3/ "how to find your place in the country" Along the way taught myself construction, electrician, plumbing, woodworking, welding skills.
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4/ ...and also earned some money / acquired equity in my suburban house (this was crucial to my approach!)
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5/ ...and then, when the situation was right, I bought a 50 acre "horse farm". ("situation right" = selling for 50 cents on dollar)
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6/ "horse farm" means that there are no crops but hay, barn set up for horses (w tack room), maybe has riding oval, maybe has woods trails
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7/ so we bought the farm and started ruining it. :) Tore down horse oval, planted vineyard and built a 1,000 ft^2 greenhouse. Started >
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8/ clearing brush and invasive species. Bought a tractor. Hired a local to hay the land, watched what he did, bought my own equipment.
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9/ Worked hard to find a logger who would deliver firewood, processed it myself.pic.twitter.com/JE5VfstAkp
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10/ Tore down the crappy old fencing Horse Bitch had, put up new fencing. Raised some goats, taught myself to slaughter & butcher.pic.twitter.com/HVWx1t2mDU
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11/ Did a lot of work in the barn to build shelves, workbench, fix up electrical wiring. Insulated one stall, moved chickens in. Tore out >
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12/ old coop. Tore out old swimming pool. Cleared tons of junk out of the woods. Wife started tapping maple trees. I welded up a boil rig.
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13/ Found some farm hands at $10/hr so I could make progress faster. Kept working hard at day job so I could invest a ton of $$$.
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14/ Had hit-and-miss success w hay. Failed hay is still successful soil building mulch, tho! Started building garden patches. Planted.
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15/ Friends started asking "can I buy some hay? Can I buy a pigs head? Can I buy ..." Not MY primary goal, but if you're trying to earn >
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