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My wife and I are just starting down this path ourselves, after two years of planning. We just moved 3 hours away from home to live in the mountains. We are renting for a year to learn the area, and will start looking for the land to build our homestead next spring. I grew up with one parent who wanted to live off grid and one that didn't, so they compromised with a hobby farm. We had chickens, ducks, guinea fowl, milking goats, and a horse. We made maple syrup and for a year raised meat rabbits. I have had a vegetable garden every year of my life. That said, I don't really have a lot to contribute to the lthread because it's all on hold for a year. I will say, OP, 5-10 acres is not as big a plot of land as you think it is. It's certainly enough to do what you want to do, and is the size I am shooting for, but it's not enough that your neighbors won't be annoyed by your guineas. Oh, I must recommend The self sufficient life and how to live it by John Seymour. It was written before "green" was really a thing, but the whole focus is homesteading while taking in no outside products and producing no waste. It also has a how to guide on pretty much everything you can imagine.
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