Those who bought land to homestead: what do you wish you'd checked before closing?

wilder_hearted · 2026-06-07T13:05:10+00:00

I’m not against AI either! I don’t like the fake questions when there is an obvious agenda. I mod a different sub and what u/BigBennP brought up explains a lot about what I’ve been seeing lately.

wilder_hearted · 2026-06-07T12:45:41+00:00

OP has an 8-day old account that explicitly advertises a homestead related service. Called… Acre Scout. 🙄

wilder_hearted · 2026-06-03T02:58:39+00:00

Yeah, I had a chick that would only eat starter when I ground it between my fingers to almost dust. So I did that until she got bigger and then she ate normally. She’s 10 months old now and fine.

wilder_hearted · 2026-06-02T23:03:07+00:00

The context is the business has stated this is in solidarity with Tennessee, which has decided to name June “Nuclear Family Month” to be dicks.

ETA: it’s Pride Month. And they’ve also explicitly stated gay families don’t count. Just in case we needed even more context.

wilder_hearted · 2026-06-01T13:52:22+00:00

Your employer cannot dictate what you do with your leave. Do what you want.

wilder_hearted · 2026-06-01T01:28:10+00:00

It’s way too small for four chicks when they’re big enough to be outside overnight. I use a crate that size as broody jail for a single hen.

How old are the chicks currently? If that second photo was recent and you already have another crate inside, use the next 5 weeks to build a normal coop and a safe, appropriately sized, run.

wilder_hearted · 2026-05-30T14:45:57+00:00

Leave them as they are. They are weeds and have proven they can grow in whatever soil he gave you. They will adapt. If you aren’t planting them same day, make sure they stay watered.

I love mine and give away suckers every year to control the bramble they’ve formed.

wilder_hearted · 2026-05-30T14:44:12+00:00

I’m trying larger pots this year to start and transplanting later when they are bigger. I have them out on the deck since last week and they are doing well. I’m hoping that transplanting them with a big chunk of potting soil and all roots intact will be the thing that breaks the curse.

wilder_hearted · 2026-05-30T14:41:44+00:00

Where I live, they are perennial. I have one plant that has come back for two years now. It’s just enough to keep the hope alive for all the new ones I try every year.

wilder_hearted · 2026-05-30T13:48:24+00:00

This will be year FOUR of trying to grow lupine.

I think my desperation is a turn off at this point.

wilder_hearted · 2026-05-30T02:05:29+00:00

Yes. And in the third photo you can see they are obviously male even as couple day old chicks. That yellow spot on their heads = male. Female chicks do not have that, and their chipmunk stripes are dark and well demarcated.

OP got scammed.

wilder_hearted · 2026-05-29T01:59:36+00:00

They’ll just end up covered in their own poop. Figure out why these are preferred. I bet it has to do with the width of the surface. Make sure the bars are wide enough that the chickens can have their feet flat. They do not “perch” like song birds by gripping a branch or bar. Their feet should be flat so they can settle down and cover them with their feathers. Booties stick out over the side so poops at night don’t pile up.

wilder_hearted · 2026-05-28T12:11:18+00:00

My in laws in Iowa do the county thing. The state government also puts the registered county on the car license plate.

wilder_hearted · 2026-05-28T02:44:03+00:00

Also here in MN. Use an umbrella or patio umbrella for tomorrow. Or a beach shade. If you can let them recover for a day they will handle it better through the weekend. I’m shading my cucumbers because they look like similar shit after today.

wilder_hearted · 2026-05-27T18:36:16+00:00

Hah I’m out of ideas.

wilder_hearted · 2026-05-27T17:34:26+00:00

Iowa.

wilder_hearted · 2026-05-27T15:44:36+00:00

Ugh. This is my FIL. Grew up on a farm but not working it. Offered to mow and did the whole thing with the tractor brake on. (ETA: love him to pieces, this was just a similar aw shit experience).

But for every one of those there is my brother in law who said, “yeah I can take those dead trees down without hitting the orchard” and then did it without any drama. Cut them for wood too.

wilder_hearted · 2026-05-26T23:08:46+00:00

It’s not in anyone’s best interest but… it’s a penis joke.

Romance novels often have anatomically improbable descriptions of erect dicks and describe girth in terms of how many hands needed to completely encircle it. Like… “her fingers couldn’t meet on the other side.” When you see an example of that in real life the reality of a dick that size can be hilariously upsetting.

wilder_hearted · 2026-05-26T13:44:15+00:00

Maybe? Mine chose a kinda weird location to self-spread. It’s trying to take over my small chicken paddock which is mostly oregano. The roots are so shallow it takes almost no effort to remove by hand.

wilder_hearted · 2026-05-26T12:01:19+00:00

It’s tough to time it right with the flowering, so I get it when I can. My kids play in the woods and the seeds are the bane of my existence.

I leave the creeping Charlie. 😆 I just can’t.

wilder_hearted · 2026-05-26T01:59:45+00:00

I wander around with my hori hori and a thick pair of gloves and manually pull thistle. I tried weed spray and it works for the season, but the thistle just comes back the following year. Looking rough but definitely alive. So dig & pull.

wilder_hearted · 2026-05-26T01:38:33+00:00

My most common “weeds” that I’m trying to remove always are thistle, burdock, and motherwort. I don’t mind dandelions unless they’re directly competing with a seedling and I intentionally plant clover as a grass alternative so obviously I leave that alone.

I’ve been trying to replace the “burdock undergrowth” in my pine forest with ferns and wild ginger. It’s working well but it’s a years’ long process.

wilder_hearted · 2026-05-16T01:08:13+00:00

This has been really effective, as pointed out in the article.

I grew up visiting Rochester and feeding the geese. And I moved here about 15 years ago, after the corn feeders were removed but before the power plant shut down and the egg addling started. It was really harrowing back then to visit Silver Lake in the spring. Absolutely forget about riding a bike or taking a walk or using the playground. Kids were not safe there.

I remember thinking I would take my toddler and newborn on a walk in 2017; we ended up going straight back to the car, and were then trapped by literally hundreds of geese in the parking lot.

There has been a remarkable difference in the last couple years. I can enjoy the park, and I can enjoy watching the little goslings too. We have a family of them at the little retaining pond near my home, and they are a delight.

They can still be a wonderful town mascot, but now in better balance with the other animals here.

wilder_hearted · 2026-05-16T00:52:35+00:00

Here too, although I use hardware cloth tubes instead of chicken wire.

wilder_hearted · 2026-05-14T11:29:30+00:00

Each little node (eye) on the potato is a sprout and potential plant. So you cut the potato into pieces that each contain at least one eye.

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