gurus: How to live with little and be happy (on paper ...) Fables!
is low on what the modern communication and contemporary slogans and myths. And a lot of crap. Mind you : bipartisan ( right to stay on the subject of shit
). A modern fairy tale is to bring everyday heroes who
field with little, very little indeed, thanks to the miracle of home economics and ghostly formulas that would allow him to have almost everything without spending a dime. The last of them in order of time is such a would live with one euro per day and with four little children on the rump!
Now, you remember how many stories have done for all the old Indian
that seems to be able to live without drink or eat for seventy years?
Mr. Cerin falls within the category:
for about two months say they spend no more than a €
and a penny a day to eat and feed his family, consisting of four sons and his wife with him, to 'vegetable garden. Food means spending just € 33/36 per month to feed six people.
After hearing the news, we make some brief analysis.
Purchasing power We also say that this whole story might not be impossible, but here there is a small problem: Mr. Cerin is the miracle
in Slovenia, a country with the Euro has not changed at all in their standard of life and, above all, its buying power per capita: average life there, it costs half as much here, but wages are virtually identical to ours, net of taxes. E 'known to many Italians at the border to go to the shop there, just because it costs less, which once was the case with Switzerland, but now, thanks to the common currency, you can do better with the neighboring republic Slavic us . So it goes without saying that just over 30 € of Mr. Celin
allow him to buy a lot more than it can buy in the Bel Paese.
Already this should make us understand that the news can be as pretty, but that the impact of sentence
The Republic is totally misleading and even a little 'arrogant In order to raise awareness of global poverty overdose of consumerism and the Western world, tried to prove that you can live to feed spending one euro per day and a dime: he has done it, over the past two months by eating only fruits and vegetables grown in their garden There is little to be aware of: first of all
should be understood that what Mr. Cerin buy every month and for that we should think about what you can do yourself at home. We make two accounts with the price of our house?
The garden at home sites that explain how to get the garden is full and I assure you that it is perfectly feasible
, whether you have a garden with a little free space 'covered by the wind, both large pots on the terrace inside the box. Doing the garden
involves a lot of work, free time, especially an initial capital to start, plus a good dose of patience, since the production time and yield are of a "natural" and can not accelerate because you're in a hurry.
So there will be a time when you will not get anything from your garden and times when you will not know what to wow us with all that damn those plants produce. image we want
tilling a small plot of land
25/30 square feet: there should at least arm a hoe, a spade and a pick and shake the ground even going to a certain depth (
at least 30 -
50 cm), being careful to remove roots and stones that can only create you problems.
Once this is done you should add fresh earth, perhaps the micro-filtered, and preferably premixed with compost or peat: the I can also find my shares at a cost of 1 euro per bag (20 liters
. / 5 kg). But as the digging you have done you can imagine that you will need several bags of earth, or perhaps you have to buy bags of 60 lt. from a hatchery. Finally you must fertilize
( even if you used a potting soil mixed with compost, it would be better to give it the right nutrients to the soil
).
Only now you can plant your vegetables:
that make? Lettuce, lettuce, chard, chicory, carrots, zucchini, eggplant, green beans, tomatoes, strawberries and melons. Perhaps even peppers and the usual spices: sage, mint, basil and rosemary, and even then. With a little 'work cabbage and cauliflower are also accessible, and watermelon or pumpkin. Harder potatoes. You may also get involved in great adventure of a fruit tree or two : apple and pear trees are easy to find at the nursery, but there are also the plums and apricots.
If you're lucky you'll also have some wild plants in your plot
maybe some asparagus and chicory, Perazzi can engage or wild apple trees, figs and prickly pears, by region, myrtle bushes and brambles (
quest 'last for more ) and certainly thistles (
which are edible if you know how to prepare ).
with mushrooms go easy: if you really want
dare to pick them up, get a good first course to mycologists generally regionally organized by the Faculty of Agriculture of the national universities. This requires space, time and money
plants all have a cost that varies from product to product and is generally not particularly high, but you have to take account of the failures. times of plants What the few lines of The Republic
not say is that our Mr. Cerin has not collected immediately lettuce exposed in the picture: those plants
took weeks to reach that size, and cultivation started from seeds were also used even longer. Imagine that if you buy an apple tree from the nursery will be delivered with a kind of skimpy crammed at the bottom like a ball of soil containing the roots: perhaps there is a leaf or two, but certainly there is a fruit
difficult and you will see at least a year or two! When it comes to fruit and vegetables is because all plants have cycles, and then make fruit only and only at certain times of the year: the seeds should be planted only at certain times and often the plants are well watered in specific times and in some cases, taking care not to wet the leaves or vice versa.
