It is crazy how quickly we have lost all of the information our great-grandparents had. We also have a small homestead here in Panama, but things are different. We have a cow and some chickens. We used to have goats and sheep, but they were too much work in this tropical climate - constantly moving them around to keep them from getting parasites. A lot of homesteading is stuff I would like to relearn as well. I have a terribly black thumb!