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Inside a beehive:

We are on family land going back 8-10 generations. It was originally purchased in the Indian Land Lottery. I'm not going anywhere. There's not but 5 houses worth of close family left out here although there are a few distant cousins in close proximity as well.

I am surrounded by family land and trying to talk daddy into letting me use some of his property. So, far no luck. He's got 15-20 acres of pasture just begging to be fenced in.

This video shows how small of an area we are working in:

Olive w/ the new baby bull calf (born a month ago tomorrow):

The rule for miniature cows is 1/4-1/2 acre per cow for grass. We feed primarily hay at the moment since we don't have pasture. Hoping to get some help this fall to drop 3/4 acre of trees to make pasture.

I am not sure how I got so lucky... sarcasm font implied

This is our 1000ish pound bull the night we got him. That is a medium dog crate that we hauled him home in:

I mentioned this earlier, but I don't know if you caught it. We are doing all this on about an acre. I have 3/4 of an acre of woods that I have to remove for a cow pasture, but right now everything is basically on about an acre. The chickens of course roam all about, but the cows are in a...

It wasn't what we set out to do, but things grow out of hand. We started out w/ 3 ducks and 3 dogs and look at us now. :) All this was her idea, she wanted to homestead, but unbeknown to me, she is an animal hoarder. She likes to collect and feed. So, far not so big on harvesting and eating...

Ok, here come the pictures. I apologize for any duplicates...

Thank you and you are correct it is a lot of work, but hopefully it will be worth it in the end. In all seriousness, I hope to grow our bee colonies to have 100 hives in 8 years. At the going price of honey, I should be able to retire and do honey until old enough to get my pension.

Girl, I am entirely too tired for any loving w/ all this work that I have on my plate. :)