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have you established how much area you need to devote to raising grains to have an adequate supply? my situation consists of two adults, and currently i have now experience with grain or how large an area would be required for a couple to have bread continously

awesome! this is a near term future goal of mine. i also plan on small paddies for rice. its inspiring to see someone making it happen!

thats one hell of a shovel you must be using to dig that old thread up!

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I completely understand the stubbornness of traditional ideas. I think that's the bulk of what I deal with. That, and the idea that "if it was good enough for me it should be good enough for you too" We've done almost 2 years without using our dryer..... I wonder if it still works

all yalls stories are great!

Lol! You're absolutely right. I'm just greatful that the wife and I are so in tune with each other. Just sharing the journey with her is worth the BS.

Maybe my life is infested with arseholes

MSR makes a good one that screws onto their dromedary bags and bottles, but its just big enuf for drinking water. if youre piping it into your domestic supply, you want paper, charcoal, and uv sterilizer at least and slow sand and reverse osmosis or RO/DI if possible.

i havent had a chance to feel out the political climate here yet. you wanna chat doom and gloom, pm me.

i definitely hear you on that! some of our family like to stop in and comment about what we are doing at any given time, but have absolutely no idea how hard we working just to get what is done done

well that got off topic fast. i can not validate your gun ownership. we all make choices and must justify them to ourselves. i empathize with your brother and friends. there is no justification for the wars we wage. ive only been here for a few days, so its probably best i keep my political...

thanks for the vote of confidence. i could do the hippie thing if it werent for all that pacifism stuff

cool! nice to meet a neighbor. our homestead is out in gadsden, but we're currently living in columbia.

i may have come across as anti-hippie above. i hope noone is offended. round these parts, anyone that does that small farm stuff like you see on nat geo is a hippie

Yeah the whole thing amuses me. It's like a running joke especially around holiday time. I guess in this community, anyone that thinks of a farm as anything except a big corn or cotton field is just a hippie..... The kind with dreds, earth names, and guitars. Now I keep my mouth shut unless i...

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im just curious what everyone else experience with family/friends/friendly strangers has been when you talk about the crazy stuff you're doing or plan to do. im in the south, so its a cultural norm to want to move out onto some acreage in the country, but when you start talking details it gets...