Sara Carver

* should have said AND feed it to the poultry.

Zone 9b here. I use Mexican Sunflower- the invasive one, but I’m not sure why it’s classified as that because it’s never spread anywhere that I didn’t stick a cutting into the ground. It grows 20 feet tall and I chop and drop it about 2-3 times per year, but feed it to the poultry.

Hi all,

Just throwing this out there to see if anyone is interested in co-homesteading in Florida with me. I have 8 acres near the beach. Great little small town. The ideal person(s) would be someone that had an RV to live in that would pay a fair rent to live in this awesome place, and share ideas, create, and help to care for the property. Currently I have several garden areas, a small food forest, poultry, and aquaponics. The property has creek access where you can fish, kayak, John boat, and blue crab harvest.

Let me know if you would like to discuss this further!

Thanks, Sara

I have turkeys and the best way would be by behavior at this stage. The males tend to do what I call square dancing around another turkey - especially another male. They will put their wing out and circle around another. That’s really the only way until their snood starts growing more than the females.

Yaupon Holly

https://gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu/plants/trees-and-shrubs/shrubs/yaupon-holly.html

Welcome! 😎

Thank you!

Hi there,

We’re in Flagler beach and have started a homestead- starting with poultry, gardening (fruit and nut trees, hugelkultur beds, perennials, natives, medicinal herbs, etc), and will be working on aquaponics system very soon! Just got four IBCs. Want to work on land utilization as I have 8 acres mostly wooded. I’m reluctant to deforest though. So welcome fellow Florida permie!

Sara

Daniel Schmidt wrote:I'd be interested in hearing more as well. I'm in Northeastern-most FL and have an acre inland a bit between St. Augustine and Daytona. I'm not looking to move but it would be nice to share ideas and help move good ideas forward. I'm mostly interested in solar, electric bikes, trees and would like to get involved in aquaculture/aquaponics. Hopefully I'll have more of my ongoings to share on here very soon, and it would be great to hear more from others given how different things work here versus most other places in the country.

Hi Daniel,

We live close to you it seems (Flagler Beach) and are starting an aquaponics system shortly. Have you gotten into this yet? We have a homestead we are starting.
Sara

Hi,

I’m a complete novice but I do agree with the berms and swale idea. I’ve got some other plant options that may work. Swamp Mayhaw tree and Pawpaws (need lots of water), Herbs - mint, motherwort, marshmallow, and comfrey of course….it’s  usually in the name so think about that too! Ie Marsh - mallow. Also, I’m sure you know this too but the larger the leaves the more water needs (like banana and Pawpaw). Hope I added something. I live in Flagler beach btw.