I had lived in the city due to divorce and financial reasons for a couple of years. I really missed growing my own food and having chickens so i built a coop and got 4 Dominique chickens and a pair on bantam games. I then got my Dad's old tiller running and made a garden for myself.
The first thing was build a pole shed from cedar trees cut here. Then picked out a nice doublewide with 3 bedrooms 2 baths and a fireplace. Had the land cleared for the house, well drilled, and septic tank. Hooked up electric next. Then gravelled drive and put in culvert pipes at street and...
I bought this 15 acre piece of land over 20 years ago. It had lake frontage, a swamp in back(no one can build there), lots of hardwoods, and zoned agricultural rural with no restrictions.