If you give a homesteader a baby goat, she’ll ask her husband to build a pen.
Once the pen is built, she will need to add bedding to it.
So she goes to the feed shed to get bedding and realizes that she doesn’t have any feed.
So she makes a run to the feed store to get feed for the goat and sees they have baby chicks.
Chicken math wins again and she comes home with 25 new chicks AND the feed.
Realizing the chicken coop is now too small for all the birds, she will ask him to go to the hardware store to get the materials to expand it.
While they’re at the store, she will see a rain barrel and convince him that they should set up a rain catchment system.
Setting up the rain catchment system will remind her that the garden needs watering, so she’ll want to plant some new seedlings.
As she’s planting the seedlings, she’ll notice the garden fence needs repairing to keep the goats out.
She’ll ask her husband to fix the fence, and while he’s doing that, she’ll spot a bee hive kit online and decide they need to start beekeeping.
Ordering the bee hive kit, she’ll realize they need to plant more flowers to help the bees thrive.
When she goes to plant more flowers, she’ll see that the goats have escaped again and are munching on her freshly planted seedlings.
So she’ll run to round up the goats and then decide they need a better gate for the pen.
Installing a new gate will make her think of all the other improvements they could make around the homestead.
And chances are, if you give a homesteader a baby goat, she’ll end up dreaming of even more projects to keep their little farm growing.
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