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I’m a network IT consultant / Audio Engineer looking for a slower type of life.  My wife and I do not have any children of our own so we have opened our doors to foster kids. Our hope is someday we will be able to adopt, but that day has yet to come. I still do the geek things, but now have a piece of land we can call our own.

Here at our homestead, Mrs. J raises chickens, and I do the gardening.

We are, as my grandmother would say, “…so far north that it feels like you’re going to fall off the edge of the earth.” Yes, we are north but only halfway.

Our homestead is 9 acres. Every year we have claimed more of the land to try to produce more from.

Egg-laying chickens and vegetables are our main staples now. Maybe someday we might add sheep or …..