Self-sustainability

As far as I remember I always had a desire to be self-sustainable. When I was a child I wanted to live on a farm and raise goats for milk and wool. I thought I would be fed and warm. The covid 19 bring back that feeling. I'm not planing to buy a farm but I'm trying to grow veggies from scraps. I have a celery in the garden, an iceberg lettuce and a carrot top in the water. I recently learned that the leaves are edible. I'm also sprouting mung beans. I'm hoping to be able to eat fresh food and go to the grocery store as little as possible.

Two weeks later, the celery and the iceberg are in the garden. The carrots tops didn't grow.

I am sprouting lentils now. First I soaked them in water for one day.

After a day you can already see germination happening. Few days later I was eating fresh food.

I made fresh food from dry one! I feel powerful like Tom Hanks in Cast Away.

Update ( July 15, 2020]

The celery is doing great. My garden is very little and in the past, it was just 2 tomatoe plants, basil, mint and chive. This year, because of the quarantine it is a little more diversified. I always added compost though so I think it's why the celery is thriving.

The carrot tops are growing like crazy and they are my new parsley.

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