How to be more self sustaining?

Question

My girlfriend & I bought a small farm in the Carpathian mountains(Slovakia) a year back. We have 2 Acres which includes vegetable gardens, an orchard & meadow. We supply our own heating/ cooking fuel(wood), water(well), & about a third of our own food. We recycle & re-use most of our waste & our 'black water' waste is dispersed through a soak pit. However, we want to make our place greener & become more self sustaining & sufficient by providing more of our own food, introduce solar(or an alternative electrical supply) energy to the farm & try to harness the methane from our soak pit to improve our heating & cooking systems. Does anyone know of a good website or on-line community that can provide advice & provide answers to some of our more technical questions? Most of the ones I have managed to find tend to offer expensive solutions & rely very heavily on modern technology & we, living as we do, have very little money & want to reduce our dependance on technology. Thanks for any help

Answer 1

There is a wealth of information. I've listed a few in the sources.

Timothy D.

West Melbourne, FL

Answer 2

The forums here may be a good place to ask specific technical questions: http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden/Self_...

Blagger is another interesting site on self sufficiency:

http://www.blagger.co.uk/

Answer 3

Try the Centre for Alternative Technology  website, they have been living the lifestyle you are wanting for over 30 years and started like you on very little cash.  

They have lots of free fact-sheets on all aspects of sustainable living. They answer questions sent to them and also have a forum.

Answer 4

I think there is quite a lot of permaculture expertise in slovakia

http://www.permaculture.org.uk/ressch.as...