I'd be wary of sheep, too, if you don't want them to eat your low-growing fruit trees. They WILL eat them. Sheep will not eat off the bark like a goat will (which kills the tree) but sheep can do a lot of damage to a small orchard.
If you want animals with personality and friendliness, I would...
Keeping goats has been one of the most economical and rewarding homesteading practices - they make milk, meat, and produce pounds of fertilizer for the garden every day. If you are lucky enough and have enough land to range them, you don't even need to feed them much hay, just in the depths of...
Hi there, I live off the grid and I had no electricity or running water for years. Eventually I set up a primitive water pump system, I put a little pump at the pond, and I would drive my car over to the pond and hook up the pump to my car battery. If I ran my car for about 20 minutes I could...