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My wife and I started to figure out vegetable gardening back in 2018-ish, just for fun. We got interrupted by a flood and having to move in 2019, but we were getting good amounts of potatoes and squash in 2020. We got chickens in 2022, and Ww grew and gave away a few hundred pounds of potatoes in 2024.
In November 2024 I was casting about for some sort of something I could do to keep my family somewhat safe or at least unnoticed. I bought a few acres in a rural area. Maybe that was a bad idea. Maybe it was a good idea. Don't know yet.
We are up to 15 chickens now. We spent 2025 figuring out what we can and can't grow at the new place, and in 2026 our garden is coming along nicely. Hopefully by 2027 it will be even better.
I've been making friends with locals, and I've even been getting involved in the local town hall. I've noticed something interesting. Everyone under the age of about 75 in the area absolutely hates trump and the spinless weenies who are supporting him in the government. It's interesting because everyone online assumes every rural bumpkin must be a trumpette. That's not really the case. Trumpettes are much more common in suburban areas, at least local to me.