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Well, it happened again. I found myself wandering through land sale sites. Does looking out the back window into a smog filled small yard make anyone else want to cry? 'Cause that's where I'm at.
Husband and I are playing around with aquaponics this year to get a taste of what that sort of system is like, and to do what we can with our yard and house as far as gardening goes. It does help a great deal in making our current urban square more cozy.
The plan is to move to five acres once my sweetheart finishes his computer classes. We're mainly thinking TX or TN right now (the *only* problem with TN is that I have a burning phobia of ticks.
VA just about killed me with the ticks, and TN is even worse. Holy cripes, they have a T.I.C.K. health committee even! Why? WHY?!).
Then, if we like that sort of lifestyle, and if we are competent enough at it, we hope to move to something more akin to 100 acres.
Farming isn't the main income for us, as we both have jobs and are undergoing schooling for yet other jobs that can apply to rural areas, so that gives us a little more wiggle room to figure things out at least. We also don't intent to farm all 100 acres if we get to that point, as we have other wildlife and animal uses in mind.
This just about knocked the breath out of me:
http://www.landwatch.com/McNairy-County-Tennessee-Farms-and-Ranches-for-sale/pid/200001355 (The land that is. The interior of the house is something I would personally...alter for sure. Deer heads staring at you en masse just aren't my thing!)
If things are actually as described as far as spring and water sources go...man, that is just stunning to me! It makes me want to stamp my feet like a two year-old asking for a birthday pony going, "I WANT, I WANT!!!"
But for now...time for me to get back to work in our two square feet of prime smog real estate.
How did people here who aren't from farming families get started on your path to land? What are some of the things you are glad you did, and what did you wish you had done? Do you rely entirely on farming or not for your livelihood? How did you go about choosing your land, and what sort of questions did you ask/wish you had asked when buying? Feel free to share photos, stories, experience, etc. Basically, let me be a tick living vicariously off of you and your land while I hack out a lung or two. XD
Husband and I are playing around with aquaponics this year to get a taste of what that sort of system is like, and to do what we can with our yard and house as far as gardening goes. It does help a great deal in making our current urban square more cozy.
The plan is to move to five acres once my sweetheart finishes his computer classes. We're mainly thinking TX or TN right now (the *only* problem with TN is that I have a burning phobia of ticks.
Then, if we like that sort of lifestyle, and if we are competent enough at it, we hope to move to something more akin to 100 acres.
Farming isn't the main income for us, as we both have jobs and are undergoing schooling for yet other jobs that can apply to rural areas, so that gives us a little more wiggle room to figure things out at least. We also don't intent to farm all 100 acres if we get to that point, as we have other wildlife and animal uses in mind.
This just about knocked the breath out of me:
http://www.landwatch.com/McNairy-County-Tennessee-Farms-and-Ranches-for-sale/pid/200001355 (The land that is. The interior of the house is something I would personally...alter for sure. Deer heads staring at you en masse just aren't my thing!)
If things are actually as described as far as spring and water sources go...man, that is just stunning to me! It makes me want to stamp my feet like a two year-old asking for a birthday pony going, "I WANT, I WANT!!!"
But for now...time for me to get back to work in our two square feet of prime smog real estate.
How did people here who aren't from farming families get started on your path to land? What are some of the things you are glad you did, and what did you wish you had done? Do you rely entirely on farming or not for your livelihood? How did you go about choosing your land, and what sort of questions did you ask/wish you had asked when buying? Feel free to share photos, stories, experience, etc. Basically, let me be a tick living vicariously off of you and your land while I hack out a lung or two. XD
