friends on this episode of homestead testy I'm gonna share with you how you
can be self-sufficient on one acre ground stay tuned on a larger homestead
channel they were talking about how you cannot be self-sufficient on anything
less than five acres of ground and that video got me quite stirred up because I
know for a fact that that is wrong you can have a self-sufficient lifestyle on
one acre or less and I'm here to prove that you can I have been doing this for
many years now and my 1 acre property provides me and my husband enough food
for the whole entire year and I'm gonna share with you the tips and tricks on
how you can have a one acre homestead and be self-sufficient all year round
now in this one acre homestead I am completely devoted to food production I
do not have animals so what I'm about to explain to you will pertain to a food
production 1 Acre homestead now of course you are going to have to learn to
live in a different lifestyle and diet because if you would live solely on the
one acre lot that you have into garden then you would have to really change
your diet and I'm going to show you that you can do that stay tuned and we'll
show you our 1 acre property I'm going to show with you how you can do it the
first thing you want to do is make sure every little piece of ground that you
have is devoted to something that you can eat or something that you can use
for medicine so the Lambs ear we use as band-aids
we have blueberry bushes we have herbs we have all kinds of things here planted
other thing you want to do is and the homestead self-sufficiency is chickens
now I know a lot of people go into goats and go into pigs and go into that but
that is an expense that if you want to have a 1 acre lot that is debt-free and
be able to provide self sufficiency chickens are the way to go because
chickens cost very little to maintain and also we eat a lot of your scraps and
also the eggs are high in protein if you're having a one-acre self-sufficient
homestead and not growing animals you're going to need the eggs for the protein
because protein is something that you are going to lack on your
self-sufficient one acre ground but eggs have all the protein that you need for
the daily allowance one acre homestead is a must if a rain water rain water is
really good for everything that you need to be self-sufficient and my rainwater
barrel is number one I am looking to save enough money hopefully from YouTube
that I can purchase another rain barrel because a rain barrel is what is my life
sustaining water here on the one acre homestead and every area ground like I
said is planted in something that we can eat there is parsley planet just in the
middle of all my flower beds we have peas planting now when you purchase acre
or less you want to make sure that you have area that's garden and your garden
area always needs to face the south so if you're buying or have a one acre
homestead make sure your home is situated where you can have your gardens
it that get full Sun because if you want to provide enough food for yourself for
a whole year you have to have gardens that have full Sun container garden is
really important containing gardening is not going to be self sufficient to feed
you all year but you will be able to feed yourself in the summertime with it
and then you can save your other food from the garden for over the winter so
let me show you a little bit what I have going on here in the garden
all right so you want to be self-sufficient and you want to have and
you have an acre or less I'm gonna talk about with mostly those who have an acre
or half an acre my garden is over half of my property
I turned my lawn into a garden and every year it gets bigger and bigger to the
point where I cannot get any bigger so number one food item in your garden are
potatoes potatoes are life state life-sustaining starch if you're talking
about wanting to live off of your one acre you can live in the wintertime if
you have potatoes potatoes are very important and these are my 75 foot rows
of potatoes green beans are not important staple green beans and onions
which I have in these rows but you want to have things that you can produce that
you can preserve all year round so things like carrots things like potatoes
green beans cucumbers tomatoes are a staple in our food because everything we
use is based around tomatoes also peppers are very important so if you
want to be self-sustaining on one acre I'm here to show you that you can do it
and I have done it now it's just two of us but we could live off of the food
that I produce and my front lawn for one year in fact we could probably go longer
than a year but you would not have your typical American diet so we do not live
off of this for a whole year because we do have the typical American diet which
we enjoy having but if things were shut down today we would be able to live one
year on this ground
so I just wanted to show you a little bit with to dispel the myth that you
cannot be self-sufficient on one acre these are sweet potatoes we plant a lot
of sweet potatoes and they last us all year round so I just hope you enjoyed
this video and I will get back to you with some more ideas on how to be
self-sufficient on one acre or less and you can do it because I've done it take
care everyone and we'll see you tomorrow