My Self Sufficient New Year's Resolution

[Acre of Blessings]

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So what took you so long.

 

[Mac in Wisco]

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The websites just aren't the same. I can remember reading through the Burpee catalog as a kid and ogling all the giant varieties and pages and pages of tomatoes. I just don't get the same effect on the website.

 

[AngieChick]

I too am moving towards it. We will be buying our first house in the fall, and due to the prices slowly coming down, we will be able to afford a little land. I had resigned myself that it would be out of reach in our are, so we are very happy to see it become a feasible option for us. I would love to get some dairy goats and have a large veggie garden. Where we are right now is just too darn shady. Some friends of mine recently bought a house with a couple of acres on well water, and they will be growing produce for both us and themselves. I have a wheat grinder, and make a mean loaf of bread as well as some delicious soft pretzels. So we are going to trade 2 batches of pretzels and 2 loaves of bread for produce. I think it's a great deal, as does she. Hopefully the following year we will have our own large garden to play in. This year I canned a pear tree, froze an apple tree, picked and froze a million billion blueberries, and made many jams. The fruit I mooched off of friends that weren't up to the canning task this year. I had many more friends offer than what I could accept. There are so many fruits that just go to waste around here, many of them are wonderful old heritage trees. I make my own pasta out of fresh ground wheat now too. We ate it tonight, actually, yum! I too would love to make my own cheeses, and when we have our space in the country we look forward to being able to have more farm animals so that we can. As we are veggie, it would just be dairy goats and a gazillion more chickens, with possibly a Corriedale sheep or two thrown in to give me fiber to spin. Fun Fun!

 

[Acre of Blessings]

Out here there is a 3 BR farm house on 4+ acres for only $49,900 it is in forsclosure, I would love to have this place. It even had a big building that could be used for a small barn.

Why? Why? Why?

Don't worry, I'm O.K.

 

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Why not? Are you renting? Mortgages are very low right now, and a $50,000 mortgage might be less than your rent!

Just thinking....

 

[Acre of Blessings]

No, we are buying and paying our dues of a mortgage.

I would just like more land. All we have is 1 acre and don't take me wrong, we do well with it, but jsut a little more would be great.

And with the housing industry the way it is, forget it, there is no way we could sell in this economy. We owe $59k on what we have now.

Oh, well, I can move in that house in my dreams.

 

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Oh, poopie!

 

[Acre of Blessings]

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Yea, tell me about it.

I would love to have an old farm house with a few + acres of land.

But, I thank the Lord and I am content with what we have now.

It's much better than any card board box or bridge right now.

Here is our house now

 

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It'll do for now! Who needs a front lawn, anyways? I will be tracking and recording the hours of sunlight in my front yard this spring and turning more of it into veggie garden. I ripped out the foundation plants and put in veggies last summer....just as pretty as hostas, and useful, too!

 

[Beekissed]

I'm turning my yard into pasture and putting geese and a few sheep on it. Why not let it feed something I can sell instead of me paying money on gas and mower repairs to mow the darn thing?

Sorry, Acres, about the farm house. I feel your pain! There are a lot of them standing empty around here...just falling down with no one to love them.