The Goat Source

Brook forwarded me the email below. Thanks, Brook!

At The Goat Source, we have many inexpensive ebooks for you.

Quick, concise, and informative. Learn the basics for beginners in an easy to read format. We are adding video now , too! Visit Youtube to see what is new! Build your own mineral feeder - see how here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgE54LEoMYI

Look at what we have available:

Resource Document for Goat Owners
Resource Document for New Goat Owners
Advertising Manual for Goat Owners
Digital Beginner's Guide for Goat Owners
Haybuyers Guide
Hay Grading Guide
Cooking with Goat Products
Raising Kids Begins With Pregnancy
Goat Toys You Can Make
Parts of the Goat
MoonJump - an Illustrated Children's Book
Forms for the Goat Owner
Breeding Your Goat
Goat Source Quickcourse - A Quick Start to Goat Ownership

These ebooks are very reasonable in price (many are free!!)
Check out our website for more information!!
www.goatsource.com


Leslie, The Goat Source

hobbit town u.s.a.

I just spoke to one of my fellow Energy committee member's of the Sierra Club. He works for a guy who not only builds really cool waste heat recovery systems that work off your air-conditioner, but also built his home such that the first floor is underground. He doesn't need an air-conditioner and doesn't have to worry about hurricanes or flooding. It sounds pretty cool (no pun intended) so I plan on visiting it soon. It was also on our local news this month. Looking forward to it.

DEA List

Dana talking about the possibilty of meth labs in NW Arkansas reminded Josh of an article we read a while ago that was about a website that lists all the meth houses in the country that the DEA has busted. Here is the link if anyone wants to check it out:
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/seizures/index.html

There is also a site that lists criminals living in your neighborhood:
http://www.criminalsearches.com/neighborhood/

-Lilith & Josh

Buy Now or Buy Later

I was considering flying out there this weekend to look at properties. I thought I could go ahead and pick one out and buy it....but I then spoke to a friend that lives in NW Arkansas and she was telling me that many of the vacant houses in the area are used by meth heads to hang out and some to actually make meth. I don't want to buy a contaminated house or to buy a house and leave it vacant for meth heads to use in the mean time. So now I am thinking that it may be wise to wait until someone can move in. I am moving out there around March. Josh and Lilith are moving out there around June. I am not sure about Sarah and Jim's time line. Jamie wants in...but is not ready to move out there. Drew will help us build, but I don't know if he wants to live there. Another option is Lilith's Dad. She is going to see what his schdule is like.

I have written the agent to told her how I am feeling about buying property to far in advance.

I have been scouring the interent looking for kits to test if a house has been a meth lab. I haven't found any good ones yet. I guess I need to call the local police or maybe the university could help me get the prespective places tested.

Homesteading School

Anyone want to go to homesteading school?  I will pay for the classes. 

School Website

Realtor Info

I wanted to mention that I told the new realtor that we were interested in natural building techniques and we needed to know places with no or more lax building codes.  She emailed back saying that she new a couple that built a house with tires.  I think this realtor is going to be good for us.  Another cool sign for me is that she has the same name as a really nice and helpful lady that I used to work with.  I didn't even realize what her name was until she emailed me :)  

Hello

Hello!
To those of you that don't know us, this is Lilith and Josh and we are committed to getting this farm going. We just bought some informational books today; we got a book about making cold cellars, a cheesemaking book, a guide to butchering meat and game, a book on different methods of preserving meat, fish and game, and a book full of useful info about "country living and know-how". We can't wait to make some cheese!

-Lilith & Josh