I have made vine a few times with a neighbor who has the machinery. I know how to do it, although I prefer beer. But yes, it's an option for the situation we are considering.

Here there isn't a problem with prickly pear, but of course it depends on the country, I live in the Southeast of Spain.

I can't have animals because that requires going every day.

Nice to have someone from Spain. Are you a native or have you migrated? I am in the far north of Australia.

My husband started homesteading/off-grid and it was a huge change since he was raised in the city. He had to save up in order to do so. The growing season is short (long winters) but we do have chickens that will give us many eggs a day. Ideally, we'd like our children to settle on the land and have their own families, and create a sort of community. Also, we didn't finish post-secondary but have done a bit of it, so we're not keen on encouraging it to our kids, especially daughters.

We do sell our eggs to our neighbour and to another local, barter for beef and canned goods. Our area is not very traditional or Catholic really and many of the farmers' children have moved to the city. I have seen some kids around here help with the cattle ranches. We plan to get sheep and dogs, but it depends on our financial situation.

Unfortunately, our land flooded recently so my husband had to move to a spot with higher elevation to start building our house.

I've never had goat meat and I really like lamb, but it's expensive in the stores. I think we might sell the wool or use it as stuffing? Also, we're interested in seeing if sheep's milk/cheese is a better alternative than cow's since we kind of have health issues with dairy. If goat's milk tastes fine, could try having them instead of sheep.

My husband started homesteading/off-grid and it was a huge change since he was raised in the city. He had to save up in order to do so. The growing season is short (long winters) but we do have chickens that will give us many eggs a day. Ideally, we'd like our children to settle on the land and have their own families, and create a sort of community. Also, we didn't finish post-secondary but have done a bit of it, so we're not keen on encouraging it to our kids, especially daughters.

We do sell our eggs to our neighbour and to another local, barter for beef and canned goods. Our area is not very traditional or Catholic really and many of the farmers' children have moved to the city. I have seen some kids around here help with the cattle ranches. We plan to get sheep and dogs, but it depends on our financial situation.

Unfortunately, our land flooded recently so my husband had to move to a spot with higher elevation to start building our house.

A guy from my parish went to the NY one. He is working to get a chapter going in NH. We have a signal chat of NH land movement folks. I raised, slaughtered and butchered two pigs myself last year. I’m doing 4 this year and thought about opening harvest day up to other catholic folks to see the process. But I think I would be just too stressed out as it is. I love that this movement is building. Putting it into action seems impossible sometimes. 5 kids under 8, really tough land, full time job with commute and Mass an hour away (essentially leaving only 1 day to work the homestead). I thought Fr. McNabbs book “ the church and the land” to be extremely profound and prophetic.