Journey Towards Food

and Energy Self-

Sufficiency
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Who are We?
 Our Goals
• Our primary goal is to become food
and energy self-sufficient
• Becoming totally self-sufficient is
idealistic but not realistic
• A secondary goal is to encourage
food and energy self-sufficiency in
our community
 Why?
• Our motivations include negative and
positive factors
• Negatives include, e.g., energy,
economy, food quality
• Positives include, e.g., quality of life,
contentment
 What we have done so far
• Solar PV
• Passive Solar Greenhouse
• Root Cellar
• Small Grains
• Gardens
• Vegetable Oil
• Wood Furnace/Cookstove
• Animals
Solar PV
Passive Solar Greenhouse
Root Cellar
Small Grains
Gardens
Veg Oil: Processing 
Veg Oil: Truck Conversion
Animals
Wood Furnace/Cookstove
 What are the next steps
• Off Grid Battery Backup
• Solar Hot Water
• SVO Tractor
• Pressing Our Own SVO
• Selling Grains/Meat/SVO
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