Re: After a year finally some good news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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T&C Exotics
I feel that if you are not ready it will happen but when you are ready it will not happen. So I am always ready. I do carry some basic things on me and have quite a bit of knowledge on primitive survival. I just refuse to stock pile years of stuff for it to go to waste. I wish there were more people around me to learn more from and pass along what I know as well.
I was kinda forced to learn what I know. I was homeless for about 6 months in winter in Washington state. Kinda had to figure it out as I went along.
Yikes...I whine like a baby just having to make it to my car in the winter...I'm such a wuss when it comes to the cold...:rolleyes: Probably from growing up in FLA...
Re: After a year finally some good news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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T&C Exotics
I am beyond happy with it. Not so happy about how we got it. It was left to us in a will about mid year. But it will be put to great use. I already have plans to grow a lot of veggies and have some chickens and all that fun stuff. I am some what of a prepper, not the crazy ones, and like being ready for the poop to fly. Not sure if we will have enough land for a cow or 3 so I gotta look into that. Honestly I am not sure on what all could be kept there. I really want to have some goats and pigs but not sure if that is possible. I have no clue about those things. Now to figure out how to make a windmill so I can not pay for energy. I really want to go off the grid as much as possible.
Aquaponics are an interesting concept, depending on how much energy and time you want to invest in raising food. It's a bit of a "twofer" for your troubles though: protein and veggies. That said, depending what part of the country you're in and how productive it is, you might not have enough ground to raise a calf to slaughter weight. In the Midwest it's generally recommended to have a minimum of 3 acres to sustain a cow/calf unit for a year; out west that can be substantially higher as the ground/grazing isn't as good. Pound for pound in terms of converting feed into edible body mass, rabbits are the way to go. Their meat is extremely lean and can make you go crazy due to the lack of fat if that's all you eat but otherwise they're an incredible asset if you need a quickly reproducing source of protein. Those and quail (Bobwhite or Cortunix) are also a good option for feed conversion to edible end product.
Politics and religious beliefs/lack thereof aside, this is a great tool if you're not sure where to get started: http://lds.about.com/library/bl/faq/blcalculator.htm
Congratulations on your new place! Hope you guys get to enjoy it and get some use out of it making it your own.
