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A brand new start!

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For many years now all my thoughts were on a farm, anywhere between two and 20 acres. So after dreaming, scheming, positive visualizing and hunting, and with the help of a fantastic real estate agent and more luck than I thought I possessed, I managed to find a farm of my very own. I signed on the dotted line the first of June of this year. My new farm measures 80 ft wide by 100 feet deep. Not quite the 20 acres I wanted - but at least it’s MINE!!! We get what we need, not always what we want! Having always been interested in where my food comes from I have been raising small livestock for years.  Other than some chickens when we were kids (known in my circle as “gateway livestock”), it really started for me with a Christmas turkey when I was still married and living in Ireland.  Once I persuaded my now ex-husband to move to Florida, I got chickens again, then rabbits, then goats, then pigs … and then I got divorced. The divorce was the best thing to get out of all of