Such good advice.
I think when most of us started we had these grandiose plans of gardening, solar power, raising livestock (small and big)... life would be wonderful.
(cue the sad violin music) but boy did we, or maybe I should say I, learn fast that it's not all it's cracked up to be.
I agree, adding slowly, mastering one skill then moving to the next.
Cost is a major factor. Forming alliances can really help. Bartering for services. Yes, agreed 100%
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Hey you, I already told you about this, but I just found the original article from Rodale's which was copied word for word.
https://www.rodalesorganiclife.com/wellbeing/modern-homesteading
Yea I had some big ideas of everything I wanted done with in a year or 2. I did learn the hard way with planting the 30 trees though. You really have to protect them. I had deer scrape up a good 20 trees. Which I ended up either losing that winter or lost a good amount of its grow and the trees had to regrow again. That mistake was costly. It can take a tree 4 to 5 years to grow before it will fruit. I Probably cost my self not only $$$$ but a lost of about 2 or three years until all the damaged trees reach maturity. I did go and buy some new trees to replace the dead ones. I had planned out each variety so I would have fruit through out the summer. So I picked 5 different apple varieties that all had different harvesting dates through out the summer and fall. The same went for my peach and pear collections. I did a post with details for this here https://steemit.com/gardening/@shadowblade/fruit-tree-harvesting-chart