{"id":1894,"date":"2017-11-30T10:06:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T15:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelittlehalfacre.com\/staging\/?p=1894"},"modified":"2017-11-30T10:06:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T15:06:24","slug":"finally-a-food-guild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelittlehalfacre.com\/staging\/finally-a-food-guild\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, a Food Guild"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, after two years and three months into this homesteading thing, there’s finally a teeny tiny food guild in the works.\u00a0 Yikes!\u00a0 What progress!\u00a0 (yes, that’s a snarky tone there).<\/p>\n

This is supposed to be a sustainable, permaculture homestead — meaning that we make “zones” where those plants and bushes that need the most tending are near the house and where the animals and less tended items (like fruit trees and chickens) are further away.\u00a0 It also means that we want to heat at almost no cost, get our electricity from solar panels and our water from an easily renewable source.\u00a0 It also means that we plant our food in guilds in a manner that allows the plants to nurture and benefit one another as well as wildlife and us humans.\u00a0 So far though, except for the water, it’s been anything but.<\/p>\n

So far, we’ve got raised beds sticking up everywhere as we try to grow enough food to eat, enough to put by and some to sell for income.\u00a0 So far, the chicken coop is less than twelve feet from the bedroom window cuz there was no other place to put it.\u00a0 So far, the greenhouse, which should be looked at almost daily is at the very edge of the property.\u00a0 And, so far, the food guilds have only existed in The Happy Homesteader’s imagination.\u00a0 BUT . . .<\/p>\n