My WARTIME CHALLENGE (digging for victory wartime kitchen & garden)
Welcome back to Wildwood Cottage & welcome back to Wales
In todays episode we are having a look at some of the extreme frugal living things I do around the home to save money & are environmentally friendly.
During the war people were encourage to make what they could themselves as manufacturing was diverted to wartime production for weapons, ammunition & food etc.
Plus my extreme frugal living plans for my dig for victory garden in 2024 & the exciting year ahead.
We are sticking to our extreme frugal living & make do & mend theme, plus I will be doing as much as I can for free.
I'm also sharing what my wartime rations will be for a week.
2024 is the year of my Wartime Challenge using my wartime cookbooks to prepare meals on my Prity 2p41 wood cook-stove. I'm starting a digging for victory garden to help reduce my food budget & I will be trying to stick to war rations in my own daily life, growing a wartime kitchen garden & re-purposing, re-using & up-cycling where possible when I need something.
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Hi Im Hazel & i recently moved into a remote cottage in Wales which had a very old tired garden sloping down towards the farm fields below. The garden had been tended by an elderly gentle who died at aged 97 & he'd looked after it for 50 years. All it had was shrubs, hedges & trees. This has given me a great opportunity to strive towards self-sufficiency. i'll be growing my own food & living extremey frugal spending as little money as possible.
In these days of high inflation & financial crisis my wartime challenge is the ideal opportunity to reduce my spnding & my waste. I am starting 2024 with a new dig for victory garden & cooking wartime recipes in the kitchen on my Prity 2p41 cookstove using my wartime cookbooks. I will be sticking to war rations where i can & trying to follow the ration book as much as i can. I want to do as much as i can for free & still eat & live well. I will be growing organic food setting up a wartime kitchen garden, growing organically using no dig gardening & permaculture principles whilst growing complimentary flowers for medicinal use & dyeing wool. I will be making my own clothes & cooking meals from scratch. I will be making jam, preserving food for the winter, canning, fermenting & dehydrating what i can to keep me going when the garden is quiet.
I will be documenting my journey transforming the cottage garden into a beautiful thrivng garden to sustain us & the wildlife that I share my home with. I post videos 2 or 3 times a week dependent on the wifi as its slow, very slow. So tune in to catch up with my frugal living tips & see what im making in the kitchen. I use wartime frugal money saving recipes to cut down on the ingredients & portion sizes. Ive been living this frugal lifestyle for many years & now i want to share that with you. Its a very fulfilling & abundant way to live , its mindful & slow living at its best.
Join me as i share aspects of my everyday life in my Woodland cottage in Wales. I live in a hidden valley on the southern edge of the Snowdonia National Park in the UK. I share the rhythms of my life with the wildlife & seasons around my home. i watch the seasons change from one to another seamlessly & i find my life adapting to their changing rhythm.
On my channel I will be sharing gardening videos from my new garden in Mid Wales. I hope you find something of interest & that you will join me on my journey to develop this lovely garden in the foot hills in this beautiful Welsh valley.xx
A cottage in the Woods
A cottage garden in wales
Sheep on the hills
The seasons changing seamlessly
Striving for selfsufficiency & growing my own food
delighting in keeping my own chickens