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Made an offer on a 5 acre lot with brick ranch house, pond, garden & pasture located 7 miles from downtown. Holding thumbs - I am anticipating lots of competition.
If you get the house on 5 acres, check out Gene Logsdon book All Flesh is Grass. He gives an example of a couple with 5 acres and using rotational grazing for a horse, calf, flock of chickens and a pig complete with a garden and fruit trees.
I recommend also the classic work by Kain, "Five Acres and Independence." It was written during and in the context of how to survive the Great Depression, and in terms of page for page value, it is hard to beat.
Thanks for that, I will definitely check it out. My initial take would be:
1. Fish from pond
2. Chickens for eggs & occasional meat
3. Nubian goats for milk & occasional meat.
4. Milpas planting in the garden + tomatoes and more.
5. Orchards (apple, cherry, peach pecan)
Thats about it. I will have to get a small diesel tractor as the land does need lots of work and there is only one of me. In the future we can work out some kind of community gardening & sharing arrangement.