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wife and I bought 10 acres in 2022. she designed hoose/floorplan, had it turned into official blueprints. construction began June 2022. sold old hoose (fully paid off) may 2023. moven into new homestead June 2023.
so far we have:
planted 30 trees. at least 20 of them are fruit trees.
built barns and enclosures for livestock (chickens, ducks, turkeys, guineas, quail, rabbits, pigs (sold), and dairy sheep.
2x frost free heads installed 175ft from hoose. one at livestock, one at orchard.
3 seperate irrigation systems for berries, trees, and other garden areas.
cattle panel arbors installed in raised beds for tomatoes, peppers, melons, squash.
built a "solar shed" from scratch, using leftovers from hoose construction.
mounted 2500w PV on shed roof, 12k charge controller/inverter & 300AH battery storage.
DEEP water well installed w/ Grundfos10 effecient pump.
2 EG4 12,000 btu HVAC mini-splits w/heat pump.
3 wood burning stoves. one in Great Room. one in Master Bed. 3rd is wood fired oven/range in kitchen.
basement is already stocked with canned harvest from 2 years prior, and 3 years of freeze dried foods.
Building and acquiring wool processing equipment.
it's a GIGANTIC project, having just been here one year, next month. it's nowhere NEAR what we want it to be, but it is amazing how far we have brought it in 12 months. each day we further improve upon it.
well... there's my blog. my apologies.
