I'm excited to produce my own food
I'm starting a project soon, it will take me many years, I am making my dream home, on my dream lot. We're moving to Chattanooga TN and I bought 20 acres up on a mountain. The lot is gorgeous, about 10 acres is hardwood, sloping, and the point of the ridge, good soil. The other 10 acres is limestone, won't be growing much there.
The trees are amazing though, hundreds of mature oaks and hickories. There is also a big mature persimmon tree, and a grove of large maples including a big 36 inch diameter mama. It also seems like I have idea habitat for wild ginseng, though I only just learned about that and so didn't look when last I was there.
I'm really excited to get down there and live, I'd like to be able to go plant my apple trees and whatnot now, to let them get a couple years of growth in (we're moving in 2015). But I'm just really excited about the maturity of the lot already. I won't have to plant nut trees and wait years and years for production, or maples hoping that, maybe in my retirement, I could make syrup because it would take so long to get them big enough. Plus all the free heat from the firewood provided by the forest. I'll have no shortage of hickory for smoking.
Instead of having to wait, I'll have more nuts than I could ever eat, maple syrup, and persimmons from day 1.
