I envy you... I always wanted to have sustainability, independent and live freely without even thinking of money.. but I live in the city and I had to work for my retirement and for my family back home. Planning to have kids at that time didn´t work out and I had to find a job to support or shall we say give back something for the good deeds of my parents sending me to college.
Now I am retired and still have the thoughts of living in the country. We did have an avocado plantation of about 300 trees with automated irrigation in Spain that came with the property we bought. It didn´t pay off because we only spend the time there half of the year. We tried it though for 8 years and it was a good experience to be farmers, but then, I guess the work was too much when one is aging and besides it cost us a lot of money to run when we were not there so we sold the property.
Am anxious for the 3rd part of your story.
Hopefully you will enjoy part 3 too! Thanks @mers!
I saw the pics of @little-peppers... they are so happy playing with those animals and growing nicely in your homestead and that´s what city grown children are missing.. Instead of playing games or bullying someone in the social media, they will surely grow as disturbed persons, just remember those massacres in schools. You are surely keeping your kids out of trouble if they grow happy and away from drugs and violence.... and that´s the way it should be.