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Part of Provident living By Sindy Wakeham How can any preparations done in and around the house be complete without the use of a garden? Have you ever lived on store cupboard food, on its own, for any amount of time, short or long? My family have, for a very short time! Not going to lie, to make basic store cupboard food thing that our pampered tastebuds can endure out of those kinds of basics, takes a lot of creativity and a VERY diverse collection of added ingredients! What are those basics and ‘added’ ingredients? I’ll be going into that in other articles and videos between both   blogs and YouTube channels; Blue Garden Cottage and Escaping the Dole with Sindy .  For now I’m concentrating on the importance of the garden as part of emergency and production and preservation of home grown produce. The Store Cupboard This week I've been focusing on the UK Government’s re-release or rather update of their Prepare website.  It encourages citizens to store 3 months supplie

Drudgery or Joy? By Sindy Wakeham You want a garden paradise that meets all your desires for beauty, food production, connection with  nature and enjoyment. You have a garden space but not acreage. You want your own Eden, a version of homesteading or small holding in the suburbs. You DON'T want Tom and Barbara's version of The Good Life. The lack and drudgery can be a turn off. You don't want back breaking slog in all weathers. You don't want muddy boots on carpets. You don't want the cost and responsibility of animal husbandry and besides, your local council won't allow anything more than a couple of chickens and NO cockerels. Maybe you do want a couple of chickens. You don’t have a fortune in the bank and only have a tiny budget if any. I love The Good Life TV series. I love the humour and the idea of self-sufficiency, as in living off the land and escaping the ‘system’. It was what started my husband and my journey toward growing our own and yearning for ou

A light hearted Guide by Sindy from Blue Garden Cottage . Hey there, fabulous folks of the internet!   This quirky council house homesteader is here to sprinkle some cheer and hopefully micro-homesteading wisdom of sorts into your day. Today, we're diving into the delightful world of romance and fairy tale cottage gardening. Picture this: you're in your cozy little cottage garden (council house or other), surrounded by chirping birds and the sweet scent of freshly picked herbs. You've got your gardening gloves on the table next to your cup of fresh herb tea, a twinkle in your eye, and a determination to conquer the world one radish at a time. That, my friends, is the essence of micro-homesteading; and that’s exactly what a suburban homestead in the UK is...micro. Micro-homesteading makes it possible for most of us who dream of a country life but are in the suburbs with a home/work/family life and budget that to a degree prohibits the reality of living in the country a