Making hemlocks into "pasture"

[outlawfarmer]

Step 1 Flee city and loose shirt on house
Step 2 Move to lake side community in rural New England buy 4 acres
Step 3 (opional) Find out you have big cancerous tumor inside kdney
Step 4 Loose 7 months of life and thousands of dollars to surgery and complications, but kick cancers ass
Step 5 Trade logger trees for stumping an acre after he cuts trees
Step 6 Use goats, then pigs, then chickens, then ashes and lime to build soil
Step 7 Grow goodness in newly found sunlight to improve soil and feed family
Step 8 Live happily ever after...

Today began step 5...

5hours into it

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

Awww I love it! More pics please!



(Well all but step 3)... sorry you had to deal with that!

 

[Goatherd]

I like a fighter! Best of luck to you.

 

[alsea1]

Looking forward to hearing more.
So far sounds like you have had quite the battle.

 

[outlawfarmer]

Well I believe I'm picking up my first goat on Monday. Shes a bred toggenburg and supposed to be used to being milked. So I'm trying to decide how I want the goat shed to look and where to fence first. Very excied and the loggers are still doing their thing

 

[Cricket]

Best of luck! Don't know what part of NE you're in, but I'd think that trading stumping for logs is a good deal! We've never gotten much for Hemlock at the mill. My husband bought a used portable saw mill years ago and Hemlock makes good flooring for critter barns. Just in case you want to add mill to your 'want' list and have trees left over. (I'm always happy to complicate life!)

 

[outlawfarmer]

I think the hemlocks are going for beams and fence making. I will need more fences but now need open air spaces it was too thick to see the sky

 

[outlawfarmer]

We're getting there. Lots of nosey people asking what's going on. So I may name it Nunya Farm. "What's a nunya... nunya business"
Or I'm gonna put up a sign... Walmart coming soon....

 

[outlawfarmer]

 

[marlowmanor]

We're getting there. Lots of nosey people asking what's going on. So I may name it Nunya Farm. "What's a nunya... nunya business"
Or I'm gonna put up a sign... Walmart coming soon....

I love that name idea! Sounds like something my DH would come up with! I say go for the name idea. It's totally original and you wouldn't have to worry about other people already having the same name!