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I’m a newbie myself to an extent and working with much more land. My concerns would be feeding the goats in the winter. A shy acre might be doable depending on the footprint of gardens, your home etc. Others with more experience could help you there. I just wonder about feeding everything when there’s snow on the ground or the grass is dormant. My work around would be to harvest tree hay from elsewhere be it from a knowing neighbor or side road at night. Perhaps even grow a small bed of comfrey that you could harvest and dry through spring, summer and into fall then use it as feed. As for pigs they can be confined to a small space and fed either your scraps or scraps from elsewhere. Provided you secure the scraps the issues would be one.. the smaller the space is the messier it will be. A pig in a confined space will create a mud hole and wallow in it’s own waste if it doesn’t have room. Two.. the smaller the space the more likely you’ll hope it’s upwind from everywhere because it will smell. On that small piece of land you can do a lot it’s just knowing the boundaries and methods that will work. Another option may be to raise alternative meat like other fowl or rabbits. Then find someone nearby willing to barter for rabbit meat, duck, turkey, quail or their eggs. You could also consider a specialty crop like hot peppers, mushrooms or something else that might be of value for bartering. Maybe you could grow cucumbers and make a mean bread & butter pickle. I’m 5 hours from you but I’d almost drive over for that lol.

Know this much….. you can do everything you need to do in that space to make yourself self-sufficient. It may not include wants but it can cover needs!

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I found y’all while searching for homestead videos. I’m in Izard county Arkansas and a Barn Tumbler would be nice! Thank you guys for the knowledge and the prayers.

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That is a thing of beauty man.

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I’m a blessed man myself. When my wife and I got together she was rather timid. We we’re at a restaurant once while were dating and her steak wasn’t cooked right. She said “it’s okay they’re probably busy”. I said hold on now, I respect them being busy but …. I’m paying for this meal and it was ordered a specific way. I told her I didn’t want to be rude with anyone but the money paying for the meal came from my sweat and time. I have every right to want the order to be right! I was polite and she got her steak cooked properly with a free blooming onion. Now normally I pass on the freebies but hey …. it was a blooming onion!

Now… I’m 9 yrs older than her and was a single custodial parent, in the army reserves a steel worker etc when we met. I had a little more life behind me. She’d been through a brief but abusive marriage though. By the time we got married she was finding her footing and her confidence was recovering.

She had a lot of respect for my long hours. She knew I came home exhausted every day and needed weekends to recover especially the one day weekends which were often. So early on when the dryer quit drying and I told her I’d fix it she asked if she could do it instead. I said have it! From there on if something broke, leaked or squeaked she’d ask me how to do it and do it herself. When her little VW bug broke down I came home to find our middle son scooting around in his walker while she sat in the middle of the kitchen floor on an old sheet rebuilding her carburetor with smudges of grease on her face. It was a thing of beauty lol.

Then there we’re times I’d mention on my 9 o’clock break that my tire went flat or alternator went out on the way to work and next thing I know she’s out there at lunch working on it and brought me lunch to boot. My burly co-workers wanted to know what the hell I was doing to make my wife want to be so helpful. They couldn’t believe it was that I simply encouraged her.

Next thing you know it’s 16+ yrs later and I became disabled. Having the wife I have and the good sense to encourage her literally saved our asses. Our money is tight. So when there’s a problem and I can’t do it because I’m too broken we can’t afford to call someone to fix it. Fortunately my beautiful bride already knows or knows how to be guided through it with little input. Now had I married someone to delicate for dirt or afraid of tools or trying we’d be begging folks for food every time something broke down or needed doing. She has her flaws like anyone including myself. Sometimes… well often times I wonder why she’s stuck it out with me. One of her flaws is stubbornness so maybe that’s it lol.

Now we’ve entered a new adventure but we both wanted it. She knows much of the physical is on her. In fact she insists on it. My spinal cord has pressure on it and she fears I’ll be paralyzed one day. Thank you doc for giving her that fear 🙄. Anyhow I do what I can and a little more when she’s not looking 😁 but more often than not I’m sharing the knowledge I have with her or researching it so that in our own way we can get it done.

My hat is off to all of you who do it alone. Being disabled I know how hard it can be to get things done. I know how to look for new ways and I also know how hard it is to ask for help. Especially when you have to ask an uninterested party (we have 5 kids). So those of you doing it on your on, whatever your health, gender or situation…. you have my utmost respect and you’re a great inspiration to others !!!

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Love your GS my wife has one named Duchess. We’re hoping one day to find a “Duke” to be her companion if only temporarily. We want to breed her once before she’s fixed and donate the pups to a few veterans for service training.

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I’ve no doubt that you will accomplish much!

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I fear many in the EU will parish but folks are creative though and back during WW2 many drove around on wood gas and they came up with all kinds of work arounds. The sad part is at full production the U.S. could supply enough energy to cover the needs of Europe. You’d think Hunter would know that and mention it to dear old dad. I mean heck he’s been a boardmember of several energy companies. 🙄😆

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Your hubby sounds like an awesome guy. Definitely inspiring for sure!