It's getting pretty decent but I do have 88 acres to work on: some fields, meadows, woods, creek front and a couple of horse pastures. Also since I'm now retired, I decided to put some of the acreage to work by starting a primarily daylily farm with perhaps some dahlia and hostas that do well here in extreme north Florida. I got some seeds last winter from parents that I can't afford yet, but some of the babies should be nice. I suspect later this year into next, I'm also going to get a U-Pick muscadine/southern bunch grapes going. A friend of ours has about 7 - 100 ft grape arbors with 7 different varieties growing there and gets about 15,000 lbs of grapes/year. It sounds promising to me. I used to work at Univ of Florida and now have the UF IFAS (Institute of Food and Agriculture Sciences) just down the road from me working with new varieties of things that will grow well here. They have developed a few new varieties of bunch table grapes that do not succumb to the Pierce virus. Right now I'm hooked up to city water, but am hoping to get a well put in and also build a cistern to pump water up from the creek for irrigation of the gardens. I have no idea how it will go but it will be a learning experience and keep me from stagnating. If it makes any money, it will add to my social security.
I have spent the last 10 years nearly crippled with arthritis in my knees and never getting up and about. Last fall I had both knees replaced and can now walk around. So MUCH to do now and I can't wait.
Barb
