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Self Sufficiency is the activity of becoming more self reliant in your lifestyle. by growing or collecting more of your own food, making your own clothes or mending rather than purchasing new. A simpler way of life, in these modern throwaway days.

Popularity
Self sufficiency is an activity that goes through different trends and popularity phases. At the present time Green is the popular issue, making a more self reliant lifestyle an increasingly popular pastime.

Location
Although total self sufficiency is associated with a rural lifestyle and the countryside, For all areas other than livestock (meat) Urban residents have just as much opportunity to practice a degree of self sufficiency as those living in the country.

Ability
Self sufficiency is an activity in which you quickly learn the areas in which you have the ability, and the areas in which you are lacking, in which case you either learn, or barter with a skill or possession that you do posses.

Description
There are many areas and levels associated with self sufficiency in which to get started, one often leading to another. The growing of a vegetable or fruit rather than a purely ornamental plant. The taking on of an allotment or the learning of a craft, or as is currently popular going green and saving or recycling waste and saving on the use of energy within the home environment.

Dedication
As with most activities, dedication is the best way to improve results. Self sufficiency is all about preparation, growing and storing food, gathering fuel for the winter. It is an activity that becomes a way of life, an activity that is often practised on your own, but is also a very social activity. An activity of sharing of excesses and experiences. Self sufficiency is an activity in which the competition is against natural predators and the elements, rather than each other.

Closely Related Activities
Gardening Keeping livestock, DIY, cooking, crafts,

Cost
The whole point of self sufficiency is to reduce costs or to produce better, and as such there should be no or very little cost involved, although some energy saving scheames can need large ammounts of capital expenditure to start with.

Level of Demand
The table below shows the maximum levels of demand that this activity requires. NOTE: These are not entry levels or levels of requirement and has nothing to do with ability.

Energy

Arms

Legs

Sight

Hearing

Speech

Learning

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