Good for you! I'm impressed. I am loving reading about your adventures. My homesteading days are in the past, but I've raised cows, pigs, chickens, rabbits, big gardens, canned and made pickled fish and lots of other pickles, and did a lot of wild foraging. I came upon my flock of chickens much the same way you did, and transported them home in the back of my old station wagon. But all that was long ago. My partner died last year, and my gardening this year consisted of growing potatoes in a big old pot on the deck of my condo. It will be fun reading of all you are doing and all the memories that brings back for me!