The Reality of Food Self-Sufficiency

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We are living the reality of food self-sufficiency and it's not what you would think.

0:00 New farm animal additions, turkey tractor
1:39 How we remove cover crops in the garden
3:42 Planting over 100 tomatoes and peppers
6:06 I’ve never trellised this before!
7:59 Planting a year’s supply of sweet corn
11:39 Canning strawberry jam
14:02 Completely devastated
17:29 Freeze drying strawberries
17:53 Update on losses and steps I’m taking to remedy the problem
21:45 Finished strawberries and how I store them
23:01 Following through on solutions :)

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