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G'day everyone and welcome to another episode of Not The Farmer's Wife, Episode 86 this week. And we're talking all about self-sufficiency and we're also trialing something new. I've got the handy helper here with me. Say Hello. Hello. I'm here today because it's pouring rain outside and I don't want to do any work.

It's been actually really raining quite hard here at the moment, which is a good thing because we have, as you would know if you're a regular listener, we have a hundred and ten thousand litre water tank that feeds our house that We're not on mains water. So without the rain, we're screwed.

So we like having rain a bit, but also too, we've had a fairly dry winter. I think that would be fair to say. Yeah, it has been pretty dry. We've had a fairly dry winter. And so having the rain coming now is fantastic for the grass because we're going to have a big deal Blossom of grass growing. Of course that means we have to monitor little baby goats for not getting sore tummies.

I wanted it to rain today, so I mowed the grass yesterday. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So that's always the way. Usually,, when you wash your car, it rains. Yeah. No, hang on. The council graded the road. So of course it's going to rain. Anyway, we're also trialing something new this week. We're recording under a different format and we're video recording as well.

The handy help is a bit nervous because He's worried about how he looks on video. This doesn't look good on video. But if it turns out okay, and I don't know that it will, but if it turns out okay, we're going to start posting our videos to YouTube as well because we will start posting a few more videos to YouTube about how we do things around the farm.

A lot of people have asked us to actually show, not just talk about what we do. So that's a good thing. Now. I also want to do a bit of a shout out quickly before we start talking to my first ever review on the podcast, a little bit exciting. We're over, we're like, 2250 downloads, I think now, and we've never had a review and I do ask for it in the outro, but if you are so inclined, I would love to have you go along and do a review on what you think about our podcast.

It's a great way for other listeners to 📍 get shown the podcast as an option. If there's more reviews on there, it gets shown to more people. That's just the way the algorithms work. Anyway, shout out to Courtney. Thank you very much for leaving a review. I'm super stoked. You might be not in a situation to homestead at the moment, but like I said to you, the main thing is that you're starting.

Yeah. Start small. Don't, and that's what we're talking about today is the guide to self sufficiency for families and how to get moving with that. Because, and we discussed it before we started recording. There's no point going from. An urban townhouse to 500 acres and thinking that you can just switch your lifestyle over.

Boy, are you in for a shock. Yeah. And yeah, the handy helper can probably speak to it more, more than me even, because I grew up in a farm kind of lifestyle as a teenager. So I had some understanding of what I was walking into, but you came from never having been on a Did you? You'd never really been a veggie gardener. Your mum and dad used to grow a little bit of veggies in the background, backyard, didn't they? But they weren't big on it. Not big on it. No. And they certainly I can't see your mum making sourdough. No. No. I don't think she eats that much bread anyway. No. But as far as milking goats and keeping chalks and things like that, you really, you walked into it completely blind, didn't you?

Oh, I did. Yeah, 100%. I had a rough idea, but just, yeah, I wanted it. That was the thing I wanted it. Yeah. But you'd not done it. And this is the hard bit for people starting out with homesteading. Sometimes they, there's so many options. There's so many things you can do that you don't know where to start.