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Merlin00
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14 Feb ’13 - 1:16 am
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I recently saw a post on Reddit that linked back to your newly-designed site and thought this community would be perfect for me. About 1 year ago, my wife and I recently purchased a plot of land about 15 minutes from St. Louis city with approximately 9.6 acres, a small clubhouse, and a 1700 square foot pole barn.The property borders the Missouri River and has a couple natural springs and a pond as well. We don't actually live on our 'homestead', but about 12 minutes away in a condo.

We have tons of ideas, but are limited on time. The property already has mature fruit and nut-bearing trees and some perennial vegetables/fruits that we're looking to get more serious about harvesting and preserving the output. We're also very technology-inclined and have just purchased a surveillance system. I have a lot of interest in welding, renewable energy, home improvement projects, harvesting, and whatever else I end up reading about. My wife is interested in gardening/fricking-farming, wood-working, home improvement projects, etc. I'm sure I'll end up posting some other interests as time goes by, but feel free to ask questions!

Thanks,

-Jeremy-

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welcome jeremy, sounds like you will fit in here perfectly with our members, we all have a broad range of backgrounds but with one goal in mind, living as self sufficient as possible

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Welcome Merlin. Kvr has some great threads on canning and other ways to preserve food you should give them a look. Look forward to seeing you around. What kind of fruits and nuts do you guys got growing over there? I'm in Washington state BTW.

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14 Feb ’13 - 7:38 am
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Welcome Merlin, You'll find a lot of interesting topics and a bunch of great people here on the boards.

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Quote from Greenup on February 14, 2013, 01:55

Welcome Merlin. Kvr has some great threads on canning and other ways to preserve food you should give them a look. Look forward to seeing you around. What kind of fruits and nuts do you guys got growing over there? I'm in Washington state BTW.

So far:

    apples

    peaches

    pears

    plums

    blackberries

    cherries (yellow and red)

    walnuts

    chestnuts

My wife has plans for much much more...

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Merlin00
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I thought I should go ahead and post this:

http://www.space-monkey.org/garbage/IMG_6475.JPG

It's a rather high resolution image of some of our harvest from last year.

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14 Feb ’13 - 8:30 pm
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Merlin,where can I get a shiner tree? :D

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Hah, those are very rare!

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