Great video. Great advice. I will be sharing. I encourage people to get 5 gallon buckets. I use a solder gun to melt holes in the bottom. Raise 1 tomato plant in one, 1 potato in another. Lettuce in another, Green beans in another. Pepper plants in another and so on. A person can raise a lot of food in 5 gallon buckets. Keep by windows, patio sliders or get energy efficient plant lights to keep the plants growing well. I listened to a young fella who raised quail in his apartment bedroom (he slept in living room). He kept it clean so that no one knew he did that. He sold eggs and quail meat. Eventually, he sold enough to buy his own 3 bedroom home with a huge yard. We can do self-sustaining things and create a lifestyle that is wholistic and beneficial if we want to.
Another animal people can possibly look into is Quail. You can raise them indoors and they make some good eggs and meat. If your apartments don’t allow animals you can keep it at at a friends or families place in their backyard or something if they are ok with it and they take up little space compared to most homestead animals. I think it’s a perfect gate way into owning other animals like chickens in the future if you are unable to currently own chickens.
I’m currently a college student living in a dorm but one day I do want to have my own apartment. I find it difficult to figure out how to homestead especially with having to buy land as well as building things so I’m so happy that someone finally is sharing a reasonable way to homestead for people like me especially those who are in my age range that can only get an apartment. ❤
As someone who is also starting small, I recommend getting an instapot MAX model - I make so much stock from kitchen scraps that way AND I can can food in it safely! Multi tasker for the win! And I also joined my local BUY NOTHING group so that I could gift what I had grown out of and find what I need, locally and FREE. Of course, thrifting is best ! My next thrifting goal is a NESCO turkey roaster - for turkey roast, sure, but also for any large discounted meat (ham is a good one right now) cook it and preserve it RIGHT AWAY! Those bad boys are also great for bigger batches of sauces and soups - make enough to preserve and that is a skill that helps!
I tried regrowing bok choy from the leftover scrap at the heart, but the bugs on my balcony love to eat the leaves, so I've had zero harvest from them so far even though they do survive and take root. I suppose they keep the bugs away from my strawberries, though the strawberry harvest is also tiny because I forget to water and the southern-facing balcony gets hot. My best harvest so far are the scallions also regrown from scraps.
@@Orwellian-Purple-Grapes-1984 it’s easier to get seeds. Seeds have a tap root and will grow faster . I grow dwarf bok choy. You can get a nice pack of seeds for like 5$
Im growing tomatoes out of a cardboard box 😂 It takes up my whole hall way window and he almost completely died......for a single tiny tomato right now 😂 His name is Timothy and i cried when he stared to die 😢
Omg I was just talking earlier about the fact that hardly anyone knows how to cook for themselves nowadays! Also, I have a like minded friend in the area that raises pigs! I'll dm ya her Instagram in a sec.
