Post Oil Perth

Great too see a post oil group finally formed in WA - thanks Meg

We are a couple of pensioners ( me disabled hubby my carer ) trying to be self sufficient on 3.4 ha near Lancelin. yeh I know not good land to grow stuff but I am disabled due to pesticide poisoning and originally we came here to find clean near sea air and get away from farming and industry ......... now of course the poison veggie farms are even moving in here and we being poisoned by the military training but that a whole other story !

I am pretty useless so Phil has to do everything hence we have a long to do list and progress is slow but steady. We have 6 British Alpine goats and are milking 2 of them and making cheese, yogurt, kefir and sometimes butter. We have chooks and 2 muscovy ducks and a big duck pond that will one day also house fish . We have some fruit trees established with a good apple crop this year. We have a veggie garden although at present having to buy greens which means a trip to Perth every fortnight grrrrrrrrrrr as we only buy Organic.

I post at the Permaculture institute board and although neither of us have a PDC we are trying to follow permaculture principals. We are alo very interested in Aquaponics although setting up our own system is still on the to do list !

Last year we used hubbys super plus a state govt grant to put in a 2.5k solar grid feed system - so far Synergy owe us $ 75 lol. Then about month ago we put in a solar pumping system so now as well as our power being financially independant we will be totally carbon neutral - for power anyway ......... but we still have to drive to get food and will do for quite some time .........

anyway enough from me

regards
Anne (and Phil)