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Welcome to my Lifestyle Farmer website. After having to do a workplace location move my partner and I decided to invest in a lifestyle property (10 arces). Having had no personal experience in farming but with a great interest in it, I have decided to create this learning space to discuss about the decisions we have made and to provide some options for people who are also starting out to be able to avoid some of the mistakes we have made. Through the discussion forum I hope to provide advice but more so recieve advice from others on their experiences and use these to better our knowledge and help us progress.

Like any property there is a base amount of property maintenance that needs to occur on a daily, weekly or periodic time table. This alone can be an enormous effort for any professional couple but having to additionally manage several acres of arable land can be a daunting task. The decision on how to utilise the land must take a number of areas into consideration some of these are:
 * Type of soil and current pasture type
 * Type of land - flat, low rolling hills, steep hills, creek and water lines
 * Fencing type - 8 strand, deer fencing, electric, break
 * What interests you
 * Pature
 * Livestock
 * Cropping
 * Market gardening
 * Leasing
 * Grazing
 * Plant and equipment
 * Local contractors
 * Rainfall / irrigation

For our property we have decided to invest in some beef cattle and sheep. These are to basically act as lawn mowers for the property but will eventually become freezer food for us (maybe) but certainly for others. We have approximately 8 acres of arable land that is fenced with a mixture of deer and 8 strand wire, with a single strand electric wire. The property came with breakwire electric fencing.

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