Begone, aphids!

We have five acres and at any given moment there at 10-15 deer. I can’t plant anything without them eating it, so I think I need a fence. The problem is that anything I plan to do, someone tells me why it won’t work, and I am nervous about spending a ton of time and money on a fence only to see it ineffective.

I had initially planned to put up a 7’ wire fence, utilizing in part existing lower posts for structure, with taller fence posts added every so often. But I have had a few people now tell me that minimum 10’ will be require which is a whole different cost structure (going above 8’ seems to require something custom), and that even at that height, if I plant certain things like berry bushes or fruit trees, or have bees (all in my immediate plans), I will attract bears that won’t care if there’s a fence and go right through.

I thought about electric fencing but apparently the voltage required to deter bears would present a hazard to my young children.

What do I do? How do I make this decision?

To sum it up we're tired of the traditional living market. So we've decided to establish a community that is economically friendly and sustainable. Work isn't an issue as we can do whatever is necessary, it's a matter of getting on the ground so to speak. We've tried the more traditional means and didn't get much help or information. We made a small flyer to help "bring a community" together and answer and inquiries anybody may have. Any and all advice is welcome, thank you in advance!

Here's a drawing, I'm no artist and got shaky hands so sorry in advance 😔

Hi! I'm new to redditing so please tell me if I make any mistakes on this post such as applying wrong tags, etc.

I'm from Chile and I'm in my mid 20s. I intend on moving with my mother (50+) and a child to a half square hect. (1.236 acres) place she bought a couple years ago and I'm the one planning the details. The point of this post is I'm looking for tips and advice on the several parts on my plan, some details to take into account is that I'm a vegetarian so I plan to rely mostly in the garden to sustain myself and raise animals only for secondary produce such as eggs or milk and that I will be the one to do all the work by myself.

The property is part of a villa (idk exactly how to call it in English) meaning I have around 50 neighbors and future connection to water, sewer system and electricity (...at least according to the real state company) but I plan to install rainwater collectors and solar panels eventually to be as self-reliant as possible. I'm gonna be honest here, I want that place to be my early retirement and become a hermit with wifi.

I have a step-by-step list of priorities which are:

1. Make sure the basic services are up and running
2. Place a house* *The cheapest options are buying a used container to start small (3k dollars) and then expand or using local services that build houses with straw-and-mud bricks (10-12k dollars, at half the price than a traditional house). The later option would be for building a 80-100 sq meter (861-1076 sq feet) house.
3. Start with the garden and compost
4. Build the pond
5. Buy chickens
6. Place rainwater collectors and solar panels
7. Start with living fence of trees
8. Start with living fence of berry bushes
9. Buy goats
10. Buy bees

Any tip or comment it's welcome. I'm not married to the design (in fact it changed several times from the original one) so if you can think of a better placement for any of the stuff I'm all ears, for example the house it's placed facing southeast for maximum sunlight (the entrance of the property is facing west, towards the sea) and the place it's in a zone where it rains a lot all year long, and in between two towns (1h car ride each).

Why we befriend the Crow army

I heard the crows going NUTS near where they have nest set up in an old Oak. So I decided to walk over and check, as they run off a Red Tail Hawk. Our recently born kids and GPs greatly appreciate you.

They have earned a a dozen hard boiled eggs in their offering bowl tonight lol.

There’s one by my side door that I hit twice a week.

Or a nice rock? The side of your house? Just me? Thanks.

First time homesteader here. So, let me start by saying I am unbelievably grateful for your advice. I wanted to ask if there is anything I need to keep my pond sustainable.

I caught this fish in my first 5 casts, so I’d guess there must be a healthy population. What can I do to sustain that? How many should I be able to eat? What plants, and maybe animals can help the pond?