Our new house

Every day was something new to discover. We were now living on a real farm with eighty acres of land with barn, wood shed, work shed, garden plot, garage, fruit trees, and best of all a chicken coop. I could hardly believe it was real, our new friend Steve, the landlord, was very generous and agreed to let us do whatever we wanted with the place.
So we looked forward to spring, there was a lot of work to be done and plans to be made.
The basic idea was to raise organic chickens for meat and eggs and start a 100% organic garden with plans to make homemade salsa and tomato sauce. I spent months online and my wife brought books from the library researching various topics like, organic gardening, chickens, food processing, woodworking, birdhouse building, plants, pests, bio-security, worm farming, fencing, farmers almanac, weather patterns, soil testing, composting, manure, more chickens, how to build a cold frame, greenhouse, nest boxes, chicken roosting, raised garden beds, canning, wildflower growing and drying, organic fertilizer, egg processing and more....