Water
the
The garden you need water or, better irrigation:
means having to use much water, which in Italy has a cost. If you are in the country could assess the excavation of an artesian well, but, in addition to labor costs, which may vary according to the depth, prepare the usual bureaucratic Calvola arising from the usual reason that we Italians are masters always half at home ours. Water is a resource that the state may decide to privatize, but since none of you are not important when you decide to make a well to save on water consumption, takes the bureaucratic trap that requires
you owe it to that hole in the ground report to the City, who wants to know if your water is drinking or not. Unfortunately, it was drinkable, the first municipal water crisis could see you come in the house with tanker traffic wardens to impose upon you to give your water.
Why is not truly yours, of course, but the community, it is useful, because you are not in control of subsoil resources. If it is not drinkable (
and it can happen), maybe because sulfur or salt water, you will have unnecessarily spent money well, but the City will leave you all without the problems ...
Care and maintenance is not that if you give un'innaffiata the garden will always remain in good order ... maybe! Since the Middle Ages, it is known that the rotation of
crops can not deplete the soil: plants use salts and nutrients in soil, but they do so differently from each other. If you do not want to end up with a plot
sterile after only three years of cultivation you planting season following a precise pattern, always leaving a part of your garden to rest fallow.
To increase the nutrients you need to add fertilizer with
: compost, peat, manure or chemical fertilizers. The latter are the most expensive, others are cheaper.
Compost is what you can easily make at home with a compost bin, which is nothing more than a container or a hole in the ground where to throw the grass clippings, prunings, fruit peels or damaged, dry leaves and a chemical that will buy specifically to pay over this stuff and will help the bacteria to decompose in the environment and slowly transforming into a sort of fertile land to be added to soil micro-filtered on which to plant your lettuce.
"decompose"?
Yes: Mother Nature follows the Latin motto "
Mors mea
your life." Peat
buy it because it is a special soil that is extracted from peat bogs and follows the same basic principle pocanzi listed. The corral ... stinks. I tell you right away. Question of animal feces mixed with straw. Poop.
usually produced by the nearby stable: no, not the one with the sheep or goats, but the one with the cows and horses. The dung of sheep and ruin the soil is acidic, the daisies are a holy hand smoking to the garden (
please refrain from jokes like "what that work m. .." ).
The garden in the city in a city you can do in the vessels :
some vegetables in pots are also able to hire 30-40 cm high. Generally in my part I find them with prices ranging from 13 to 18 €, excluding saucers. Inclusion of a bag of clay pebbles to increase the retention of water and at least three bags 5 kg of ground we can plant lettuce, chicory, chard and broccoli, and if you buy as a bit 'higher than even we can plant tomatoes and beans and even carrots. Instead of the hoe and spade, here you only need a shovel and a watering can. will be less spiritual, but are more useful than a bonsai ...
And the rest?
Mr. Carin, after the garden spends just € 33/36 per month to supplement his larder. Unless he is not a vegan , need also to products derived from the herd of bestiema like all of us, as well as derivatives of grass, a substance Prince Food.
We assume that the beautiful house white you see in the background of the photo, Mr. Carin has a respectable
oven and then do not buy bread
, but buys the flour directly, and not imagining that feeds only on unleavened bread, also buy the yeast, or you really good and it also does this alone.
How much flour? We in the province of Rome, we find 00 packs of 1 Kg of flour to 1 euro. The bread worked at the bakery has a cost that varies across Italy between 2 and 4 € per Kg
Maybe, as you do at home, there is no need to do it every day and after a few attempts you will succeed you. But what you have saved to the furnace? To get a power strip you need to guess 500 gr. of flour and about an hour between work, rest and firing. Do you deal ...
