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I applaud ALL of that, but I gotta comment on the food thing. The only reasonable way to provide your own food is to excel at a crop or three and trade with like minded growers.
I had similar dreams when I first got my 2.5 acres of swamp. Nope! Unless I got heavy machinery to pull the muck uphill to where the soil sucks (basically doesn't exist) and mix it in AND cut down shitloads of trees, that land is a non-starter. For now I'm trying to get super tough, self sustaining food that doesn't take any care like our local blackberries. Pretty thin on ideas there, and without living there, it costs time and gas so I can't run out there daily.
Yep the food will probably be HEAVILY dependant on what kind of land and/or my neighbours. I plan on living in Quebec, north of the st Laurent between or near Montreal and Trois Rivières. I’ll probably be looking at essentially a beefed up hobbyist garden for the first long while, maybe chickens, rabbits, ducks, and fishing in the streams for my proteins. But pork and maybe beef locally. Because of the shorter grow season I wanna experiment with hydroponics, but I won’t expect great results just mostly do it as a hobby thing. The land there is already cultivated, some of the oldest cultivated land in the area beyond First Nations cultivation, so fingers crossed maybe I’ll be able to buy an old abandoned farm for decent. Starting my own homestead from scratch in a swamp or wooded area will probably be beyond my abilities for sure