My Dream Farm

I'd like to start my dream at the front of the Main Street Highway that runs through the center of town. I want to employ people wishing for the small town dream and to supply them and the farmers, ranchers and new small town residents for everything needed to sustain life on a farm. I will sell mostly outdoors equipment and survival needs. Rakes, Shovels, Equipment. We will have Leather work, Hunting attire and novelties. Goat cheese, Soaps and jerky available as well as beeswax products and all things that are sold be made from scratch on the farm. Clothing and food that are made on the premises. Out back from the store as you walk through the aviary we will have snow blowers, the lawn mowers, industrial equipment and of course livestock as we move through to the pasture area. There will be an option for exotics also, to the right of the store where I will fulfill my dream of breeding and housing exotic reptiles for sale online and at the store, Following that will be the door to the back yard area and petting zoo where you will walk through the aviary with birds exotic and otherwise to look at and also be for sale.

The petting zoo will likely be a wide open acre or two with the animals, Sheep, Cows, Pigs, Geese, Ducks, Chickens, Goats, Rabbits and nameless others that roam the area freely but also have their quarters to stay for the night or do their breeding or medical quarantine. There will be a dinner bell that all the animals will know it is treat time and come to the bell for treats to better assist in Birthday Parties or large groups
I will have all of my animals for sale, either as pets, livestock or consumption due to the fact that I plan to allow these animals to breed and I do not want to be out of my means. I will harvest from them, Hides, Sinue, Meat, Marrow and bones, There are numerous ways to create knifes, sheaths, quivers, hats, coats, jackets, and decor.  I want to harvest my own hay to feed horses, cattle and others livestock.

Aquaponics will be across the open petting area, this is a process that includes and large body of water with a Vegetable or field on top of it. while below Salmon, Trout, Catfish or other large game fish can eat the roots and the algea from the veggies and fertilize and feed the plants with their waste. It is a self sustaining idea that needs little to no maintenance and the opportunity to have a hopefully unlimited amount of fishing experience and protein from them as well as the nutrients from the Greens and veggies growing on top of it and the water that is filtered through the greens and roots. And to the side of that I will have my fruit trees to be harvested, sold fresh and canned or made into jams. I'd like to send canned goods, Clothes and resources to Native Reservations and of course have a place for their culture here.

I understand the idea and passion of Vegan and Vegetarianism. I was Vegetarian for 3 years some time ago and the problem with it was that I was living off of Bread, Pasta and cheese and with the amount of muscle building and stamina I needed to fuel, it just wasn't enough energy for me. So now I am a very passionate organic / Cage free only eating for Fish and Chicken which is in my opinion the best protein to put in your body and I would like to provide access and large amounts of it and be able to donate or sell frozen fresh fish and chicken and any other cheese, or milk harvested from the other animals to the grocery store in town.

Farming and consuming livestock has been a way of life for hundreds of years, Natives and other settlers have lived off of herding and keeping cattle and livestock. I do not want to disrupt this way as the meat being consumed is Organic and Torture free. I would like to start out with the petting zoo outside of the General Store so that people passing through may go and get a hands on experience of the small town dream. ride the horses on guided trail rides into the surrounding wilderness, feed the livestock and hike up the mountain pass if they so choose. I will have bed and breakfast Small houses or Bunk houses available for stays as long as need be. I would like to also one day adopt or foster children that need a home and set them to work and play with the animals as they so choose and have a place for them there. I have been doing Photography for some 5 years now and would like to have a studio in the store as well as Family portraits, Senior pictures, Maternity and School Photos out with hay bales, Horses and the landscape.


Now behind even further all of these ideas I would like to Ranch Deer and Elk for Game. Deer and Elk ranching is a fairly new idea and I would like to explain this concept now, For the time being Deer and Elk are being hunted in National Forest Areas at a very large scale. What ranching Deer and Elk does is takes up the tags for consumption while I can absolutely guarantee they have a long and fulfilled life, in which they have the chance to breed before allowing hunters to claim them, Hunting is a lot more cultured and regulated than most think it is. People are looking for a 2-3 week camp - out experience where they follow, watch and track the animal into its habitat and have the slight chance of besting that animal, which does not always happen. It is a very intuitional experience and takes a lot of patience and skills. The goal is that they can in deed pack out with a large animal to be proud of (Which is most of the problem with hunting is the pride) But they do so to fill the freezer and feed their families through out the whole year. I know the intensity and the disagreement that comes from hunting. but it isn't something that is going to end entirely any time soon. I would like to take hunters as much as I can off of the wild landscapes and give them an easier target for a larger animal of their choosing. I will only allow Archery and possible MussleLoaders for hunting my animals due to the fact that it is much much more difficult to best that animal and brings the playing card to an even match. It is also my first and formost goal to have so many Deer and Elk breeding in my care that I will indeed be able to set free a large amount of the animals back into the wild to better sustain the population.