If you're determined to make their own at this point you should not buy the yeast, and then directly too: the natural yeast called
sourdough and here are a guide to create it. Best wishes to heart. goes without saying that if you make bread, you also
the pasta and desserts
, although the latter require animal ingredients in some cases, such as milk and eggs, and of course sugar.
Animal Products
Some things can be relatively easy to obtain by placing an terrenuccio: eg eggs. The hens have an initial cost per animal of some tens of euro, this must be added the construction of the house and the cost of feed. Let's say that 10 kg of split costs between € 3 and 5. To keep warm it bought a little 'straw once in a while. If you have any ducks or mallards, there is also a requirement of container down to the water and you can feed them with the skins of fruits and vegetables and a bit 'of overcooked pasta: prepare yourself psychologically to the fact that these animals leave soaking in that water Dry food is not that you will give the tray and then will clean up regularly. Shall be a few centimeters may also use a large saucer. They are animals that require time and care and also a bit 'of space to move and bulldozers, especially chickens, maybe that should be released once in a while and go to peck here and there something of their own.
Fish is not a problem if you know how and where to fish, but be aware that if you do not have a license and not know where to go you can also fine: this must be added the risk from pollution, not indifferent. In the film "The Youngest Son" propina the protagonist of the fish caught in the Tiber in Rome, when placed in all a nice tablet uranium or cobalt was better ...
If you want to poison you can also try with scorpion fish, sea urchins, mussels and clams collected near the coast, a beautiful poisoning staphylococcus I will not handle the no!
Fresh milk and cheese 've got in the country only by those with the stables with cows and sheep: hard you can get results from a single goat (
that still has a cost of purchase and maintenance
) as does the grandfather of Heidi .. . If you really want to go crazy at this point just read this forum ...
Meat?
really difficult here in the fall. First step and ask if you can kill an animal you've kept for cibarvene, then you have to wonder if we kill him with bare hands or to accompany him to the slaughterhouse. Finally you have to ask if you can work the meat and how will you store it and consume it. If you have the stomach to see the quarters Pork Frollano that in the garage or basement, congratulations to you.
The game solves only one problem: you have not brought up that animal and you probably have not pulled the neck to kill him, but you shot.
remains the talk of having to skinning, quartering, bled and slaughtered, because it is not exactly like picking an apple from the tree.
So doing a quick calculation, you should definitely arrange meat, milk, fish, but also vegetables, butter, oil (
unless you have planted trees, but in this case, you must calculate the cost of the mill
) wine (
following a speech similar to those of
). And the water? In many home tap water is drinkable as long as you put a filter in the house to drain limestone and iron in the pipes. But in other cases and is purchased at a cost of about € 3 per 6 bottles from the supermarket. Every human being has incorporated about 1.5 / 2 lt. of water a day, then at least drink a bottle every day. By calculating a family of 4 and without spending too much say you spend per month to guess: Water: 4 conf. x € 3.00 = € 12.00 Milk: 3 conf. (1 lt.) X = 6.00 € 2.00 €
Legumes: 4 jars (250 gr.) Bean x € 1.50 = € 6.00 Oil: 2 bottles (1 lt.) X 4, € 00 = € 8.00
Butter: 1 pkg. (500 gr.) X 2.50 = € 2.50 €
Sugar: 1 box (1 kg) x 2.50 = € 2.50 €
Fresh fish: 1 kg x 18.00 = € 18.00 € Red Meat: 1 kg x € 15.00 = € 15.00
Chicken: 1 kg x € 10.00 = € 10.00
TOTAL: € 80.00 per month for 4 people.
remove the fish and halved red meat? € 80.00 - € 22.50 = € 57.50 . Result?
Mr. Carin does not live in Italy.
few that I recognized were my employer was spending between 1850 and 2200 € (depending on the time 
(
) e-mail was written that would 
. 
So automatically, since the only evidence that can be produced are the bills and pay slips, if you deem insufficient, you will be convicted, right or wrong. 
, Slovenian citizen of Lubijana that 