Is it possible to be self sufficient?

My thoughts on what it really means to be self-sufficient, and if it's even possible.

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[MrVinsonj]

I like your perspective on "self suffenciancy" if it all goes bad you are never going to survive without a relationship with the people around you. either you are able to help and interact with your neighbors, or you will have a lot of enemies to fight off!

[Mossy500A]

@buckstarchaser I was saying that I am at a starting point. One could also argue that I go mine my own lead ore and make smokeless powder from scratch. It would be cool to do this, but at the same time it would require a lot of time and energy. It's important that we are able to find a point at which we are comfortable with, while also seeing if that point can be challenged.

[buckstarchaser]

@Mossy500A You mean you make it out of components that you have stored? That's not what he's talking about. I suppose if you collected scrap lead from wheel weights, etc and melted them into new bullets you would be producing something. Just putting the pre-made parts together from storage is what he's trying to explain as NOT self sufficient.

[Mossy500A]

So far, I produce ammunition, but I do work on learning to produce more.

[darbone]

love your opening music, good videos.

[greatwhitejake]

myself and a lady friend of mine have been talking about starting our own farm/homestead to become self sufficient. i want to get to a point where i wont need a 6am to 3:30pm mil contract job, i just want to work on my family farm and be left alone! i would pay my taxes from what i grow and sell to a local mom&pop store or something like that

[geraldb4201]

@BlightedBaz i know of a gew places to pick hazle nuts and beech nuts acorns and even a few grown over apple orchards that are within a 20 min walk from here even a few places to catch fish that are a half hr bike ride from here 5 mins in my suv but i am trying to time on how long it takes to ride a bike that way we have ideas on what we can do in a givin day

[BlightedBaz]

@geraldb4201 Sounds great, don't forget your nuts either. Depending on your zone there are a great variety you can grow, Hickory, hazelnuts. Good protein and good fats.

[DavidCaines100]

okay, you me and Ayn Rand would get on just fine. To be fair, my wife and I as a team can be self-sufficient off the gird. We have the skill sets. We have hundreds of skills each and they are complimentary. Still the world is too complex, for that to allow us to be free of others. And I wouldn't want to be. Survival is a team sport. I have basic , mid, and advanced skills in all things survival, but without others? what would be the point?

Huah,

David

[geraldb4201]

@BlightedBaz thats the reason i have chickens and my raised bed garden areas we are hopeing to plant some fruit trees next spring lots of things we can do but its going to be more of groups of people wroking to get things done it will be more like small tribes working for one thing thats to live and thrive