Any homesteaders? Gardners? Animal Raisers?

[nagolbudSpectator 674]

I raise quail on my roof, free range rabbits, chickens, and a small meal worm farm in a medium sized city in Mexico.

Anyone else?

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[Anonymous 6]

Not yet, but eventually i want to have my own ranch with a bunch of cattle, and a few horses. Fix it up real nice and make it my own. And with millennials being so crazy, i may very well get a great size ranch for little money due to the fact that they won’t know what they have.

Feel free to stop by, we’ll put some steaks on the grill and sit around a fire.

[Anonymous 42]

If I lived as far SOUTH as Mexico I would have an aquaponics garden! You have 3 growing seasons while I’m stuck with only one while the other two are buried under snow and ice!

You’ve got it made for food production! That’s if you’re not in the desert with no water…

[nagolbudSpectator 674]

Anonymous wrote:

If I lived as far SOUTH as Mexico I would have an aquaponics garden! You have 3 growing seasons while I’m stuck with only one while the other two are buried under snow and ice!

You’ve got it made for food production! That’s if you’re not in the desert with no water…

I have thought about buying a large plastic pool at the store for 2000 pasos and filling it with fish. Pumping that to the roof and growing stuff 🙂

Yes that’s why I left. One of my favorite passions is raising and growing my own food… and in Wisconsin.. dude 1 season and if its bad, well have fun waiting around all winter. I left before winter last year. Couldn’t do it again. Here. I can actually grow 4 seasons. There are ways to grow in rainy and dry season here 😀 Someone stole my mid-summer watermelon on the fence haha.

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[743 roadmasterParticipant]

I do some gardening. Glad you brought up the topic. Just finished up a garden. Was not pretty, had two months with only a trace of rain. I still managed to bring in about 150 pounds of butternut squash, and two very nice black diamond watermelon. Would have had 3 or 4 times that about except for the drought. Which took out the late season sweet corn, and the cantaloupe.

Going to look into some kind of greenhouse. The problems here are excessive summer sun, water to much or not enough. Mulching and growing in pots along with some a screen to cut some of the excess summer.

I plan on giving these felt plant pots a trial run.
https://www.amazon.com/247Garden-5-Pack-Gallon-Aeration-Handles/dp/B013JM3JAI/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1509763845&sr=8-3&keywords=felt+planter+bags&dpID=415-8iQHCAL&preST=_SX300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch
Which I might do more sooner then later getting some winter cabbage out.

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[nagolbudSpectator 674]

743 roadmaster wrote:

I do some gardening. Glad you brought up the topic. Just finished up a garden. Was not pretty, had two months with only a trace of rain. I still managed to bring in about 150 pounds of butternut squash, and two very nice black diamond watermelon. Would have had 3 or 4 times that about except for the drought. Which took out the late season sweet corn, and the cantaloupe.

Going to look into some kind of greenhouse. The problems here are excessive summer sun, water to much or not enough. Mulching and growing in pots along with some a screen to cut some of the excess summer.

I plan on giving these felt plant pots a trial run.
https://www.amazon.com/247Garden-5-Pack-Gallon-Aeration-Handles/dp/B013JM3JAI/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1509763845&sr=8-3&keywords=felt+planter+bags&dpID=415-8iQHCAL&preST=_SX300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch
Which I might do more sooner then later getting some winter cabbage out.

Nice that’s awesome! Have you ever heard of the deep mulch method? I have been experimenting with it here in Mexico because the neighbors all let their grass grow long then cut it like once a month. I go around collecting the bags of grass and put it in different places to create garden beds. It breaks down and the rabbits and chickens dig in it and mix it up and spread fertilizer. I also throw scraps from the kitchen in there and they spread the seeds. I call it the random garden but you can also plant this way too. The ground is always moist and deep rich color. The sun here in the jungle can be intense.. we have a hot period of 2 months of no rain in the jungle and everything was fine under this deep mulch. Permaculture mixed with that back to eden garden method. Works awesome!

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[743 roadmasterParticipant]

I have spent some time reading into permaculture. Have went out of my way to try and find the right mix to help hold moisture in the ground. Wood chips, leaves, grass clippings, straw. It all kind of goes to the wayside when you have a month or more with out rain. Which living in Louisiana you would think just never happens, but every year I can count on at least two months of drought. Some years it is broken up into one month then a few months later another. So I have given up on the idea of regular dirt planting and getting more control over the day to day care of the plants.

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[nagolbudSpectator 674]

What about a fish farm and aquaponics with solar powered pumps 🙂

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[743 roadmasterParticipant]

Have you tried aqua? Give it a go sometime. I bet almost anything you will spend lots of money and time and have nothing to show for it. I have done it, have the whole set up. From the water distilling tanks to the clay growing media. Going to sell it all. Amazing amount of stuff can go wrong and kill off your plants.

mgtow is its own worst enemy- https://www.campusreform.org/

[nagolbudSpectator 674]

743 roadmaster wrote:

Have you tried aqua? Give it a go sometime. I bet almost anything you will spend lots of money and time and have nothing to show for it. I have done it, have the whole set up. From the water distilling tanks to the clay growing media. Going to sell it all. Amazing amount of stuff can go wrong and kill off your plants.

Yeah no doubt. That’s why I would do a mix between permaculture and aquaponics. Fill containers with rabbit s~~~ directly. Pump it on and through the system. Instead of fish I’d probably just do rain water and leave the grey water to the chicken garden. Rabbit s~~~ is by far the best thing you could ever use for plants. You cant burn them like chicken s~~~ or cow s~~~.

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