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Okay. Let's think more critically. Manager, Cosmologist, come out. What are your questions?
- Is this farm the right place to be, geographically?
- Should I be in Missouri/KS/OH instead?
- Should I be in El Paso, Streator, Eureka, Minonk, Lincoln, Clinton, Riverton, Atlanta, Hopedale, Delevan, instead? Pekin, Metamora?
- What home-based work can I take on?
- Is farming really the right thing? Small town might be more appropriate.
Take in turn.
Is this farm the place to be?
This farm has always been identified as in the middle of nowhere. It was suggested when bought that it needed a grain elevator installed. It has no close market opportunities. It has little community serendipity. It has little biological diversity, most of it has been converted to tilled acres. No, is the unfortunate, but likely answer.
Should I be in MO/KS/OH?
MO/KS are less economically oppressive and less regulated. Land taxes are lower. Fertility, also, is lower. The particular diocese should be evaluated.
Should I be in El Paso, Streator, Eureka, Minonk, Lincoln, Clinton...
Maybe. Why one over the other though? We have some ties in El Paso but they are not strong. There is (seemingly) a thriving Church there. Lots of economic activity. TH Fab. I don't know much about Streator/Eureka/Minonk but these seem to be functioning communities.
What home-based work can I take on?
That which can be done adjacent to the home and would lend itself towards the involvement of children Ideally actually contributes value to a local community
- Furniture
- Timber framing is probably not the right thing for a truly home-based business, unless making kits
- Kombuchery
- Fabricating / Machining something
- Auto repair
- Custom machinery fabrication
- Blacksmithing
- Mechanical Design
- Art is hard to get rolling. I am not really committed to this, in all honesty.
- Animal husbandry
- Feed mill
Is farming really the right thing?
You may see the rightness in it, but often the right idea comes to the wrong person.
Errata
I have no anchor except this one which is crippling if i let it go to where will I drift...
At Lynx the lesson i needed to learn was maybe not so much that I hate this sort of work but that i hate what work has become when will
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there is shop work to be done maybe ill just do that