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RE: Homestead Tour + Plans

in #homesteading7 years ago

How wonderful to have ten acres to plan with!

And to choose to have goats, well ... thumbs up lol. Goats are one of my favourite farm animals - I've had them in the past, and perhaps one day I will again.

The garden you created from scratch looked just stunning, and a good working garden - kudos! A suggestion I might make is, if you haven't looked into it already, is the no-dig gardening approach as it may save you a fair amount of labour & time, especially once a system is established. (Charles Dowding has wonderful videos up on his YT channel.)

One hard-working farm animal to encourage is the bee. You didn't mention hives, but certainly planning on planting bee-friendly flowers (especially those that are helpful to bumble bees) is another way to support your property; along with bumble bee boxes & insect hotels.

Looking forward to reading more from you. :)

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Thank you for the no-dig suggestion. I will definitely have to look into it (never heard of it before lol)! As for the bee's.. I would love to have hives and we have talked about having maybe one hive. I love bee's so it's definitely on our potential plan list. We need to research it more and all about bee keeping before we dive into getting our own hive(s). I love the idea of making some insect hotels and bee boxes. Last year we got so many bumble bee's in the garden so this year I think adding a few boxes for them will be perfect.

Thank you for the comment!!

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