I'm researching truck farming (aka microfarming and market gardening). I sell goat milk cheese shares and eggs, and suddenly our customers are asking if we will have produce next year for sale.
Sounds like a good idea. We want to do this because we'd like to make enough to pay off house in 15...
We have only 2 acres, here in Zone 5, the plains of Colorado. Sandy loam (mostly sand!). Most of our space I can easily plan... paddocks for the goats and chickens, with crops growing in some of them. Areas for a small orchard, berry brambles, nut trees. But there's one place that stumps me...
We are moving our bantam chickens into the garage in time for cold-weather. There's a little dog door that we'll open for them to go into a little run that, unfortunately, will be on the north side of the garage. About half in sun in the summer but a lot less in the winter. The small run will...
Had been meaning to register here months ago, but only just got around to it last week. So much to do. But I'm a regular on BYC and SS, and sometimes post on BYH.
We have a little bit of land, about 2 acres. Only been here since MArch 2010. We have 4 goats (2 does, 1 buck, 1 wether), about...