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01/21/13, 07:10 AM
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New Homesteader in Central FL!
Hi everyone - Just wanted to say I'm so glad I found this forum! My husband and I recently purchased 7 acres on the outskirts of Orlando, FL to get away from the city and start up our homestead. We like to try a little bit of everything and already have had success with our vegetable garden, fruit trees, chickens, ducks, goats, and aquaponics (tilapia). We currently have turkeys on order and honeybees as well so I'm very excited about that! Hubby and I both work full time but homesteading is becoming a huge part of our lives. We would like to get to the point where we don't have to rely on grocery store anymore. I don't have much confidence in what they are doing to food these days. We've already come a long way in just a short time so I think we are pretty close. Please take a look and let me know what you think! :-) We did register as an LLC to help justify an ag exemption as well as have a means to sell off our excess products. We are trying to find a few things that we can specialize in and sell on a regular basis but I'm not sure what that will be yet.
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-Kelsey
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01/21/13, 07:16 AM
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Welcome. Looks like you have a great place there.
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01/21/13, 08:10 AM
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Welcome!!!
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01/21/13, 08:14 AM
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Welcome to HT !! The friendships, advice and information available here is endless !!
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01/21/13, 08:47 AM
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Welcome. Nice Pictures on your blog.
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01/21/13, 08:50 AM
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Welcome. Do yall have the snake problem?
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01/21/13, 07:29 PM
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Hello from south of you. Are tou having any problems with feral iguanas?? they decimated our gardens in urban Palm Beach County so bad we gave up gardening in the city till the big chill a couple years back. We also found a few small, cold stunned iguanas out at Lake Placid. Coyote, fox, rabbit, opossum, rat, iguana, grackles, squirrel, and the bugs-everything eats our garden but us.
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01/21/13, 07:37 PM
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Welcome, Kelsey. I hope we are a good source of information. Best of luck.
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01/22/13, 06:31 AM
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Welcome, you'll love it.
Patty
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01/22/13, 06:48 AM
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Just got back from a vacation in Florida and loved it! BUT do you have alligators that eat everything they can get ahold of, including your dogs?
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01/22/13, 09:14 AM
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Alligators are all over the state and are usually only a problem in subdivisions where they lose their fear of people and attack the little ankle buyers that seem to be way to common nowadays.
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01/22/13, 05:46 PM
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Thanks for the welcomes! I can't say I've seen any iguanas yet. And no problems with snakes. We do have hawk, fox, raccoon and bobcat out here. We coop the chickens at night but we have still lost a few, 3 total since July which isn't bad. 1 was to a hawk and the other 2 just completely vanished so I'm guessing either fox, bobcat or raccoon. We had to start letting them out later and putting them up earlier to avoid predators so now they are out from about 8am-4pm.
I've had really good luck in the garden until recently. We have a small chain-link fenced area in our backyard which is where the garden is. A a few chickens would occassionally hop the fence and peck around in the garden but never did much damage. The other day my husband left the gate open and about a dozen of them went in and wiped it out. Needless to say the large garden I'm building has a really tall fence around it!
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01/22/13, 06:32 PM
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Welcome from just north of you. This is a great group here with tons of great advice and experience.
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01/22/13, 06:41 PM
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7 acres, nice. We have 1/2 and acre and it keeps me plenty busy. Good luck.
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01/23/13, 11:46 AM
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I can imagine your chickens yelling, "Free food! Come on!" and everyone fighting for scraps  been there done that. Wish I lived in Florida...been to Florida a few times and liked the state.
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01/23/13, 03:27 PM
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Another welcome from North Florida, along the St. Mary's River. Sounds like you've got a pretty good start going already.
In His Love
Mich
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01/23/13, 03:30 PM
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welcome..i'm in the cold..you're in the warm
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01/23/13, 05:11 PM
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Welcome to you! Very nice site. I agree with whoever said the pictures are beautiful. Your place looks very warm and inviting!
Oh, and, beautiful cat!
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And our first grandchild due in November!
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