The flowers I have is nothing that can be used for food, well at least food for me. Wildlife likes them & the goats like to get into them. I am considering having just having 1 type of flower here this year, and that is Sunflower. I can use the Sunflowers for the poultry.
With doing away with the flowers around my place, I am trying to utilize what cleared land I have, to grow food for humans & animals. It will be tough to start with, but in time every little spot I can find will have something growing on it that will be useful for human or animal food.
If you have read other posts here on the site, you already know I am dealing with a tree covered mountain. When I originally set this place up, I had no plans of homesteading here. I worked every day 12-16 hours 7 days a week and even worked Holidays. So therefore I never needed alot of yard space to take care of. Now I look back and think everything I have done here, is totally backward from the way I need it now. Then to compound the problems I already have for not planning about what I would be doing with the property in the future, I also had a beautiful 19 acre farm located 6 miles away from my current property. It had a Huge 2400 square foot home on it, big oversized 2 car garage, a huge barn,chicken coop and a 1/4 acre pond. Lovely rolling meadow that were fenced on 2 sides, it also has nice areas, for baling hay, which I just gave the hay away for someone to mow it & take it away,it also had a nice garden spot. They average about 60 large rolls a Summer of the hay. So I thought I don’t need that place and let it go, only to find 3 years down the road I wish I would have kept it.
So, I guess this is what happens when you really don’t know which way your life is gonna take you. But I will survive with this place, its just taking that much more work. I guess my main reason was for getting rid of it, was the financial standpoint. I had a huge monthly payment, and my other place had no mortgage. I was self-employed and panicked when the economy started to unravel. I was thinking about what would happen if it came to the point I could not rake up $1700 each month for the payment. You know things the way the economy is it really makes a person wonder what to do, then they turn back around & wonder did I do the right thing? Well from my view now, no, I never did the right thing.
Photo at the top is the 19 acre farm I got rid of.
