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Homesteading on Smaller Properties
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Homesteading on Smaller Properties
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We are on 1 acre as well. Working to maximize space efficiently. We were clearing some brush and bushes along a fence we share with our neighbors and found muscadine grape vines. With our neighbors permission we tied the vine up on the fence. Should have a harvest next year with some pruning and care. 🙂
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That’s super lucky!! Good for you guys! ♥️
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Thank you for this! I’ve seen some interesting permaculture graphics that show you can easily garden for a family on 1/4 of an acre, leaving the other 3/4 for house, water systems, generator, maybe some small livestock (some chickens or goats), and wooded / tree areas. This with mindful prepping on stocking up on canned and dry foods seems a good strategy for probably most people I’d imagine. If you and say, 5 to 10 neighbors did this, you’d be able to trade with each other and have a local supply chain going and perhaps people willing to have an oath to protect each other. Provided you have good honor-bound neighbors.
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Sounds like you have this down! That’s basically what we are working toward. Planting fruit trees, expanding our garden, and plan to have chickens and rabbits and perhaps a few goats and maybe a pig or two.
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I’ve thought about rabbits too! On the one hand, great meat and fur, on the other hand, I don’t know if I have it in me to butcher a rabbit 😂 I can do it with chickens and goats and grown lambs even though I think they’re all adorable too, but they’re firmly in the “associated with food” category as well. Rabbits I hear are delicious and nutritious, but I just don’t know if I can look in that stinking adorable face and do it 😂 haha! But more power to you if it works for you! I’ve heard a lot of good things about how easy it is manage space for land for them and how adaptable they are.
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I haven’t done it yet. We will see! I’ll have to put them in the food category in my mind I guess. Can name them according to food dishes like fricasee, and such! 🤣
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I have heard you can use their manure without composting. Definitely a benefit!
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Yeah the immediate fertilizer is a great thing! They eat so much fiber it’s basically dry and ready to use for gardening. Lol naming them after dishes 😆 good thinking!
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Once upon a time a man said: “ I have a dream… “
If he were alive today, I believe he would think his dream turn into a nightmare.
He was assassinated.
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Once upon a time a man said “I have a dream” and most of what he dreamed of became a reality BECAUSE he died for his cause and it opened a lot of people’s hearts. You can look at the fact that people are no longer getting lynched in the US for interracial marriage and that people are able to enjoy relative civil equality regardless of race or creed, attend medical school or law school together, and live as equals, or, you can look at the small loud minority of cancel culture wingnuts and choose to see the glass half empty. I personally think his dream was beautiful, he was right, and most of it came true. Now if only people with that same passion would be willing to fight as hard for a dream of kindness and understanding to each other, and ending government tyranny. Our ancestors fought whole battlefields covered in blood so we could have the freedom to complain on the internet today without going to a jail cell, and so that we could go to whatever church we want on Sunday without being accused of treason by a king and tortured to death. We are spoiled children of these ancestors too cowardly to stand up for anything that matters because it might be uncomfortable to have confrontation or disagree with someone. MLK’s dream was not a nightmare. His dream was right. It’s our modern attitude problems, moral laziness, and tribalisms that are the nightmare, spitting on and spiting the dream of his that came true. We don’t appreciate the GIFT we already have.
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King’s speech wasn’t by plan, but by chance.
King; the man, was in reality a very unfaithful man.
He like society then and society today hasn’t change from one thing to its opposite.
Actually there has been some hangings …. More brutal than in the early days.
The American people; majority of, have always been fighters and a people that tolerate a lot.
What is different now compared to 60 years ago is a natural inevitability change that started then, and too until recently to be like all things I. America … tolerated. Media back then as it does today attempts to highlight the worse of the worse (often bad) and never the good. Even during the times of our founding fathers did interracial relationships exist. These things are manipulated (kept out) from our history books usually by a small number of people. Take the democrats of today: they have the most control over our society because they worked at it for decades. Democrats historically have been and still are evil. Democrats attempt to rewrite history (dishonest history). Democrats promote fighting among us. Many Blacks truly are ignorant of the true story of slavery. Few realize Whites were the first slaves and when Blacks finally came along many were sold by others Blacks. Many Blacks held Black slaves. It was Whites that freed the slaves.
So today isn’t really better than the history of America and in many ways it is worse. There are still great people as there always been. Thing never really change …. They are just a little different.
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Here is some of what I’m doing on 1/3 acre in NC. There are more recent updates on my rumble channel.
https://rumble.com/v2prrce-permaculture-corn-patch-chestnut-flowering-wheat-blight-cats.html
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Please let us all know!
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I would love to see pictures when you can. Great job. I know you will have a lot to share to the communities on this platform…so many great ones.
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I look forward to the updates on your pigs and fruit Forest! I have planted five fruit trees and several berry bushes so far. I ordered a lot of comfrey from Perma pasture farms and can’t wait for it to get here! I have a flock of 12 hens… Seven of them are now laying and I am on egg watch this week for the remainder of the ladies. I am beginning research now on how to raise pigs for meat. I am also on a few acres. Please keep us updated!
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Wow! That is wonderful!
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WOW! That’s pretty cool!
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My favorites so far are purple podded pole beans and chinese noodle beans. They usually grow on cattle panel trellises between two beds. I love them! Planning on trying some new varieties next year.
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