Alicia Hilton

Hello I know when my husband and I sold sheep over 6 years ago we were just breaking even. It depends on Easter and Christmas sales. I know after 2020 the market started to get better for livestock because more and more people want organic meat. We were just a small farm. The hours for long 24/7 if we took a vacation we had to find someone to take care of animal's chickens and outdoor cats. We both worked he worked full-time and I worked part-time. We worked on the farm here we had to every few months clear the bushes from the livestock fencing. Hey you're mow the fields. And fix the roof panels that blew off and redo them. I did do the farmers market but where we live is not a high populated so I didn't make that much. Farming is a risk. Some people do really well at it and some people don't. I remember when I bought the farm 10 years ago

Dear truth seeking father I'm a little older than you and I have a homestead I've been living here for 10 years half the house is off the grid I have an orchard I did have livestock I sold them after my husband died and I'm a mother of three grown children some of them live here with me I have a three bedroom house I have the windmill my late husband made that produces electricity I have solar panels and like I said we're half off the grid I still have chickens I'm trying to find places to sell the eggs and I'm on a 28 acre property I'm a Christian I'm a godly woman I live in northwest Pennsylvania. My name is Alicia. I'm a modest godly woman I  I'm biblically sound. The best part of my life is being mother.

Nora Ewer wrote:Thank you, Kate!
I think that's a great idea. It sounds like a big family. I definitely don't think segregating people by age is natural or healthy, and that's what permaculture is all about

There are some nursing homes that are called Eden nursing homes that have intergenerational aspects like maybe a daycare for the workers and the children come and visit the elderly in the nursing home and assisted living and that they do a garden there's one in the county that I live in but I just recently heard from one of the workers that they were bought out several times and due to the lack of staff due to hiring situations in the demands of the nursing home that all the Eden concepts have been halted it is a Christian nursing home but do do lack of workers that they have halted this and they're no longer doing these things I have an idea for one that the pyramich culture could work with the elderly because the elderly know a lot from life experience especially farmers sadly in America many forms are being sold at auction because the children of the farmers don't want to continue because it's a 24/7 business and lifestyle

I have the land.I reached out to Jesus village as an intentional Christian community.There does not seem to be many of these.As a child where we grew up there were secular communities that I had friends who lived there.I seemed to like this idea.As a Christian now I am thinking about starting one but want to visit one.If you give me your email I will foward info.

Hi I'm two and a half hours from Pittsburgh I live in Crawford County I have a f a r m. This your letter was dated 2015 so I'm sure that you're now well established on this property I would like to be in contact with you for advice Alicia

Chris Holcombe wrote:Not well. None of them rooted. I’m not sure what happened, maybe blue elders just don’t like rooting from stem cuttings

I let a neighbor take several cuttings from a very old elderberry bush I asked her did they ever bloom or what happened to them and she said that they grew for a while but they never never once they planted them they never bloomed. Then what happened to my tree was some of it died it started to die and then I noticed one winter we had a very bad wind storm high winds of 60 MPH and somehow it got broken at the base from the wind and I saw some shoots come up but by accident my helpers that painted the barn like buzzed busted down and knowingly I felt like since I had to help to do the p*** I didn't want to rock the boat so I didn't say anything because it's very hard to find help these days I had to buy another plan and plan it somewhere else. I had some elderberries around my fence one of the pastures but after while they died they might have been 50 years old.