I’m on 11 acres, 2.5 of which are landscaped living area. The rest is regenerating Aussie bush. 5 chickens and 2 roosters, two border collies and a Shepherd/blue heeler cross, 1 belted Galloway steer, 1 equestrian horse. Visited regularly by kangaroos and wallabies, bandicoots and echidnas, dingoes and wombats. Neighbours are all friendly and look out for each other, near enough to be familiar, far enough to be private. We grow passionfruit, mangoes, oranges, mandarins, tumeric, kale, spinach, potatoes, lemons, capsicum, chilies, asian and leafy greens, macadamia nuts, chestnuts, blueberries, bananas, dragonfruit, peaches, tomatoes, celery, avocados, pineapples, asparagus, limes, olives.
Your place sounds amazing, Temp! I have a smaller 5 acre block down in rainy southern Victoria, Australia. We have some fruit trees and berry canes, with a chunk of regenerating forest too. The visiting wildlife is so great (we don’t have the variety you do though) and I love seeing different bird species come in as we plant more native varieties.
Awesome. Yeah, i forgot about the birds and we even get koalas in mating season. A lot of the food we grow becomes possum and bird food, but that doesn’t really bother us. It’s just nice to be surrounded by wildlife.
Ah the sweet sounds of koala mating season! The possums at our place take one bite out of each lemon on the tree. But we love the visits too.
I’m in a town in southern oregon, I live in the burbs, and it’s hot as hell. This area is full of racism and intolerance. I’m married with 3 kids, I have a homelab and run a number of servers for different things.
I’m from Oregon, too. Salem.
Oregon is a land of beauty. I was just in Kaiser last week working at the Amazon project in Woodburn.
Thanks u/Steveanonymous
It’s rainy nine months out of the year.
Sounds like where I grew up in the Southern Highlands of NSW. It gets to you after a while, but creates a very unique environment.
Coastal BC as well?
Same here! The mud!!
Sydney, but I’m just here for the photos
We’re in New England on a forested mountainside. It’s a bit over 60 acres, less than one of which is landscaped. We’ve got some chickens, but mostly we grow deer ticks, wood ticks, mosquitos, black flies, and deer flies. On our trail cams we’ve seen deer, moose, black bears, and coyotes. In person we regularly run into porcupines; their fear of predators extends to slowly walking away and maybe climbing a tree.
Closest neighbor is a good 10 minute walk through the woods. Can almost forget they exist unless they’re out target shooting, which we can clearly hear but isn’t too loud.
I’ve been other places that were easier to live. Keeping snow shoes in the car in the winter so I can hike up my driveway in case the plow guy hasn’t showed up was a new one when we moved here. But I can’t say I’d prefer to live anywhere else at the moment.
Sounds idylic, thanks for sharing.
