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The cottage is the original farmland, the Christine family has been running a farm for 2 generations in the backyard. In 2018, there is more than a $600 tax discount from the homestead. So even though you don't like vegetables, you would still want to keep a vegetable garden running for the homestead discount.

Actually, running a small farm is fun and healthy. Nowadays the organic food becomes more and more expensive, while produce food on farmland cost little if not nothing.

Here is how it works. Instead of buying fertilizer, growing pot, soil, mulch and pesticide, weed killer, you have them all on the land. The chicken lay organic eggs each day, their drops became perfect fertilizer. The chicken peck grass, grass seeds, kitchen waste, bugs, worms as food. The chicken drops mixed the forest topsoil. This produces weeds free, fertilized soil, which is perfect for growing organic vegetables. The vegetables produce seeds each year. So you can keep it running forever. That is how the food was produced for thousands of years before the industrial era.

Vegetables need lots of water, the water is from the well and free. Besides, the cement fish tank is sweating water into the soil around it, providing water to the vegetables and fruit trees surrounding it. The fish tank itself can be the base tank of aquaponics and you can grow water plant in it. When winter comes, the fish tank became a greenhouse, prepare for early start vegetables next near.

The cherry tree beside the fish tank is planted in the year 2004. The red berry plants are on the west side of the vegetable garden. They are tough crops, can be mixed with the thorns and grasses, you don't have to take care of them, but you will get berry during the summer each year.