Greetings,
First I would like to say good luck on your new venture. Have you read the
entire small farms library at JTF? It is a great place to start.
Are you aware of just how much land 15 hectares is? To farm that much
land, you are going to need some serious equipment. That is, if you
Hello Garth and Kim Travis,
I have been reading extensively in the small farm library. It is one of my
motivations for doing this. I always thought it would be too difficult or
expensive. Yes, I know how much 15 hectares is. (A little more than 37 acres or
150,000 sq meters) It is just most of
Hallo Kim,
Thursday, 28 July, 2005, 08:20:54, you wrote:
GKT Greetings,
GKT First I would like to say good luck on your new venture. Have you
GKT read the entire small farms library at JTF? It is a great place
GKT to start.
GKT Are you aware of just how much land 15 hectares is? To farm
While not a practical idea for most, I suspect, it would be nice to be able
to "apprentice" with some Amish farmers. Some of the intensive,
largelysustainable, farming practices that were relatively commonplace
knowledge even as recent as 50 years ago in the USarenow a
totallyunknown
To 'apprentice' with an Amish farmer may not only be impractical it may
be practically impossible. I don't know the Amish but I live in the
heart of Mennonite country which I believe is very similar. Old order
Mennonites farm without electricity, engines and much mechanization.
New order
Greetings Tom,
I am glad to hear you have been studying. The main reason I warned you
about the size, is that I have half that much land and so far, I am barely
using half of what I have. The learning curve is something else,
regardless of how much studying we do. Unless of course you come
Greetings Gustl,
I agree that a 15 hectare farm is not much for an experience farmer with
knowledge, experience and a whole community behind them. It is a very
large piece of land for a couple, from the city, just learning to farm who
don't have a community behind them. I know, I have half
Garth Kim Travis wrote:
Greetings Gustl,
I agree that a 15 hectare farm is not much for an experience farmer with
knowledge, experience and a whole community behind them. It is a very
large piece of land for a couple, from the city, just learning to farm
who don't have a community behind
I love Dexter's.
They are a great little triple purpose breed, and the fact they do better on
tough feed than on concentrates is fantastic.I plan to have several when
I get my land.
Greg H.
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Hallo Joe,
Thursday, 28 July, 2005, 10:08:23, you wrote:
JS To 'apprentice' with an Amish farmer may not only be impractical
JS it may be practically impossible. I don't know the Amish but I
JS live in the heart of Mennonite country which I believe is very
JS similar. Old order
Hallo Kim,
I do not think we are in disagreement about this but just approaching
it from differing angles. Fifteen hectare in Uraguay should be plenty
enough land for a team of horses, a cow, hog and some fowl as well. It
is a matter of how one does things. In Bavaria they keep a team and
Greetings Garth and Kim,
I anticipate a long learning curve but I have another job and so does my wife
to support our family. I teach chemistry and environmental science so I have
considerable time off. Historically that time off was for the farming community
to plant and harvest so I'm
Greetings Gustl,
We actually called our place: The Rose Colored Forest because we are a pair
of dreamers. While I had never farmed, I had survived survival training in
the Canadian military. I knew how to butcher, shoot and cook real food
before we started. I know we would be much richer
be very careful of the chupacabras! ;)
-chris b.-Original Message-From: Tom Irwin [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: 'Biofuel@sustainablelists.org ' Biofuel@sustainablelists.orgSent: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:03:54 -0300Subject: RE: [Biofuel] Moving to the land was The Saudi oil bombshell
We have foxes
"Chupacabras, Wolpertingers and Jackalopes...oh my!"
- Dorothy
Mike[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
be very careful of the chupacabras! ;)
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