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\"\"<\/a>At present I live (with a menagerie of animals) in suburban Adelaide (South Australia – in the southern foothills) on a typical \u2018quarter acre block\u2019. My house a 50-year-old brick home. It is not spectacular but it is cosy.\u00a0 I live on the edge of an industrial-zoned area – not idyllic but with my\u00a0vegetable garden and family of pets I’m happy with what I have. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I have done my best to establish my small piece of land as \u2018self-sufficient\u2019 as possible. Over the\u00a0last 20 years I have enriched the soil with\u00a0mulch and compost, planted numerous Australian natives, practical herbs and other plants, built a quiet spiritual retreat and fernery in the back corner, installed an all-important rain water tank, added a pergola, established a vegetable garden (of course) and a few fruit trees.<\/p>\n

I do not use chemicals in or on the garden and \u2018compost, recycle and reuse\u2019 where-ever and when-ever possible. In terms of making and using alternatives: I practise what I can and what best suites my lifestyle and personal needs.\u00a0 It would be difficult, if not impossible, to put into practice everything that I write and suggest.<\/p>\n

Not having the privilege of paid full time work for many years has taught me much about living on a low income \u2013 it has been a real struggle at times. As a result I am particularly sympathetic to people in the same situation.\u00a0 It has to be experienced to be truly understood.<\/p>\n

My happiest moments are those spent quietly in my garden \u2013 just absorbing Mother Nature around me and looking after and taking responsibility for the many stray animals that come to stay.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I have allocated one room of the house as \u2018the office\u2019 where The Self-Sufficiency Shoppe ideas and publications are created and developed.<\/p>\n

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Getting to this point in my journey\u00a0has been\u00a0a ‘great adventure’\u00a0pursuing a dream of having a ‘Shoppe’ based upon ‘self-sufficiency and back-to-basics for the betterment of the planet’.\u00a0\u00a0I consider that the full potential of what The Shoppe could achieve has not yet been realised. We will just have to see what the future unfolds!<\/p>\n

Thank you for your interest in\u00a0The Self-Sufficiency Shoppe<\/span>. I hope you enjoy my website and wish you well in your journey through life.<\/p>\n

Pam Marshall
\nThe Self-Sufficiency Shoppe<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

email: pam@theshoppe.com.au
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theshoppe@tpg.com.au
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