks the local independent ran out of food as we get cut off from the main road where I am. so started my veggie patch. I can not afford a lettuce for $12 or silverbeet bunch for $9 or kale the same price the store puts the prices up it takes over an hr to get to the main shopping centres and the cost of fuel is astounding ... If Australians think that it it is all going to go away and the prices of vegetables, fruit and grains are going back to normal they have a huge shock awaiting them... the lower income families struggling to eat and feed a family on the basic vegetables will struggle more and then where will we be? The cost of living is going past the normal income and its getting worse... supermarkets are taking this and raising prices of normal consumables. The humans of today live on fast food , fast life and have no idea of how to sustain themselves - its too hard !! hard to learn hard to live and no idea of planting a few veggies or a fruit tree as no one showed them... Plant horizontal plant vertical plant together ... have a great day :)
Great video..suggestions for suppliers of bulk food ?
Here in TAS we use www.biodistributors.com.au. for some things. But otherwise we often have to search online.
@@homesteading thank you
Can you please tell us your temperature range there. I live in the very south Invercargill. We don’t usually get snow. But do get frost sometimes. Thanks from N Z.
Temp range here is about -2 C to 30 C. Frost is common in winter, but snow is very rare where we live.
Hey John, been binging your videos all afternoon loving the information, Could you tell me the source of wheat you buy as we want to find a good organic source. Thankyou so much.
Thanks! We buy bio-dynamic wheat from www.biodistributors.com.au/
@@homesteading Much appreciated 😆
Thanks enjoy your video. Do the same myself. Trying to do more relish jam etc also. Had good crop of apples. So the harvest is all done now. Takes time but so worth it. At the moment enjoying summer harvest all cut up from the freezer. Do you jar up any vegetables in case power went out etc? I’m thinking instead of freezing??
Finally found a channel relavent to my home great channel mate cheers im just into doing the same thing up in the central highland great lakes appreciate the content helps. Where did you get your dehydrator from matie?
Welcome aboard. Built the dehydrator myself ruclips.net/video/JmXu1GXDee8/видео.html
@@homesteading cheers old mate yea i just found the vid very cool mate going to borrow your idea😁
Hi a new follower here. We are also in Tasmania and I was wondering if you could let me know where you got your flour mill from. Great tips and ideas.
Welcome aboard! The flour mill is no longer available where I purchased, but it and other good mills are available from www.grainmills.com.au.
@@homesteading thank you
Have you got any vids on your dehydrating setup
Yes, ruclips.net/video/JmXu1GXDee8/видео.html and ruclips.net/video/dAlRPH1Ymig/видео.html
Hey John, is that Blood and Bone youre putting down before planting the seed spuds?
Yes.
What is that device you use to grind the wheat into flour, at 9:42? Is this some gadget that you put together, or is it something one can buy as a unit, and if so, can you please give me the brand name and the name of the supplier which you used?
The grain mill we have is a Survival Ark Mill that I have motorized - these are available from grainmills.com.au/shop/grain-mills/manual-domestic/survival-ark-mil-stone-and-burrs-wonder-mill-de-luxe/.
@@homesteading Thank you so much. A very useful device for any homesteader, I think.
Can I ask, why are you veggies ?
Hi John. Thanks for your videos.
I know you've covered it in another video somewhere but how many hours do you put in on an average week into your garden (and related maintenance)?
Varies depending on the season. And if it depends what you include! Example: I spend a lot more time picking and processing tomatoes, than I do in planting and caring for them! Soil, prep, planting, weeding, pruning, etc probably averages to 2-3 hours per week over the year.
@@homesteading Thanks. Not too bad especially if shared a group.
Thank you for another great video! I’m wondering whether you know the name of the weed that you cleaned out before planting the potato’s? Im interested in what weeds are edible. Many thanks. Katie from Hobart 😊
Looks a lot like chickweed
Ah I wondered that! I have it growing in most of my garden beds that need to be prepped for spring planting. And it’s edible! Excellent to know. Thank you 🙏🏻
Great question. Yes, that was chickweed. I did mention it in filming, but cut that section when editing. It volunters each winter and we eat it as a green. Very nutritious. But there comes a time it has to go!
Are you familiar with other edible “weeds” A video on that subject would be wonderful 😊 I need to rip out my chickweed too, soon, but good to know that if/when the supply chain crashes, we have plenty of nutritious “weeds” growing in our backyards 🌱🌿
Hi John, I've been curious for months now, how big is your green house?
Do you think it's big enough?
How much bigger would you want it?
I live in a simual climate in the north of new Zealand, from what I can tell our winters are about the same but summer isn't as hot
My greenhouse is 36m2. Sometimes I think it could be bigger, but mostly it does the job. Certainly wouldn't want it to be smaller! Maybe a second one rather than a larger one?
