As you can see my online "Moniker" is "GoatHollow"!!! That's because I used to keep a number of goats on our little 1 acre Homestead property. (Point 4 ha)
At one point, we had 11!!!!! They were a lot of work, and to tell you the truth, Goats are fragile. They succumb to any number of parasites and worms of the digestive tracts. We lost a lot of them, despite my best efforts to help them.
I've bottle fed many many baby goats, and we even had a little billy goat (His name was Tripod) who couldn't use one of his legs. I built a wheel chair for him, and even a "Peg Leg" so he could walk like a pirate.
I was finally digging a grave one day (In the rain) for one of my favorites, a nanny goat named Peanut that we'd raised from a baby. She was the sweetest thing!!! She just quit eating. I took samples to the local vet, I treated her with every medicine I could think of, she just died.
So here I am in the rain digging, and wallowing in the mud, and crying like a grown man shouldn't... And I decided enough was enough. We gave the rest of our goats away, and now we had this half acre pasture that is good for nothing but eating lawn mower gas.
Well I've been planning on what to do with this "Fallow ground", and ran across some of the people on Youtube who do "Urban Farming". There's a lot of talk about how you can make big money, small farming. I don't expect to make a huge fortune, but maybe I can get enough to get by. We're "Poor folk", anyhow, but we don't have tremendous needs either. Good thing we got out of debt some time ago!!!
We're planning to use half of our 2 1/2 car garage as a produce stand, if I can get $3-4 hundred together (US) to buy materials with for construction. I already posted a blog here on Steemit and showed off the green house I built for $288!!! (USD)
https://steemit.com/gardening/@goathollow/my-usd288-green-house
I have 40 tomato plants growing there, another 20 bell peppers, and over 200 lettuce plants!!!
On May 10th, unfortunately I had a Stroke. The Doctor people tell me I had 2! Just at the busiest time for starting our little produce business. :( I'm still recovering, but I'm getting a little better each day, and already making plans again
There's always next year!!!
I will be accepting Bitcoin and Steem in exchange for our produce!!!!! Anybody know how to do that???
