Episode notes
"My father in law has a saying: 'you can do anything you want, but you can't do everything you want. There's always an opportunity cost and tradeoff for the things that you do or don't do.'"
John Sutton from Sutton Homestead joins me and shares about their homesteading on 7 acres in Eastern idaho.
"Homesteading is a lifestyle we love to live, food that we love to eat, and a garden is our gym."
John has cows, 15-20 chickens, and orchards.
- Added a companion goose to the chicken flock to help alert against predators. But the companion goose attacked new chickens added to the flock later. So they added a guinea hen instead.
- Rotational grazing and dealing with thistle.
- Failure is part of homesteading.
- Water on your homestead - they have a pond that fills from an underground spring/aquifer. It doesn' ...
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