A new begining. I am farm bound.

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Oops, see the OP of that thread has already posted.

That's quite a leap! Congratulations and good look with your future endeavors!

The area I felt good about was......

Right on the border of the extreme weather...not so far north you get tundra conditions and not so far south you get tropical conditions....

Picture a line starting in southern eastern Colorado running east thru southern Kansas, southern Missouri and then turning south towards Arkansas towards Tenn......thats seems to be a happy medium as far as summer extremes and winter extremes....

Don`t ask me how I ended up with 6 acres in Golden Valley AZ too...

The main place is southern kansas.

I am currently in Southern California a couple miles from the beach, selling this place and keeping the other 2.

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Do you have a place yet? Why liquidate belongings? Personally, I'd hold on to em, you might accidentally need em. I'd rather have unneeded belongings than to find myself in a bind, and needing those unneeded liquidated belongings, and have to buy them again at a thrift shop, or shudder to think of it, retail.

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I am keeping all the tools I have, but trying to reduce other items, so I can travel with just my truck, and a trailer. We will sell furnishings, and by more used. I think this would be better than hauling this with 2 vehicles.

Best of luck to you, we have thought about doing this ourselves, but I just can`t leave here. I give you alot of credit for taking on a new adventure, you will be just fine, it is a new begining, everything springs anew. by the way we were looking in MO. but either state would be fine, heard alot of good things about TN also. Best of luck, and blessings. > Marc

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You're in my prayers, startupman. We're just a couple months behind you at this point- I'll be leaving my job in June to go build a house on the land we own in SC. I very well understand the fears and excitement that come with such a life-style change. May God bless your journey.

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I hope everyone here trully understands just how encouraging it is to hear the good wishes from everyone. I hear enough family members that have nothing to say but discouraging coments. It is trully uplifting to hear about others doing, or dreaming of doing the same type of thing.

Congrads on the beginning of your journey. Dh and I picked a spot on the map and here we are.We actually started out by the mountains and worked our way through TN..seeking jobs..all on a weekend.
TN is nice. We are in northern middle tn.
You didn't say what you are looking for really. Are you going to farm? ranch? Will you do it fulltime or will you need work? I often see good deals around here in the little local free paper.
Best wishes to you.

I didn't mean to be discouraging if I was .... but just wondering why you feel lead?

We lived in the northern part of Arkansas for a time; and while there, heard about the fault that ran under the western part of TN, eastern part of Ark and southern part of MO. With all the natural phenomenon going on of late, you might want to do a little research about this before you make the move to that area.

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Dolittle, I never took your question as being dicouraging, I didn't know how to anwer, without writting a book. But, I will try and answer as shortly as I can, and if you have more questions, then you can ask. I guess the very first thing that I should say, is that I am a born again Christian, and feel that the Lord still works with His people and leads His people as much today as He ever has. To tell you the truth, I felt like I was being lead to move, and quit my job nearly 8 years ago, but my wife was not so sure about it. Don't get me wrong, it has not been easy for me either. My job has been a very well paying job, and it wasn't that I hated the place either. I finally came to the place were she was on board, and rumors were going around work about a possible Buy-out. I finally told the Lord that if the buy-out comes, I would take it and move. As you can tell, I got the buy-out. Yes, there has been a lot more involved, but I said I would try and keep it short.

Good luck on your quest...you are one brave man!!!

Lamoncha, my plan is to buy somewhere between 40-80 acres. I want it to have at least 20 acres of timber, and the rest pasture. I would prefer it have some kind of residents on it to start with, but then plan to put 2-3 cabins on the property to rent as a farm stay. I plan to raise grass fed beef, I will also have chickens, for both eggs, and meat. Hogs will be something I will think about later. We might have a few lambs, but this will be more for the entertainment of children on the farm. Our main goal will be to be as self sufficient as possible. I plan to work on the farm taking care of the place, and cleaning cabins, and making sure our guest learn the things they have come to learn about. My wife may work off the farm, but we will have to see.

I was was just confused but you have clarified. Your moving is motivated by obedience to God... which is very different from hoping God will bless your own desires... to escape a job you are tired of.

I am a Christian also but I generally have issues with many who seem for a variety of reasons to be thinking that they are being led but this probably should be the topic of another thread. In this unstable economy it would not be wise to quit a decent job and blindly set out into the unknown hoping to improve your circumstances.

My own experiences have led me to question how God leads... which I have found to be a big controversial topic!

Anyway good luck and may God bless.

never mind

If you feel lead.......it has already gone wrong.

Actually I might agree with you but please explain...

And if so the thestartupman has already gone wrong !!!

Fyi past tense of the verb to lead is led ...

Theres lots of good places but I am partial to south central Kentucky. I started my homesteading career here in 1977 with 600 bucks, a worn out vw bus, 3 kids and a fair amount of energy. Its been a good life for me. Theres been hard times, good times, happy days and bad ones but overall the good Lord has provided for me well. He put me in the company of these good hill folk who are kind and helpful and mostly tend their own business unless asked for help or advise. Good luck to you and yers, where ever you land!

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