Summer’s here and the time is right, for enjoying your home and your garden. So, it’s also time to maybe think about changing the garden and the grass lawn you have to something more useful (not that you have get rid of all your flowers and grass, just convert some of both into a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Budgeting’
Mini-farms for food security and improving your life
Posted in Self-Sufficiency, Tips, tagged Budgeting, Gardening on 2009/07/03 | Leave a Comment »
In harder times, we have to tighten our “belts”
Posted in Miscellaneous, Self-Sufficiency, Tips, tagged Budgeting, Downshifting on 2009/03/25 | Leave a Comment »
With the reCent release of the January 2009 unemployment statistics , a further 129 000 Canadians found themselves unemployed. Further significant job losses are predicted for 2009 (the March 13, 2009 Labour Force Survey just adds to these number); but the January 2009 numbers are over three times worse than expected by most estimates and [...]
A year to live more locally and wisely
Posted in Miscellaneous, Self-Sufficiency, tagged Budgeting, Consumerism, Downshifting, Self-Sufficiency on 2009/01/24 | 1 Comment »
With the start of 2009 and the current global economic situation that exists in much of the world (especially those in North America, Europe and the Far East, where those who live with greater debts of burden more likely live), a resolution we have made (in our household) is to raise more home-grown foods and [...]
