A new homeowner was very excited for his future, living out the traditional lifestyle of adults, in style. Not only having his lovely three-bedroom, 2-and-1-half bath rambler, but on a handsome spread of almost 4 acres of land, no less, in quiet area just outside of the city. Wanting to take advantage of his land, he desired to make himself a little “homestead” for “self-sufficiency”. The result of this were 6 hens and a rooster, 2 goats, with their feed, a couple of rows of alfalfa on top of their foraging, and a garden with the typical spread of vegetables and herbs. For the first couple of weeks, the idea of “self-sufficiency” seemed like it was going steady, but soon afterwards, the goats soon became sick, ...4 chickens were provided for a coyote as a midnight snack, ...the deer had their way in the garden, leaving a large percentage of the plants totally uprooted. By the time fall came around, to say things “hadn’t gone to plan” was a point of fact. But clearing his head one day, he went to the secluded back of his property to take a walk amongst the cool of the trees. After sitting down on a log, he heard this quacking sound at first distant but intermittently growing louder. To his pleasant surprise, he realized it was coming from a family of ducks living alongside a little creek. To compound on his fortune, those little blue flowers growing along the water line, he identified as chicory; the robust coffee substitute . Amongst the brambles of tangled vine and fallen branches, he recognized both blueberry bushes, raspberry brambles, and a line of mulberry trees. Perhaps, he thought to himself, he was doing to much, ...the only thing he had to do was harvest.
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