Family of goats jump over a mountain gap

[MuseRider]

16. I am in Kansas,

lots of land here. It used to be really cheap and I bought in an area that was not exactly where most people moving out (with their McMansions) wanted to be so that helped a lot.

Against all manner of farmer advise I am keeping a lot of wooded areas so my pastures are smaller than they used to be but I am happier so...good trade. I grow brome hay, it was here when I bought it so changing it would be better since it is not native and requires more work but that is way too expensive. I keep my animals in hay and use the rest to pay for the fertilizer, weed killer (I am very judicious with both) and the hay man with the big machines to cut and bale it and take it away. Lots of barter there.