>>2279078>>2279084Been wanting to contriboot to this general for a while now.
A little background:
My wife, children and I live on 50 acres in zone 7b. Been at it about 3 years now. Mostly mature forest with some pasture I've been reclaiming. I harvest hardwood from the property for winter heat. Currently grow a smol garden just to cut down on grocery bill. Wife does lots of canning and preserving, she makes a bitchin salsa, lady ashburnham and homemade relish. We have 12 laying hens and a rooster and a few ducks. Just bought an incubator, going to try hatching our own this spring.
I want to keep expanding but damn, it's hard when I'm still unfortunately stuck working a full time job, and have young kids and babies. It gets overwhelming sometimes, but its rewarding most days. I've got a million and a half projects on the go all the time. Currently building a sawmill so I can build a barn/shop sometime within the next 10 years.
Main goals for this spring are to get our greenhouse set up, and a seperate shelter for the ducks as i want to raise some for meat. Currently were just housing them with the laying birds, but the coop is getting cramped.
I really want to learn more about agriculture and gardening. I'll admit I'm pretty much a noob but understand the basics. I want to be more efficient and have been reading a lot about no-till methods. I plowed a new 30 x 30 food plot just before winter set in, soil seems pretty sandy, and will definitely need help.
We have a couple tractors and attachments, and im an experienced mechanic/welder/fabricator
I welcome all questions and criticism, I'm trying to learn, but theres so much to learn sometimes I dont know where to start.
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