I'm a minimalist, who loves nature/water! I live on my 33ft yacht and am currently working in Port Lincoln, as I slowly sail around Australia, and then who knows where... I'll quit my job in a couple of months and would like to be well up the east coast before winter kicks in. The only firm plan is to have no firm plans...but just loosely, perhaps Byron Bay. I take a self-reliant approach to sustainable, non-consumer based cruising...and am always on the lookout for functional, simple, practical ideas. Not surprisingly, I'm mainly here because I've fallen in love with a book called Sailing The Farm (you can download it for free in pdf) by Ken Neumeyer "With a couple of hundred pounds of seeds, a few dried fruits and a solar still for fresh water, a family could sail around the world without ever having to make that long upwind tack to the grocery store for manufactured products shipped from half a world away," This dude teaches us to ditch refrigeration and make/use all kinds of simple, funky tools. The idea is, go organic, buy, forage, and/or grow food on an island... Dehydrate it to store efficiently. Aboard, grow a herb garden, wheatgrass and spirulina, while seeds are sprouted and eaten live. Eat seaweed. Make cheese, yoghurt, milkshakes dips...with powdered milk. Rehydrate and juice dried fruits/berries. Grind grain and prepare all your food from scratch, daily, without removing or killing the goodness... So I'll give it a go, but it'll evolve slowly, through trial n error! While I know very little about Wwoofing and permaculture...they seem the missing link to my holistic ideology. Yes, as much as possible, I'd like to turn my back on the $y$tem and find organic farms, people and communities...to grow my produce, boat, and philosophy... Hmmmm, now, where to start? Barter barter barter ;-) Andrew
Hi @Pelagic Nomad and welcome, There are some really good dehydrating sites online. I am currently dehydrating excess veggies and making vegetable powders to add to foods to boost nutritional value as my son has a restricted diet due to allergies. They also have some great trail mixes, spice mixes and jerky recipes. I will find some links for you if you like. ~allyann
Hey, thanks Allyann! Some links would be great, please! Do you do a lot of Hi and thanks Allyann! Some links would be great, please! I've lived most of my life in Korumburra n Wonthaggi btw. Andrew
Hello Andrew and welcome, Did you find Zeyang's threads here about constructing his boat and planning his adventures? https://permaculturenews.org/forums...-sea-gypsy-tribe-of-tomorrow-wanna-join.8476/ https://permaculturenews.org/forums...rm-join-our-seagypsy-tribe-of-tomorrow.10287/ Looking forward to hearing about your seagoing exploits!
This is a really good Facebook Group Dehydrating Divas and Dudes. If you look in the files there is a lot of tips, instructions and recipes. https://www.facebook.com/groups/937950979564072/ It also has a companion website https://www.21stcenturysimpleliving.com
Hi and thanks 9ANDA1F Yeah, I follow Zeyang and the team on Facebook, but never thought to look for them here. They are totally inspirational legends!!! Not 100% sure how much interest they take in Ken Neumeyer's book "Sailing The Farm" but in the nine months or so that I've been following them, I cannot remember them actually mentioning it or making/using any of the ideas that it suggests. Not sure, maybe it's just me....but while I find Facebook is great for knowing what is going on now, it can be a lot of hard work to find out even basic, obvious info... I did write in with a whole heap of appraisal...asking if they have a website, or intended to create one. But it seems that they're completely consumed by the project itself. Which is totally fair enough, but a real shame...as it seems to be their missing link. I can only imagine that it'll all explode if they get a decent quality site. So I have some ideas that I may put to them to make this happen at some point
