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Thank you everyone. I look forward to spending many hours reading the many forum threads and probably asking the same questions most newbs do. I will try to at least find a similar thread before attempting to ask the same questions. We are working towards self sustaining and looking for a CSA to join here locally. I don't plan to fully go off the grid. I think technology will be around for a while so my family will still be learning about technologies but when it comes to our food source and some other things, I'd like to get back to pre-oil.

We started working on the yard yesterday. The area that is supposed to be a garden is very clay based which isn't normal for this area. Started pulling back the overgrown blackberry bushes. When I get my own property I hope to keep some of those so I can harvest the blackberries but right now my son is much to curious and someone dangerous and I don't need or want him falling into the bushes. We started an earthworm bin today in a 58qt Sterilite tub that I had laying around and some earthworms I'd bought at a gas station for fishing months ago that were just sitting there in my fridge. I want to move those to 5 gallon buckets soon but for now it works. Also started a compost bin in the same size but realized quickly today, that's not going to work for long.

I want to get rabbits and chickens I think. Rabbits first because they are quiet and won't annoy the neighbors, and their housing is slightly easier to build. I had done a lot of research in the past and ended up on the livestock conservancy website. I actually found it when I was doing the research on the Delaware chickens (the breed I had wanted back then and still want today). It lists American Chinchilla rabbits on the critical list and I think that's the one I'm going to go for to build a rabbit colony. We'll use it for meat and fur. I have butchered a rabbit once when I was in 4H as a kid and had that rabbits pelt somewhere for the longest time. Anyway...

Thanks for the warm welcome backs.
 

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