I don't quite agree with the anti-supermarket philosophy that's so popular now. The global supply chain (as opposed to just local supply chains) has greatly reduced the risk of famine. Back when people were more "self-sufficient," their food supply could be easily wiped out by a drought or infestation. That meant either starvation or relocating. Interruptions in the global supply chain happen occasionally (like right now), but not as often as interruptions in local supply chains. I think it's best to think of subsistence gardening as a means of increasing the total food supply. It's not a replacement for the supermarket, but it adds to the supply and gives the freshest food to the grower. It's also a fun hobby.
I think when refer to "self-sufficient" or "independence", it “really” means "optionality".
You can see in the video, wheat, consumerables (like vacuum pack), blood and bone fertilizers are still being purchase thus negate the literal meaning of the former.
But the later, thus by growing own foods and by preserving excess, thus one one have the option to “pick and choose” thereby said “be independent" of supply chain when it is strained or worst.
Note, the degree of “optionality” really depends on the trade off of one own time vs earning power, thus the equation of “optionality” is really based on individual level.
I agree in general. The other thing is that our soil doesn't have all the micro nutrients our body needs so getting food from other locations might (key word might) enable us to access more nutrients.
On the flip side, supermarket food is often about putting the least amount in to get the right visual product and weight. They tend to have less nutrients which accounts for the lack of taste. Micronutrients are again a thing. When I took my boy to see a psychiatrist about his severe ADHD he asked about his nutrition. After I laid it all out he said on the surface it looked like a good diet. After doing blood and hair tests he was low on quite a few key nutrients and some micro nutrients. Increased magnesium and gave him micro doses of lithium (equivalent to background levels) and his behaviour improved in 4 weeks. He told me to try growing my own green leafy vegeis so they more nutrients.
And... I think supermarkets have made food too cheap. People who grow the food aren't getting enough of their share when compared to the labour they put in. I think this is one of the reasons (other than greed) for the exploitation of workers in the industry.
@@MrZoomah Summed it up nicely, way better than mine.Two thumbs up.
With except of the exploitation of workers part, just wanted to note the price at the market cuts both ways.
The so called "super food" fads pushed price up. For example, a bag of white flour is 100x cheaper than a bag of wholegrain flour. The later involved less processing. Kale was a decoration piece like a curled parsley, i.e. unwanted. Price of milk was ludicious cheap now alledgedly to be ludicious expensive.
Prices therefore are a function of the whimiscal nature of "people" not "supermarkets".
There is no harm in supporting an industry. After all it employs people and it frees up people time to pursue their comparative advantage afforded by their skillset to the maxima rather than solely focusing on farrming - not all are green thumbs.
Having optionality or by stockpiling even of non perisahable food and its excess on the other hand gives the "optionality" to pick and choose over the supply chain.
It is must better than resorting to "pseudo" notion of self sufficiency or a pseudo notion of self "independence".
Issue lies with overfitting. When gave up optionality over food supply chain to the supermarket means one be opened to price shocks, i.e. fragility. Therefore, one should not blame the supermarket's but one have to examine what brought about that fragility, i.e. one of overfitting.
As I mentioned in the video, it's not that we don't buy from the supermarket, but that we seek to be able "iron-out" the bumps! Yes, global shipping has made sure people get feed, also eating some food from other areas helps overcome some soil nutrient deficiencies and improves health. But shipping food solely for profit at the expense of local farmers doesn't make good sense.
I am really sorry, I hate to nitpick but it is a common misconceptions and myths that global supply chain feeds most Australian.
1. 90% of fresh vegetables in Australian supermarkets are home grown, potato by far the most - see AusVeg's Production statistics
2. The other staple, i.e, wheat (for flour) available for import only in 2019 due to drought. First time since 2007 - see Department of Argiculture (Federal)
Frozen vegetable pushed as a substitute for global supply chain issue is actually self fulling as most of these are imports.
I don’t think it’s obvious why one would need to be “supermarket independent”. It has been a tougher time, but people are still getting food on the table. The supermarket system seems to have, now proven, resilience.
There’s another way to look at the food vs. money question. Instead of your perspective as an individual, consider the perspective of the society. What would happen if everyone were to spend their efforts on making food? Who’d teach your children, who’d help mend their broken foot, who’d set a direction for the community, who’d keep the roads, and the list goes on.
By using your efforts to do other things than feeding yourself, you open up possibilities to impact the fabric of society in ways that’s not possible if everyone spends their efforts to feed themselves.
By earning dollars you place your bet on cooperation with other people in your society, even globally. By spending your efforts to grow your own food you’re adopting a defensive stance that allows you to always make due.
It’s fine to live a lifestyle of one’s choice. But I feel we often romanticise in the wrong way. The wage earners, the people placing their faith on working together, are in a sense the people who make the noble choice. Without them we’d go back to a lifestyle we had centuries ago where our lives would be riddled with uncertainties we know nothing about now.
Idk where you live, but major shops like oldi have been regularly out of frozen peas, eggs, tissues, catfood, etc...supermarket resilience..?
Grim reaper eat your lunch?
A gallery in Hell waits for no opening .
Thanks
Thank You! Glad you appreciated the video.