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12/10/14, 09:20 AM
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Ideas for 3 acres
After having to sell my big place I now live on just 3 acres We have a few chickens and a garden I need Ideas on what to do with the other 2 acres I think they kept a horse on it before I bought it
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12/10/14, 09:59 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Michigan
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Originally Posted by Va. goatman
After having to sell my big place I now live on just 3 acres We have a few chickens and a garden I need Ideas on what to do with the other 2 acres I think they kept a horse on it before I bought it
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What do you feed to your chickens?
Grow your own feed.
For protein what do you feel about eating rabbits? Rabbits are easy to feed from home and under the rabbit cages worms will turn the poo into worm castings.
The worms will multiply like crazy and and you can harvest some to feed to your chickens.
What is not to like about this?
Eggs, chickens to eat, rabbits to eat and worm castings for the garden.
Plant some clover and carrots for the rabbits.
There are lots of things you can do with a couple acres.
Take a look at this page.
http://www.weedemandreap.com/backyard-farm-designs/
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12/10/14, 10:00 AM
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Motorcycle or ATV dirt track... That's what I did with the back two acres of my three acre place years ago... 
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12/10/14, 10:02 AM
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We have 3.5 acres. I have chickens, rabbits, goats, fruit trees, & a huge garden.
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12/10/14, 10:21 AM
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We live on an acre in town. We've got chickens, bees, goats and a good sized intensive garden. None of those things take a lot of space. If the horse acres are well fenced you've got lots of options... I'd love to add a hog to my set up, but I'm pretty sure I couldn't float that one with the neighbors.
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12/10/14, 10:26 AM
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Ah shoot...I seen the title and thought you were searching for Christmas gift ideas for me.... .
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12/10/14, 10:39 AM
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The funny thing is when I had sixty acres the most productive was the two acres around the house.....
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12/10/14, 11:36 AM
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Create an orchard. Two acres is plenty of room to plant hazelnuts (Arbor Day now has small hybrid hazelnuts that I am planting as a border). You can still graze animals in an orchard as long as the trees/bushes are protected while young. Ditto growing your own chicken feed. They love sunflower seeds, which make a lovely annual flower. I would buy lambs in the spring, graze them all summer in the orchard, and butcher them in the fall. Sheep are easy keepers, especially if you do not overwinter them.
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12/10/14, 11:44 AM
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With your name,e you gotta have goats. I have 1 acre and have 3 pygora milk goats, rabbits, chickens and 3 pigeon pairs. It is 90% of our meat. Yes, we eat the wether goats. We have fruit trees and a nice garden. We have all the water we need for irrigation, even irrigating the pasture....James
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12/10/14, 12:35 PM
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I use to keep 40 to 60 goats for 20 years I do like the orchard idea I picked this place cause it's way out and there's about 10,000 acres of National forest out the back gate
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12/10/14, 04:17 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2010
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We have three acres as well. There is a large pond and woods at the back of the property. We have bees (kept by a beekeeper we invited to use our property) on the far side of the pond near the woods, and we have laying hens, fruit trees, grapevines, and a garden. When we can afford to finish fencing the pasture area, we would like to get some meat chickens.
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12/10/14, 09:17 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Michigan
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Originally Posted by Maura
Create an orchard. Two acres is plenty of room to plant hazelnuts (Arbor Day now has small hybrid hazelnuts that I am planting as a border). You can still graze animals in an orchard as long as the trees/bushes are protected while young. Ditto growing your own chicken feed. They love sunflower seeds, which make a lovely annual flower. I would buy lambs in the spring, graze them all summer in the orchard, and butcher them in the fall. Sheep are easy keepers, especially if you do not overwinter them.
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The striped sunflower seeds have the highest protein in them.
They love pumpkins and pumpkin seeds are good protein also.
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12/11/14, 10:35 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Jawja
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Berries
I have been experimenting with growing grapes here in central Ga for last 12 years.i am now cnverting 300 feet of vineyard to raising a trailng black berry called black satin. It is a non thorn variety as well.
I also have three beds of 8 railroad ties in length of blue berry. Premier for me does well and adding about 20 Titans, a quarter sized berry.
I will also have 100 feet of three blackberry types, Tayberry, Loganberry and Marionberry,
I raise bees in topbar hives, and just planted an apple and pear orchard of 7 trees. Carolona june, ark black, buckingham, spitzenberger, kiefer (pear).
Also, planted Posednick giant pecans, long term project, no doubt.
Keeping this to a one man operation, and selling on two market days.
Leaving the other 400 feet of grapes and muscadines with varieties that i have proved can survive here in central Ga.
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12/12/14, 06:58 PM
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When we had 3 acres, we had chickens, turkeys, guineas, rabbits, a huge garden, two chicken forage areas and fruit and nut trees with an additional acre and a half in woods that I had planned to put goats on. The thing is.....it is so easy to care for three acres instead of our larger place. In some ways, it was better. We still had a large front yard to mow in and around the fruit and nut trees.
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12/15/14, 06:50 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Missouri
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I figured I'd better make a more serious post since my user name is 3acres... .
I have more than 3 acres, but find what people are doing with just an acre or even 1/2 or 1/4 or 1/8th of an acre really inspiring! It wasn't until getting into this lifestyle and coming across these people that I realized how wasteful I was and still am...working on it.
On 3 of my acres around the house here right now, I have...
the house and garage of course
barn
strawberries
blackberries
raspberries
5 garden spots
apple trees
peach trees
rabbits
quail
turkeys
chickens - layers and meatbirds
ducks
3 sheep
10 goats
5 young gilt pigs(future sows) moving around tilling gardens
3 other bred gilts
a cow with twins and a replacement heifer calf fertilizing my biggest garden
2 other replacement heifers in a lot
1 steer for future butchering
1 bull
a pony
dogs and cats...
with a lot more coming in the works
I then have a cow herd, more pigs, horses and hay ground on the additional land I have, but most everything is right close with room for more if put in the right spot.
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