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Title: Hello from High Five Acres
Post by: high5acres on November 17, 2012, 07:36:22 pm

My husband and I recently bought 5 acres in Milton, Wisconsin. We currently have 3 goats and plans to add an aquaponic system, bees, chickens and beef in the spring.

Title: Re: Hello from High Five Acres
Post by: asprince on November 17, 2012, 07:42:49 pm

Welcome. Pet, meat, or milk goats?


Steve

Title: Re: Hello from High Five Acres
Post by: tefer2 on November 17, 2012, 09:01:08 pm

Welcome to the forum High5.

Title: Re: Hello from High Five Acres
Post by: AllenF on November 17, 2012, 09:10:16 pm

Welcome to the forum.

Title: Re: Hello from High Five Acres
Post by: Joe D on November 18, 2012, 10:48:21 am

Welcome to the forum, High5.  Good luck with your farm.




Joe

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Post by: Lazy W on November 18, 2012, 12:21:36 pm

Welcome to the forum High5. Farm Life is the only way to live!

Title: Re: Hello from High Five Acres
Post by: Jeanette on November 18, 2012, 09:26:25 pm

Welcome, Five Acres! I had to look up 'aquaponic system' (it never crossed my ears before). What an ingenious idea - fish plus veges.

Title: Re: Hello from High Five Acres
Post by: BlueBee on November 19, 2012, 10:59:45 pm

High 5, it sounds like you are going to be VERY busy next spring.  :)

There is a local farmer around me who does the aquaponic thing.  He's been on local TV and gets lot of interest since it is an unusual thing to do in crop country.  I haven't been on a tour of this place yet, but I would love to see it the next time he has an open house.  Unfortunately my favorite fish is Salmon.  They've got them in Lake Michigan, but I'm too far inland.  I wonder if they farm Salmon in the Lakes?  That would be a cool business.
 

Title: Re: Hello from High Five Acres
Post by: high5acres on November 20, 2012, 08:15:01 am

Just getting used to this site so I apologize for the delayed response :-)

asprince: Our three goats are pets but we're not ruling out raising a few extra for meat. If we didn't have day jobs off the farm we'd consider milking but that's much further out.

BlueBee: salmon would be a great fish to raise, unfortunately I think the amount of water they need to live and the temp would be the toughest to overcome in a aquaponic system  :-(  Lake Perch would be a desirable fish for us to raise in this area.

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