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So I'm curious now. Fellow Kiwis, what would you do if you suddenly ended up with 36 acres in Colorado? Farming? Ranching? Build your own gun range? Or just enjoy the massive amount of land?
The Tenacious Unicorn Ranch / @TenaciousRanch / Steampunk Penny / Penellope Logue / Phillip Matthew Logue - Don't cry because it ended, laugh because it's still getting worse.
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"AUTISM RANCH: HOLD THEM DOEN AND RECORD THEIR SCREAMS 25$ PER 15 MINUTES"
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One of the things to keep in mind is that 36 acres is not that big in that part of the country, especially with no water.
The Homestead Act gave people 160 acres, but it was amended several times to allow people in arid areas to have a lot more acreage, including an amendment for arid Nebraska for up to 640 acres (which in its most arid part gets 17 inches). Westcliffe gets 14 inches of precipitation a year.
To answer your question, I'd plant native plants and maybe have a couple goats or some emus or some shit and rotate them. Maybe get some beehives.
Restoring the land would be a lot of fun, but the buildings would have to be cleaned with fire.
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Depends on the land and it's location. The closer to major cities/scenic state parks, the more you'd do better to get a loan to build some "little houses" style cabins on the property and turn it into an AirBnB charging $100-$150 a night- 36 acres isn't enough to make a blip on the map when it comes to crop or cattle farming. If it was mine and I wasn't turning it for profit, then maybe a small vegetable garden, a few nanny goats and a chicken coop for eggs/milk, a couple of hive supers for honey all fairly close to the main house- something homey and wouldn't fuck over the land like the tranchers have done.
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If it's like the Tranch land, probably build a nice dry cabin on it to rent out to hunters/hikers/what have you. There's too little rain to do much else, though gardens with plants native to high 'n dry biomes would do okay. The beehive suggestion is a good one, wildflowers flourish at most altitudes and you could do some actual good for the local environment.
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Earl Attack soon? or will they be able to coast off the $1300 a month from the Patreon and whatever else they can Ebeg and bring in from Coffee sales?
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They spent their last social network capital on Earl, they are fucked.
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What if they spice things up? Instead of vagueposting about "Militias" what if they set fire to Jarrod's tetanus shower or light off a few M80's in one of the Alpaca shitpiles?
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Sell it and move to Montana.
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Sell it off immediately since its arid land and I don't know what the fuck I'm doing or do some gay CSA larp shit on there.
Money is running dry, cant wait until they cannot afford their costco food because their grift ran dry
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I can only quote a few but fascinating responses from everyone. I'll be honest I should have expected "sell it" as an option. I also probably should have specified "you get it in the original condition it was in" because otherwise holy fuck is it gonna be impossible to do anything with it in its current state.
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I think little kids at camp can make better looking bracelets
Fucking bead bracelets, amazing.
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Whose chonky paw is that?
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I think Phil's but I don't remember if he has hand tattoo's. I'm pretty sure he does have some tattoo's but not sure if hand ones.
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Very poorly made - the D bead has fallen off already.
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What she does (planting native/climate-appropriate trees, some chickens, a little garden):
I've mentioned her before in regards to being able to build proper fences and someone called it the "reverse tranch" (real woman, straight fences, grass is greener on the inside).
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WAIT I JUST NOTICED ITS A FUCKING UNICORN TATTOO lmaoooooooo
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I think my father would make better use of the land than I would. He's become resentful of suburban living after living with neighbors for twelve years, and now he wants to live a fairly rural existence. Thus, if we did gain land in Colorado, he would plop a double-wide down and expand it over time. As for what the land would experience, I wouldn't know. Though he's talked of becoming self-sustaining, so he might use it for agriculture. However successful that would be. I would try and keep the land, after my father passed, and perhaps plant trees where the crop-fields used to be. As I haven't the inclination to be a farmer. I would also consider using the home there as a kind of vacation house, though one could probably do better than Colorado for a vacation spot.
Whatever the case, I'd like to keep it and give it to my son, who would hopefully do the same with his. And so on. My great-grandfather used to own a lot of land in Virginia, but he divvied it up among his brothers, who subsequently lost it for varying reasons. I'd like to have a plot that stays in the family, rather than sell it off because no one wants it. Have it be a lasting legacy of sorts. That's the hope, anyway.