We started gardening in earnest in 2009. Every year since then we have planted berry bushes, fruit trees, nut trees etc. as well as regular garden. It really helped to keep our budget in line.
I have learned to can and I buy meats on sale and can them - saves money, and makes them tender for old people to eat. We avoid almost all Rx. Hubby takes a tum now and then. I have a couple of blood pressure meds. and Calcium/Vit D & K2. That’s it.
We declined statins and changed our diet and now labs are all good. Still eat too much processed stuff, but not as much as we used to.
We have a well, and are on septic. Have a generator, and store extra water in a swimming pool for the garden (rain from the roof). It can be filtered and sterilized if needed. That’s the way my grandparents and parents always did, so we did too, just more so after the economic hit in 2008.
Wow! That’s great. Sounds like you planned ahead and are doing all the right things. Good on yas!!
Wish I could say I was anywhere close that but alas I still live in a city for now.
I grew up that way, semi rural but with a big garden, canning, buying sides of beef and freezing, etc. That was many years ago!
Sounds good. Now if you can get away from commercially produced meats, poultry and farmed fish you will have it licked, I’d say. Beef, pork, chicken and turkey are full of hormones, steroids and antibiotics. And “Friends don’t let friends eat farmed fish”, as the bumper sticker here in SE Alaska says.