New Member from SC

[FarmerD]

hello everyone.
my wife and i are embarking on a self sufficient lifestyle currently. we have a house in the city and 43 acres way, way, way out in the country. we are currently building a small house/cabin using natural, recycled, and reclaimed materials whenever possible. i just finished installing our off-grid solar system at the beginning of the new year. our goals are to start a small farm/homestead that utilizes a market garden, a commercial food forest, grazing animals and poultry, and bees to sustain us and make some money to support us. as it stands now, i will be going part time at my current job this summer (after our house is near completion) to pursue farming full time. im looking forward to sharing what ive learned and what we've accomplished with the board.

heres some sneak peaks of what we are up to....

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Welcome FarmerD. Looks like you've got some great projects going!

 

[Hinotori]

Welcome! It looks like you have a lot going right now

 

[FarmerD]

more random pics from the last year.....

 

[FarmerD]

some more....

 

[FarmerD]

last few, including one of me and the wife with naturalist, and semi-celebrity Rudy Mancke...

 

[baymule]

@FarmerD call their phone number and order a catalog. They don't have a web site. Love the pictures and the plans you and your wife are making. There is a bee keeping forum on www.backyardherds.com sister site to SS. perhaps you could post how you build the top bar hives.

 

[baymule]

ill be building a batch of hives in the next couple weeks. ill try to photo document the build for others.

I don't have bees, but I bet there are people on BYH that would sure like seeing how you built your hives. We are moving to 8 acres, maybe someday I'll get some bees of my own.

 

[Denim Deb]

Like the pic of the great blue.

 

[FarmerD]

Thanks. We're definitely in the infrastructure stage currently. Hope to get the market garden fired up this spring.